Vaccines

In this edition, the importance of vaccination after cell therapy, artificial intelligence may help predict cardiotoxicity, experimental breast cancer vaccine generates immune response, and more.

WASHINGTON — Three late-breaking studies offered a promising glimpse of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in the pipeline for older adults — including the RSVPreF3 OA vaccine, which showed an overall vaccine efficacy of about 83%.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It may be necessary to reframe vaccines to help reverse a downward trend in the rate of routine childhood immunizations, a speaker said at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

Experts said a recently published study that found a possible association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and persistent asthma in early childhood did not prove there was a link.

The CDC said Tuesday that the United States has joined a list of around 30 countries with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Vaccines against common health care-associated, resistant pathogens could be a key in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, according to data presented at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress.

Parental concern about the safety of childhood vaccines increased significantly during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic, although confidence in vaccines remained high, according to research published in Pediatrics.

The FDA on Wednesday authorized bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for emergency use in the United States.

Glioblastoma, the most common primary brain cancer, is known to be highly aggressive and deadly.

The United States will release an additional 1.8 million doses of monkeypox vaccine starting Monday and will make up to 50,000 doses available upon request for large LGBTQ events, health officials announced Thursday.