Vaccination

No-needle test can tell if flu/COVID vaccines are effective

A team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has developed a skin patch that can detect antibodies associated with COVID and flu infections. It's orders of magnitude more sensitive than existing tests, uses just ...

Oncology & Cancer

Nanovaccine shows great promise for treating HPV-related cancers

A nanoparticle vaccine designed to fight cancers induced by human papillomavirus (HPV) eradicated tumors in an animal model of late-stage metastatic disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists report in a new study ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Canada loses measles elimination status after ongoing outbreaks

Canada is no longer measles-free because of ongoing outbreaks, international health experts said Monday, as childhood vaccination rates fall and the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America.