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 ...

The purpose of vaccinations is to protect you from diseases. Credited for eliminating once-dreaded infectious diseases like smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, vaccines are heralded as one of the ...

Pet insurance plans can offer financial protection against unexpected costs if a pet experiences an accident or illness — but do not cover vaccines and other routine wellness costs. However ...

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 ...

This Perspective considers present and historical paradigms of therapeutic cancer vaccines and describes a conceptual framework, termed Vax-Innate, to simultaneously generate robust tumour ...

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 ...

The terms immunized and vaccinated are often used interchangeably, but they have different meanings. Vaccination describes the act of receiving a vaccine. Immunization describes the process of ...

Since the new strain is still only a sub-family of the same omicron lineage, experts say keeping up to date with vaccines and booster shots should offer sufficient protection against severe ...