vaccines

UK health officials are widening the MenB response in Kent by offering second doses to people already given a first shot, after an outbreak that has left two people dead and 21 confirmed cases.

Phase 3 PreVenTB trial of 12,717 people across India shows VPM1002 cuts extrapulmonary tuberculosis by 50%, but neither candidate prevents pulmonary TB or latent infection.

A study of nearly 250,000 U.S. adults finds the shingles vaccine dramatically reduces heart attacks, strokes, and deaths in people with existing cardiovascular disease.

A federal court has halted sweeping changes to the national childhood immunization schedule and frozen Kennedy's ACIP appointments, finding the reconstituted panel likely violated federal law.