Category: Vaccine Headlines
Myocarditis is a rare but real Covid vaccine side effect. A new study sheds light on what might cause it
STAT Results point to two immune signals, and possible methods to keep them from going awry. While extensive studies have found Covid-19 vaccines to be safe, effective, and to have saved millions of lives during the pandemic, these shots come with a rare but real risk of inflamed heart muscle, or myocarditis. Scientists on Wednesday reported that they have […]
Dec 10, 2025
Panel Votes to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Shots at Birth for Most Newborns
NYT In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying the shots for infants whose mothers test negative for the virus. A federal vaccine committee took a major step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of remaking the childhood vaccine schedule on Friday, […]
Dec 10, 2025
Experts say top FDA official’s claim that Covid vaccines caused kids’ deaths requires more evidence
STAT Vinay Prasad ties 10 deaths to the shots, calls for stricter vaccine regulation, in leaked memo The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator asserted in an email to staff sent Friday that the Covid-19 vaccine caused at least 10 deaths in children and called for changes to the way the agency regulates vaccines. […]
Dec 3, 2025
ACIP Leadership Shake-Up Before Hep B Vaccine Vote Alarms Experts
MedPageToday The CDC committee that helps shape U.S. vaccine policy is now chaired by a pediatric cardiologist who has opposed vaccinating children against COVID-19, and attributed miscarriages, cardiovascular disease, and other health problems to the vaccines without evidence. The shake-up that resulted in Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD, leading the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) […]
Dec 3, 2025
What to know about the hepatitis B shot for infants ahead of CDC vaccine panel meeting
ABC News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood immunization schedule, including potentially changing recommendations on a shot given to newborns. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is meeting Thursday and Friday. A draft agenda posted online on Monday provides little detail on what materials will be […]
Dec 3, 2025
What doctors say about one of the biggest flu shot myths
Washington Post The idea that you can get the flu from the flu vaccine is a long-standing fallacy. Here’s what to tell someone who thinks it’s true. The question Can the flu shot cause the flu? The science You may be tempted to skip your flu shot this season because of scheduling issues, a fear […]
Nov 19, 2025
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