Simple SMS 'nudge' a powerful prompt for timely vaccination

The Kids Research Institute Australia have demonstrated the effectiveness of a simple text message for increasing the number of children receiving their vaccinations on time. Throughout 2021–2024, ...

Malawi vaccinates a new generation of children against polio, which still hasn't been eradicated

In a classroom in southern Malawi, children sit in rows on the floor as a health worker moves among them administering an ...
Politifact

Did the vaccine schedule require kids to be injected 72 times? No.

Under its former childhood vaccine schedule, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that kids get 12 different vaccines protecting against 16 diseases before age 10. It didn’t ...
KRDO

CDPHE to send reminder texts and emails to families about vaccines

DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) -- Starting today, Jan. 14, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) will send text messages and email notifications to families with children between the ...
Fox News

RFK Jr reshapes CDC vaccine panel with new OB-GYN appointments

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday reshaped the CDC’s powerful vaccine panel, naming two obstetrician-gynecologists (OB-GYNs) as part of his push to overhaul the ...
Yahoo

Flu cases rise in Des Moines, prompting vaccine reminders

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The New York Times

What to Know About the Vaccines Cut From C.D.C. Recommendations

Federal health officials upended the immunization schedule for American children this week. These are the diseases affected. By Maggie Astor Dani Blum and Teddy Rosenbluth When the Centers for Disease ...
Reuters

Bayer sues COVID vaccine makers over mRNA technology

A Moderna spokesperson said the company is aware of the lawsuit and will defend itself. Spokespeople for Pfizer, BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
New York Post

The six vaccines the CDC no longer recommends for kids — and why the US has been different from other countries

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Monday that it has updated its recommended vaccine schedule for children, reducing the number of immunizations all kids should receive from ...
Detroit Free Press

CDC changes childhood vaccine schedule. Should kids still get them?

New federal health guidance means fewer vaccines are now recommended for all children in the U.S. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the updated childhood vaccine schedule in a ...
Boston Herald

Here’s what to know about the unprecedented changes to child vaccine recommendations

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

CDC schedule for recommended childhood vaccines changes. What we know

A new order from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services removed six vaccines from the recommended childhood vaccination schedule. A presidential memorandum from President Donald Trump on Dec ...