Category: Vaccine Headlines
I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too
STAT As I stepped into line to pick up my badge for the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) conference last weekend in Austin, Texas, a gregarious man approached holding two tall plastic tubes he said contained “clots” from Covid vaccinated bodies. After 36 years in the Air Force, he told me, he’d been pushed out for […]
Nov 12, 2025
Common-Cold Coronavirus Could be the Key to a Better COVID-19 Vaccine
Cornell Medicine Prior exposure to coronaviruses that cause ordinary colds can boost the immune system’s ability to attack a vulnerable site on the COVID-19-causing coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The finding suggests a new vaccination strategy that might provide broader and more durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 strains […]
Nov 12, 2025
Intranasal Vaccine Shows Promise Against Bird Flu in Early Trial
MedPageToday The vaccine appeared to prompt responses to a range of H5N1 clades. An intranasal adjuvanted recombinant influenza vaccine appeared to safely prompt a robust response to a range of H5N1 clades, according to a phase I trial. Immune responses among the three groups that received one of three doses of the adjuvanted clade 2.1 […]
Nov 12, 2025
MIT study finds targets for a new tuberculosis vaccine
MIT Using these antigens, researchers plan to develop vaccine candidates that they hope would stimulate a strong immune response against the world’s deadliest pathogen. A large-scale screen of tuberculosis proteins has revealed several possible antigens that could be developed as a new vaccine for TB, the world’s deadliest infectious disease. In the new study, a […]
Nov 5, 2025
Do mRNA vaccines hold the key to stopping cancer in its tracks? Northeastern University vaccine experts talk recent developments.
Northwestern University There’s a budding scientific literature supporting the idea that so-called messenger RNA vaccines, in prompting a robust immune response inside the body, can help cancer patients. The COVID-19 vaccines could be doing a lot more than just warding off viral infection: they may be teaching our immune systems how to fight cancer more […]
Nov 5, 2025
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Guardian Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril. he staff supporting the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) were let go earlier this month in a sweeping round of layoffs that gutted entire departments of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most […]
Oct 29, 2025
Shingles Vaccine Tied to Drops in Heart Disease, Dementia, Death
MedPageToday Having herpes zoster (shingles) boosted the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), but shingles vaccination reduced some risks for older adults, analyses presented at the IDWeekopens in a new tab or window annual meeting suggested. Among more than 174,000 people with a mean age of 59, those who developed a herpes zoster infection were at […]
Oct 22, 2025
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade
Nature Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) extend survival in many patients with cancer but are ineffective in patients without pre-existing immunity1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Although personalized mRNA cancer vaccines sensitize tumours to ICIs by directing immune attacks against preselected antigens, personalized vaccines are limited by complex and time-intensive manufacturing processes10,11,12,13,14. Here we show that mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also […]
Oct 22, 2025
COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors
AP The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors. People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were taking certain immunotherapy drugs lived substantially longer if they also got a Pfizer or Moderna shot within 100 days of starting treatment, according to […]
Oct 22, 2025
Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum
NYT The president’s call for removal of the metal from childhood inoculations set off alarms. About half of shots for polio, whooping cough and other diseases would be affected. Federal health officials are examining the feasibility of taking aluminum salts out of vaccines, a prospect that vaccine experts said would wipe out about half of the nation’s […]
Oct 15, 2025