Knowable Magazine reports on a revolutionary CAR T-cell therapy, originally for cancer, now showing promise for autoimmune diseases like MS, offering hope with risks.
During a visit to New Hampshire Friday, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced millions of dollars in funding for research on Lyme disease before what’s expected to be a heavy tick season. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be giving up to $2 million to projects that “harness artificial intelligence and […]
Tests for Ebola don’t detect this strain, so it took the WHO extra time to confirm the cause of the outbreak.
The New Hampshire Senate again shot down an annual effort to change the process by which New Hampshire families can get religious exemptions for vaccine requirements. State law requires children be vaccinated against polio, tetanus, hepatitis B, mumps, pertussis, rubella, rubeola, varicella, diphtheria, and haemophilus influenzae type B before entering school or childcare. However, there […]
A team of scientists from the University of Bath have developed a new antigen against the Hantaan disease - a type of hantavirus
Participants in a clinical trial lived longer years longer after increased immune response to glioblastoma slowed progression of tumors.
The New Hampshire Senate voted Thursday not to eliminate the state’s hepatitis B requirement — the latest setback for the State House’s Republican anti-vaccine contingent. Instead, senators sent House Bill 1719, sponsored by Republican Rep. Kelley Potenza, to interim study, a maneuver that sidelines the bill until at least next year. HB 1719 was one […]
The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.
As rotavirus spreads this season, doctors worry that falling vaccination rates may endanger kids.
As childhood vaccination rates in Allegheny County decline, The Conversation asked experts why parents are opting out and how to protect vaccination policy.