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With Little Safety Data, CDC Recommends Pfizer COVID Vaccine for 12-Year-Old Children

by Judith Jolly, RN, BSN

May 18, 2021

Opinion | I monitor meetings of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...

Women Report Menstrual Irregularities After COVID-19 Vaccination

by Rishma Parpia

May 10, 2021

From the start of the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) vaccines rollout, many women around the world have expressed concerns about the effects ...

Women Sell Breast Milk Online Claiming It Contains Antibodies After COVID-19 Vaccination

by Natasha Hobley

May 3, 2021

Lactating women who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are selling their breast milk online. The website Only the Breast has dozens of ...

Women Are at Higher Risk for COVID Vaccine Reactions Than Men

by Kate Raines

March 21, 2021

Story Highlights It has been reported that women are at greater risk for anaphylactic adverse reactions to the experimental vaccines for COVID-19 ...

J&J to Test COVID-19 Vaccine on Babies, Pregnant Women and the Immunocompromised

by TVR Staff

March 7, 2021

Pharmaceutical and medical device giant Johnson & Johnson, Inc. (J&J) announced on Feb. 28, 2021 plans to test its experimental Ad26.COV2.S vaccine ...

WHO Does About-Face on Whether Pregnant Women Should Get Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

by Natasha Hobley

February 15, 2021

In early January 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended against pregnant women receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccine due to ...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine Not Recommended for People Over 65 in Germany

by Carolyn Hendler, JD

February 7, 2021

Health officials in Germany have cautioned that the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine (AZD1222) should not be given to people over the age of ...

Moderna, Pfizer Test mRNA Experimental Biologics on Children

by TVR Staff

February 7, 2021

On Dec. 10, 2020, American biotechnology company Moderna, Inc., which is pioneering the development of experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, ...