Category: Vaccine Headlines
US left without functioning vaccine panel as adviser says ‘drama distracts’
The Guardian Move comes after judge voided Kennedy’s ACIP picks, leaving key flu, Covid and RSV vaccines in limbo. Amid upheaval to the US vaccine advisory committee Robert Malone, the former co-chair and controversial figure who has opposed vaccines, says he has been pushed out and will not be involved in any future decisions. The move comes […]
Mar 25, 2026
Phase III TB vaccines and MDR-TB treatments
Clinical Trials Arena GlobalData epidemiologists project TB cases across the 16 major markets to reach 4.5 million by 2033. It has been several years since a new tuberculosis (TB) drug advanced into Phase III trials, but momentum in the field is now picking up, with a vaccine and two novel treatments progressing through late-stage studies. […]
Mar 25, 2026
Scientists Can Finally Explain Rare Blood Clots Linked to COVID Vaccines
Science Alert COVID vaccines saved millions of lives, but months into the rollout, a small number of people began developing dangerous blood clots in unusual parts of the body. These only happened after vaccines that used a modified adenovirus to deliver their payload, such as the AstraZeneca vaccine. Why these blood clots formed was a […]
Mar 11, 2026
RFK Jr.’s advisers had a plan to target covid shots. Then it fell apart.
Washington Post Some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel have publicly questioned the safety and manufacturing of the shots, including raising a debunked theory that DNA contaminants in the vaccines are harmful. A key federal vaccine advisory panel has abandoned an attack on the covid-19 mRNA vaccines — a shift that comes as some […]
Mar 11, 2026
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