Bill that would have allowed teens to get vaccine without parental consent pulled
A California state senator announced he’s pulling a bill that would have allowed some teens to get vaccinated without their parents' consent.
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A California state senator announced he’s pulling a bill that would have allowed some teens to get vaccinated without their parents' consent.
The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer.
The White House is making nearly 2 million doses of monkeypox available for ordering.
Dr. Maggie Park says in its clinical trial that Novavax had a 90% efficacy rate.
There have been 52 reported cases of monkeypox in Sacramento.
San Francisco officials on Thursday announced they are declaring a public health emergency over monkeypox that will go into effect on August 1.
The governor is expected to decide whether the state will end its school mask mandate.
The Oakland Board of Education has voted to require students 12 and older to be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend in-person school.
The coronavirus vaccine will be available to millions of Americans this month, but who qualifies depends on certain factors.
The face mask has been a divisive symbol since the pandemic started, and now one of the nation's health leaders says they are the best weapon we have in fighting COVID-19.
A clinical trial evaluating a vaccine designed to protect against the new coronavirus will begin Monday, according to a government official.
This year's flu season ranks among the most severe in recent years.
The first flu death in the state happened in Los Angeles County last month. Both Yolo and Stanislaus counties have had their own flu deaths in January.
Figures submitted by county clerks to the secretary of state show opponents of the law failed to gather enough signatures to ask voters to repeal it.
Opponents of an effort to repeal California's new law requiring mandatory vaccines for schoolchildren are facing a Monday deadline for a ballot initiative asking voters to repeal the law.
Former assemblyman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly filed the referendum. If petitioners gather more than 365,000 signatures, the measure will be placed on the November 2016 ballot. Also, the law scheduled to go into effect months before that election would be on hold until after the vote.
A California bill that would sharply limit vaccination waivers after a Disneyland measles outbreak has generated such an acidic debate that the proposal's author was under added security this week.
"We believe that God gave us the ability to heal from within and he gave us all the tools to heal naturally so we're willing to risk a childhood illness over risking something more serious like autism," Trisha Wimbs said.
Although concerns are mounting across the nation of Ebola exposure, doctors fear the focus could be diverting attention from another potential threat: the flu.
Higher levels of testosterone linked with weaker antibody reaction.
The vaccine against whooping cough falters after only about three years, a preliminary study suggests, adding support to school rules requiring kids to get the vaccination periodically.
California health officials want parents of teens to get up to date on their whooping cough vaccine to get into compliance with a new law for 2011.
