The head of Pasteur Institute of Iran (PII) announced the export of more than 700,000 doses of the BCG vaccine to the ...

A prior phase II trial had shown that BCG revaccination in teens led to 45.4% efficacy in reversion from positive to negative ...

The University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) is launching an initiative dedicated to safeguarding vaccine use in the U.S. The Vaccine Integrity Project and ...

Mounting evidence suggests that vaccination against the varicella zoster virus—which causes chickenpox in children and triggers shingles in adults—also protects the brain. Several recent ...

The gene therapy nadofaragene firadenovec demonstrated strong clinical activity in Japanese patients with BCG-unresponsive non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Nadofaragene firadenovec-vncg ...

A new modified live vaccine has now been launched on the Irish market by Zoetis. The vaccine protects animals against the clinical symptoms of mycoplasma bovis. According to Kieran O’Mahony from ...

Yet doing so would alienate him from the anti-vaccine community. He recently attended the funeral of one of the children who died, an 8-year-old girl in Texas, and reportedly questioned the safety ...

The delayed influenza vote was not unusual. The panel typically does not vote on its influenza or COVID-19 vaccine recommendations until its June meeting and said it will do the same this year.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is still effective for protecting children from extreme forms of tuberculosis, like TB meningitis ...

Unlike countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, the US alone recommends an annual Covid-19 vaccine for healthy younger adults and children. The World Health Organization also ...

BCG, as the National Cancer Institute also explained on its website, is a weakened form of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis that does not cause disease ... of our efforts to develop a therapeutic ...