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Vaccine Hesitancy Is on the Rise. Who Do Americans Trust to Help Them Make Important Vaccine Decisions? A New HealthDay/Harris Poll
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE, of the Yale School of Medicine talks with Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, of the Baylor School of Medicine about the rise in vaccine refusal and the backlash against scientists.
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WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has chosen Dr. Vinay Prasad, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco, to lead its Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
The division oversees vaccines and biologic medicines, including gene therapies, CNN reported.
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WEDNESDAY, May 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The shingles vaccine has benefits that stretch beyond protecting older adults from the painful skin condition, a new study says.
Folks who get the shingles jab have a 23% lower risk of health problems like ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 7, 2025
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Newborns can be effectively protected against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection through the use of nirsevimab, a monoclonal antibody treatment, researchers report.
Babies treated with nirsevimab had an 83% reduced risk of hospitalization due t...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- May 6, 2025
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FRIDAY, May 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change how vaccines are tested in the U.S., a decision that could impact how quickly and widely vaccines are made available.
The department said the new plan will promote transparency, but many health e...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- May 2, 2025
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THURSDAY, May 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Dr. Marty Makary had just finished his last surgery at Johns Hopkins when he stepped into one of the most powerful roles in American public health.
Now, as the new commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), he'...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- May 1, 2025
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FRIDAY, April 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine could soon receive full approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company said Wednesday.
The update sent Novavax’s stock up more than 21% in early trading. It also helped ease fears that the decision had been delayed by the Trump Administration, The Associated Press report...
THURSDAY, April 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A panel of federal health experts on Wednesday recommended expanded vaccine options for several diseases, including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), meningitis and a mosquito-borne illness called chikungunya.
The panel, known as the Advisory Committee o...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- April 17, 2025
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Hepatitis A vaccinations could be lagging among men who have sex with men due to a mistrust of medicine, particularly among racial and ethnic minority groups, a new study says.
Only about 60% of surveyed gay and bisexual men were fully vaccinated for hepatitis A, even though the U.S. Centers f...
FRIDAY, April 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends extra measles protection for people traveling to areas with active outbreaks in the United States, CBS News reported.
In an April 8 le...
The shingles vaccine can do more than protect seniors from painful, blistering rashes.
It also appears to protect older folks from dementia, researchers say.
Seniors who got the shingles vaccine when it became available in the U.K. were 20% less li...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- April 2, 2025
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COVID-19 and influenza burned through the U.S. during this year’s cold and flu season, and deadly measles outbreaks have sickened people in 19 states.
So what does it take to get people vaccinated against these preventable diseases?
Essentially, an outbreak within a person’s own com...
A top vaccine official at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is stepping down, warning that vaccine misinformation is coloring the country’s top health decisions.
Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said he will resign and retire by April 5.
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- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- March 31, 2025
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A fake web page designed to look like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) vaccine safety site has been taken down on orders from health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The site was linked to Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonpro...
A growing measles outbreak has led to 222 reported cases across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma in 2025, with health officials urging more people to get vaccinated.
During an interview with Fox News, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Ro...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is cutting or canceling more than 40 grants focused on vaccine hesitancy and ways to increase vaccine acceptance, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.
The message — sent Monday by Michelle Bulls, director of the Office of Policy for Extramural Research A...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- March 11, 2025
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing to study whether vaccines are linked to autism -- despite overwhelming scientific evidence showing no connection.
The study request came from Trump administration officials, according to sources familiar with the plan.
Both President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
THURSDAY, March 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The antiviral drug Paxlovid may not offer much protection against COVID-related hospitalizations or deaths for vaccinated older adults after all.
Research published recently in JAMA Network Open looked at data from more than 1.6 million adults ages 65 to ...
Many Americans remain unaware of the cancer risk for both men and women posed by human papillomavirus (HPV), a new Ohio State University poll has found.
Most people don’t know much about HPV and its long-term cancer risks, and also have key misperceptions about how the virus is spre...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- March 4, 2025
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A federal vaccine advisory panel work session focused on next year's flu shot has been canceled without explanation.
It is the second vaccine advisory meeting that has been canceled or postponed since Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic, was
With measles cases on the rise and flu season straining the nation's hospitals, health experts urge adults to check their vaccination status and get any missing shots.
Health experts agree that vaccines are the best defense against many infections, but keeping track of vaccines received decades ago...
Adding a personalized mRNA vaccine to standard treatment could offer new hope for pancreatic cancer patients, a small yet promising study from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
The study followed 16 patients, including Barbara Brigham, who joined the trial after a routine scan discovered her early-stage pancreatic cancer.
Alongside surgery and chemotherapy, patients received a...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- February 21, 2025
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The current flu season is shaping up to be the worst in a decade.
So far, there have been at least 29 million illnesses and 370,000 hospitalizations related to the flu -- the most since the 2015-2016 season, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) weekly flu report.
There have a...
COVID-19 continues to be a threat to America’s health, causing more illness and death than either influenza or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a new study suggests.
COVID accounted for 3 of 5 (60%) respiratory illnesses among military veterans treated by the U.S. Veterans Health Administrati...
Hesitancy over the COVID-19 vaccine is leading some parents to skip important vaccinations for their children.
Young children of parents who declined the COVID vaccine are about 25% less likely to get the standard measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine, researchers reported in a new study published recently in the A...
Preventing or treating infections could be a key means of warding off dementia, a new evidence review says.
Vaccines, antibiotics, antiviral medications and anti-inflammatory drugs are all associated with a reduced risk of dementia, researchers reported in a study published Jan. 21 i...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 23, 2025
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu.
This funding, announced Friday by Moderna, builds on the $176 million it received from HHS
Public health officials must prepare to counter ongoing anti-vaccine sentiment in coming years, argues a leading pediatrician-scientist.
“Antivaccine activism became a major lethal force in America” during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in an estimated 200,000 deaths among the unvaccinated, according to an article in the journal
It’s long been a mystery why folks need a flu vaccine every year, even though immunizations they got in childhood continue to protect them from measles and mumps.
Researchers now think they know why vaccine effectiveness varies -- and they’ve even come up with a blood test to chec...
Rates of whooping cough in the U.S. continue to climb, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Over 32,000 cases reported have been reported as of mid-December -- about six times more than there were at this time last year, and more than there have been since 2014, according to CNN.
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a very contagious respiratory il...
- Denise Maher HealthDay Reporter
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- January 6, 2025
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More Americans believe in the effectiveness of vaccines developed to protect newborns and seniors against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
More than half of U.S. adults (52%) think the RSV vaccine given to pregnant women will protect newborns from the infection, up from 42% a year ago, say
Predictably, flu season is in full swing, with cases surging across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Friday in a report.
Thirteen states, including Tennessee and Louisiana, report high or very high levels of flu-like illness, double the number from t...
- India Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- December 23, 2024
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When an outbreak of mpox first hit the United States in 2022, a vaccine called Jynneos was available to help protect the most vulnerable population, gay and bisexual men.
Now, there's new data showing which individuals in the LGBTQ+ community were most likely to get vaccinated against the virus.
Despite a record number of American children dying from the flu last year, the percentage of kids getting their flu shots keeps falling.
In new data posted this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 37% of...
Robert Kennedy Jr. should not be confirmed to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, over 75 Nobel laureates urged Monday.
In a letter published by the New York Times, the esteemed scient...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- December 10, 2024
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If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is approved to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, he will be free to revisit a long-debunked link between autism and childhood vaccines, President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday.
The remarks came during an exclusive interview with "Meet the Press."
“I think somebody has to find out,” Trump told moderator
Shingles can strike anyone who had chickenpox when they were young, and the intense pain that can accompany this body rash has sidelined many a senior.
Here, one expert explains how and why shingles can surface, and what you can do to treat it, or better yet, avoid it.
Shingles can happen at any age, but it most typically affects people over 50 who have stress and compromised immuni...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- December 8, 2024
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A new study provides good evidence that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may be achieving its goal of slashing rates of cervical cancer.
“We observed a … 62% drop in cervical cancer deaths over the last decade, likely due to HPV vaccination,” said study senior author Ashish Deshmukh...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- December 2, 2024
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People whose partners have HIV must remember to take antiretroviral pills every single day or risk infection themselves.
But researchers have come up with a way to avoid that daily hassle – an injectable drug that patients would only have to receive twice a year.
What’s more, the...
Waning vaccine coverage has fueled a 20% spike in measles cases worldwide, with 10.3 million people struck by the preventable illness in 2023, health officials reported Wednesday.
"Inadequate immunization coverage globally is driving the surge in cases," of what was once a common childhood disease, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
An experimental vaccine has shown promise in protecting against the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, researchers report.
Lab mice given the vaccine were able to rapidly clear subsequent chlamydia infections, and were less likely to develop severe infecti...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 15, 2024
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Florida resident Joshua Walker isn’t concerned his health will take a hit from all the cakes, pies, cookies and candy that will tempt him during holiday gatherings.
That’s because he’s armed with a solid diet and exercise routine that will allow for a little indulgence.
“If Grandma made an apple pie that I’m just looking at and it’s speaking my na...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 15, 2024
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In a move guaranteed to alarm many, President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal opponent of vaccines and other tenets of mainstream health care, to head the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The department encompasses numerous key agencies, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administrat...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- November 14, 2024
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More than a third of Americans continue to express mistrust in the science behind COVID vaccines, a new study finds.
This level of mistrust has remained relatively consistent, expressed by 36% of people in 2021, 33% in 2022 and 36% in 2023.
People who lost a family member or close friend to CO...
Some Americans should get more than one shot of the updated COVID vaccines because their age or certain health conditions make them more vulnerable to severe infections, U.S. health officials advised this week.
Six months after their first shot, people 65 and older and those who are immunocompromised should receive a second dose of the vaccines that rolled out this fall, according to...
- Robin Foster HealthDay Reporter
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- October 25, 2024
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The recommended first age at which Americans should get the pneumococcal vaccine has been lowered from 65 to 50, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday.
"Lowering the age for pneumococcal vaccination gives more adults the opportunity to protect themselves from pneumococcal disease at the age when risk of infection substantially increases," CDC director
A global real-world study of the vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) finds it offers folks aged 60 and over 80% protection against severe illness and/or hospitalization.
With U.S. vaccination rates falling, "I encourage older adults to follow CDC guidance and get vaccinated for RSV as we enter this year’s and every year’s respiratory disease season," said study co-au...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- October 18, 2024
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Folks who want solid protection during the cold and flu season should get the influenza vaccine now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
The ideal time to get the flu vaccine is by the end of October, the FDA said in a
Public concerns about contracting RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) have significantly declined during the past year, a new survey shows.
About 1 in 4 people (26%) are now worried that they or a family member will get RSV during the next three months, the Annenberg Public Policy Center