What we know about new Mpox strain after first case caught in UK All previous mpox cases in the UK were found in someone who travelled to an affected country or knew someone who had The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2025
Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr. A former top vaccine official says he was forced out of government after trying to block Robert F The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2025
Newborns treated with antibiotics respond less well to vaccines, study shows An Australian study found that babies with early exposure to antibiotics had lower levels of antibodies against jabs in later infancy The Guardian - AU · Apr 2, 2025
What to know about the new Covid strain affecting three in five UK patients ANALYSIS: The variant is becoming more and more dominant The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2025
How a good mood could help some vaccines work better An elevated mood could boost the effectiveness of vaccines with newer mRNA technology, according to a new study The Independent UK · Apr 1, 2025
India trains thousands of medics to promote vaccine in huge push to end cervical cancer Vast scheme aims to counter disinformation and increase awareness in country where low HPV vaccine take-up means many die from the preventable disease The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2025
Vaccine official resigns over RFK "lies" Marks, who oversaw the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, clashed with vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Salon · Mar 29, 2025
Top US vaccine official resigns over RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies’ Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines The Guardian - UK · Mar 29, 2025
Measles cases rise in Scotland as vaccination uptake drops MEASLES cases have risen in Scotland with 22 confirmed cases in 2025 so far — two less than the total number of cases in 2024 The National (Scotland) · Mar 29, 2025
Warning issued over ‘untreatable’ gonorrhoea amid rise in cases More and more cases aren’t responding to antibiotics The Independent UK · Mar 27, 2025
RSV jab slashes hospital admissions by 30% for older people, data suggests NHS England started rolling out the vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus a little over six months ago. Evening Standard · Mar 25, 2025
UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families UK Health Security Agency’s tool highlights viruses and bacteria, many not yet seen in the country, that could pose biosecurity risk The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025
Woman Compensated for Vaccine Injury Seeks to Have Name Redacted Because She Works in Vaccine-Related Public Relations "She 'does not want her experience with [a] poorly administered vaccine to become a story in itself that would interfere with her ability to advocate for vaccinations at large.'" Reason · Mar 24, 2025
Anti-Vaxx Mom Whose Daughter Died From Measles Says Disease 'Wasn't That Bad' The parents of a Texas child who died from measles appeared in a video formulated by an anti-vaccine group where they continued to push against vaccines. Latin Times · Mar 20, 2025
The Guardian - AU · Mar 16, 2025 Women to save thousands of dollars a year as new fertility and endometriosis drugs listed on PBS Hundreds of thousands of Australian women expected to benefit from cheaper medicines
The Guardian - US · Mar 13, 2025 ‘We have ignored lessons’: how Covid continues to affect lives five years later The ways the pandemic has shaken Guardian readers’ worlds – from new businesses to difficulty socialising
Evening Standard · Mar 13, 2025 What the latest NHS hospital figures for England show The number of people waiting more than 52 weeks to begin treatment has dropped below 200,000 for the first time since November 2020.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 12, 2025 MS patients in England to benefit from major roll out of take-at-home pill Cladribine tablet for those with active multiple sclerosis will reduce hospital visits and free up appointments
The Guardian - UK · Mar 11, 2025 ‘I don’t feel part of society’: how Covid is still taking its toll five years on The social, educational and financial impact is still making itself felt, especially for those who continue to mourn
The Texas Tribune · Mar 10, 2025 With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles The measles outbreak in rural Texas has exposed how hospital buildings are ill-equipped. Meanwhile, long distances between providers makes testing people and transporting samples difficult.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025 Covid, five years on: UK ‘still not ready to protect the population’ Scientific triumphs were made in the battle against the pandemic, but the memories and lessons are already in danger of being lost
Salon · Mar 8, 2025 New COVID study fuels vaccine attacks As politicians move to ban mRNA vaccines in some states, research into vaccine side effects is going viral
The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2025 Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery Surgeons believe the technique called functional septorhinoplasty (fSRP) ‘kickstarts’ smell recovery in patients
The Independent UK · Mar 6, 2025 Mpox: Warning over ‘highly infectious’ new variant identified in Congo The global community needs to ‘step up’ to prevent international spread, scientific community warns
Reason · Mar 6, 2025 Amy Klobuchar's Health Misinformation Act Has Aged Poorly A proposed bill in 2021 would have put the HHS secretary in charge of censoring COVID-19 contrarianism on social media.