Category: Vaccine Headlines
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
Experts Pan Call to Break Up the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccine
MedPage Today “I cannot think of a single reason to implement such a concept” The temporary CDC head’s call to split apart the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate shots drew swift rebukes from pediatric and infectious disease experts. “I call on vaccine manufacturers to develop safe monovalent vaccines to replace the […]
Oct 8, 2025
Amid Confusion Over US Vaccine Recommendations, States Try To ‘Restore Trust’
KFF When the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met last week, confusion filled the room. Members admitted they didn’t know what they were voting on, first rejecting a combined measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox vaccine for young toddlers, then voting to keep it funded minutes later. The next day, they reversed themselves on the funding. Now Jim O’Neill, the deputy […]
Sep 24, 2025
This is what could happen to a child who doesn’t get vaccinated
NPR Pneumonia struck first. Then tonsillitis spiraled into sepsis. Malaria battered him next, and after treatment, the other illnesses flared back up again. This unvaccinated 2-year-old boy is trapped in a relentless cycle. “I was very sad. I knew these things could be prevented by vaccines,” his mother, Alzhraa Fadul, says through an interpreter. “I […]
Sep 10, 2025