Vaccination

Five reasons why young people should get a COVID booster vaccine

Vaccination has played a substantial role in reducing the impact of COVID across the globe, and allowed life in most countries to gradually return to something like how we remember it before the pandemic. Researchers estimate ...

Genetics

Researchers discover serious gene defect in Inuit populations

A newly discovered gene defect among people of Inuit ancestry in Greenland, Canada and Alaska will possibly lead to screening of all newborn Inuits as they will otherwise be at risk of dying from child vaccines or simple ...

Vaccination

We need to increase MMR vaccine uptake urgently: expert

Professor Helen Bedford at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Helen Donovan at the Royal College of Nursing, say two doses of MMR vaccine are necessary for optimum protection and 95% vaccine coverage is ...

Vaccination

Vaccines: two centuries of scepticism

Wariness and outright hostility to vaccines did not start with COVID-19 but date back to the 18th century when the first shots were given.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Yes, you still need to wear a mask after you get the COVID-19 vaccine

The country's first coronavirus vaccinations are now being distributed. The FDA granted the Pfizer vaccine emergency authorization for use, and it's expected that soon, possibly by this week, it will do the same for the Moderna ...

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