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Scientists question NIH project’s use of 20th century technology to make a universal flu vaccine
Published: May 3, 2025 20:13
$500 million NIH program to make vaccines against pathogens that can trigger pandemics uses approach pioneered in last century
8 possible indicators of how RFK Jr.’s HHS will handle vaccine policy
Published: April 30, 2025 08:30
Here are eight possible indicators of how health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may handle U.S. vaccine policy in coming weeks.
U.S. health officials inject new uncertainty into approval process for Covid boosters
Published: April 27, 2025 23:11
Confusion over the FDA delay in granting full approval to Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine deepened over the weekend, with possible implications for Pfizer and Moderna.
Public health leaders, distrustful of RFK Jr., stand up project to defend vaccines
Published: April 24, 2025 15:00
Some key public health figures are taking an extraordinary step to try to shore up U.S. vaccination policy, feared to be under threat from health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Vaccine advisory panel recommends expanded RSV use, and two new vaccines
Published: April 16, 2025 22:45
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Wednesday to recommend lowering the age at which adults can get a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus.
Closure of CDC hepatitis lab imperils U.S. outbreak response, prevention
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/14/cdc-hepatitis-lab-closes-rif-outbreak-response/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: April 14, 2025 08:30
The U.S. capacity to battle hepatitis B and C has been leveled a devastating blow with the recent closure of the CDC’s premier testing laboratory for viral hepatitis, experts warned.
Health secretary RFK Jr. declares certain vaccines have ‘never worked,’ flummoxing scientists
Published: April 10, 2025 20:29
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed another unorthodox view on vaccines, declaring that single antigen vaccines, used to prevent Covid and other conditions, do not work.
U.S. may be reverting to a time when measles deaths were not very rare, experts warn
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/measles-third-death-new-normal/?utm_campaign=rss
Published: April 6, 2025 23:03
Peter Marks: “Unless we dramatically change course, drastically change course, it's going to be a problem. This is what measles does.”
CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
Published: April 5, 2025 19:59
The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.
At CDC, Trump administration’s job cuts wipe out wide array of specialists
Published: April 1, 2025 18:15
Workers across the CDC were summarily fired on Tuesday, triggering what will be an unprecedented and chaotic withdrawal of the agency from many areas of disease prevention.