What Parents Need To Know About the New MMRV Vaccine Recommendations

The MMRV vaccine is a combo shot for mumps, measles, rubella, and varicella. But CDC advisers are recommending standalone ...

Chickenpox: Why the UK has approved the MMRV vaccine in under-fours but the US is preparing to restrict it

Two countries, two different approaches to protecting children from chickenpox. While the UK prepares to introduce a combined ...
Clinical Advisor

ACIP Changes Recommendation for MMR, Varicella Vaccination

Vaccination against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella is typically administered in 2 doses: the first between 12 to 15 months and the second at 4 to 6 years.

Q&A on Changes to Recommendations for Combined MMR and Chickenpox Vaccine

On Sept. 18, the vaccine advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to change its ...
STAT

3 burning questions about the MMR vaccine, answered

President Trump has said the MMR vaccine should be broken up. But experts see no medical benefit in separating one shot into ...

CDC panel votes to limit measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccines for children

A CDC advisory panel voted Thursday to limit the availability of a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, ...

Chickenpox vaccine: who can get it, when and why?

The chickenpox – or varicella – vaccine is now available free of charge for all babies born on or after October 1st, 2024.
Irish Medical Times

Chickenpox vaccine available to one-year-olds from October

The varicella (chickenpox) vaccine will be made available free of charge for all babies born on or after October 1 2024, the ...
Spotlight PA

Parents in southwest Pa. are worried about rising vaccine exemption rates

Vaccination rates among children in several southwestern Pennsylvania counties are below the minimum percentage needed to ...