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 ...

Last month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that childhood vaccination rates dipped in 2023. Meanwhile, another recent survey found that fewer than half of Americans are ...

Nov 6 (Reuters) - An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said ...

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 ...

A polio vaccination campaign in north Gaza is expected to resume on Sunday, a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) said six people, including four children, were injured following a ...

The pneumonia shot is a vaccine that helps protect you against pneumococcal disease, or diseases caused by bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoniae. The vaccine can help protect you from ...

There isn't any evidence 'that spacing out vaccines is better than giving them according to the schedule that has been studied and tested for many years by the CDC. In fact, by spacing out your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...