ATLANTA Federal vaccine advisers recommended on Wednesday that 16-year-olds be given a booster dose of a vaccine against meningococcal meningitis and that people ages 11 to 64 get a booster to protect ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A new educational campaign that was launched on Monday is hoping to encourage more teenagers to get vaccinated with a booster to prevent meningitis. The Centers for Disease ...

A warning to parents: State health officials for the first time are saying two shots of meningitis vaccine - not the previously recommended one - are the best defense against the insidious, ...

ATLANTA -Teens should get a booster dose of the vaccine for bacterial meningitis because a single shot doesn’t work as long as expected, a federal advisory panel said Wednesday. The vaccine was ...

ATLANTA – Teens should get a booster dose of the vaccine for bacterial meningitis because a single shot doesn’t work as long as expected, a federal advisory panel said Wednesday. The vaccine was ...

"Teens are the ones that are at risk here," the Pretty Little Liars star tells PEOPLE Michele Corriston is the Director of Platforms Strategy of PEOPLE. She has worked at PEOPLE since 2014. Pretty ...

Booster shots are not a new idea. Kids get them periodically for measles and mumps, for diphtheria and for chickenpox. Adults are cautioned to get a tetanus or meningitis booster. Travelers may get an ...

Scientists are indicating that children in Burkina Faso who were vaccinated against group A meningococcal meningitis and septicemia (MenA) between the ages of 1-4 years in 2010, could need a booster ...

A study of 4CMenB, a new vaccine to protect against meningitis B bacteria (which can cause potentially fatal bacterial meningitis in children), shows that waning immunity induced by infant vaccination ...

Area school districts continue to wrestle with new state immunization rules that are keeping some students out of school. The Crestwood School District excluded seven students in 12th grade Wednesday ...