Healthcare Workers and the Flu Vaccine: The Backlash
Despite evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers against influenza helps to protect patients, many still refuse — even during the worst flu season in nearly a decade.
CSL Wins U.S. Government Contract for Flu Vaccines
CSL Biotherapies, a subsidiary of CSL Limited, has won a supply contract for pre-pandemic and pandemic vaccine antigens and related services to theU.S. national stockpile from the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services.
Experimental Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
Metastatic prostate cancer patients who received an investigational vaccine made from their own frozen immune cells lived 10 months longer than those not treated with it, according to data presented by researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson.
Meningitis B Vaccine Shows Promise
Researchers have concluded a Phase II study of an investigational vaccine against group B Neisseria meningitidis, which shows promising results.
Third Dose of MMR Vaccine May Help to Control Mumps Outbreak
Researchers tested a third dose of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine on students in an affected community in an effort to control the outbreak.
Pertussis Vaccine Loses Power Over Time
A new study suggests that protection from the childhood series of the diphtheria, tetanus and acellular pertussis vaccine fades within five years of the final dose.
CDC Preparing Vaccine for New Swine Flu
Despite only 29 human cases of the new strain of swine flu in the past two years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing an H3N2 candidate vaccine, and clinical trials are being planned for this year.
Swine Flu Vaccine May Protect Against Other Flu Viruses
Researchers at the University ofBritish Columbia (UBC) have found that the swine flu vaccine triggers antibodies that protect against many flu viruses, including the lethal bird flu strain.
Scientists Closer to a Universal Flu Vaccine
Recent studies of the flu virus are bringing hope that seasonal flu vaccines will be replaced with long-lasting universal vaccines.
Vaccine to Prevent Premature Birth May Be Possible
New research suggests it might someday be possible to create a vaccine that could protect a growing fetus from premature birth and related complications.