While supporters argue the bill would add a layer of parental choice to which vaccines minors receive, critics say it will ...

Studies that are irrelevant, not published in English, do not include any form of measurement tools, or with tools not measuring vaccine hesitancy will be excluded. A data charting form that will ...

Pfizer New Zealand and BioNTech announce Medsafe’s consent for JN.1-adapted COVID-19 vaccine and its availability from January 2025. The updated COVID-19 vaccine can be given to adults and children 6 ...

R-Spring — would make it easier to obtain exemptions from required vaccinations by making the form available online. Hull and Swanson did not respond to requests for comment. As vaccine bills ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A vaccine to fight dementia ... With Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia on the rise in an aging population, “the implications of the study are profound,” Dr ...

Influenza virus is an infectious agent belonging to the virus family Orthomyxoviridae that causes a respiratory tract infection (influenza or 'flu') in vertebrates. There are three main species ...

The vaccine used at that time contained a live-attenuated, or weakened, form of the virus. The vaccination program, which began in September 2013, specified that anyone who was 79 was eligible for the ...

meningitidis military personnel who are at increased risk of meningococcal disease close contacts of a case of IMD and for individuals at risk in an outbreak setting if the disease is caused by a ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s chief vaccine regulator has been pushed out of the agency, in what could be a troubling sign of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to advance ...

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Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, was forced to resign Friday, multiple people familiar with the matter told CBS News. An official with the Department of ...

WASHINGTON - Dr. Peter Marks, the top vaccine official at the Food and Drug Administration, wrote in a letter on Friday that he was resigning from his position and criticized Health and Human ...