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52% of England’s care home residents get spring COVID-19 vaccine

52% of England’s care home residents get spring COVID-19 vaccine

NHS England confirms that over half of England’s care home residents have received their spring COVID-19 vaccine.  In April 2024, the NHS booking system for...
Defence Therapeutics are using Accum technology in mRNA vaccines

Defence Therapeutics are using Accum technology in mRNA vaccines

Defence Therapeutics Inc., a Canadian biopharmaceutical company specialising in the development of immune-oncology vaccines and drug delivery technologies, is currently working on combining its...
WHO: The integral part that vaccine development plays in tackling AMR

WHO: The integral part that vaccine development plays in tackling AMR

WHO outlines the importance of vaccine development to tackle the ongoing antimicrobial-resistant bacteria pandemic. In 2021, data revealed the current landscape of AMR. Resistant bacterial...
 Could gonorrhoea be treated with an existing meningitis vaccine?

 Could gonorrhoea be treated with an existing meningitis vaccine?

There could be new hope for untreatable gonorrhoea in the form of an existing meningitis vaccine, according to findings in The Lancet Infectious Diseases...
Defence Therapeutics: Accelerating the fight against cancer and infectious diseases

Defence Therapeutics: Accelerating the fight against cancer and infectious diseases

Defence Therapeutics outlines how it is actively looking to continue the development of its product pipeline in partnership with large pharmaceutical companies. Defence Therapeutics, a...
Long-COVID-vaccine

Long COVID risk reduced by almost half after double vaccine dose

Receiving two COVID-19 vaccine doses reduces a person’s risk of experiencing long COVID by almost half, a new study has shown. Research led by King’s...
AstraZeneca to test component of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

AstraZeneca to test component of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

AstraZeneca will be testing a component of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in clinical trials of its own vaccine against the virus. Following the preliminary...
First ever patient to receive COVID-19 vaccination in the UK

First ever patient to receive COVID-19 vaccination in the UK

Today marks a landmark moment for the United Kingdom as the first NHS patient has received the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The biggest vaccination campaign in...
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine authorised by UK Government

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine authorised by UK Government

The UK Government has authorised the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine which will be made available from next week. The UK Government has granted a temporary authorisation...
One step closer to a COVID-19 vaccine for the UK

One step closer to a COVID-19 vaccine for the UK

Pfizer and BioNTech SE have announced their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate has demonstrated evidence of efficacy against COVID-19 in participants without prior evidence of infection. The...
UK secures access to 90 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccine

UK secures access to 90 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccine

The UK Government has today announced it has secured early access to 90 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Announced by Business Secretary Alok...
WHO: reducing disease inequality with vaccine funding

WHO: reducing disease inequality with vaccine funding

The World Health Organization has welcomed crucial new funding for vaccines across the globe that it says will help in the fight against COVID-19,...
Protection against deadly, preventable diseases through European Immunisation Week

Protection against deadly, preventable diseases through European Immunisation Week

The EFN, as part of the Coalition for Vaccination, has launched a social media campaign during European Immunisation Week for nurses on vaccination for...
Research shows how to boost immune responses to vaccines in seniors

Research shows how to boost immune responses to vaccines in seniors

New research has shown how older people’s immune system response to vaccines could be boosted using immunology expertise and the surprising use of genital...
Horizon 2020 collaboration to develop COVID-19 vaccine

Horizon 2020 collaboration to develop COVID-19 vaccine

OPENCORONA consortium has been awarded €3m funding by Horizon 2020 to support emergency research and development against the COVID-19 outbreak, aiming to develop a...
First steps towards a vaccine for pancreatic cancer achieved

First steps towards a vaccine for pancreatic cancer achieved

Researchers have developed a personalised vaccine system that could delay the onset of pancreatic cancer. The study, conducted by researchers from Queen Mary University of...
NHS England urge eligible people to get free flu vaccine

NHS England urge eligible people to get free flu vaccine

The primary school flu vaccination programme is resuming following temporary delay of nasal spray vaccine from the manufacturer. The NHS and Public Health England (PHE)...
MMR vaccine secured for UK private patients to protect supply

MMR vaccine secured for UK private patients to protect supply

New restrictions that have been put in place mean the MMR vaccine cannot be parallel exported from the UK, to protect stock for private...
C difficile infection: The search for new Clostridioides difficile vaccine

C difficile infection: The search for new Clostridioides difficile vaccine

University of Exeter researchers have made a breakthrough in the quest for a new vaccine for killer hospital bug Clostridioides difficile (C difficile infection). The...

Asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer

A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer tumours selectively using...

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