The hope is it both mops up any cancer cells left after traditional treatment and also trains the body to recognise and destroy cancer cells that might return in the future. Mr Haycock said he was only the second patient in the UK to have taken part in the trial.

About 48% of fully vaccinated COVID patients suffered kidney damage during their infection, compared with 42% unvaccinated patients. But nearly 16% of unvaccinated patients had kidney damage so severe they required dialysis, compared with 11% of vaccinated patients.

Among the eight people Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced would make up his new group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are an emergency physician who posted Islamophobic commentary on social media and two doctors who were paid to provide expert testimony in trials against a vaccine maker.

In recent years COVID shots joined flu shots as an annual offering at most neighborhood pharmacies. But the current administration has thrown that into uncertainty

Three of the health secretary’s picks to replace fired members of an influential panel that sets U.S. vaccine policies have filed statements in court flagging concerns about vaccines.

A document the Department of Health and Human Services sent to lawmakers to support Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to change U.S. policy on covid vaccines cites scientific studies that are unpublished or under dispute and mischaracterizes others.

Moderna's shares fell 2.3% on Friday on concerns about whether a new CDC advisory panel would back the use of the company's respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in a broader age group. The mRNA-based RSV shot,

The FDA expanded its approval of Moderna's RSV vaccine on Thursday to include adults under age 60 at increased risk of the disease.

The safety of approved mRNA vaccines is well-established and, as with other vaccines, continues to be monitored by multiple surveillance systems.