Vaccination

Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of growing vaccine skepticism taking hold in statehouses and the Trump administration.This article was originally published on […]

Mexico is stepping up a measles vaccination campaign after cases spiked in an area bordering the United States, where an outbreak has killed two, the government said Tuesday.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Measles was supposedly eradicated in Canada more than a quarter century ago. But today, measles is surging.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico have led to nearly 300 cases and two deaths, raising public health concerns. Isolated cases have also been reported in a number of states, including Washington. Public Health—Seattle […]

National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field […]

Knowing which vaccines older adults should get and hearing a clear recommendation from their health care provider about why a particular vaccine is important strongly motivated them to get vaccinated. That’s a key finding in […]

Christina Hermos, MD’03, MMSc, hasn’t seen a case of measles since she was doing a fellowship two decades ago. And that was a rare case, involving a child who had arrived from overseas.This article was […]

Measles vaccination rates among kindergarten students in the Philadelphia region have been declining since the COVID-19 pandemic, and are now below the so-called herd or community immunity rate needed to keep the highly contagious virus […]

The pandemic stretched us—our communication, our science, our distribution networks, even what it means to be a good citizen amid rapidly developing knowledge.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com