The Philippines has launched a measles-rubella vaccination campaign aiming to immunize 445,000 children, strengthening ...

Since 1971, protection against measles, mumps, and rubella has been delivered in a single combined injection. A proposal to ...

Paul D. Parkman, a scientist who in the 1960s played a central role in identifying the rubella virus and developing a vaccine to combat it, breakthroughs that have eliminated from much of the world a ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) has vaccinated over one million children aged 6 to 59 months against ...

One side of the bedroom is an explosion of pink, from the hair accessories and dangling trinkets to the stuffed animals and laundry hamper. The other, starting with the fuzzy pillows and puffy ...

Rubella is mostly a medical curiosity in the developed world today. Vaccines have eradicated the virus in the Western Hemisphere, and many doctors have never seen the disease outside of textbooks. Now ...

Nepal has reached a remarkable milestone: the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared that rubella has been eliminated as a public health problem in Nepal. This achievement reflects ...

Using advanced genetic sequencing technology and analysis, vaccine researchers have identified 27 genes that respond in very different ways to the standard rubella vaccine, making the vaccine less ...

Rubella poses a risk to pregnancy, including miscarriage and congenital abnormalities. Because of this, a person should get tested for rubella immunity before becoming pregnant. In the United States, ...

THE observation of a newborn infant with widespread petechiae and thrombocytopenia born to a mother who had had rubella during the 1964 epidemic stimulated us to seek other newborn and older children ...