Vaccination

Ensuring the safety of patients in vaccine clinical trials requires close cooperation between sponsors and vaccine suppliers.

As vaccine manufacturers turn their focus to emerging markets, several technical and logistic hurdles remain to be overcome.

Vaccine that incorporates nanoparticles filled with potent stimulators of the innate immune system proves promising in clinical trials.

Clinicians will need new materials and technologies as medicine becomes more personalized.

A successful government-industry collaboration produced a safer preventive vaccine against this deadly disease.

Researchers studying influenza vaccines were able to achieve immune response with a single vaccination against H1N1.

How a massive operation of medical countermeasures was mobilized to tackle the ever-present threat of influenza in the US and overseas.

The World Vaccine Congress Lyon is the premiere vaccine conference addressing all major vaccine markets.

Flu vaccines are safe and effective, and together with proper hand hygiene and other preventive measures are the best defense against this disease.

Immunization schedules for children, adolescents, and adults have been revised in recent years, and are more complex than ever.

Although it's not illegal to decline recommended immunizations, in many cases it is irresponsible and immoral, says Dr. Pullen.

The season flu vaccine is associated with a 19% reduction in the rate of acute myocardial infarction, according to new research.

Listen as Dr. Melinda Wharton discusses results from a survey indicating that vaccination rates for kids under age three remain at a high rate.

This video explains the advantages and limitations of rapid testing for influenza in the point-of-care setting.

This video describes the groups at highest risk for influenza and rotavirus.

This video discusses a policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics on recommendations for influenza prevention in children for 2010-2011.

Adolescent office visits are the perfect opportunity to educate both parents and children about the importance of immunizations, says David W. Kaplan, MD, MPH.

Several major medical societies have issued a statement urging physicians to immunize their pregnant and postpartum patients against influenza.

Immunity against a disease that can be life-threatening for newborns is one the reasons why Dr. Pullen got his tetanus booster ahead of schedule.

Children age six years and older should receive annual trivalent seasonal influenza immunization, according to new recommendations from the AAP.

The ACIP has recommended that Afluria, a seasonal flu vaccine, not be given routinely to children younger than 9 years

Although the majority of pediatricians and family physicians in the US are offering the HPV vaccine, fewer physicians are strongly encouraging it for 11- to 12-year-old girls, according to findings published in Pediatrics.