Consider the following scenario: a highly infectious, sometimes deadly respiratory virus infects humans for the first time. It spreads rapidly worldwide, and the WHO declares a pandemic. The death toll starts to rise and everyone is...

Test statistics allow us to quantify how close things are to our expectations or theories. Instead of going on our gut feelings, they allow us to add a little mathematical rigor when asking the question: “Is this random… or real?” Today,...

Peter Hotez describes two major mentors who shaped his scientific career. At Rockefeller University, Anthony Cerami gave him rare intellectual freedom as an MD–PhD student, encouraging him to tackle big health problems through...

Baylor College of Medicine professor Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, describes his lifelong mission to develop low-cost vaccines and his personal journey as a physician-scientist. After his daughter Rachel was diagnosed with autism and...

We're not using the HPV vaccine enough, and we may be using NICUs too much. This is Healthcare Triage News.

If you've been paying attention to recent news, you might think that we're entering a time when leaps forward in health care only happen at great expense. That misses the point. It also, once again, confirms the incorrect impression that...

There's been a lot about vaccines in the news, recently, especially the flu vaccine. So we're going to concentrate on that, in today's Healthcare Triage News.

It's not too late to get a flu shot! You may have heard that the flu shot this year is "less effective" than in earlier years. That may not mean what you think it means. Less effective is a relative relationship, and in absolute terms,...

The CDC recommendations for the HPV vaccine have just changed. If you’re 45 years of age or younger, then you might want to talk to your doctor about getting vaccinated yourself.

One argument we continue to hear about the reaction to Covid-19 is that “it’s just another flu”, and that we can move forward with life as usual, much like we move forward with life during flu season. While we wish that were true, it...

We know that Human Papillomavirus causes genital warts and cancer. We know that the vaccine protects people against the seven high-risk variants of the virus which are responsible for about 90% of cervical cancers. It also protects...

The HPV vaccine is pretty well known amongst the public, but mostly as a measure against cervical cancer in women. A recent news article highlights its use in men, and we want to highlight that highlight.

In this last episode of our six-part series on vaccinations, supported by the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, we cover vaccine development - particularly in the context of the current global pandemic. We discuss...

Human Papillomaviruses (HPV) are the cause of genital warts, and believed to lead to a number of cancers. But there's a vaccine for HPV that can prevent you from getting infected. This week, Rosianna sends in some questions about the...

When people hear about vaccine denial, they most often think about parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children. But there's another type of vaccine refusal, and it's important that we not ignore that, too. Doctors sometimes...

How dangerous is heading a soccer ball? Who's mandating the HPV vaccine in the US? And how many women are drinking while pregnant in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK? This is Healthcare Triage News.

On this Healthcare Triage News, we're talking about an outbreak of Yellow Fever in South America, and why there aren't enough doses of the highly effective vaccine on the market. We'll also look at developments in the huge and...

Over a half-million women in the world get cervical cancer every year, with nearly 80 percent in developing countries. Human papilloma virus, or HPV, causes the cancer and is therefore among the worst instigators of female cancer...

This film provides a glimpse into the work being done in Malaysia, Sri Lanka & China to tackle Japanese encephalitis. In Malaysia we look at innovative diagnostic work in Malaysia and in Sri Lanka at the development of a vaccine that...

More and more drug-resistant strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (Hib) have emerged in recent years, and the consequences of late or no treatment are devastating. The microbe is estimated to cause at least 3 million cases...

Although it is rarely fatal in wealthy countries, pneumonia kills more children each year than any other infectious disease. This program explains why the pneumococcus bacterium has run rampant in the underdeveloped world, and explores...

Striking in areas where vaccines tend to be out of reach, the 2005 Indian Ocean tsunami produced fears of an immediate cholera epidemic. But one district in southern India showed the world how to defy the odds—clearing contaminated...

When polio vaccines were first developed, many experts thought the disease would be fully eradicated within decades. Tragically, as this film shows, it has survived in places like Afghanistan and northern Nigeria. These locations are...

This program travels to Cambodia, where 1 in 10 people carry hepatitis B, a major cause of liver cancer. Mothers often transmit the virus to their babies during childbirth, and children can pass the infection to each other through even...