Vaccines

Researchers at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have developed a controversial method to deliver malaria vaccines using genetically modified mosquitoes. Dubbed “flying vaccinators,” these insects are engineered to deliver vaccine components via their bites.

Former Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen told "Face the Nation" that the FDA should authorize the bird flu vaccine.

BioNTech has entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania regarding royalty payments for its COVID-19 vaccine.

A California family filed a lawsuit earlier this year against health clinic Amazon One Medical after a man died following a virtual consultation.

President Joe Biden announced new climate goals with only 31 days left in office.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, earned approximately $10.7 million in 2023, with much of his income stemming from his work with various law firms and his leadership of a vaccine-skeptic nonprofit. According to recently amended financial disclosures filed as part of his presidential campaign, Kennedy also holds significant assets, including between $500,001 and $1 million in Bitcoin and commercial real estate in Chicago worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The European Medicines Agency has recommended that a vaccine with "self-amplifying" mRNA be marketed.

Moderna has paused its mRNA RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) vaccine trial for children after five infants were hospitalized with severe respiratory complications.

The United States and China have signed an updated agreement to renew its Science and Technology Agreement (STA) for five years.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extended an "emergency preparedness" declaration that protects vaccine manufacturers from liability through 2029.