South African biotech consortium is working on a messenger RNA jab based on the Moderna formula in a ground-breaking drive to end Africa's life-threatening lack of COVID vaccines.
Oct 12, 2021
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A pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial is underway in St. Louis, led by Washington University School of Medicine. About 140 area children, ages six months to 11 years, are to receive the two-shot Moderna vaccine or placebo ...
Oct 11, 2021
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(HealthDay)—Acute myocarditis is rare in adults who receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, with an incidence of 5.8 cases per 1 million individuals after the second dose, according to a research letter ...
Oct 4, 2021
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On Sept. 20, Pfizer-BioNTech announced that it's preparing to submit data to the Food and Drug Administration on the initial results of its COVID-19 vaccine study in school-age children. The move signaled a big step toward ...
Sep 29, 2021
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A randomized controlled trial found that the live shingles, or varicella-zoster, vaccine was safe and showed short-term efficacy for participants also taking tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFis) for a broad range of inflammatory ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Following the recent announcement by the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) that people who are immunosuppressed will be offered a third COVID-19 jab, a new clinical trial will begin at St George's to ...
Sep 22, 2021
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(HealthDay)—A smaller dose of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine safely triggers a strong immune response in children as young as 5, the company announced Monday morning.
Sep 20, 2021
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A third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine significantly increased neutralizing antibody levels against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Sep 17, 2021
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Could delivering Covid-19 immunity directly to the nose—the area of the body via which it is most likely to be transmitted—help conquer the pandemic?
Sep 17, 2021
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A new study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, finds a single dose of typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) – the only typhoid vaccine licensed for children as young as 6 months—is safe and 84 percent ...
Sep 15, 2021
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