Vaccination

A paediatrician says timing is everything when it comes to getting their children vaccinated from disease and illness. Audio

The Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has announced parents who refuse to vaccinate their children will be denied up to 15-thousand dollars in childcare rebates Audio

Teacher at Northwestern University in Chicago, whose new book, On Immunity: An Inoculation, explores vaccination and its history, and parenthood, public health and the body. Audio

A senior paediatric surgeon says the government is neglectful and irresponsible for not fully funding the chickenpox vaccine to all children. Brendon Bowkett is a paediatric surgeon working in the… Audio

Siouxsie discusses the HPV vaccination - and why, in her view, the strategy of only vaccinating girls is the wrong one. Audio

Research into a Typhoid Fever resistant gene could lead to a more effective vaccination against a disease which kills about 200-thousand people a year. Audio

Jean Fleming, Professor Emerita at the University of Otago, retired from a long career in health sciences and science communication. On human anatomy, cancer, New Zealand's leading cause of death… Audio

With Dr Nikki Turner. The HPV vaccination programme began in New Zealand in 2008, initially through General Practices and since 2009, largely through schools at year 8 (age 12). Young women up to the… Audio

Dr. John R. Finnegan, Jr. is a professor and the Dean at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. He is an epidemiology and community public health expert, and one of the 12 Deans who… Audio

Bacteria are being used as factories to produce tiny biobeads to mimic diseases in the body for vaccines Audio

The first in a series of vaccination clinics to halt the spread of hepatitis A began in Ashburton today. Audio

Health authorities have launched a mass vaccination programme against Hepatitis A in parts of Canterbury as they warn New Zealanders about the danger of travelling to the Pacific Islands where the… Audio

The drug-buying agency, Pharmac, will review its funding for the whooping cough vaccination, but won't say when. Three babies have died since the latest outbreak of the disease began in August 2011… Audio

Cost could be the major barrier to including boys as well as girls in a vaccination programme to prevent cervical cancer. Audio

A mass vaccination programme begins in Northland this week, to protect young people from an outbreak of meningococcal 'C'. Audio

These days parents question the need to vaccinate, but 50-years ago when disease was much more prevalent, parents were less inclined to question. Audio

Infectious diseases specialist and expert on vaccines, immunology and virology. He's the author of Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and the Search for a Cure. Audio

Claims some schools are breaching the privacy of girls as part of a cervical cancer vaccination campaign. Audio

The roll-out of the Ministry of Health's anti-cervical cancer vaccination programme has begun this week for girls aged 12 to 18. Audio

From today, about 50 thousand young women, become eligible to receive a free vaccination against cervical cancer. Audio