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DECEMBER 27, 2020

The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) first granted Emergency Use Authorization to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine earlier this month, with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine shortly gaining the same authorization very shortly thereafter. TARGET POPULATION: Not medical students.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

[link] In Episode 6 of the Antiracism in Medicine series, “Racism, Trustworthiness, and the #COVID19 vaccine,” we are joined by two forces in the field of health equity and academic medicine, Dr. Giselle Corbie-Smith and Dr. Kimberly Manning, to discuss why the pandemic is the moment to ensure trust in medicine.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Beyond diet and exercise, Dr. John Presutti, a Mayo Clinic family medicine physician, says the start of a new year is a good calendar reminder to update adult vaccinations. Personal health is often among the top New Year's resolutions each January.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 5, 2023

When new COVID-19 vaccines were first administered two years ago, public health officials found an increase in cases of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, particularly among young males who had been vaccinated with mRNA vaccines. It was unclear, however, what exactly was causing this reaction.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 14, 2022

While vaccines exist and have already received WHO Prequalification against the Zaire ebolavirus species, it is essential to pursue and intensify efforts to supplement the available data to develop a safe and effective Ebola vaccine strategies in adults and children alike.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of vaccines in controlling infectious disease in sub-Saharan Africa and renewed interest in vaccine research and development across the continent.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

US biotech company Moderna said Thursday it had mixed results from a large-scale trial of its mRNA flu shot, based on the same technology used in its successful Covid-19 vaccine.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 8, 2023

mRNA-based vaccines, for instance, played a crucial role in the fight against COVID-19 in many parts of the world. Messenger Ribonucleic Acid (mRNA) as a therapeutic approach is gaining momentum due to its ability to be rapidly manufactured and its promising outcomes.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 10, 2023

South Carolina residents were more hesitant than Americans as a whole to receive the COVID-19 vaccine during the fall of 2020, report researchers in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in the Journal of Psychiatry Research.

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NPR Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The alleged link between vaccines and autism was first published in 1998, in a since-retracted study in medical journal The Lancet. The claim has been repeatedly disproven: there is no evidence that vaccines and autism are related. Kennedy, Jr.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 24, 2023

Getting vaccines to people who need them isn't always easy. Many vaccines require cold storage, making it difficult to ship them to remote areas that don't have the necessary infrastructure.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 8, 2023

Animal studies indicate that a new COVID-19 vaccine developed at Rutgers may provide more durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 and its emerging variants than existing vaccines.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Of those monitored, 2,038 received the booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine, allowing the researchers to objectively compare measures before and after the participants took the vaccine, and confirm the safety of the vaccine.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It's one thing to believe in the safety and value of vaccines like those used for COVID-19. But it may take a bit more for supporters to go out and urge others to get their shots.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 3, 2023

A preclinical study evaluating a Kiwi-made COVID-19 vaccine—Kiwi Vax—has shown its unique formulation induces a safe and highly effective immune response to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, making it a promising booster vaccine candidate.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 20, 2023

A new HIV vaccine from Scripps Research has shown a significantly improved ability to neutralize the virus in preclinical tests, and it will soon be studied in healthy people who volunteer to participate in clinical trials.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 1, 2023

Covid-19 vaccine maker Novavax raised doubts Tuesday about its ability to continue its business, announcing plans to cut spending after struggles in rolling out its coronavirus jab.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda said the European Union had given the green light to its dengue fever vaccine, making it the second jab preventing the disease to be approved by the bloc.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 24, 2023

Food and Drug Administration is considering a major change in the way COVID-19 vaccines and boosters are given that Northeastern experts say would streamline the process for the public and for suppliers.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A team of researchers at Duke University has developed a vaccine against uropathogenic E. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes how they made their vaccine and its performance when tested in mice and rabbits. coli (UPEC), the type of bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) in humans.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out in limited quantities in early 2021, each country had to decide the order in which its citizens would be vaccinated. How did decision-makers prioritize allocation of these vital preventive resources during the coronavirus outbreak?

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Richardson — On September 24, 2021, the owner of a pharmacy in Puerto Rico pleaded guilty to participating in a felony conspiracy to convert government property and to commit health care fraud in connection with the illegal vaccination of minors between the ages of 7 to 11 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 3, 2023

Mexican officials celebrated Wednesday the announcement that the country finally developed its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China were rolled out.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 2, 2023

The overall responsiveness of patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) to COVID-19 vaccines has been shown to be decreased in patients with cirrhosis. A new prospective study in JHEP Reports shows that this lower response is observed up to six months following two-dose COVID-19 mRNA vaccination, but it does not reduce vaccine efficacy.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 17, 2023

US biotech company Moderna on Tuesday announced positive interim trial results for its vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in adults over the age of 60.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 13, 2023

A malaria vaccine developed by Britain's Oxford University is to be used in Ghana, the first time it has received regulatory clearance anywhere in the world.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

and two from Canada, has developed a mRNA COVID-19 vaccine that can be safely refrigerated for up to three months before use. A team of researchers affiliated with several entities in Thailand, working with two colleagues from the U.S. The team has named it ChulaCov19.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 3, 2023

A study of children and adolescents who received a COVID-19 vaccination following multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) found that there were no reports of serious complications including myocarditis or MIS-C reoccurrence. The study demonstrates that it is safe to get a vaccine after having MIS-C.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

New York City, which once had the nation's strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

China said Tuesday it would speed up a push to vaccinate people aged 60 and older against COVID-19 after the country posted record daily case numbers in recent days.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 30, 2023

By taking inspiration from the evolutionary history of SARS-CoV-2 itself, scientists in China have crafted a new vaccine that, at least in animal models, provides protection against omicron and an array of its subvariants.

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Medical Xpress

MAY 2, 2023

People's negative expectations and general attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine are significantly correlated with the occurrence and intensity of its most common side effects such as fatigue, muscle pain, headache and injection site pain.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Just as a highly transmissible variant prompts officials to extend COVID-19 emergency status, one of the largest surveys ever conducted shows people are more willing to get vaccinated when health workers reveal how many others are doing so.

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 4, 2023

Myocarditis, a condition in which the heart muscle becomes inflamed, is a rare complication that can occur after mRNA COVID vaccination. It's estimated that roughly 18 cases occur in every 1 million vaccine doses administered, making it so rare that it is challenging to find cases to investigate.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 5, 2025

It's that time of year when flu vaccines are becoming available in Australia. You may have received an email from your GP clinic or a text message from your pharmacy telling you they're in stock.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Africa's top public health body says the continent is set to receive its first batch of mpox vaccines as a donation from South Korea.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The World Health Organization's emergencies director on Friday praised the "fastest roll-out" of an Ebola vaccine trial in the midst of an epidemic, as Uganda responded to its latest outbreak.

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