Vaccination

Tom Price named HHS Secretary.

The 2017 CDC guidelines for vaccination are out, with some changes.

Phase 2 study shows promising results for potential C. difficile vaccine candidate.

Racial differences in flu vaccine participation sheds light on a larger issue.

Donald Trump believes vaccines cause autism.

Daniel Neides, MD, is in hot water about anti-vaccine comments he made on the Cleveland Clinic's blog.

A JAMA Pediatrics study concluded that there is no need for changes in vaccine practices in pregnant women.

As December 1 marks World AIDS Day, researchers report on the latest prevention and diagnosis strategies as well as a threat in the quest to eradicate the disease.

Combining the common cold virus and a DNA-based vaccine revs up the immune system to fight the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Not only is Brazilian AIDS and infectious disease specialist Mauro Schecter, MD, PhD, an expert in Zika, he was also a patient. In the opening session of IDWeek 2016, he described what that was like.

Recommendations that children with asthma not get live attenuated flu vaccine may not be necessary, researchers found.

Deaths from measles can come through a complication known as SSPE, and it is more common than thought. It can occur years after measles infection, even in adults.

At IDWeek 2016, Mark Murphy, DO, Advocate Children's discussed his team's quality improvement project to improve the HPV vaccine completion rates in pediatric patients, which is an "ongoing national issue".

According to a recently published review, development is proceeding on vaccines that hope to prevent or mitigate asthma, with several approaches advancing to clinical trial.

The CDC has long recommended that all kids ages 11 and 12 get three doses of the HPV vaccine. While the ages haven’t changed, the recommended number of shots has.

As flu strains evolve each year, the latest vaccine guidelines have changed for the 2016 to 2017 season.

As Zika cases mount, US funds a second vaccine project. Sanofi Pasteur and Walter Reed Army Research are getting $43.18 million. There are now at least 749 pregnant women in the US States with known Zika infections.

“To our knowledge, only one case of APMPPE following human influenza virus vaccine was reported, and this case reportedly demonstrated a benign clinical course.” The researchers encourage doctors to be aware, though this case was both benign and extremely rare.

Infants exposed to Zika virus in-utero aren't the only ones at risk of brain damage from the virus. Researchers at The Rockefeller University and La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology believe the virus can "wreak havoc" in almost anyone's brain.

Investigators from York University in Toronto, Canada, found a strong connection between the fear of needles that exists in more than half of children and their parents’ behavior during vaccination.

Chlamydia is the most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and now the first steps toward creating a vaccine have been accomplished.

Most of us would do just about anything to get rid of a pesky cold, but new research published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology found that zinc acetate lozenges could cut the duration.

Researchers have described a novel strategy that could augment the current process for forecasting the naturally occurring mutations that help seasonal flu virus dodge the vaccine with a more precise approach.

Scientists may be one step closer to designing a vaccine that could protect people from the human immunodeficiency virus.

An analysis of patients in 183 countries over 23 years revealed that death due to viral hepatitis is becoming more common.

Research involving infants exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) offers new insight into naturally produced antibodies.

Known as the nasal spray flu vaccine, the live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) will take the bench for the 2016 to 2017 flu season.

Research in the medical field covers a wide range of conditions and ways to not only treat them but also prevent them. Research is being done on a new vaccine for hepatitis B which has shown to be effective in patients with diabetes.

Patients with type 2 diabetes are especially at risk for getting the hepatitis B infection, and a new vaccine proved to work better than the current one during a phase III trial.

In an ideal world, there would be a vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). An improved animal model developed by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania could one day make a vaccine a reality.