Oct. 17, 2024 — With viral outbreaks spreading more quickly, faster responses and quicker development of new vaccines has become crucial. However, production of the mRNA used in vaccines is ...

On Aug. 22, the Food and Drug Administration approved and authorized newer formulations of the two mRNA vaccines, from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, for ages 6 months and up. About a week later ...

Vaccination is a critical tool to help protect the health of people in Canada. By working with communities and strengthening our public health system, we can optimize the impact of vaccination so that ...

Since the new strain is still only a sub-family of the same omicron lineage, experts say keeping up to date with vaccines and booster shots should offer sufficient protection against severe ...

Some countries, such as Mexico, France, and China, have adopted the vaccination of animals as a preventive strategy, achieving a reduction in infection rates and viral load. 6 However, to date, there ...

Healthcare providers recommend the shingles vaccine Shingrix (recombinant zoster vaccine) for people over 50. It's given in two doses, 2-6 months apart, and is 80-90% effective at preventing shingles.

Measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus—devastating and sometimes deadly diseases await comebacks in the US as more and more parents are declining routine childhood vaccines that have proved ...

COVID and flu season is coming sooner than you might think, and getting up to date with vaccines is the best way to protect yourself in the months ahead. This year’s COVID vaccine is a little ...

Researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells. Columbia researchers have engineered ...

Some weeks Laja is doing outreach, spending her day educating a community about which vaccines she can provide and what diseases they prevent. “It’s my responsibility to tell the mothers to ...

he did ask me, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’” She very much did. “I’m very pro-vaccine. I am a rational human. I understand the necessity of [getting] them,” she insists.

GENEVA, Oct 14 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on X, opens new tab on Monday that the second phase of a polio vaccination campaign had started in central Gaza. Aid groups carried ...