Pediatrics & Adolescent Health

42+ min ago   (237+ words) The Alberta government says its provincewide influenza, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus vaccination campaign will begin next month. The province says it's maintaining the $100 fee it brought in last year for those seeking the COVID vaccine, though there's a long…...

56+ min ago   (208+ words) News from the Capstone today as UA kicks off the annual drive for students and staff to get a free flu shot. The University of Alabama will offer free flu shots to all students, faculty, and staff at various campus…...

7+ hour, 29+ min ago   (191+ words) Chemung County has joined other Southern Tier counties that have confirmed cases of measles. The Chemung County Health Department is investigating one confirmed case of measles in an unvaccinated resident. That person began showing symptoms Sept. 3 and is currently isolating…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (87+ words) KPCW Summit County health vaccine clinics set for early October Summit County Health Department Deputy Director Kendra Babitz discusses the department's seasonal vaccine clinics, vaccine options, and measles immunization outreach. She says the annual drive-though and walk-up clinics will have…...

6+ hour, 53+ min ago   (645+ words) Colorado had one of the lowest measles vaccination rates in the country for kindergarteners during the last school year, but that appears to reflect a large number of kids arriving at school without records, rather than an unusually high opt-out…...

4+ hour, 18+ min ago   (875+ words) The government is planning to conduct an intensified measles-rubella catch-up vaccination campaign from the last week of this month amid a growing number of measles infections and deaths across the country. The drive is planned to start on September 26, but…...

3+ hour, 51+ min ago   (488+ words) Health officials recently say measles cases are rising at a metro Atlanta daycare, leading to an outbreak. As of Friday, there had been two new cases of measles at the unidentified daycare to bring the total to 10 cases related to…...

5+ hour, 20+ min ago   (186+ words) ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to airdrop millions of rabies vaccine doses over several states, including Georgia, starting next month. The initiative follows a health advisory issued last week by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and…...

4+ hour, 20+ min ago   (317+ words) California voters will decide in November whether Proposition (Prop) 38 should authorize substantial state funding for immunology and immunotherapy research. The initiative would fund immunology and immunotherapy research aimed at harnessing the body’s immune system to develop new treatments, medical procedures…...

4+ hour, 9+ min ago   (248+ words) Jackson County Public Health closed its Lee’s Summit building Monday after health officials confirmed that a resident of eastern Jackson County who had measles visited the location twice last week. Health officials said no other measles cases had been identified…...