By Keith Roach, M.D. TITLE: 63-year-old debates getting shingles and chicken pox vaccines---DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, yo ...

The incidence of chickenpox has declined with widespread use of live-attenuated varicella vaccine in infants (Journal Watch Feb 22 2002). To assess the vaccine's effectiveness, researchers ...

In the 1990s, hepatitis B and varicella (chicken pox) vaccines were added, and the polio vaccine shot (IPV) replaced the oral polio vaccine. Then, in 2000, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV ...

RFK Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, to play a role in Trump administration and potentially influence how the FDA and ...

and standalone chickenpox shot Varilrix last year. Merck also bundles the three paediatric vaccine sales into a single pot, reporting that MMR II, MMRV shot ProQuad and chickenpox vaccine Varivax ...

P resident-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris means U.S. health policy may soon be shaped, at ...

A NEW strain of the mpox virus has been detected in the UK, and now an expert has warned not to confuse the symptoms with ...

RFK Jr. may push the FDA to gather more data, and could try to fill the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...

Fever is a typical side effect of many other childhood vaccines, such as the chickenpox and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) ...

and mass vaccination also posed “unique challenges” regarding record-keeping, informed consent, language barriers, and human ...