We Have Tick Medications for Dogs. Why Not for People?

And even then, said Dr. Hu, who has also worked on the Moderna vaccine, “it’s always a wild card how people are going to feel about it.” Dana G. Smith is a Times reporter covering personal ... Read More

Global Stockpile of Cholera Vaccine Is Gone as Outbreaks Spread

April 11, 2024 Doses of cholera vaccine are being given to patients ... news, which is in itself surprising since ‘cholera’ and ‘good news’ are rarely used together — is that three new ... Read More

Long-Acting Drugs May Revolutionize H.I.V. Prevention and Treatment

New regimens in development, including once-weekly pills and semiannual shots, could help control the virus in hard-to-reach populations. Read More

The Push for a Better Dengue Vaccine Grows More Urgent

and researchers in Brazil delivered the lone shred of good news in this story with the recent announcement that a clinical trial of a new dengue vaccine, delivered in a single shot, had provided ... Read More

Vaccines News

Mar. 15, 2024 — Researchers identified a key metabolite in cells that helps direct immune responses and explains at a single cell level why immune cells that most efficiently recognize pathogens ... Read More

Vaccine Found to Target Multiple Strains

Vaccines have revolutionized the way we preemptively protect against disease. The concept of vaccination was first demonstrated by Dr. Edward Jenner in the | Immunology ... Read More

Therapeutic Vaccine Prevents Pancreatic Cancer's Recurrence in 3-Year Trial

Therapeutic Vaccine ... patients who face this deadly disease,” researcher Dr. Vinod Balachandran, a surgical oncologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, said in a ... Read More

A one-shot vaccine for COVID, flu and future viruses? Researchers say it's coming

But what if it were possible to protect against COVID and the flu, and other unknown viruses that haven't yet emerged, with just one shot? If that became reality, seasonal or annual boosters would be ... Read More

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Donald Dimmock, who died in March at 79, ran the electric department at The New York Times ... technicians, patients and others with experience in the system. Tell us your experiences below. Read More

New ‘One-And-Done’ Vaccine Method Could Protect Infants—From Covid, Flu—With Just A Single Shot, Study Suggests

A patient getting vaccine. Vaccines for diseases like the flu are updated annually to accommodate for new variants, while vaccines for some diseases like COVID-19 are updated less frequently to ... Read More

Sanofi’s new polio vaccine gets nod in India amid speculations of potential shortage

French drugmaker Sanofi has obtained approval for IMOVAX-Polio, an alternative injectable vaccine. According to a report by PTI, this new vaccine will replace the Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV ... Read More