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More than four years ago, President Donald Trump heralded the arrival of safe and effective messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines for COVID-19. He called them “a monumental national achievement” and “one of the greatest miracles in the history of modern-day medicine.”  The mRNA platform enabled scientists to begin work on a vaccine within days of the publication of COVID-19’s genetic sequence. …

The next advances in defeating cancer may come from a surprising place – our own natural defence mechanisms Cancer, one of the most feared of all medical conditions, is often seen as an unstoppable force. But in fact, the opposite is true. It is common for our bodies to successfully eradicate early cancers without us even noticing. By middle age, …

article fILE – Dental floss (Photo by: Universal Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) If you have a fear of needles, you may be in luck. A recent study, which administered vaccines via dental floss, is showing early promise, according to researchers in North Carolina.  No more jabs? The backstory: Earlier studies have shown the mouth is an effective place …

RFK Jr. is officially waging a war against pediatricians. This week, he went after the American Academy of Pediatrics for rebuffing the federal government and continuing to endorse covid-19 vaccines for children. In an X post Tuesday afternoon, the health secretary and longtime anti-vaxxer accused the AAP of bowing to corporate pressure in making the recommendations. He also claimed that …

US pediatric group breaks with federal policy, recommends COVID vaccines for young children  Reuters In break with current CDC recommendations, leading pediatrics group recommends Covid-19 shots for young children  CNN RFK Jr. attacks pediatricians’ group over vaccine recommendations  Politico AAP Counters ACIP Guidance on Vaccinations in New Immunization Schedule  Medscape Leading pediatrician group recommends COVID vaccine for infants, toddlers in contrast with RFK Jr.  ABC …

Today, the Vaccine Integrity Project of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota presented reassuring data from its comprehensive evidence review on the safety and efficacy of the US influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the upcoming respiratory virus season. CIDRAP is the publisher of CIDRAP News. In April, …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Dr. Jake Scott is on the front line of his second pandemic in five years and he is not getting much sleep. Scott works full-time as an infectious disease physician at Stanford Health Care’s Tri-Valley hospital in Pleasanton, California. When he is done taking care of his patients and his two grade-school aged kids, he often …

As students head back to school, a checkup on which vaccines are needed is usually on the list. WTOP looks into which ones are especially important this year.  As students head back to school, a checkup on which vaccines are needed is usually on the list. WTOP looks into which ones are especially important this year. “Vaccines are victims of …

As the Department of Health and Human Services makes sweeping changes to policy under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the routine annual vaccine review and approval process has become clouded with doubt and uncertainty.  Colorado hasn’t waited for the air to clear. Colorado lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year along party lines, later signed into law by …

After the death of two children from measles in less than a week, Prof. Eyal Leshem, director of the travel medicine and tropical diseases center at Sheba Medical Center, told The Times of Israel that he was calling upon “every community leader who knows the children in their community are unprotected and are at risk of contracting a deadly disease …