Vaccine skeptics have long-since leveraged the rapid roll out of mRNA vaccines to add fuel to heated arguments surrounding vaccine safety. As a result, a growing share of the public is wary of getting vaccinated with both mRNA and other kinds of vaccines.

The Florida surgeon general in January called for a halt in the use of covid mRNA vaccines. And in Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton in January moved to appeal a lawsuit he filed claiming Pfizer misrepresented the safety of its mRNA shot.

One avenue for new vaccine development is mucosal vaccines. In theory, dosing the vaccine directly into the respiratory tract allows for robust antibody and T-cell responses where SARS-CoV-2 generally first enters the body. Such vaccination could help prevent an infection from taking hold better than intramuscular injections.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancer, with fewer than 13% of people diagnosed with it surviving for more than five years. It kills 88% of its patients, and its recurrence rate, after surgery,

The trial was tiny, just 16 patients, but it’s eliciting a sentiment not normally associated with this brutal disease of pancreatic cancer: hope,” Jarvis writes.

Federal legal protections added in the 1980s to shield vaccine manufacturers from most lawsuits would be waived any time a vaccine is administered in Iowa under legislation that was advanced Wednesday by Republican state lawmakers.

The Iowa Senate bill alters a proposal that would have penalized administering gene-based vaccines including the COVID-19 vaccine.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) docket entries indicate that the PTAB has invalidated all challenged claims of Moderna’s patents for its COVID-19 vaccine technology. The final written decisions remain sealed.

Florida first lady Casey DeSantis called out the CDC for continuing to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children beginning at 6 months old despite the WHO deeming kids "low priority."

In 2023, DeSantis signed legislation (SB 252) making it illegal for businesses or governments to fire or refuse to hire employees because of their vaccination status among other provisions. “It is the intent of the Legislature that Floridians be free from mandated facial coverings, mandates of any kind relating to vaccines,” the bill said.

TAMPA, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will hold a news conference at a seafood restaurant in Tampa. The event at Harpoon Harry’s Crab House is scheduled to begin at 2:45 p.m. The governor will be joined by Florida first lady Casey DeSantis and Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general.