Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Valley Discount Pharmacy provided tetanus immunizations to residents at Valley Elementary School in Pikeville, Ky., in 2022 after ...

By Tom Latek Kentucky Today While tetanus infections are uncommon in the United States, a concerning increase in cases has ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging doctors to conserve shots of a kind of tetanus vaccine, as the agency braces for a potential shortage of those shots this year. Doctors should ...

Opinions about vaccinations continue to be mixed in the United States. Even before the COVID-19 vaccine was released, the safety of childhood immunizations was a hotly contested topic among some ...

Nationally, New York ranked 44th lowest for its adult vaccination rate for tetanus (65%), a federal study found It dropped even lower at 46th nationally for pneumococcal vaccination rate, which ...

Every doctor wants to see a smile on a patient’s face, but there is one that no doctor ever wants to see: risus sardonicus, sometimes known as the sardonic grin or the devil’s smile, the cruel mark of ...

A tetanus shot lasts for 10 years, and adults should get a booster every 10 years. You need a tetanus booster shot sooner if you get a deep or dirty cut and it's been more than 5 years since your last ...

The ISMP Medication Errors Reporting Program (ISMP-MERP) database contains hundreds of cases of accidental mix-ups between adult and pediatric products used to immunize patients against diphtheria, ...

Hindustan Times on November 28, 2025, published the report of alleged tetanus injection shortage at the civic hospital ...