WASHINGTON, June 26 — United States President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of the Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, was pulled into political contention over US vaccine policy yesterday, describing the medications as “life-saving” and telling a Senate panel she has not seen evidence linking vaccines and autism.

LUBBOCK, March 9 — As a measles outbreak spreads across West Texas, Dr Ana Montanez is fighting an uphill battle to convince some parents that vitamin A — touted by vaccine critics as effective against the highly contagious virus — will not protect their children.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 19 — South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded scientists for decades, when the order came from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to stop work.

By Selangor Journal Team SHAH ALAM, Dec 20 — The Selangor government should fully subsidise dengue vaccinations in hotspot areas to protect high-risk groups and gather vital effectiveness data, a leading medical expert has proposed, reports CodeBlue. Speaking to the health news portal, Dengue...

KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 — The Health Ministry (MOH) spends RM137 million a year to maintain 201 health clinics nationwide under the Clinic Support Services (PSK), with a five-year contract from 2022, the Dewan Negara was told today.

GENEVA, July 29 — Bird flu vaccine developer Sinergium Biotech will share its data with manufacturers in low and middle-income countries to help to accelerate a fair rollout if a pandemic occurs, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.

BENGALURU, June 28 — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that individuals aged six months and older should be given an updated Covid-19 vaccine for the 2024-25 immunisation campaign, irrespective of whether they have previously been vaccinated for the disease.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 — More than seven months after the World Health Organisation declared the end of Covid-19 as a public health emergency of international concern — albeit not as a global threat — Malaysia and the world are grappling with an increasing number of cases, a trend that is unlikely to end as the world heads into end-of-year festivities.

By Selangor Journal Team SHAH ALAM, Oct 25 — The Selangor Health Department has seized over RM56,000 worth of unregistered typhoid vaccines from multiple private clinics in the state over the past three years.  Its director Datuk Dr Sha’ari Ngadiman said this includes the most recent raid by...

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 28 — Starting next year, all pregnant women in the country, including non-citizens, will receive the Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis) vaccine for free said Health Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa.

MOSCOW, Jan 3 — The European Union has offered free Covid-19 vaccines to China to help the country contain the rapid spread of the disease as Beijing prepares to end strict lockdown measures and open its borders, reported Sputnik.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 — Pharmaniaga LifeScience Sdn Bhd’s (PLS) halal vaccine and insulin plants, to be completed by 2024 and 2025, respectively, will assist the country in becoming self-sufficient and reduce import dependency on critical vaccines and insulin.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 — The headlines are everywhere, even as masks are not.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 9 — Malaysians have tweeted a total of 21 million Covid-19 related tweets in the country since June 2019, Twitter said in a statement today.

By Jerry Choong SHAH ALAM, April 28 — The state government is looking to produce effective local vaccines that are safe to use by way of cooperation between Invest Selangor and local as well as international vaccination experts, said Menteri Besar Dato' Seri Amirudin Shari. He said they are...

HANOI, April 5 — Covid-19 vaccines cause no negative impact on children’s genetics or future fertility, health experts said as they urged that children should be vaccinated to reduce their risk of severe disease and hospitalisation.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — Assistance to Malaysians stranded in Ukraine and the increase in cases of individuals posing as policemen are among the issues to be discussed in Parliament today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — A total of 11 deaths due to Covid-19 were recorded yesterday (January 8), the lowest figure since April 25 last year which reported 10 fatalities.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 —  A total of 2,726,684  individuals or 86.6 per cent of adolescents aged between 12 and 17 years in the country have completed their Covid-19 vaccination as at 11.59 pm yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 — There are no death cases that can be directly linked to the Covid-19 vaccines administered during the implementation period of the National Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (PICK) from February 24 until November 20.