Browsing: vaccines

Shingles is not your average rash. The painful, itchy red stripe caused by shingles can last up to 10 days,…

Although vaccines may prevent or lessen the effects of different diseases, many of them produce similar side effects, like fevers and arm soreness.

Is there any link between what you can notice after a vaccine and what’s happening on the cellular level inside your body? Robert Finberg is a physician who specializes in infectious diseases and immunology at the Medical School at the University of Massachusetts. He explains how this perception doesn’t match the reality of how vaccines work.

This week in health news: Why do we accept some risks and overly focus on others? Mothers and mothers-to-be are…

Nearly 12 years after the FDA approved Zostavax, the first vaccine to prevent shingles in adults 60 and older, the…

Pregnant mothers who are given the Tdap vaccine do not face a higher risk of having offspring with an abnormally…