Researchers from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, led by Professor Jeffrey Hubbell, have demonstrated that their drug can reverse the autoimmune response associated with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. Scitech Daily reported in more detail. Researchers from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago...
The past three years have taught us a bitter truth: COVID-19 does not pose the same risk to everyone it infects. Now, US public health agencies are trying to reconcile COVID-19 vaccination recommendations with this fact. The publication VOX told in more detail. Sanitation Administration...
The remnants of ancient viruses that have been hiding inside human DNA for millions of years help the body fight cancer, reports the BBC. A study by the Francis Crick Institute has shown that dormant remnants of these old viruses wake up when cancer cells run amok. This inadvertently helps the immune system…
An updated COVID-19 vaccine from US drug maker Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech may be linked to stroke in the elderly. About this, referring to the data of the US health authorities, writes Reuters. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
On June 17, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved COVID-19 vaccines for children 6 months of age and older. This writes CBS News. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) still needs to...
Pfizer and BioNTech's two-dose Covid vaccine provided very little protection for children ages 28 to 5 during the New York omicron wave, according to a study released Feb. 11, CNBC reports. The New York State Department of Health found that the effectiveness of the vaccine...
The company announced that the first participants have been vaccinated as part of a Phase 1 clinical trial of an experimental HIV vaccine that uses Moderna mRNA technology, CNN reports. The trial, called IAVI G002, is being conducted in partnership with IAVI, a non-profit research organization. This is testing...
Jonas Salk is the man who saved childhood. The mad scientist, fanatic who invented the world's first polio vaccine, believed in his work so much that he vaccinated himself and his three children with the experimental vaccine, reports Isralove. Millions of mothers around the world know this...
The country's public health official has advised people looking for the safest and most effective COVID-19 vaccines and boosters to make Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna instead of Johnson & Johnson. Writes about this The Washington Post. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, endorsed the rule ...
Early analysis showed two doses of COVID-19 vaccine were ineffective in some young children, Pfizer said. The company plans to make adjustments to an ongoing study to test the efficacy of a third dose. Writes about this NBC New York. "Compared with…