by ivaccinate | Jun 20, 2019 | Studies & Research
From The New York Times. Read the full article here. At a time when the failure to immunize children is driving the biggest measles outbreak in decades, a little-known database offers one way to gauge the safety of vaccines. Over roughly the past dozen years in the...
by ivaccinate | Jun 19, 2019 | Studies & Research
From TIME. Read the full article here. The majority of people worldwide think vaccines are safe, according to a new global survey—but the share of doubters is still high enough to threaten immunity. The survey, conducted by polling group Gallup and health research...
by ivaccinate | Jun 19, 2019 | Studies & Research
From The New York Times. Read the full article here. Vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of American lives in recent years. According to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaccines have prevented more than 21 million hospitalizations...
by ivaccinate | Jun 12, 2019 | Studies & Research
From the introduction of the smallpox vaccine in the 19th century to the mass availability of flu shots today, vaccines have helped millions of people develop immunity to some of the world’s deadliest illnesses. Thanks to vaccines, many infectious diseases —...
by ivaccinate | May 30, 2019 | Studies & Research
Measles, mumps and pertussis are all on the rise, fueled in part by the anti-vaccination movement, which has left pockets of vulnerable, unvaccinated people and the waning effectiveness of some vaccines. This year, U.S. measles cases are at a 25-year high – surpassing...
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...
