Health

What's next for California's contentious vaccine law

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a hotly contested California bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country in the wake of an outbreak of measles at Disneyland late last year.

Medical research

Measles-flu comparison yields insights for vaccine design

By comparing flu viruses to the virus that causes measles, researchers fine-tuned a tool that may enable faster vaccine design, according to a study led by Mount Sinai researchers and published online this week in the journal ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

A deadly shadow: Measles may weaken immune system up to three years

The measles virus is known to cast a deadly shadow upon children by temporarily suppressing their immune systems. While this vulnerability was previously thought to have lasted a month or two, a new study shows that children ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Rubella is gone from the Americas: global health authorities

Improved vaccine campaigns have led to the elimination of rubella—an infectious disease that can cause birth defects—from North, Central and South America, global health authorities said Wednesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Aerosolized measles vaccine inferior to subcutaneous vaccine

(HealthDay)—With respect to seropositivity, aerosolized vaccination against measles is inferior to the subcutaneous vaccine, according to a study published in the April 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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