Vaccines Articles
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has changed its recommendation for the human papilloma virus from three doses to two doses of the vaccine prior to age 15.
A new vaccine that blocks the pain-numbing effects of the drugs oxycodone and hydrocodone has shown success in animal models.
A new study shows that babies of pregnant women who get the flu or who are vaccinated against the flu do not have an increased risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered the reason the BCG vaccine and investigational vaccine candidates are not more effective.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first human trial of an experimental Zika virus vaccine.
Research conducted at the University of Texas at Austin found that how the influenza (flu) vaccine produces antibodies to protect against disease could be used to improve the vaccine.
A lung cancer vaccine developed in Cuba has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a clinical trial at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y.
A randomized Phase III study (ZOE-70) of GlaxoSmithKline’s investigational shingles vaccine, Shingrix, showed 90 percent efficacy in adults aged 70 years and older that is maintained for at least four years.
A new study found that seasonal flu vaccines work better if they stimulate an immune response to the flu surface protein neuraminidase.
Researchers found that flu vaccines are more effective when given in the morning because patients’ immune systems are capable of producing more antibodies in response to the vaccine in the first part of the day.
A new tobacco-based seasonal influenza vaccine being developed by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma and currently in Phase III studies could potentially rival traditional chicken egg-based vaccines.
Findings from a first in-human study for a new malaria vaccine candidate have shown a robust immune response while significantly delaying parasitemia.
