vaccines

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- If hospitals and clinics can't get 90% of their employees to get an annual flu shot, they should "strongly consider" making the vaccine mandatory, a federal vaccines panel has voted.

BEIJING (AP) -- The world should get ready for a new Made in China product - vaccines....

ATLANTA (AP) -- More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren't getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press analysis found....

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Younger doctors may be slightly less sold on childhood vaccination than their older counterparts, a researcher said here.

(MedPage Today) -- The percentage of 11- and 12-year-olds who receive recommended vaccines appears to be on the rise, but there is still room for improvement, researchers found.

(The Wistar Institute) How does our remarkable immune system retain the ability to defend against viruses previously encountered?

While antibodies persist in our blood for only a few short weeks, our bodies retain the cells that make specific, successful antibodies for decades.

Researchers at The Wistar Institute have determined the protein signals that keep the memory of old viruses alive, findings that may aid in creating better, more effective vaccines.

Avian flu shows signs of a resurgence, while a mutant strain - able to sidestep vaccines - could be spreading in Asia, the United Nations warns.

(MedPage Today) -- There's convincing evidence that some vaccines can cause some adverse effects, including seizures and brain inflammation -- but autism isn't one of them, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vaccines can cause certain side effects but serious ones appear very rare - and there's no link with autism and Type 1 diabetes, the Institute of Medicine says in the first comprehensive safety review in 17 years....

Although fears about vaccine safety are common, the new study from the nonprofit Institute of Medicine finds that vaccines cause few health problems.