UNICEF Lists Vaccine Prices to Drive Down Cost

In a move to spark price competition as costs rise, UNICEF is publicizing how much drugmakers are charging it for vaccines.

FDA Approves Pneumococcal Vaccine for Adults 50-Plus

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 for use in adults 50 years and older.

FDA Approves First Quadrivalent Flu Vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first vaccine that protects against four strains of the common flu.

Flu Vaccine Production to Double by 2015

Global production of seasonal flu vaccine is expected to double to 1.7 billion doses by 2015, with 11 new manufacturers expected in developing countries.

COPD Patients Have Higher Risk of Shingles

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are at greater risk of shingles compared with the general population.

Modified Vaccine May Prevent Malaria

Michigan State University researchers have created a new malaria vaccine that appears to increase the immune response against the parasite that causes the deadly disease.

Nobel Medicine Prize Awarded to Tumor Vaccine Developers

The Nobel Foundation has awarded Ralph Steinman of Canada, American Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann of France the Nobel Medicine Prize for their discoveries concerning the body’s immune responses.

New Against the Flu

An adjuvanted influenza vaccine to protect the young and elderly may be just around the corner in the U.S.

A World Without Vaccines

Imagine a plague that wipes out the entire population of Chicago. Implausible? Without vaccines, that’s the number of people — three million to be specific — who would die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases.

Study Tests an Adjuvant to Vaccinate Newborns

A new approach developed that uses an adjuvant along with a vaccine shows that newborns may be able to be vaccinated and protected from disease.