vaccine

Los Angeles to Give Free Meningitis Vaccines

Officials in Los Angeles County have started offering the meningitis vaccine for free to low-income and uninsured people in response to recent cases of the deadly disease. So far, there have been...

Why 223 Cases of Polio Still Matter

For many Americans, especially young adults, poliovirus not only has no relevance to their lives, they may not even be sure what it is or how it affects the body. But make no mistake, polio—an...

New Malaria Drug: A Step Towards Eradication?

Malaria prevention and eradication has long been a goal of health officials around the world. New research shows promise: a compound with the potential to simultaneously treat and prevent malaria...

U.S. Stockpile of Costly Smallpox Drug Deemed Unnecessary by Experts

The U.S. government received its first shipment of an order of 2 million doses of smallpox medication last week. The government is stockpiling the drug to be used in the event of a bioterrorist...

Rubella Vaccine Campaign Ready to Launch in Rwanda

Donors plan to launch a measles and rubella vaccine campaign in Rwanda after previous successes with the measles vaccine. This will be the first instance of a nationwide rubella vaccine campaign...

At Least Nine Polio Workers Killed in Nigeria

On Friday, Feb. 8, at least nine young women working on a polio vaccination campaign were targeted and killed by gunmen in two separate incidents in Kano, the regional capital of Northern Nigeria....

HIV Vaccine Progress

In a recent study published online by Immunity this January, researchers have been able to successfully isolate four antibodies against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from HIV vaccines after a...

Poliovirus Found in Cairo, Egypt

According to the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, wild poliovirus has been detected from two Cairo sewage samples. The strain detected is related to poliovirus type 1, originally found in...

Thimerosal To Return To Vaccines?

In a press release from Dec. 17, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the World Health Organization’s recommendation that thimersol, an organomercurial compound used as a preservative,...

Prevent Flu This Season with Vaccines and Digital Tools

With the start of October, flu season has arrived, and the CDC has recommended that everyone six months of age and older get a vaccine before activity increases. The flu season typically lasts from...

Dengue Vaccine Candidate Falls Short in Clinical Trial

The full results of a clinical trial testing a potential dengue vaccine were published Tuesday in the Lancet, in a study that both disappointed and encouraged researchers.   The vaccine developed...

Lenient Standards Lead to More Medical Exemptions From Vaccines in Kindergartners

In states where medical exemptions for school vaccinations are easier to get, exemption rates are higher, according to a new study published late last month in the Journal of Infectious Diseases...

Potential Dengue Vaccine Shows Promise in Thailand Trial

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur announced Wednesday that its dengue vaccine candidate showed significant success during a study conducted in Thailand. Roughly 4,000 children between...

FDA Approves New Vaccine to Protect Kids Against Meningitis

Federal regulators approved a new vaccine that could prevent bacterial meningitis in young children. Studies show that the combination vaccine, Menhibrix, protects children between six weeks and...

Artificial Immune System to Further Vaccine Development

Sanofi Pasteur, a prominent vaccine manufacturer, has developed an artificial immune system that can replicate human immune responses to vaccines and immunotherapies. The Molecular Immune in vitro...

HPV Vaccine: Controversy and Solution

We all remember Michele Bachmann’s insidious comments from last September, in which she insinuated that the HPV vaccine had potential ties to developmental disabilities. Since this controversial...

Malaria Vaccine Becoming a Reality?

Initial outcomes from a Phase-III trial conducted for a malaria vaccine shows promising results. The vaccine, RTS,S reduced the risk of developing life-threatening malaria by nearly 50 percent...

Paralyzing Virus Returns to China

On Friday night, four children in China’s Xinjiang province were diagnosed with polio, a virus absent from China for over a decade.  The poliovirus can cause irreversible paralysis and has no...