Over the past decade, the shingles virus, Zostavax, has been heavily promoted both by the manufacturer and the CDC. In almost every medical magazine and online health forums, people over the age ..
A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that there is a consistent increase in the number of hard-to-treat infections and this may be linked to antibiotics. Study ..
Even since the HPV vaccines were developed, healthcare workers have found it hard to get teenagers vaccinated. Government and other medical agencies have spent millions of dollars on ads to ..
A new disease-tracking website suggests that mosquitoes may be moving into new ecological niches. The website is called ProMED mail. PromMED stands for the Program for Monitoring Emerging ..
Meningitis B is rare but a very lethal infection. A few months ago a few students at Princeton and the University of California-Santa Barbara were infected by it and it was then realized that ..
A recent study reveals that the number of whooping cough cases in the State of Indiana have doubled in the past year. State health experts are urging parents to ensure that their children have ..
Vaccines have traditionally been administered via an injection or by mouth. There is no denying the fact that most people do not like vaccine injections and it seems that they may no longer need ..
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently recommended that Americans who travel to areas of the world where there is active cholera should be vaccinated. There is now a ..
For Americans who want to travel to Africa or certain parts of South America and want a yellow fever vaccine may have to wait or may have to change their travels plans. Yellow fever is a ..
Almost all over the country, there are reports of new cases of mumps. Texas alone is experiencing a 20-year high in mumps cases. So far, nearly 2,000 cases have been reported in 42 states and ..
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