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Moderna Inches Nearer to Successful Cancer Vaccine

The Daily Upside | Vaccination

Moderna Inches Nearer to Successful Cancer Vaccine

“Moderna has long touted that the mRNA vaccine technology it helped revolutionize during the global dash to create a coronavirus vaccine could be repurposed for a variety of medical uses. This vaccine, mRNA-4157, uses the method to train the immune system to identify and attack specific mutations in cancer cells.

The early-stage trial, conducted on patients already prescribed Merck’s Keytruda to treat certain types of head and neck cancer, produced some positive results — and hinted at an even brighter future for the vaccine.”

From The Daily Upside.

Gavi | Vaccination

Immunization Effort to Avert over 605,000 Cervical Cancer Deaths

“By 2023, Gavi had worked with over 40 countries to provide the HPV vaccine to 23.7 million girls. This massive immunisation effort is projected to avert over 605,000 future deaths from cervical cancer, a testament to the vaccine’s life-saving potential.

In 2023 alone, Gavi-supported countries vaccinated more than 14 million girls – more than the total number vaccinated in the previous decade combined. Thanks to an unprecedented scale-up of vaccine introductions, dedicated investment and expanded access since 2023, Gavi is on track to reach its ambitious goal of protecting 86 million girls with the HPV vaccine by 2025, a milestone that is expected to prevent more than 1.4 million future cervical cancer deaths.”

From Gavi.

Our World in Data | Vaccination

Measles Vaccines Save Millions of Lives Each Year

“Measles used to be an extremely common disease. Just sixty years ago, over 90% of children would have been infected by it, and of those who developed symptoms, around a quarter would be hospitalized.

The United States alone had around three to four million cases annually, leading to tens of thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths each year.

However, in 1963, John Enders developed the first effective measles vaccine. Vaccination efforts ramped up rapidly in richer countries, and in the 1970s and 1980s, they were scaled up worldwide.

In just the last fifty years, it’s estimated that measles vaccinations have prevented over ninety million deaths worldwide. Two to three million people would die from measles every year without them.”

From Our World in Data.

Clinical Trials Arena | Vaccination

Stablepharma Begins Trial of “World-First” Fridge-Free Vaccine

“The first patient has been dosed in a Phase I trial of Stablepharma’s tetanus-diphtheria vaccine, which does not need to be refrigerated.

The vaccine candidate, SPVX02, is completely stable at room temperature, and in testing was fully potent after three cycles of extreme temperature fluctuations ranging from -20°C to 40°C.  The candidate has been developed to withstand these temperatures through the company’s StablevaX technology.

In what is being branded a ‘world-first’, the first patient in the trial of SPVX02 was dosed earlier this month at a National Health Service (NHS) site in the UK. The vaccine doses of SPVX02 being used in the Phase I study also have an 18-month shelf life.”

From Clinical Trials Arena.

Ars Technica | Vaccination

New RSV Treatment Linked to Fall in Baby Hospitalizations

“Far fewer babies went to the hospital struggling to breathe from RSV, a severe respiratory infection, after the debut of a new vaccine and treatment this season, according to an analysis published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

For the new study, CDC researchers looked at RSV hospitalization rates across two different RSV surveillance networks of hospitals and medical centers (called RSV-NET and NVSN). They compared the networks’ hospitalization rates in the 2024–2025 RSV season to their respective rates in pre-pandemic seasons between 2018 and 2020. The analysis found that among newborns (0–2 months), RSV hospitalizations fell 52 percent in RSV-NET and 45 percent in NVSN compared with the rates from the 2018–2020 period.”

From Ars Technica.