All Homeless People to Get Hepatitis A Vaccine
Story Highlights In October 2018, the CDC’s vaccine policymaking committee, ACIP, voted to recommend the hepatitis A vaccine to be…
Listening vs Coercion on ‘Vaccine Hesitancy’
Story Highlights Public shaming of vaccine-hesitant parents has reached new heights. Those who question mainstream vaccine policy tend to be…
FDA Expands the Market for Gardasil Vaccine Use
Story Highlights Merck’s new Gardasil 9 human papillomavirus vaccine has now been approved for use in men and women to…
Mass HPV Vaccination Plan for the U.S.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has set an aggressive goal to achieve an 80 percent uptake rate among American children…
Vote & Vax Pushes Flu Shots at Election Day Polling Stations
In a stepped up effort to promote vaccination against influenza during the 2018-2019 “flu season,” the non-profit organization SPARC (Sickness…
CDC Advisory Committee Flip Flops on FluMist
On June, 22, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended…
FDA Approves Four-Strain Flu Vaccine for Children
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently expanded the age indication for Seqirus’ Afluria Quadrivalent influenza vaccine to include…
Expanding Vaccination Rates by Allowing More People to Give Them
In 2009, public health officials in the United States responded to a predicted “heavy flu season” by passing a regulation…
FDA Gives Green Light to Test Lyme Disease Vaccine on Humans
Clinical trials for a new Lyme disease vaccine will be conducted in the U.S. and Belgium after the U.S. Food…
Fauci Says Zika Vaccine Coming by 2018
Director of the National Institutes for Health Anthony Fauci, MD announced this week that a Zika vaccine could be rushed…