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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Merck also bundles the three paediatric vaccine sales into a single pot, reporting that MMR II, MMRV shot ProQuad and chickenpox vaccine Varivax made $509 million last year. In the age of AI ...

With that said, if someone comes into contact with the fluid from a shingles blister, they could get chickenpox if they have not had the chickenpox vaccine or a chickenpox infection. They would not ...

More than 200,000 Australians who are immunocompromised will gain free access to the shingles vaccine in an expansion of a ...

Closer takes a look at five vaccines you should get after you turn 50 to help protect against illness. Shingles: “The first ...

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