https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Three measles-related deaths have been reported in England in 2026. One child died from an acute infection, another from the long-term effects of measles, and an adult with an underlying immune condition also died. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-vaccines-successful-people-forgotten.html Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:20:05 EDT news711364392 The number of people sick with flu is starting to increase across the United States, with health authorities warning that in some western regions of the country, the 2026–27 flu season may be off to an early start. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-flu-season-vaccines.html Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:40:07 EDT news710576822 Playing with your children or meeting a friend for coffee are everyday activities that many people move between without giving much thought to how much mental or physical energy they take. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-covid-fatigue-linked-brain-blood.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:00:01 EDT news710004015 Starting Oct. 1, COVID vaccines will be free and recommended only for those most at risk of serious illness. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-covid-vaccine-latest.html Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:14 EDT news709978621 A comprehensive guideline update with 16 recommendations to reduce vaccination distress, with suggestions ranging from applying topical pain relief to distractions, has been published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-guideline-vaccination-distress-menu-options.html Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:04 EDT news708940175 Redness and pain at the injection site, fever, fatigue or headaches: Vaccines can cause side effects, but their frequency and severity vary considerably from person to person. Why? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-vaccination-dont-side-effects.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:38 EDT news708859801 Fiji has declared a national HIV crisis as sexual transmission and illicit drug use help spread the virus, now infecting an estimated one in 60 adults in the Pacific nation. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-fiji-declares-national-hiv-crisis.html Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:05:06 EDT news708836672 WashU Medicine researchers led by Jacco Boon, a professor in the John T. Milliken Department of Medicine, report that an experimental bird flu vaccine provides strong immune protection in mice, including in animals previously vaccinated against seasonal flu. Because pre-existing immunity from prior seasonal influenza infection or vaccination could diminish the efficacy of H5N1 vaccines, showing that the new vaccine succeeds alongside existing immunity is a crucial milestone. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-nasal-spray-vaccine-bird-flu.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:40:04 EDT news708177459 Inspired by the work of the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School and the development of the COVID vaccine, Marcus Ruscetti, Ph.D., and Chaitanya Naimesh Parikh, Ph.D. '26, have developed an immunotherapy using a cocktail of messenger RNAs (mRNA) that could potentially transform pancreatic cancer treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-mrna-immunotherapy-pancreatic-tumors-mice.html Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:40:01 EDT news706886761 A volunteer was injected Friday with the first dose of a rapidly developed vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola driving a deadly outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Oxford University said. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-person-vaccinated-trial-ebola-jab.html Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:20:08 EDT news704114834 The COVID pandemic feels like a long time ago. Now, we have widespread immunity from vaccination and natural infection. And getting COVID is less risky than it was five years ago. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-covid-vaccine.html Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:20:04 EDT news703236422 Within 24 hours of injecting the first dose of a weight loss medication she received following a visit with a telehealth doctor, Karleigh McClain was admitted to the hospital, she said. The 31-year-old compliance consultant from Hendersonville, Tennessee, said she couldn't stop vomiting. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06-telehealth-booms-demand-glp-1s.html Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:40:04 EDT news699687506 A Food and Drug Administration official involved in scrutinizing the safety of antidepressants, COVID-19 vaccines and other widely used therapies has been removed from her role leading the agency's drug program. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-fda-scrutinized-covid-shots-antidepressants.html Sat, 16 May 2026 06:10:01 EDT news698127181 Osteoarthritis affects around 600 million people globally. It causes pain, stiffness, and reduced joint function—most commonly in the knees, hands, and hips. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-steroid-joint-pain.html Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:40:03 EDT news695293982 A growing body of evidence suggests that long COVID (or post-COVID syndrome), a condition affecting more than 10% of people after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, may be driven by the immune system turning against the body. Now, new research coordinated by UMC Utrecht and Amsterdam UMC provides some of the strongest functional evidence yet that autoantibodies (antibodies that mistakenly target the body's own tissues) could play a causal role. The work appears in Cell Reports Medicine. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-autoantibodies-implicated-drivers-covid.html Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:00:06 EDT news693562922 Vaccines have traditionally worked by teaching the immune system to recognize a specific virus or bacterium—in effect, showing it a wanted poster for a single suspect. But what if one vaccine could protect against dozens of different infections at once? Researchers have now developed a potential candidate for such a vaccine, and a study in mice, published in the journal Science, offers promising results. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02-universal-vaccine-colds-flu-covid.html Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:10:06 EST news691168081 Amid a surprisingly severe flu season and a COVID-19 resurgence, those highly contagious respiratory illnesses are drawing the largest share of media coverage and public attention. But it is also the season for another respiratory illness, respiratory syncytial virus or RSV, and RSV cases are "elevated in many areas of the country," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-rsv-immunizations-older-pregnant-people.html Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:50:10 EST news688236541 Self-administered injectable contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than two decades, yet a new study has found only about a quarter of reproductive health experts prescribe it—and many are unaware it's even an option. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-birth-option-attention.html Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:00:08 EST news687099421 COVID rarely rates a mention in the news these days, yet it hasn't gone away. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-covid-booster-shot-lp81.html Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:29:32 EST news685106942 It may feel like you are surrounded by sniffles and coughs, but flu season activity is still low in many parts of the U.S. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-winter-virus-season-bad-doctors.html Sat, 13 Dec 2025 06:52:03 EST news684831073 Food and Drug Administration officials have opened a safety review of two injectable drugs used to protect babies and toddlers from RSV, the respiratory virus that sends thousands of American children to the hospital each year. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-fda-safety-rsv-drugs-babies.html Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:48:21 EST news684564460 A new way to deliver protective antibodies against COVID-19 was tested in a Phase I clinical trial. Instead of injecting pre-made antibodies into patients, this approach encouraged the body to produce its own antibodies to fight off the disease-causing viruses. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-clinical-trial-dna-encoded-therapy.html Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:00:01 EDT news680860730 A widely available and affordable drug has been shown to be effective in treating seriously ill COVID-19 patients, according to a new international study led by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) in collaboration with King's College London. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-inhaled-heparin-ventilation-death-severe.html Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:20:01 EDT news678262658 An mRNA vaccine developed by researchers from Japan suppressed abnormal blood vessel growth or neovascularization in the retina of mouse models. Neovascularization is a condition that is caused by age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of vision loss for elderly people. The vaccine can be delivered intramuscularly and is as effective as current therapies that require frequent eye injections, offering a more comfortable and easier-to-administer alternative for treating AMD and other neovascular eye diseases. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-mrna-vaccine-age-macular-degeneration.html Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:09:04 EDT news678110941 When a new immunization to protect newborns from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) became available in late 2023, pediatricians at Temple University Hospital noted an unusually strong early interest from parents. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-parents-eager-newborns-rsv-hesitancy.html Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:21:05 EDT news678018062 Four Western states are taking a different approach from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines for COVID-19, flu and RSV. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-west-coast-states-issue-covid.html Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:23:08 EDT news677499783 When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and cells have been responding by evolving ways to stop these infections. This evolutionary dance eventually led to the development of your immune system. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-immune-drugs-viruses-paradoxically-cancer.html Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:52:04 EDT news677332321 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee meets this week, with votes expected on whether to change recommendations on shots against COVID-19, hepatitis B and chickenpox. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-kennedy-vaccine-committee-vote-covid.html Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:14:58 EDT news677214886 A new study led by the Centenary Institute and the University of Sydney shows that a nasal vaccine could offer powerful protection against COVID-19. It works by stopping infection in the nose before the virus spreads through the body. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-nasal-vaccine-approach-covid.html Thu, 04 Sep 2025 10:04:04 EDT news676199041 Patients with some cancers, autoimmune diseases, and metabolic disorders often endure time-consuming intravenous (IV) infusions to receive the best protein-based treatments available. Because these protein therapeutics require high doses to be effective and are typically formulated at low concentrations to remain stable, IV infusion has been, until now, the only option. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-drug-intravenous-treatments-quick.html Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:00:08 EDT news674907624