Militants shot dead two Pakistan policemen guarding a polio vaccination team on Tuesday, officials said, as the country confronts a recent resurgence of the disease. Pakistan and neighbouring ...

Research by UBC microbiologist and bacterial disease expert Brett Finlay has helped develop Econiche--the world’s first vaccine designed to reduce cattle shedding of a particularly dangerous strain of ...

On Aug. 22, the Food and Drug Administration approved and authorized newer formulations of the two mRNA vaccines, from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, for ages 6 months and up. About a week later ...

Premature infants (defined as infants born before 37 weeks of gestational age) in stable clinical condition, regardless of birth weight, should be immunized with age-appropriate doses of vaccine at ...

Vaccination is a critical tool to help protect the health of people in Canada. By working with communities and strengthening our public health system, we can optimize the impact of vaccination so that ...

Some countries, such as Mexico, France, and China, have adopted the vaccination of animals as a preventive strategy, achieving a reduction in infection rates and viral load. 6 However, to date, there ...

Measles, whooping cough, polio, tetanus—devastating and sometimes deadly diseases await comebacks in the US as more and more parents are declining routine childhood vaccines that have proved ...

Oct 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has put on hold a trial of Novavax's (NVAX.O), opens new tab COVID-influenza and its standalone flu vaccines after a participant who took ...

COVID and flu season is coming sooner than you might think, and getting up to date with vaccines is the best way to protect yourself in the months ahead. This year’s COVID vaccine is a little ...

Researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells. Columbia researchers have engineered ...