With the flu season well underway, many Americans had already gotten the flu vaccine. The shot and/or nasal spray offers
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Pneumococcal Vaccine Recs Cause Confusion Among Docs
THURSDAY, Oct. 25, 2018 — While primary care physicians overwhelmingly recommend pneumococcal vaccines, there is a gap in their knowledge
Continue reading »The HPV vaccine: Why parents really choose to refuse
A new study of survey data finds that only a minority of parents choose not to immunize their children against
Continue reading »How to help protect yourself from vaccine administration injury
A study by researchers at the University of Waterloo reiterates the need for health care professionals, including pharmacists, to take
Continue reading »Chinese vaccine maker fined $1.3 billion after scandal
A Chinese maker of rabies vaccine was fined 9.1 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) on Tuesday for falsifying production records in
Continue reading »Potential mechanism by which BCG vaccine lowers blood sugar levels to near normal in type 1 diabetes discovered
Previous research has shown that the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, used to prevent tuberculosis, can reduce blood sugar levels in
Continue reading »Team develops a universal vaccine platform that’s cheaper and shelf stable
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed less expensive way to produce vaccines that cuts
Continue reading »Zika virus targets brain cancer in vaccine study
Study tracks health of babies born to Zika-infected mothers CDC study found one in seven children born to mothers infected
Continue reading »Zika vaccine shows promise for treating deadly brain cancer
September 18, 2018—An international team of researchers has successfully deployed a Zika virus vaccine to target and kill human glioblastoma
Continue reading »Vaccine opt-outs dropped slightly when California added more hurdles
In response to spiking rates of parents opting their children out of vaccinations that are required to enroll in school—and
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