Vaccinations: What do Americans think?
A recent survey published by the National Consumers League (NCL) shows that too many Americans are misinformed about vaccines and this is certainly a major contributing factor to the rise of vaccine preventable More...
FDA lowers age indication for Sanofi Pasteur’s Adacel Tdap vaccine
PRESS RELEASE Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi , announced Tuesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approved age indication of Adacel® (Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria More...
Majority of adults support mandatory vaccinations for school-aged children, 33% of parents with young children believe ‘vaccinations can cause autism’
PRESS RELEASE According to a survey released today by the National Consumers League (NCL), the nation’s pioneering consumer organization, adult Americans lack sufficient information about the safety of vaccines More...
Newshounds Unite!: Ebola, Heartland virus disease and Donald Trump with Coston and Crof
It was a fun airing of the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show Saturday as I was joined by two of the premiere newshounds and infectious disease bloggers out there, Mike Coston, who runs Avian Flu Diary, and Crawford More...
Vaccinations, the vaccine-autism link and Kristin Cavallari
Tara Smith, PhD, Associate Professor with the Department of Biostatistics, Environmental Health Sciences, and Epidemiology at Kent State University College of Public Health and owner of the blog, Aetiology talks More...
British health officials recommend Bexsero as part of routine childhood immunization schedule
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) in Great Britain has recommended the inclusion of the meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero, to be part of the routine childhood immunization schedule, according More...
Medical conspiracism: Monsanto, autism and the CIA-HIV link
In a new survey publish in the JAMA Internal Medicine this week, researchers from the University of Chicago looked at some of the more common “medical conspiracies” and how much the public subscribes More...
Miami researchers make a dramatic step towards an HIV vaccine
The elusive HIV/AIDS vaccine. Researchers have been trying to develop this vital preventive tool for the viral syndrome for years. Now, researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Center More...
Princeton student’s possible adverse reaction to Bexsero: What is Rhabdomyolysis?
Just one week after Princeton University administered the second dose of the unlicensed meningococcal meningitis vaccine, Bexsero, and the week the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) began giving the More...
HPV vaccine: Conversations between pediatricians and parents key to ensuring daughters get vaccinated
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says despite there being available protective vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) since 2006, they say the HPV vaccine uptake in the US is relatively More...
Flu shots: 2014-15 influenza season recommendations for the northern hemisphere released
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS), a global public health laboratory network coordinated by WHO, today released the recommended composition of influenza More...
UC Santa Barbara will be offering the meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero, starting Feb. 24
In a follow-up to a story one month ago, The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), who has experienced four cases of meningococcal meningitis group B during a three week time frame in Nov. 2013, will More...
The Flu Shot: Help choosing which one to get
They say I should do it…., I know I should do it…, and If I do it… Which one do I do? Why every year? Here’s help: Flu viruses are smart. They change and mutate each year. The big term “antigenic More...
Israeli company, BiondVax Pharmaceuticals say universal flu vaccine matches all six potentially pandemic flu strains
PRESS RELEASE Universal flu vaccine developer, BiondVax Pharmaceuticals Ltd announced Tuesday that they have completed a series of biological and other tests, comparing the vaccine elements and the elements More...
One lot of Gardasil recalled due to risk of glass particles in vials
Pharmaceutical giant, Merck, has voluntarily recalled one lot of its human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, in the United States, including Puerto Rico. The recall is due to the potential for a limited More...
One in five Americans report having not received the flu vaccine due to fear that it causes flu: Survey
PRESS RELEASE According to a new survey released by the National Consumers League (NCL), fears and misperceptions about flu vaccines persist among Americans—adults and parents of children under the age of 17 More...
Princeton inoculates 91 percent of eligible University members
After four days of a vaccine clinic at the Frist Campus Center at Princeton University, school officials say that 5,268 eligible individuals, or 91 percent of the University community received the first dose of More...
National Influenza Vaccination Week: ‘It’s not too late to vaccinate!’
It is National Influenza Vaccination Week! What is National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW)? It’s a national observance that was established to highlight the importance of continuing influenza vaccination. NIVW More...
Princeton to host ‘open forums’ about meningitis and the vaccination
Princeton University announced today that they will be holding open forums Thursday and Friday (Dec. 5 and 6) for faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about the meningococcal vaccine and bacterial More...
Zambia goes national with rotavirus vaccine
Following a successful pilot program in Lusaka Province two years ago, Zambia has now rolled out the rotavirus vaccine as part of its national immunization program, according to a report from PATH yesterday. ZambiaImage/CIA In More...
