How vaccines give our immune systems a home advantage

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Guidance on Routine Childhood Immunizations

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. The importance of childhood immunizations has long been established. A 2024 study in ...
KCUR

Federal childhood vaccine guidelines changed. What will that mean for Kansas City families?

Last month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised and reduced the childhood immunization schedule, ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

HPV Cancer Vaccine Slows Tumor Growth, Extends Survival in Preclinical Model

Professor Chad Mirkin found that the vaccine’s carefully organized structure dramatically boosts cancer-fighting immunity.

Vaccines are still safe and effective, WellSpan doctor says

All of these vaccines are still safe and they’re still effective,” said Mark Goedecker, WellSpan’s associate chief medical officer. “Nothing has changed with that.” ...

In rejection of federal vaccine guidance, Illinois adopts American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine schedule

Illinois will adopt the childhood vaccine schedule recently released by the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a rejection of ...
Psychology Today

Why Splitting Children's Vaccines is a Bad Idea

As anti-vaccine sentiment rises nationally, prominent people have proposed splitting combination vaccines into individual shots. For example, the new acting director of the Centers for Disease Control ...