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JUNE 24, 2025

The study, which estimated childhood vaccination coverage between 1980 and 2023 in 204 countries and territories, found that the Covid-19 pandemic significantly intensified existing immunization challenges. Read the rest…

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MARCH 27, 2024

Researchers studying the ways these systems change with age refer to them collectively as “immunosenescence,” or, more poetically, the “ twilight of immunity. ” But even as scientific understanding of the phenomenon has grown over the past decade, the forces driving it remain murky.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The ads, which tell parents to contact their general practitioners if they’ve missed getting their kids immunized, are designed to capture parents’ desires to keep kids safe. Read the rest…

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JUNE 23, 2025

“Although the appointees to [the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology. Kennedy Jr. to be delayed, citing their lack of experience and potential bias against some vaccines.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Moderna announced Monday that, in a Phase 3 clinical trial, its combination Covid-19 and influenza vaccine generated stronger immune responses in older adults than individual vaccines that target those viruses.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

New research published Thursday in Science has identified proteins present in the blood of people with long Covid that could point the way to a much-needed diagnostic test and possibly to future therapeutic targets.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The evidence presented to the WHO team pointed to what’s sometimes called an immunity gap that was created by the pandemic. But a rapidly organized meeting Thursday between the World Health Organization and health officials in China assuaged much of that concern.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Immune checkpoint inhibitors, drugs that can help make the immune system recognize and destroy cancer more aggressively, are one of the most important medicines in cancer treatment today.

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MARCH 21, 2024

This “summer of discovery,” as McKenna called it, brought him back to the immune system. McKenna discussed possibilities with his teenagers and Prometheus’ chief scientific officer.

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MARCH 27, 2025

And while the meeting took place two days after a report that the department had tapped vaccine critic David Geier to conduct a study looking for a link between immunizations and autism, the Louisiana senator said that issue did not come up.      Read the rest…

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JUNE 24, 2025

Right now, anyone with health insurance — adults and children alike — who wants a vaccine that is recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices can get it for free. It could also take money out of Americans’ wallets.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

That’s the premise behind Normunity, which launched Tuesday with $65 million from investors to develop a suite of drugs that it dubs “immune normalizers” to help restore the natural ability of the immune system’s T cells to infiltrate and destroy tumors.

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MARCH 22, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized a new antibody to protect immunocompromised individuals against Covid-19.    The drug, known as Pemgarda and marketed by the biotech Invivyd, is the first such drug to become available since the agency pulled AstraZeneca’s Evusheld off the market in January 2023.

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MAY 10, 2023

Prior research has shown that people with obesity have deficiencies in their “natural killer” cells, or NK cells — immune cells that help in combating cancer. A new small study suggests they may also be useful in fighting cancer.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

LONDON — In this case, it was neither the chicken nor the egg that came first. Rather, it started with some specially engineered cells in a lab. The chicken cells had had their genomes edited, not to correct a faulty mutation, but in an effort to blunt the bird flu virus.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Today, we see insulin-producing cells survive in a human body without triggering an immune rejection, and have some big news from CMS. Hope those of you who were in San Francisco for J.P. Morgan are resting, recovering, and not coping with any quad-emic strains. Read the rest…

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JUNE 24, 2025

  The need-to-know this morning Nektar Therapeutics  said its  embattled immune drug  rezpeg significantly  improved skin clearance rates  in patients with atopic dermatitis, achieving the goals of a Phase 2 study. The stock more than doubled in price in early trading.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

Alison Buttenheim was floored by a sign she saw in her doctor’s office when she went to get the first jab of the two-dose shingles vaccine to protect her against painful flare-ups of varicella zoster. “Medicare patients cannot receive Tdap or zoster vaccines here. They need to obtain [them] at their pharmacy.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

After dropping its neuroscience program earlier this year, the clinical-stage oncology company is doubling down on a candidate targeting the MAPK pathway.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Alison Sbrana was in the belly of an opera when her life changed. Down in the pit, surrounded by fellow orchestra members, she’d been straining to play her flute for half the show. As performers overhead enveloped the audience in arias, Sbrana felt like the Hulk was pulling on the tendons in the right side of her neck.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

Pfizer and BioNTech said Friday that their combined mRNA vaccine candidate against influenza and Covid-19 showed a lower immune response against one type of influenza, influenza B, in a Phase 3 trial, a setback for the vaccine. ” Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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APRIL 4, 2025

This time around, we note that  Immuneering hired Igor Matushansky as chief medical officer. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going. And here is our regular feature in which we highlight a different person each week.

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JULY 14, 2022

The company’s chief medical officer discusses its lead candidate and how it fits into wider oncology trends.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

This happens to people whose immune systems are compromised, whether through disease or treatment, leaving them vulnerable to infections that last weeks, months, or, in one known case, a year.

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MAY 2, 2024

Bacteroides fragilis in the gut improves immunity and immunotherapy treatment responses

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

There’s symptom management, hopeful periods of remission often followed by relapses, but rarely a lasting fix for the way their immune system attacks healthy cells. If the immune system is an army, then those with conditions like lupus, multiple sclerosis, or rheumatoid arthritis are often fighting a never-ending war of friendly fire.

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MAY 30, 2024

Affecting the immune system, various forms of SCID are estimated to affect one in 75,000 to 100,000 newborns

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Rheumatology — the study of immune-system-driven diseases of the bones, joints, muscles, and in-betweens — has inherited plenty of hand-me-downs from cancer research. For example, there are ways of squelching an immune system in order to shrink certain kinds of cancerous tumors.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Keytruda is a cancer immunotherapy, which stimulates the immune system to attack tumor cells. For Merck, the new under-the-skin, or subcutaneous, formulation of Keytruda could represent a major way of holding on to a larger share of Keytruda’s $25 billion in annual sales than would otherwise occur when the medicine’s U.S.

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JUNE 11, 2025

The new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices include a psychiatrist who has studied the connection between pregnant women eating fish and autism, and a board member of an organization that raises alarms about vaccine safety.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Companies that are developing new medicines for autoimmune conditions, as well as other immune system disorders, have brought in more money and closed more deals so far this year than most other areas, including the cardiometabolic field, data from investment bank Oppenheimer show.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a Pfizer vaccine that aims to protect newborns against RSV by vaccinating pregnant people in the latter part of pregnancy. The vaccine, Abrysvo, has also been approved for use in adults 60 and older to protect them against respiratory syncytial virus. Read the rest…

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MAY 8, 2024

Tolerance is the holy grail in calming autoimmune disease, a truce in the immune system’s faulty battle against the body’s own fabric. In type 1 diabetes, immune fighters attack beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone that controls glucose levels in the blood.

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MAY 5, 2025

  The charity, the Telethon Foundation, took ownership from a small biotech of a drug that has been approved in Europe to treat an ultra-rare immune disorder called ADA-SCID. Recently, though, it added an unusual new role — as a gene therapy company of sorts. 

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MARCH 27, 2024

New research shows that certain bacteria can alter antibodies so much that they’re unrecognizable to the body’s defenses — potentially leading to immune friendly fire. The bacteria, called Akkermansia muciniphila, can strip the sugar coating from IgA antibodies, immune proteins abundant in the gut.

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JULY 9, 2025

  Agency officials previously said they would release ethics forms for seven new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices before the group’s first meeting in late June. That deadline came and went. 

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Dupixent is already a blockbuster therapy for a range of immune-mediated diseases, but the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease greatly expands its reach — and could give it an edge over rival treatments in development. There are 300,000 such people in the U.S.,

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