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Do I Need The Hepatitis a and B Vaccines?

You should not get the vaccine if you had a severe allergic reaction to an earlier dose or are allergic to yeast, because yeast is used to make the...

HPV Vaccine for Adults

The HPV vaccine effectively prevents infection with the HPV types responsible for most cervical cancers and can also prevent genital warts. HPV inf...

Vaccine Mandates: what to Know

As COVID-19 vaccination efforts continue, some cities, states, businesses, schools, universities, and even the federal government are turning towar...

COVID Vaccine Booster: Everything You Need to Know

For example, if you got the Moderna vaccine and you prefer to get a Pfizer booster shot, that is perfectly OK, according to the CDC. You can decide...

Shingles Vaccine: Should I Get It?

There is currently one vaccine available in the U.S. to prevent shingles. Doctors recommend it for healthy people over 50 as well as those 19 years...

Supreme Court Lets Maines Vaccine Mandate Stand

The health care workers argued Maine was an “extreme outlier” compared to other states because its vaccine mandate lacks a religious exemption whil...

New Yorks Largest Health Care Provider Fires 1,400 Unvaccinated Employees

As of last week, 87% of hospital staff were fully vaccinated, and 92% of hospital and retirement home workers had received at least one dose, accor...

Vaccine Mandate Takes Effect for NY Health Care Workers

In New York City, about 5,000 employees at the city’s 11 public acute-care hospitals remain unvaccinated (out of a total of 43,000 employees), Mitc...

Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis Vaccine for Adults

Tdap is a combination vaccine that protects against three potentially life- threatening bacterial diseases: tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (who...

COVID-19 Vaccines 101: FAQ

A vaccine is a substance that stimulates your immune system to make antibodies -- blood proteins produced in response to a foreign substance -- as ...

COVID-19 Vaccine

Usually such a process takes years, but the scope of the pandemic triggered round-the-clock work by thousands of researchers working on over 100 di...

Influenza Vaccine (Flu Shot and Nasal Spray) for Adults

The influenza vaccine is a yearly vaccine that protects you from getting the flu, a viral respiratory illness that spreads very easily. If you have...