Category: Vaccine Headlines
Universal flu vaccine: How scientists are closing in on the virus’s ‘weak spots’
BBC While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains. Each year, roughly a billion people around the world catch the flu. You’ll know if you’ve got it – it can knock you out for a week or […]
Mar 4, 2026
RNA vaccine funding cuts threaten decades of scientific progress
CIDRAP Federal investment in RNA vaccine research has supported nearly three decades of scientific work spanning infectious diseases, cancer, and vaccine development, but recent and proposed funding cuts threaten to stall that progress, according to a cross-sectional study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open. Led by a team at Northwestern University, researchers identified 178 active National Institutes of […]
Mar 4, 2026
FDA reversal on mRNA-1010 could transform the seasonal influenza vaccines market
Global Data Moderna has announced that the FDA will initiate the review of its seasonal influenza vaccine candidate, mRNA-1010. This announcement comes one week after the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) notified Moderna that it would not initiate a review of mRNA-1010, and a Refusal-to-File (RTF) letter was issued, citing concerns over […]
Feb 25, 2026
Poll: Americans trust vaccines, school mandates
Reuters A bipartisan majority of Americans believe vaccines are safe and that children should receive them to attend school, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, illustrating the challenges President Donald Trump’s administration faces to win broad support for upending decades of health policy. The six-day poll, which closed on Monday, comes as Health Secretary Robert […]
Feb 25, 2026
Universal vaccine to treat colds, flu and COVID developed – and a new study suggests it just might work
The Conversation Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognise a specific virus or bacterium – in effect, showing it a wanted poster for a single suspect. But what if one vaccine could protect against dozens of different infections at once? Researchers have now developed a potential candidate for such a vaccine, […]
Feb 25, 2026
U.S. Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination Rates Plunge, Reversing Years of Gains
MedPageToday Hepatitis B vaccination rates among U.S. newborns have fallen by more than 10 percentage points over the past 2 years, reversing 6 years of steady gains, according to an analysis of electronic health records. Among more than 12 million infants, birth-dose hepatitis B vaccination rates rose from 67.5% in January 2017 to a peak […]
Feb 25, 2026
5 Questions About mRNA Vaccines, Answered
NYT We asked experts about how the technology works, its safety and its potential in medicine. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from the National Institutes of Health were advised to scrub their grants of any reference to mRNA. Around the country, state legislatures […]
Feb 18, 2026
F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine
NYT Moderna held further discussions with regulators and announced that the agency would accept the company’s application for approval of its flu vaccine that uses mRNA technology. The Food and Drug Administration reversed its decision on Moderna’s flu vaccine and has agreed to review it for possible approval. Just last week, Moderna announced that the agency […]
Feb 18, 2026
AMA joins effort to launch vaccine science review amid CDC turmoil
Washington Post The American Medical Association and a partner group are taking on a new role in reviewing vaccine safety and effectiveness as the CDC’s review process faces criticism. The American Medical Association and a leading public health research group focused on vaccines are teaming up to create a system to review vaccine safety and […]
Feb 11, 2026
US participating in influenza vaccine meeting: WHO
The Hill The U.S. will participate in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) upcoming meeting on the composition of the influenza vaccine despite officially withdrawing from the global group last month. The WHO will meet on Feb. 26 in Turkey to discuss the composition of the 2026-2027 flu vaccine for the northern hemisphere. “The vaccine composition […]
Feb 11, 2026