Parents may be less sure about vaccine needs for teens, new poll suggests
Parents may be up to speed on what vaccines their children need for kindergarten, but may be less sure during high school years, a new national poll suggests.
View ArticleMeningitis B vaccine’s high price tag poses a health care conundrum
Four years ago, when meningitis B, an extremely rare but potentially lethal form of the infection, sickened a small number of college students at Princeton and the University of California-Santa...
View ArticleWhat parents need to know about the HPV vaccine
The vaccine that prevents infection from human papillomavirus (HPV) is nothing short of a medical marvel.
View ArticleOxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 safe and induces...
Promising early stage results from a phase 1/2 clinical trial of the UK's vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) are published today in The Lancet.
View ArticleWorld Immunization Week: Vaccination in 2021
News-Medical talks to experts in different areas of the medical sector on why immunization week is so prevalent in 2021.
View ArticleHow to run a COVID-19 vaccination campaign: lessons from other infectious...
A new paper, available on the medRxiv* preprint server, presents lessons learned from the implementation of three adult vaccine programs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa and South...
View ArticleCom-COV 3 study focuses on assessing a third dose booster vaccination for...
The Com-COV 3 study has been commissioned through the NIHR and backed by £2.8 million government funding, with support from both the Vaccine Taskforce and National Institute for Health and Care...
View ArticleBacteria exploit nerve cells in the meninges to facilitate brain invasion
A new study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School details the step-by-step cascade that allows bacteria to break through the brain's protective layers -; the meninges -; and cause brain...
View ArticleNovel vaccine offers hope for defeating epidemic meningitis by 2030
A trial of a new vaccine against meningococcal disease, a cause of meningitis and blood poisoning, has found that it is safe and induces a strong immune response across five strains of meningococcal...
View ArticleNew meningitis vaccine safe and effective for infants in Africa
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers, as part of the Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium (IDCRC), provided an interim analysis showing that the pentavalent...
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