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The 40-year-old ‘vaccine court’ relies on scientific evidence to determine whether a person experienced harm from a routine vaccination.
Abrupt policy changes and confusing public messaging have injected confusion in back-to-school vaccine protocols.
Now that the US has stopped funding Gavi, the vaccine alliance will likely become more dependent on philanthropy than ever before.
Viruses mutate all the time. Vaccines don’t cause this – they help filter which strains survive.
A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.
A complex blend of personal, social and environmental factors fuels vaccine skepticism.
To achieve global health for the future, the leadership must come not only from the US.
Language technologies are being adapted for health across Africa. But most of these tools never make it beyond the lab or they are limited in their language options.
The justices ruled that a key preventive health task force has authority because it is appointed by the Health and Human Services secretary. Some experts worry that RFK Jr. could politicize it.
The situation in the US is deeply concerning – for vaccine uptake and for the impacts globally.
US health panel moves against thimerosal in vaccines.
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.
There’s no solid evidence that thimerosal harms children. RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine advisory committee voted against using it in the one type of flu vaccine where it is still used.
Through technological innovation and the development of new tuberculosis vaccines, ASEAN countries play a vital role in combating TB at both regional and global levels.
The same tools that companies use to sell products can be used to encourage people to get vaccinated, get a colonoscopy or get treated for an infection.
Catching the flu or COVID can trigger a heart attack or stroke in vulnerable people. Here’s what we can all do to lower our risk.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices guides the CDC’s hand on vaccine policy, but some of its new members have voiced anti-vaccine views.
AI-powered chatbots can be used in health-care education to help providers practice encounters with patients who have vaccine questions.
You can still pass whooping cough on, even if you’re vaccinated.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School and Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, University of Sydney
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