Text message reminders to parents about flu vaccinations may help boost the number of children vaccinated.

To educate parents who may be hesitant about vaccinations, there is a guide that will help doctors convince parents to vaccinate their children in this month’s issue of the medical journal Human Immunology.

After last year’s heated political rows over mandating vaccinations for human papillomavirus (HPV) in teenage girls, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has announced that it now also supports vaccinations for boys as well.

Vaccines are for people of all ages, not just children and seniors WASHINGTON, Feb.

A recent study has found that routine infant immunizations that have a vaccine of serogroup B Neisseria meningitides (a bacterium that causes serious diseases like meningitis) produced minimal interference with response to the routine vaccinations and was effective against meningococcal strains.