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 ...

These two reports address the effects of varicella-zoster vaccination and varicella vaccination. Richard Whitley, who chaired the data and safety monitoring board for the Shingles Prevention Study ...

More Australians will be able to get a free vaccine for the painful condition shingles. Aussies ages 18 to 64 who are classed ...

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that more than 500 California schools had 10% or more of their students on “conditional ...

Public health authorities outline who needs which vaccines, organized by age and other key variables—important information ...

As of now, when it comes to protection against prevalent diseases, Dr Gagandeep Kang, a renowned virologist, points that our ...

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 ...

Among military children, there has been an improvement in vaccine completion and timeliness, but the risk for noncompletion ...

Additionally, Dr. Brangman says that the Tdap vaccine, which protects against tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, is also ...

The latest research suggests that the recombinant shingles vaccine may offer additional benefits. It appears to reduce the ...

The vaccination rate of Florida kindergartners has fallen to 90%, the lowest in more than a decade, and pediatricians across ...

Melbourne, Australia The Government has expanded access to GSK's shingles vaccine, Shingrix, to cover individuals aged 18 ...