Adult Vaccines Features
A New Era in Hope and Health Equity: Malaria Vaccinations
- Vaccines as Part of Preventative Health
Vaccines can protect you from serious diseases like measles, mumps, rubella, and meningitis. Immunization facts you should know.
- Your Travel Vaccine Checklist, Continent by Continent
Before you pack your bags, find out which shots you need to protect your health when visiting other countries.
- Vaccines for Hepatitis A & B
Learn how hepatitis A and B vaccines protect you from the viruses that can lead to this liver disease.
- Whooping Cough Vaccine for Adults
WebMD discusses the benefits and side effects of the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine.
- HPV Vaccines and Adults: Expert Q&A
WebMD explains what the HPV vaccine is, who needs to get it, and possible side effects.
- Vaccines for College Students: Expert Q&A
WebMD lists the vaccines college students need and answers common questions about the vaccine guidelines for college students.
- Shingles Vaccine: Expert Q&A
WebMD talks about who needs a shingles vaccine, when to get it, side effects, and explains more about the vaccine.
- Flu Breakthrough: The Search for a Universal Vaccine
Tired of having to get a different flu shot every year -- and sometimes even having to get two? Someday we may have one shot that protects us against all the strains.
- Treating Disease With Vaccines
Can therapeutic vaccines cure illnesses we already have -- like HIV, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer?
- Vaccines for Adults
Are you up to date on your vaccines? Find out which ones you should be getting as an adult.
- Adult Immunizations: Are You Protected?
The flu vaccine, tetanus boosters, hepatitis shots -- why adults still need vaccinations.
- How Your Vaccines are Approved
The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that each year up to 50,000 children and adults are hospitalized because of the virus, and that 20 to 40 people die from it.