Vaccines News
The CDC has now officially published the recommendation that all children in the U.S. receive vaccination against rotavirus, an extremely common cause of vomiting and diarrhea in infants and... Read more
The expert panel that makes vaccine recommendations and policy for children and adults in the U.S. has voted to recommend a chickenpox (varicella) vaccine booster for all children. The chick... Read more
The panel that makes official vaccine policy for the US has voted to make the new cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil part of the routine vaccine schedule for all children. It is recommended th... Read more
The FDA has approved a vaccine, Gardasil Read more
The expert panel that makes vaccine recommendations for children and adults in the U.S. has voted to recommend that all children receive the newly licensed rotavirus vaccine. It will be give... Read more
The FDA has approved a new oral vaccine, RotaTeq, to prevevnt gastroenteritis (vomiting and diarrhea) caused by rotavirus, an extremely common virus in infants and toddlers. It is the most c... Read more
The new Tdap vaccine, which adds a booster for pertussis (whooping cough) to the standard tetanus (Td) booster, is now recommended in adults as well by the expert panel that makes vaccine re... Read more
In October, the expert panel that makes vaccine recommendations and policy for adults and children in the United States decided to recommend Hepatitis A vaccine for all children in the Unite... Read more
In an extremely large study of 805,206 children (all the children born in Denmark from 1990 to 2001), there was no greater risk of serious or mild infections as the number of vaccines given... Read more
The expert panel that makes vaccine recommendations for the U.S. is recommending that all adolescents age 11 to 12 years of age be given the Tdap vaccine instead of the Td vaccine (tetanus b... Read more
The FDA has approved a second new tetanus booster shot now containing a whooping cough (pertussis) booster as well. The vaccine is called ADACEL and is made by sanofi pasteur. (Another vacc... Read more
The FDA has licensed a new tetanus booster shot now containing a whooping cough (pertussis) booster as well. The vaccine, called BOOSTRIX, is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. The vaccine is... Read more
As expected, this week the ACIP, the official U.S. immunization recommendation committee, decided to recommend the new meningococcal vaccine (MCV4, Menactra) for all children ages 11-12, as... Read more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week approved a new vaccine called MCV4 (marketed as Menactra) that protects against four strains (A, C, Y, and W-135) of Neisseria meningiti... Read more
Two large studies conducted in Great Britain looked at vaccines containing mercury-based preservative (thimerosal) and child development. The first study was a prospective study, meaning th... Read more
In a large study of all children born in Denmark from December, 1990 to December, 1996 (over 400,000 children), there was no difference in the rate of autism or autism-spectrum disorders in... Read more