MedicalXpress.com – Vaccines

A new Cochrane review demonstrates that vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are both safe and effective in protecting vulnerable groups that are most at risk of serious illness, including older adults and infants.This post […]

An mRNA vaccine developed by researchers from Japan suppressed abnormal blood vessel growth or neovascularization in the retina of mouse models. Neovascularization is a condition that is caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading […]

Roughly 60,000 people worldwide die every year from rabies, a dreaded virus that attacks the nervous system and can trigger aggression, seizures, paralysis and coma.This post was originally published on this site

US Scenario Modeling Hub, a collaborative modeling effort of 17 academic research institutions, reports a universal COVID-19 vaccination recommendation could avert thousands more US hospitalizations and deaths than a high-risk-only strategy.This post was originally published […]

Two health care workers get COVID-19 vaccinations on the same day. Both show strong antibody responses initially, but six months later one stays healthy while the other contracts the virus. A new study published in […]

Researchers show that stretching the skin stimulates immune cells and increases the skin’s ability to absorb large molecules, including those present in vaccines. In an article published September 17 in Cell Reports, they claim that […]

Tuberculosis, or TB, an airborne bacterial respiratory infection, is one of humanity’s oldest foes and is today the world’s leading cause of death from infectious disease, claiming more than 1.2 million lives each year. The […]

A multi-institutional collaboration led by the Center for Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials at Copenhagen University Hospital-Herlev and Gentofte, University of Copenhagen, reports that RSVpreF vaccination reduced all-cause cardiorespiratory hospitalizations in adults aged 60 […]

Just as a computer’s operating system can be rewritten after a major update, dengue infection can “re-program” the body’s immune system, leaving a long-lasting genetic imprint that influences how people respond to future infections—an effect […]

One shot of an RSV vaccine protects adults aged 60 or older from RSV-associated hospitalization and critical illness during two consecutive RSV seasons, according to a study published in JAMA by the IVY Network research […]