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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

It is the latter discovery that led to the development of the subunit vaccine. Types of Inactivated Vaccines There are 85 single and combination vaccines approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Some vaccines aren't safe for pregnant women, and IVIG may cause certain vaccines to become less effective following ...

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 ...

There haven't been any COVID vaccines for children younger than 6 years prior ... Fever is a typical side effect of many ...

However, at the same time there was also a decline in vaccinations ... MMRV shot ProQuad and chickenpox vaccine Varivax made $509 million last year.