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U.K. govt. recommends chickenpox vaccine for children to reduce risk of shingles in adults. Vaccine has been shown to prevent 91 million cases, 2,38,000 hospitalisations, and almost 2,000 deaths in U.S. Unpublished study by University of Bristol found complications from severe varicella were common, costly and placed burden on health…

The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say measles deaths globally spiked by more than 40% last year

Campaigners welcomed announcement by Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

Campaigners welcomed the announcement by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.

The number of patients with an antibiotic-resistance infection rose by 4% in 2022.

Youngsters should be offered two doses when they are aged 12 months and 18 months, scientists have said.

Vaccine has been given in other countries, including US and Australia, for years

‘The thalidomide tragedy is a dark chapter in the history of our nation and the world’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a formal apology in parliament on behalf of the government to survivors of the drug thalidomide and their families.