Vaccines are a safe and highly effective way to protect people against disease. Tdap and DTaP are two common vaccines. They’re combination vaccines, which means they contain more than one vaccine in ...

The DTaP vaccine protects little ones from three serious diseases that can be especially harmful to babies. Your child will get the first in this series of shots starting at 2 months old. Learn more ...

Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes honored 80 graduates of his Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison (DTAP) program in the ceremonial courtroom of Borough Hall in Downtown Brooklyn. Denise ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There has been licensure recently of two combination vaccines for use in pediatrics. Although combinations of ...

Protection against whooping cough (also called pertussis) waned during the five years after the fifth dose of the combined diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine, according to ...

Diphtheria was a common cause of death among children in the United States in the 1920s. A vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, and the illness has now been almost completely eradicated in the U.S.

In 2021, the global immunization rate continued to drop, leaving 25 Mn babies without access to potentially life-saving vaccines. The percentage of newborns who received three doses of the DTP3 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Besides the numerous vaccine products, the possibility of confusing many drug products is even greater, as the ...

I'm responsible for the purchase of vaccines for a large pediatric group. Our contract for the DTaP product is now up for renewal. I have 2 questions related to the vaccine choices. Are there ...

With the risk of whooping cough infections rising, it's a good time to make sure you're up to date on your Tdap booster, experts say. Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly infectious respiratory ...