MedicalXpress.com – Vaccines

Vaccines that prevent smallpox and mpox come in two varieties. One uses a single shot of a live virus but carries the risk of serious side effects; the other, which is newer and made with […]

Hope is on the horizon for needle-phobic patients as Griffith University researchers have created a new influenza vaccine composition designed to be administered via the nose. Griffith University Principal Research Leader, Professor Bernd Rehm said […]

A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published in eBioMedicine names 17 pathogens that regularly cause diseases in communities as top priorities for new vaccine development. The WHO study is the first global effort to […]

Results from a randomized control trial published Nov. 6 in JAMA Network Open show that participants who received mRNA COVID-19 and inactivated influenza vaccines simultaneously had no more adverse effects than those who received the […]

Seasonal influenza epidemics impose substantial burdens on health care systems and cause >5 million hospitalizations of adults each year. The current approach to influenza vaccine development requires comprehensive surveillance of circulating strains, which are constantly […]

A study conducted by researchers from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) sheds light on public trust in COVID-19 vaccine science […]

Since their introduction last year, researchers have been monitoring the real-world impact of the new respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines. In a recent commentary published in The Lancet, Angela Branche, MD, an infectious diseases researcher […]

Vaccinating children under five-years-old in endemic mpox regions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would significantly reduce the number of deaths in the country, according to an analysis by researchers at the Yale […]

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 research led by the Barcelona […]

An “inflexible thinking style” could explain why some people are hesitant about taking a vaccine, new research by the University of Hertfordshire has revealed. It is a finding that could have implications for public health […]