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COVID-19: The older you are, the more antibodies you have

Written by | 14 Nov 2021

Does natural infection or vaccination prompt the body to generate more protective antibodies? It’s a question that researchers have been working on since the introduction of the first […]

COVID-19 vaccine elicits antibodies in 90% taking immunosuppressants

Written by | 19 Oct 2021

COVID-19 vaccination elicited antibody responses in nearly nine out of 10 people with weakened immune systems, although their responses were only about one-third as strong as those mounted […]

Ebola vaccine regimen generates strong immune response in children and adults in a clinical trial in Sierra Leone

Written by | 21 Sep 2021

Results support the use of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine regimen for Ebola virus disease LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE Johnson & Johnson’s two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen […]

EU approval boosts COVID vaccine manufacturing capacity

Written by | 5 Sep 2021

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved additional manufacturing capacity for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in France – increasing production by 51 million doses by the end of […]

Researchers develop novel strategy for tuberculosis vaccine

Written by | 29 Aug 2021

Innovators at Purdue University and Houston Methodist Research Institute have created a novel strategy for developing an effective vaccine for a widespread form of tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) […]

Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated a durable immune response and elicited dual mechanisms of protection against delta and other SARS-CoV-2 variants in data published in NEJM

Written by | 3 Aug 2021

Interim results from a Phase 1/IIa sub-study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) demonstrated that both humoral (antibody) and cellular (T-cell) immune responses generated by […]

Dessicated liposome technology improves vaccine stability

Written by | 13 Jul 2021

Mountain Valley MD, Ontario, Canada   The results of the first study to evaluate the stability of Trivalent Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine (tIPV) formulated in desiccated liposomes (QuIcksometm) has […]

Investigational malaria vaccine gives strong, lasting protection

Written by | 6 Jul 2021

Two U.S. Phase 1 clinical trials of a novel candidate malaria vaccine have found that the regimen conferred unprecedentedly high levels of durable protection when volunteers were later […]

Metabolic hormone ‘leptin’ linked to poor vaccine response

Written by | 15 Jun 2021

Reduced levels of a metabolic hormone known as leptin is linked to poor vaccine antibody responses in the general population, a University of Queensland study has found. The […]

Malaria vaccine becomes first to achieve WHO-specified 75% efficacy goal

Written by | 29 Apr 2021

Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have today reported findings from a Phase IIb trial of a candidate malaria vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, which demonstrated high-level efficacy […]

COVID-19 patients may only need one vaccine dose

Written by | 22 Apr 2021

People who have recovered from COVID-19 had a robust antibody response after the first mRNA vaccine dose, but little immune benefit after the second dose, according to new […]

Real world evidence from Peru and Colombia confirms ivermectin safe and effective

Written by | 27 Mar 2021

The real world evidence about ivermectin combined with the findings from meta-analyses of clinical trials provide compelling evidence for the safety and effectiveness of ivermectin, according to Dr […]

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