Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week made his strongest endorsement yet of the measles vaccine amid an ongoing outbreak that has killed three and infected more than ...

Yet for one specific class of medicine, vaccines, this discussion is deliberately being made impossible. When researchers report an apparent side effect or adverse outcome, they can be near ...

She never received the HPV vaccine, Gardasil-9, and believes if she had, she would have never developed this cancer. When the vaccine was released, Lenti was too old. In her early 30s, she asked ...

Officials recommend that children get their first dose of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine between 12 and 15 months of age. Two doses of the vaccine are 97% effective against the measles virus.

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Unfortunately, the best compliance with vaccines seems to depend on proximity to the illness. During the polio epidemic in the 1950’s parents saw thousands of children hospitalized and crippled ...

A senior GSK scientist, who formerly worked at rival Pfizer, had told GSK colleagues that Pfizer delayed announcing the success of its Covid vaccine in 2020 until after that year’s election.

The yellow fever vaccine may help protect you against the yellow fever virus, a potentially fatal disease. It’s recommended for most people who are traveling to high risk areas. The yellow virus ...

Dr Sania Nishtar - head of Gavi, an alliance that buys critical vaccines for developing countries - told the BBC a cut in US funding would have a "disastrous impact on global health security".

RNA vaccines are composed of the nucleic acid RNA, which encode antigen genes of an infectious agent. When administered to host cells, the RNA is translated into protein antigens that elicit ...

The tetanus vaccine protects people who may come into contact with the bacteria that cause tetanus. As with any vaccine, the tetanus shot can lead to the possibility of some side effects.

In different parts of the UK, the groups who qualify for a spring booster are the same but the dates of the campaign are slightly different: The NHS uses vaccines from two companies across the UK ...