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Pediatrics

Strict school vaccine mandates work, and parents don't game the system: Study

When four states between 2015 and 2021 stopped allowing parents to opt their children out of receiving routine vaccines without a medical reason, vaccination rates among kindergartners increased substantially. That's the ...

Oncology & Cancer

Dual-action mRNA vaccine takes aim at aggressive skin cancer

Yale researchers have developed a new vaccine that does double duty against a rare and aggressive skin cancer by targeting the protein essential to tumor cell growth and by adding a key signal to boost the immune system response. ...

Gerontology & Geriatrics

How age affects vaccine responses and how to make them better

As flu season approaches and public health officials roll out their annual push for vaccination, Allen Institute scientists are learning why vaccines can trigger a weaker response in older adults, around age 65, and what ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Parental pushback threatens HPV protection

A new wave of HPV vaccine hesitancy is spreading across the United States, worrying public health experts as coverage stalls and disparities grow. In a new study by researchers including Associate Professor Spring Cooper ...

Pediatrics

Why vaccines are especially important for children with asthma

You may have seen recent news stories reporting that a national data investigation found that routine childhood vaccination is slipping across much of the United States, leaving classrooms and daycares with growing gaps in ...

Vaccination

A new type of RNA could enhance vaccines and cancer treatments

It all started in the lab. Two Boston University doctoral students, Joshua McGee and Jack Kirsch, were creating and testing different types of RNA—strands of ribonucleic acid, built from chains of chemical compounds called ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

DR Congo gets 50,000 mpox vaccine delivery from US

Democratic Republic of Congo received on Tuesday 50,000 more vaccine doses from the United States to fight the country's mpox epidemic, adding to some 200,000 donated by the European Union.

Vaccination

Machine learning may lead to better flu vaccines

A team led by scientists at UGA's Odum School of Ecology has developed an algorithm that can accurately predict how a seasonal flu virus is expected to evolve. Such information may allow seasonal flu vaccines to be updated ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Health agencies scramble to prepare for new mpox strain

State and federal health agencies are gearing up to respond to a new strain of mpox—the virus formerly known as monkeypox—if the new strain spreads to the United States.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

What new college students should know about bacterial meningitis

As students head off to college, close quarters in new spaces could put them at risk for contagious illnesses, including bacterial meningitis. Dr. Tina Ardon, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, explains the common ways ...