by ivaccinate | Dec 21, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
People with heart failure who get flu shots may be less likely to die prematurely than their counterparts who don’t get vaccinated, a Danish study suggests. Researchers followed more than 134,000 patients with heart failure between 2003 and 2015, with half the...
by ivaccinate | Dec 11, 2018 | Studies & Research
It may seem harmless to skip your flu shot each year, but the flu is nothing to mess with. While it may not be perfect, flu vaccination comes with many benefits. Flu vaccination can keep you from getting sick with flu. Flu vaccine prevents millions of illnesses and...
by ivaccinate | Jul 3, 2018 | Studies & Research
A new study documents a 75 percent reduction of pertussis hospitalizations among babies six months and under whose mothers got the Tdap immunization while pregnant. The study, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, is the first to look at clinical...
by ivaccinate | Jun 5, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
Parents who delay or skip childhood vaccinations even when kids have no medical reasons are contributing to U.S. outbreaks of measles and whooping cough. Actor Robert De Niro made national headlines in March when he pulled a controversial film about vaccines from the...
by ivaccinate | May 27, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
Cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, have been climbing over the past decade and a half. The disease, which causes severe coughing for months at a time and can cause death in infants, steadily declined over several decades after a vaccine became widely used...
by ivaccinate | May 25, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
A study done by local researchers found that social media and websites can influence whether a new mom decides to vaccinate her child. A little less than 1% of children in the U.S. between 19 and 35 months are not vaccinated. Ten to 20% of parents have refused or...
