Vaccines

Research stalled for decades after deaths in a 1960s trial. Now Pfizer and other companies are reporting results for a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus infections.

Vaccination rates are struck below levels needed to eradicate measles. Members of three generations of a family with expertise in vaccines propose a novel approach to improving measles vaccination rates. It could include a whistle.

Pfizer could soon be the first to offer an RSV vaccine to adults ages 60 and older if the vaccine is fully approved by the Food Drug and Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Program reached the Marshallese workers who have moved from the island nation in the central Pacific Ocean to work in the poultry and meatpacking industry in northwest Arkansas.

It took less than a year to develop the first COVID-19 vaccine, but an epidemic preparation group has said even more speed could be added and proposed setting 100 days as a goal for the development of future vaccines,

When it comes to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, organizations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend protection with the vaccine in different doses.

Results reported today on the JAMA website show no benefit from repurposing the SSRI as a COVID-19 treatment drug. Earlier results suggesting that fluvoxamine might be an effective treatment were from trials conducted earlier in the pandemic when vaccines weren’t available and other variants were circulating.

Research shows that patients with multiple sclerosis who have been treated with drugs that target CD20 B cells drugs, such as Ocrevus and Rituxan, tend to have a weak antibody response. But cellular immunity and T cells are activated. The results suggest a need for vaccines that boost T cells.

VBI Vaccines’s PreHevbrio [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant)], the only approved 3-antigen hepatitis B vaccine for adults, is now commercially available in the U.S. after approval by the FDA late last year.