The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to conserve shots of a kind of tetanus vaccine, as the agency braces for a potential shortage of those shots this year. Doctors should ...

Opinions about vaccinations continue to be mixed in the United States. Even before the COVID-19 vaccine was released, the safety of childhood immunizations was a hotly contested topic among some ...

A tetanus shot lasts for 10 years, and adults should get a booster every 10 years. You need a tetanus booster shot sooner if you get a deep or dirty cut and it's been more than 5 years since your last ...

Nationally, New York ranked 44th lowest for its adult vaccination rate for tetanus (65%), a federal study found It dropped even lower at 46th nationally for pneumococcal vaccination rate, which ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Successful childhood vaccine schedules have rendered tetanus and diphtheria boosters unneeded, The move would ...