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Probably. Vaccine supply is now good enough that many clinics stock different types and allow people to choose which one they want. Pfizer-BioNTech’s shot is initially given in two doses ...

Cancer vaccines harness the power of the immune system to stop tumors in their tracks. They work a little differently than regular vaccines intended to prevent infectious diseases, like measles or the ...

Moderna’s vaccine candidate includes three different norovirus types. “It would be great if there were some conserved regions of the norovirus protein that could be targeted, but that’s not ...

Norovirus is highly infectious and causing a lot of illness this winter. Several vaccine candidates are making their way through clinical trials.

Vaccine developers have long worked to create a vaccine—some seven different candidates are currently in various stages of clinical trials. But none has proved effective enough to earn approval ...

Influenza A and B patients had similar death rates by 90 days (13.4% vs 8.7%, respectively) and proportions of radiologic ...

The measles virus is airborne and extremely contagious. Before the first measles vaccine became available in the 1960s, ...

Jamie Mackelfresh, MD: Currently, the CDC recommends that adults over age 50, in particular, are the core people who should think about getting the shingles vaccine. There are two different ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., awaiting confirmation to become secretary of health and human services, has repeatedly claimed that vaccines are not tested rigorously enough and has called for an alternative ...