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December 23, 2024

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Public Shows Greater Acceptance of RSV Vaccine as Vaccine Hesitancy Appears to Have Plateaued

Dec. 23, 2024 — A year after becoming available, vaccines to protect against RSV in newborns and older adults are being more widely accepted by the American public, according to a new health ...

Scientists Design Workaround That Improves Response to Flu Vaccine

Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have ...

Study Shows Drop in Use of Antiviral Medications in Young Children With Influenza

Dec. 17, 2024 — Despite national medical guidelines supporting the use of antiviral medications in young children diagnosed with influenza, a recent study reports an underuse of the ...

Staphylococcus Aureus Thwarts Vaccines by Turning on a Protein That Halts Immune Response

Dec. 16, 2024 — After dozens of clinical trials, there are still no effective vaccines against Staphylococcus aureus. In two new studies, scientists report that the pathogen turns on the protein interleukin 10, ...

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Model Advances Rational Design of More Effective Maternal Vaccines for Newborns

Dec. 12, 2024 — Research on vaccines may help save more ...

Updated Hep B Vaccine More Effective for People With HIV

Dec. 10, 2024 — A newer vaccine against hepatitis B virus was clearly superior to an older vaccine type in inducing a protective antibody response among people living with HIV who didn't respond to prior ...

Americans Are Uninformed About and Undervaccinated for HPV

Dec. 10, 2024 — Research shows that HPV accounts for 70% of all throat cancers, but only one-third of the public is aware that HPV causes throat ...

Rotavirus Vaccine Is Safe for Use in NICU Babies, Study Suggests

Dec. 9, 2024 — Researchers found that transmission of rotavirus vaccine strains in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is rare and without clinical consequences, strongly suggesting that giving the rotavirus ...

Pregnancy Enhances Natural Immunity to Block Severe Flu

Dec. 2, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that pregnancy may trigger a natural immunity to boost protection against severe flu infection. Contrary to the common belief that pregnancy increases vulnerability to ...

Cervical Cancer Deaths in Young Women Plummet After Introduction of HPV Vaccine

Nov. 27, 2024 — Researchers found a reduction in cervical cancer mortality in women under the age of 25, which is likely due to the introduction of the HPV ...

Stopping Severe Malaria by Harnessing Natural Human Antibodies

Nov. 20, 2024 — Scientists have identified human antibodies capable of targeting the proteins responsible for severe malaria, potentially paving the way for new vaccines or treatments. Using organ-on-a-chip ...

Researchers Use Biophysics to Design New Vaccines Against RSV and Related Respiratory Viruses

Nov. 19, 2024 — In most people, the lung-infecting pathogens known as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human metapneumovirus (hMPV) trigger mild cold-like ...

New Nasal Vaccine Shows Promise in Curbing Whooping Cough Spread

Nov. 18, 2024 — A new nasal whooping cough vaccine showed an ability to prevent both infection and transmission of the disease in mice. Current vaccines offer treatment but fail to halt transmission of the bacteria ...

Potential Single-Dose Smallpox and Mpox Vaccine Moves Forward

Nov. 13, 2024 — An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

Study Reveals Best Timing for Getting the RSV Vaccine During Pregnancy to Protect Newborns

Nov. 11, 2024 — Current guidelines recommend that pregnant people receive a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) -- which typically causes mild, cold-like symptoms in most adults but can be deadly for ...

New Study Traces Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Global Movement and Evolution of Seasonal Flu

Nov. 7, 2024 — Increased capabilities for genomic surveillance have offered new insights into global viral evolution. Seasonal flu showed a 'remarkable' bounce back to pre-pandemic levels once ...

RSV Vaccines Effective, but More People Need to Get Them

Oct. 28, 2024 — Doctors detail what we learned after the first season following the approval of RSV vaccines. The vaccine effectively prevented severe illness in older, but only 24 percent of eligible US adults ...

Maternal Antibodies Interfere With Malaria Vaccine Responses

Oct. 24, 2024 — Maternal antibodies passed across the placenta can interfere with the response to the malaria vaccine, which would explain its lower efficacy in infants under five months of age, according to new ...

Study Finds Tuberculosis Changes Liver Metabolism and Could Promote Diabetes

Oct. 21, 2024 — Scientists have discovered that tuberculosis disrupts glucose metabolism in the ...

Big Data, Real World, Multi-State Study Finds RSV Vaccine Highly Effective in Protecting Older Adults Against Severe Disease, Hospitalization and Death

Oct. 17, 2024 — This multi-state study is a real world data analyses of the effectiveness of the RSV -- short for respiratory syncytial virus -- vaccine. VISION Network researchers report that across the board these ...

New mRNA Vaccine Created to Prevent and Treat C. Difficile

Oct. 17, 2024 — A new vaccine provides hope for treating and even preventing the highly contagious and difficult-to-treat Clostridioides difficile infection, more commonly known as C. difficile or C. diff. In animal ...

Study May Help Boost Performance and Reduce Side Effects of mRNA Vaccines

Oct. 17, 2024 — A new study has provided a detailed analysis of how mRNA vaccines circulate and break down in the human bloodstream. The research aimed to help improve the safety and effectiveness of these vaccines, ...

mRNA Vaccines for Disease Outbreaks Can Be Synthesized in Less Time With New Technique

Oct. 17, 2024 — With viral outbreaks spreading more quickly, faster responses and quicker development of new vaccines has become crucial. However, production of the mRNA used in vaccines is hindered by its ...

Mpox Vaccine Is Safe and Generates a Robust Antibody Response in Adolescents, Study Finds

Oct. 16, 2024 — A clinical trial of an mpox vaccine in adolescents found it was safe and generated an antibody response equivalent to that seen in adults, according to a planned interim analysis of study data. ...

Bacterial Vaccine Shows Promise as Cancer Immunotherapy

Oct. 16, 2024 — Researchers have engineered bacteria as personalized cancer vaccines that activate the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer ...

Researchers Confront New US and Global Challenges in Vaccinations of Adults

Oct. 7, 2024 — Over the past decade, decreasing vaccination rates now threaten the huge beneficial impacts of vaccinations in the U.S. and globally. Researchers discuss the multifactorial barriers including ...

Reduced Risk of Serious Cardiovascular Disease After COVID Vaccination

Sep. 30, 2024 — People who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have a significantly lower risk of developing more severe cardiovascular conditions linked to COVID-19 infection, according to a new Swedish ...

Getting the Flu and Then Your Shot May Benefit Immunity

Sep. 30, 2024 — Researchers found that natural immunity from previous flu infections has a significant impact on how well future influenza vaccinations ...

People With Unmedicated Mental Illness Are Less Likely to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19, Swedish Study Finds

Sep. 26, 2024 — Vaccination coverage for COVID-19 is high in both people with and without mental illness, according to a new study. However, Swedish registry data revealed that individuals with unmedicated mental ...

Campylobacter Jejuni-Specific Antibody Gives Hope to Vaccine Development

Sep. 25, 2024 — A team has discovered an antibody that specifically binds to the food poisoning bacteria Campylobacter jejuni. It was also found that this antibody inhibits the activity of proteins involved in ...

A Two-Dose Schedule Could Make HIV Vaccines More Effective

Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers have shown that they can generate a strong immune response against HIV with two doses of a vaccine given one week ...

Searching for a Vaccine Against an Ancient Scourge

Sep. 19, 2024 — Syphilis cases have surged worldwide, leaving public health officials scrounging for ways to stop the spread. Now, a large, collaborative study of syphilis genetics from four continents has found ...

Researchers Develop Promising Lassa Fever Vaccine

Sep. 12, 2024 — A promising Lassa fever vaccine shows potential to prevent severe disease and death in ...

Hep C: We're Closer Than Ever to Solving Mystery of Deadly Virus

Sep. 9, 2024 — Around 300,000 people die from hepatitis C every year. A new study has mapped the protein complex that enables the virus to infect our cells, potentially paving the way for an effective ...