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JULY 17, 2024

Vaccination lowers the chance of developing long Covid, according to a large new study that also found that the risk of serious complications has diminished but not disappeared as new coronavirus variants emerged. 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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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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JUNE 26, 2024

Makers of RSV vaccines for older adults saw their plans to try to expand usage hit a significant hurdle on Wednesday, when an expert committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines recommended changes that will likely see fewer older adults qualify for insurance coverage for these products.

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JUNE 7, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday expanded the approval for GSK’s vaccine to protect against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, authorizing its use for at-risk adults as young as 50. Arexvy, which was the first RSV vaccine approved , now becomes the first to be available to adults under the age of 60 who are not pregnant.

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MAY 9, 2024

Weeks after the global public health community sounded the alarm on the shortage of cholera vaccine, the World Health Organization moved to prequalify a new cholera vaccine last month. The vaccine is a simplified version of the two existing oral vaccines, both produced by Korean vaccine manufacturer EuBiologics Co.

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MAY 10, 2024

LONDON — Novavax, the beleaguered maker of a Covid-19 vaccine, just got a boost of its own.     The French pharma company Sanofi on Friday said it had reached a licensing deal to sell Novavax’s Covid shot going forward as well as to try to combine the vaccine with Sanofi’s own flu shot.

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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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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 17, 2024

Today, we talk about the uptick in physicians using ctDNA to determine if resected cancers are truly gone, we see the FDA offering new guidelines for Covid-19 vaccines, and more.   Sign up  to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Read the rest…

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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. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JUNE 5, 2024

LONDON — Finland is preparing to offer vaccines to people at risk of exposure to an avian influenza strain spreading among farmed and wild animals, health officials there said, potentially becoming the first country to take such a step as concerns about the threat the virus poses to people intensify.

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MARCH 5, 2024

When Americans line up for flu vaccines next fall, they will almost certainly be getting vaccines that no longer contain protection against a family of flu viruses that appears to be extinct.

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MARCH 25, 2024

A key factor in taming the pandemic was the creation of effective vaccines , which have saved millions of lives. You’d think developing a successful vaccine would be an unmitigated win, from a financial perspective. Merck, which saw its vaccine efforts fail twice, is up 56%.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

LONDON — Starting Monday, a new, highly effective malaria vaccine will be rolled out for the first time, as an immunization campaign for children kicks off in Cameroon — a day that global health officials say marked a historic step in the decades-long quest to protect people from one of the world’s deadliest infections.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

An unprecedented shortage of cholera vaccine has public health experts fearing that a recent surge of outbreaks across developing countries will only worsen, a situation they argue is as regrettable as it was avoidable. Those numbers will almost certainly rise amid the worst vaccine shortage since an oral vaccine was introduced in the 1990s.

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APRIL 10, 2024

SAN DIEGO — Cancer vaccines have traveled a potholed road over the last decade. The promise has long been an affordable, personalized cancer vaccine that could train the immune system to recognize proteins from cancer cells and, subsequently, destroy the tumor.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A new study has shown that people vaccinated against Ebola who still developed the disease had a substantially lower risk of dying than people who were not vaccinated, even if they received the vaccine when they were already infected with the virus. 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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MAY 17, 2024

HIV has long stumped immunologists looking to develop an effective vaccine. All of the most promising approaches pioneered in the past three and a half decades have ultimately failed, and only a few months ago, the last trial expected to potentially deliver a vaccine within this decade was shut down.

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JUNE 25, 2024

A COVID and flu duo could ease manufacturing and administration, potentially driving higher vaccination rates, said Moderna’s VP of North American medical affairs.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it is filling eight vacancies, including the chairmanship, on an important advisory panel on vaccine policy that was down to less than half of its normal roster for months.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

America is over the Covid vaccine. Frantic lineups for scarce doses when Covid vaccines first became available have long since given way to widespread indifference. of Americans aged 18 and older and 11% of children have been vaccinated with the latest Covid vaccine. 6, a mere 21.5% 6, a mere 21.5% 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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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

has unveiled an advertising campaign aimed at boosting vaccination rates in children, which have steadily fallen over the past decade and took an even greater dip during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. LONDON — Facing a growing outbreak of measles, the U.K.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Covid vaccines saved nearly 20 million lives worldwide, by one estimate, and generated billions of dollars for several drugmakers. But investment in experimental vaccines for dozens of other diseases remains modest and should be much higher, according to a new biotechnology industry report. billion, the report said.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The recently approved RSV vaccines have been celebrated as key public health tools, but some vaccine experts have lamented one aspect of the trials that led to their approval — namely, that older adults were largely left out of them. People who are immunocompromised and those who live in nursing homes were also not included.

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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 22, 2024

After a contentious dispute, Novavax has agreed to refund up to $400 million to the international organization that purchased Covid-19 shots as part of a global vaccination program, but found itself with vaccines that were no longer needed. But as demand dried up last year, the vaccine makers kept $1.4

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Vaccines work well to prevent cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). The study randomly divided them into three groups based on their cities’ HPV vaccination strategies: gender-neutral HPV vaccination, girls-only vaccination, and no vaccination.

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

But first, a preview of the expected readout from Gritstone Bio’s neoantigen cancer vaccine study. The Gritstone vaccine is designed to train a patient’s own T cells to recognize and kill cancer cells by targeting mutated cancer proteins, called neoantigens, that are unique to a patient’s own tumor.

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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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JUNE 6, 2024

But the ACA’s provision requiring insurers to provide cost-free access to vaccines has not been fully implemented, leaving millions of Americans with the difficult choice between paying out-of-pocket or skipping recommended preventive care. Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A Florida state policy set amid a measles outbreak in Broward County has vaccination proponents aghast, with many saying it leaves unvaccinated children especially vulnerable to the highly contagious disease.

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