BCG vaccination, which is easy to deliver and ... there is evidence that BCG can produce disseminate infection and more serious adverse events when given to immunocompromised HIV-infected children.

Background: In the United States, measles is resurging, with more than 700 confirmed cases since January 2014. During measles outbreaks, vaccination as early as at 6 months of age is sometimes ...

Hospitals across the country are now facing a shortage of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects newborns ...

A nationwide shortage of BCG vaccines in the country leaves Kenyan newborns vulnerable to TB, a disease with a high ...

Findings from a postmarketing observational study showed an increased risk of GBS during the 42 days following vaccination.

BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine for tuberculosis, pictured at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1931. Scientists in the UK have begun testing the BCG vaccine, developed in 1921, to see if ...

Researchers looked at "adverse events" from nearly 300 million vaccine doses given in the US between December 2020 and June 2021. Members of the public, healthcare providers and drug companies can ...

Academic researchers in Massachusetts believe the standard BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine could have a remarkable second use: a treatment to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes. The cause of ...

BCG vaccine—named for its developers—contains inactivated mycobacteria that infect cattle and remains the only vaccination strategy against the infection in humans. Injected into the skin ...