Vaccines

HONOLULU — More than 8,500 physicians are attending PAS 2025 — the largest turnout at the annual pediatrics conference since 2018, according to program chair Daniel Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM.

The measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has grown to include nearly 450 cases in just 2 months, health officials reported.

A personalized vaccine demonstrated the potential to induce long-lasting immune response among people with advanced kidney cancer, according to results of a phase 1 trial.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next HHS secretary.

Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his views on vaccines, abortion and other health-related matters in a frequently contentious hearing Wednesday to assess his nomination to be the next U.S. health secretary.

Kindergarten vaccine coverage has been on a steady decline since the 2019-2020 school year, and fewer parents felt it was important for their teens to receive all recommended vaccines in 2023 compared with 2021.

Short-term apnea is more common among hospitalized preterm infants who receive their 2-month vaccines compared with those who do not, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The FDA is adding a warning about Guillain-Barré syndrome to the respiratory syncytial virus vaccines manufactured by GSK and Pfizer based on data that suggest there may be a link between the shots and the rare disorder.

An FDA advisory committee said it wants to see more data to understand the implications of what the FDA called an “imbalance” in cases of severe respiratory syncytial virus among infants participating in an early-stage RSV vaccine trial.

The simultaneous administration of adjuvant zoster and influenza vaccines posed no additional safety risks in older adults, results from a randomized study showed.