Tag: vaccines
What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don’t Contain Mercury Anymore
This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review and vote on several vaccine...
COVID Vaccines Face Potential New Limits from Trump Administration
Larry Saltzman has blood cancer. He’s also a retired doctor, so he knows getting covid-19 could be dangerous for him — his underlying...
RFK, Jr., Funds Universal Vaccines for Flu and COVID—Here’s What That...
Universal Vaccines Have Eluded Scientists for Years. RFK, Jr., Is Betting This Approach Will SucceedTrump’s HHS and NIH are planning to invest $500...
Vaccines Save Lives. That’s Why We Need Global Immunization
Vaccines Save Lives. That’s Why We Need Global ImmunizationThe Trump administration decision to halt funding endangers immunization of 75 million children over five...
Here’s How Quickly Could Polio Return to the U.S. without Vaccines
Every aspect of Grace Rossow’s life since she was around nine months old has been affected by polio. The vaccine-preventable gastrointestinal disease attacks...
Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize–Winning Work on mRNA Was Long Ignored—And Led...
Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist, dedicated her life’s work to messenger RNA (mRNA), which she always believed had the potential to change the...
Is SV40 Present In Experimental Vaccines?
Fact Check What is SV40?SV40 is a virus originally found in monkeys. It was used in early polio vaccines that were made using monkey...
New Nasal Vaccines Offer Stronger Protection from COVID, Flu, and More—No...
Alyson Velasquez hates needles. She never liked getting shots as a kid, and her anxiety only grew as she got older. “It really...
