Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) partakes in World Immunization Week, a period of reflection, raising awareness, and future planning surrounding global action required to combat ...

Some professions are inherently risky—and for military personnel, first responders, and medical providers, special precautions are required to safely perform their duties. The same holds true for ...

Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions we can make. Every year vaccination programmes save millions of lives. They have helped eradicate diseases like smallpox – a deadly virus ...

Vaccines are a safe and highly effective way to prevent common diseases that used to seriously harm or even kill infants, children and adults. When children have all their recommended vaccines on ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Once a week, ...

An Australian-first study demonstrating the effectiveness of a new immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for babies found it to be almost 90% effective in reducing hospitalization ...

Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program risk driving drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots. This article was published on Thursday, July 17, 2025 in ProPublica.

Millions of dollars have been pulled from state and local vaccination programs with no explanation, after a review of the funding agreements by the US Department of Health and Human Services. Affected ...

The spending proposal terminates support of health programs that, according to the proposal, “do not make Americans safer.” By Apoorva Mandavilli The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the ...

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