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MAY 15, 2025

WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency is planning to unveil new guidance for vaccine makers, focused primarily on Covid-19 shots, in the coming weeks. 

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MARCH 12, 2025

Reports of a new federal plan to study whether there’s a link between vaccines and autism could serve as an early test of the commitments Sen. When he backed Kennedy’s confirmation, one of the commitments Cassidy said he received was a pledge to keep communication lines wide open and to consult Cassidy on vaccine policy.

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JUNE 16, 2025

NEW YORK — All 17 experts recently dismissed from a government vaccine advisory panel  published an essay  Monday decrying “destabilizing decisions” made by U.S. vaccine policy. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that could lead to more preventable disease spread. He also quietly removed Dr.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

LONDON — GSK’s once booming vaccines business met new challenges in the third quarter, as the company lowered sales forecasts for vaccines for the year.    It was clear that GSK’s vaccine division would see lower sales this quarter. recommendations for who should get the shot.  

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Parliament is calling for regulators to audit pharmaceutical companies that have made misleading statements to the public about their Covid-19 vaccines. A member of the U.K. And the move comes after Moderna was chastised for the second time in five months by a U.K.

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JUNE 9, 2025

has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying the action is needed to restore faith in vaccines. Kennedy Jr. Read the rest…

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JUNE 11, 2025

For more than a half-century, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relied on outside experts to guide the agency’s recommendations on how vaccines should be used to prevent the spread of infectious disease.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

NHS England (NHSE) should commission community pharmacies to deliver a wider range of NHS vaccines including pneumonia, shingles, meningitis, RSV and routine childhood vaccinations, the Company Chemists' Association (CCA) has said.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Merck’s Ebola vaccine offered substantial protection to people vaccinated during the 2018-2020 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with an effectiveness of 84% in those who had been vaccinated at least 10 days before being exposed to the virus, a new study reports. Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it had greenlit two   updated Covid-19 booster shots in people as young as 6 months old, triggering a process that could see the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines become available in doctors’ offices, clinics, and pharmacies later this week. Read the rest…

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JUNE 10, 2025

We are participants in the Yale LISTEN Study , a patient-centered study to better understand long Covid and the adverse effects some patients have experienced post Covid-vaccination. We are members of the post-vaccination cohort, a group that includes more than 250 patients. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 25, 2024

A historic new study out of Scotland shows the real-world impact of vaccines against the human papillomavirus: The country has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13.

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APRIL 15, 2025

A  meeting of vaccine advisers long targeted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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MAY 6, 2025

WASHINGTON — Vinay Prasad, an academic and fierce critic of the medical mainstream, will be the next director of the Food and Drug Administration center that oversees the regulation of vaccines, gene therapies, and the blood supply. 

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JULY 2, 2024

Moderna has been awarded $176 million by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority to accelerate development of messenger RNA-based pandemic influenza vaccines, the company announced in a statement Tuesday. Read the rest…

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JUNE 11, 2024

As a co-leader of the team at the National Institutes of Health that developed technologies powering a number of Covid-19 vaccines, I often speak publicly about vaccine science, even though I no longer work for the government. There is no denying the millions of lives that Covid-19 vaccines saved.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

Yet another experimental HIV vaccine has failed. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday that a Phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine was stopped because the vaccine was ineffective at preventing HIV infection. Read the rest…

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine, giving Americans seeking to update their protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus another option. based company, which has struggled to claim a share of the now dwindling Covid vaccine market — globally and within the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

WASHINGTON — Researchers studying next-generation vaccines to fight an evolving Covid-19 threat are running into problems getting existing vaccines to use in their research. Right now, Pfizer isn’t sharing its vaccines for research purposes, a spokesperson confirmed to STAT. Read the rest…

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MAY 13, 2024

The number of children who received their routine vaccinations declined during the pandemic, so public health officials have been focusing on getting kids back up to date. They found that adult vaccination programs paid for themselves many times over, returning up to 19 times the initial investment in societal benefits.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A study published in the CDC’s online journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report showed that the updated vaccine was essentially equally effective at protecting against the strain targeted by the vaccine — called XBB.1.5 1 subvariant, which emerged after the vaccine was made. 1.5 — and the JN.1

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JUNE 12, 2025

The Food and Drug Administration expanded the approval of Moderna’s RSV vaccine on Thursday, extending the license to include adults aged 18 to 59 who are at high risk of severe illness if they contract respiratory syncytial virus. Read the rest…

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

6 months and older receive an updated Covid vaccine targeting the XBB.1.5 Since then, some notable voices, including Paul Offit , have publicly questioned whether the updated vaccine is needed for those who are not in a high-risk group. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that everyone in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — A House hearing on vaccine safety claims sought to pierce through Americans’ falling confidence in routine shots and the spread of Covid-19 misinformation — sometimes from people in the room. Read the rest…

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MAY 29, 2025

HHS cancels flu pandemic vaccine contract In a blow to pandemic preparedness, HHS cancelled a nearly $600 million contract with Moderna to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the H5N1 bird flu virus, Helen Branswell and Matthew Herper report.

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AUGUST 16, 2024

When mpox first began to spread internationally in 2022, affected countries scrambled to buy some of the limited supply of poxvirus vaccines produced in the world. The Danish company Bavarian Nordic, maker of the Jynneos smallpox vaccine, faced the sizable challenge of trying to meet demand with its supply. Read the rest…

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JUNE 8, 2025

Four members of the 19-person expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccination policy have been informed that their status as special government employees has been terminated — a development that throws into question their ability to continue to work on the body, STAT has learned. Kennedy Jr.,

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The emergence of a second mpox outbreak in which the virus is spreading from person-to-person, as well as a sharp increase in overall cases of the disease in several African countries, is straining the world’s capacity to make and distribute vaccine to battle the threat. Read the rest…

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JUNE 17, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Merck’s new pneumococcal vaccine for adults 18 and older.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved AstraZeneca’s bid to allow its nasal spray influenza vaccine, FluMist, to be sold for home administration.    Starting next flu season, people who want to order the vaccine to give it to themselves or their children at home will be able to do so. 

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

People eligible to use the only needle-free flu vaccine available in the United States may be able, next year, to give it to themselves or to eligible children at home. FluMist is only licensed for use in children and adults from the age of 2 to 49 years old. Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Vaccines do not cause autism. You’ve almost certainly read that before — probably hundreds of times. But many people do not believe it, perhaps because too often it is repeated without a real explanation of how we know that. So here is an attempt to offer that explanation. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

A study billed as the last chance to develop an HIV vaccine this decade has been shut down, investigators announced Wednesday at a conference in Harare, Zimbabwe. The trial, known as PrEPVacc, was testing two different vaccine regimens on about 1,500 volunteers in East and Southern Africa.   Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The latest rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has been messy, with people facing more challenges getting one of the updated shots than they may have experienced since the frantic start of the very first vaccination campaign in late 2020 and the first half of 2021.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration’s expert vaccine advisory panel on Thursday unanimously endorsed the idea of taking a strain of influenza viruses that no longer appears to circulate out of flu shots as quickly as possible, pressing the FDA and manufacturers to try to get the work done on an expedited timeline. Read the rest…

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MARCH 16, 2023

Experts have long understood that a new polio vaccine developed to try to minimize the risks associated with the oral polio vaccine made by Albert Sabin might also cause the problem it was created to sidestep. The “2” signals the vaccine targets type 2 polioviruses.) Read the rest…

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A clinical trial of one or perhaps two experimental vaccines designed to protect against the Ebola Sudan virus could soon begin in Uganda, as long as the country agrees to allow the research to take place, an official of the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Read the rest…

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