Category: Vaccine Headlines
RFK Jr. is moving to remake a little-known vaccine panel. It could have big consequences
STAT Kennedy has indicated that he wants to revamp the system that compensates people who are injured by vaccines. Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to be reshaping another little-known piece of federal vaccine infrastructure, a move that could have big consequences for the availability of immunizations in the U.S. Kennedy has removed at least four […]
Jan 21, 2026
Pfizer CEO lays blame for US vaccine woes on RFK Jr.’s ‘anti-science’ stance: WSJ
Fierce Pharma While much of the biopharma industry has spent the past 12 months treading lightly around the Trump administration and the tumult it has wrought on U.S. medical research and regulation, Pfizer’s CEO cut to the chase this week in a blatant rebuke of HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to The Wall […]
Jan 21, 2026
How to improve vaccine uptake: a huge study offers clues
Nature An analysis of more than one million people in the UK found that two-thirds of people who were vaccine-hesitant during the COVID-19 pandemic went on to get vaccinated. Although some people were initially hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19 during the pandemic, many did eventually go on to get at least one dose, according to a […]
Jan 14, 2026
Nonmedical Childhood Vaccination Exemptions Are Climbing
MedPageToday Nonmedical exemptions to childhood vaccination requirements are on the rise, with substantial variation among U.S. counties and states, an analysis of county-level data showed. The median rate of nonmedical vaccination exemptions for personal beliefs or religious reasons increased from 0.6% in 2010-2011 to 3.1% in 2023-2024, while the rate of medical exemptions remained steady, […]
Jan 14, 2026
The golden age of vaccine development
Works in Progress The first vaccine was a lucky accident. Now we can design new vaccines in weeks, atom by atom. In 1796, when Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine, against the smallpox virus, no one knew what viruses were, let alone connected them to diseases. Many believed Jenner’s vaccine worked because it depleted the body of […]
Jan 7, 2026
Controversial US-Backed Vaccination Study Begins in Guinea-Bissau
Health Policy Watch The US government-funded trial on the timing of hepatitis B vaccinations, which will delay vaccination for up to 7,000 newborns in Guinea-Bissau, started this week. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a controversial Danish research group a ,6 million five-year grant to study the “optimal timing and delivery of […]
Jan 7, 2026
Experts Question Denmark’s Vaccine Program as a Model for the U.S.
NYT The United States is expected to adopt the vaccine schedule used by Denmark, a much smaller country with universal health care. The United States, a nation of 343 million people with a complex and overburdened health care system, is poised to adopt the childhood vaccine recommendations used in Denmark, a country of six million […]
Dec 30, 2025
CDC Adopts Contentious Hepatitis B Vaccine Recommendation
MedPage Universal birth dose dropped, despite warnings from physicians, medical groups. The CDC has formally adopted a recommendation from its vaccine advisory panel to stop recommending hepatitis B vaccination for every newborn at birth. The agency said Tuesday that the childhood immunization schedule will be updated to reflect a shift to shared clinical decision-making for […]
Dec 17, 2025
World’s first Phase II Nipah virus vaccine trial launch
Oxford Vaccine Group The trial, conducted in Bangladesh in partnership with the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), and funded by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), will assess the safety and immune response of the ChAdOx1 NipahB vaccine in a region where the virus causes recurrent outbreaks. The trial started earlier […]
Dec 10, 2025
Myocarditis is a rare but real Covid vaccine side effect. A new study sheds light on what might cause it
STAT Results point to two immune signals, and possible methods to keep them from going awry. While extensive studies have found Covid-19 vaccines to be safe, effective, and to have saved millions of lives during the pandemic, these shots come with a rare but real risk of inflamed heart muscle, or myocarditis. Scientists on Wednesday reported that they have […]
Dec 10, 2025