Vaccines

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If we knew the cause of autism, it would help to convince people what doesn’t cause it. Picture: iStock/The Australian

If vaccines don’t cause autism, what does?

The risk of autism develops even before we are born. But the origins of the disorder are still not well understood.

SUMATHI REDDY

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Generic photo of a small child being vaccinated with a needle. Vaccination / vaccine / baby Picture: iStock

Covid’s dangerous hangover: alarming slide in child vaccination

Childhood vaccination rates have been falling across the country since the Covid pandemic, with some pockets seeing steep declines.

Christine Middap

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[4:3] Embargoed for INQUIRER on 15/04/2025. Vaccinations rates. A child has a bandage on her left arm and a falling graph on the left side. Sources: iStock. Artwork by Frank Ling

See where Australian children are under-vaccinated

Alarm is being raised as routine vaccination rates fall in the pandemic’s wake, posing a threat to us all | Rates of undervaccinated babies vary across the nation.

Christine Middap

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Donald Trumpâs nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services departs after testifying in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kennedy is testifying for a second day following a tense three-hour hearing before the Senate Finance Committee where he clashed with Democrats over his stance on vaccines and abortion rights. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

RFK Jr and the measles outbreak

Now he’s health secretary, not a gadfly, as unvaxxed children are hospitalised.

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Upsized and Sharpened - Deanne Tingey with her two children, Benjamin and Winter. Winter was hospitalised with RSV when she was just six-weeks-old and is still recovering. Picture - Supplied

Expectant mums offered free RSV jab to protect babies

The immunity protection program for pregnant women will start from February 3 and is aimed at protecting newborns from the life-threatening virus until they are six months old.

Penny Timms

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An artist impression of the molecules that mRNA vaccines can battle

Huge leap in cancer vaccine research

Australian researchers have unlocked a crucial key to future cancer vaccines in a world-first discovery set to fast-track RNA-based therapeutics.

Natasha Robinson

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28 year-old Tara Seaton, an Australia Post employee, looks away as Luiza Duszynski, a nursing supervisor at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, injects her with CSL Ltd.'s H1N1 vaccine in Adelaide, Australia, on Wednesday, July 22, 2009. The first human trials of a swine-flu vaccine began today in Australia as deaths and infections from the H1N1 virus mount worldwide, intensifying demand for a protective shot. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

CSL’s ‘super flu jab’ gets a shot in the arm

Australia’s biggest health company has revealed its flu shot is 15pc more effective than conventional ones. But don’t expect the government to pay for it.

Jared Lynch

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CSL's vaccine arm Seqirus is producing a new cell-based flu vaccine.Photo of syringe filling processes at the manufacturing facility at Holly Springs Seqirus in North Carolina.

Super flu vaccine gets the go-ahead

A new type of cell-based influenza vaccine is available this winter that promises to be much more effective than protein-based flu jabs grown in eggs.

Natasha Robinson

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