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App helps remove vaccine barriers for families

Vaccines help the immune system to recognize and fight many types of diseases, from viral illnesses like COVID-19 to bacterial infections like tetanus. In 2024, the United States C...

The Value of Vaccines

The value of vaccines BY JAIA LENT As a parent and grandparent, Bette Hoxie knows the value of vaccines. Reflecting back to her early years, Bette recalls:  I remember early in 197...

Vaccines save millions over decades

More than 150 million lives worldwide have been saved over the past 50 years thanks to vaccines, according to public health authorities, underscoring their central role in preventi...

The Perfect Vaccine

by Gertrud U. Rey Contrary to popular belief, most vaccines don’t actually prevent infection with a pathogen, instead, they prevent the disease that follows infection. The human pa...

Vaccines are lifesavers, WHO insists as world immunisation week begins

WHO confirms vaccines save lives, having prevented over 150 million deaths in 50 years. Learn about World Immunisation Week and global health efforts. Read More: https://punchng.c...

Talking to Your Healthcare Provider About Vaccines

I was seven months pregnant in 1990 when I came down with a raging case of chickenpox. We were terrified we’d lose our son. In the early stages of pregnancy, chickenpox, also known...

The Value of Vaccines

BY JAIA LENT As a parent and grandparent, Bette Hoxie knows the value of vaccines. Reflecting back to her early years, Bette recalls:  I remember early in 1970 when there was an ou...

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80%

A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccine for expectant mothers means fewer RSV hospitalizations for babies, study shows

RSV is the most common reason why babies end up in the hospital in their first year. A new study finds a vaccine for expectant mothers is more effective at protecting babies than p...

Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how

Vaccines may be training a part of our immune system long thought to be untrainable.

World’s animals call for a vaccine to protect them from RFK Jr

"From what we've heard any vaccine will work at keeping him scared and away from us" The post World’s animals call for a vaccine to protect them from RFK Jr appeared first on The C...

For every generation, vaccines work and they have saved over 150 million lives: WHO

Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives, as ordinary people chose to protect themselves, their children and their communities from diseases like mea...

Vaccine cutting hospital admissions in some of the most at-risk patients

RSV vaccine cuts hospital admissions by 75% in Welsh over-75s, says Public Health Wales. Programme expands to over-80s.

New Trials: Moderna Performed About 27% Better Than Standard Flu Vaccines

Some years, flu shots only reduce the risk of illness by as little as 20% to 30%. Messenger RNA technology, or mRNA, is widely seen as a promising way to improve their efficacy, pa...

Maternal RSV vaccination and infant nirsevimab immunization found safe and effective

Maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination and infant nirsevimab immunization, administered alone or sequentially, are safe and effective, according to a study publishe...

New nasal flu vaccine shows promise in mice

Researchers have developed a new vaccine platform to bring about broad, protective immunity against numerous influenza virus infections.

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Antibodies that stop measles from stabbing cells could become new treatments for the surging virus, study suggests

Though a measles vaccine has existed for more than 60 years, much still remains unknown about how exactly the shot generates protection against the virus. Now, scientists have turn...