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Back to SearchVaccines against human papilloma virus reduce cancers, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Vaccines against human papilloma virus or HPV have been shown to dramatically reduce the rates of cervical cancer among recipients, data over decades…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
After billions of doses, mRNA vaccines have demonstrated their safety, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Among the many advances seen while Covid was rampant, mRNA vaccines stand out. That’s according to Anna Durbin, a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins. Du…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why are mRNA vaccines effective? Elizabeth Tracey reports
The technology that produced the vaccines against Covid relies on a type of RNA known as messenger RNA. Johns Hopkins vaccine expert Anna Durbin expl…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
What is RNA and how is it used in vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports
RNA stands for ribonucleic acid, and since the development of Covid vaccines a class of it known as ‘messenger RNA’ or mRNA for short has been much i…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Should you get more than one vaccine at a time? Elizabeth Tracey reports
It’s probably not high on your fun list to go and get vaccinated, so can more than one vaccine be given at a time so you can minimize the number of v…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
If you are allergic to eggs should you avoid flu vaccines? Elizabeth Tracey reports
The majority of flu vaccines are grown in eggs, so people with egg allergies would avoid them. Johns Hopkins vaccine expert Anna Durbin says that lan…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why might you get an illness even when you’ve been vaccinated? Elizabeth Tracey reports
You probably know people who got the Covid vaccines but still got the illness, sometimes multiple times. Ditto for flu vaccines. Before you simply ch…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Why is the flu vaccine sometimes more effective than other times? Elizabeth Tracey reports
You may recall hearing that this year’s flu vaccine was 40-60% effective against the flu. Why isn’t it more effective? Anna Durbin, a vaccine expert …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Who shouldn’t take a live vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Vaccines are public health success stories, with the most effective ones often what’s called ‘live attenuated,’ meaning they do replicate in our bodi…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
How should you create a sleep routine? Elizabeth Tracey reports
One way to avoid the reported epidemic of insomnia is to create a routine you follow before you go to bed, resetting your brain to prepare for sleep.…
10 months ago