Two events occurred in Manhattan last week which poignantly stressed the short span of modern medicine, 1) Dr. Harvey Gushing spoke about the pituitary gland before the Harvey Society at the Academy ...

Clinics to administer vaccinations for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis will open in Colusa in August. The Colusa County Department of Health and Human Services will deliver immunizations commonly ...

Experts highlight the importance of the Td vaccine in combating waning immunity against tetanus and diphtheria in adults.

For the past 3 years, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) and the National Coalition for Adult Immunization (NCAI) have spearheaded "The Power of 10" campaign to raise awareness of ...

From the U.S. Public Health Service last week came a warning: diphtheria is on the rise. The number of cases, 10,335 so far this year, was not alarming, but it was some 2,500 above the recent norm, ...

The United States could safely drop tetanus and diphtheria booster shots for adults and save an estimated $1 billion a year, according to a new review led by researchers at Oregon Health & Science ...

An important new discovery on the source of the spread of diphtheria has been credited to the research work done last year by Dr. Victor Freeman at the University of Washington Medical School. The ...

Linked to an increase in migrant arrivals via small boat in the Summer of 2022, the UK experienced a sharp increase in diphtheria cases caused by toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae last year, ...

In 2022, Western Europe experienced the largest surge in reported diphtheria infections in 70 years. Clinical and genomic data from the outbreak point toward transmission routes along established ...

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From the Department of Pediatrics. Harvard Medical School, and the Haynes Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals. † Clinical professor of communicable diseases, Harvard School of Public Health; ...