1. Firearms remain America’s defining youth mortality crisis Summary: In this correspondence responding to a 2026 research letter, Bleyer, Liu, and Thomas analyzed 2024 CDC WONDER mortality data for U.S. residents aged...
Autumn’s first cool mornings and increasingly early grape harvests in Central Europe serve as a brief, memorable clinical cue: review immunization records before the respiratory season and before 2026 travel plans...
Two distinct scientific traditions drive contemporary longevity research, and understanding their relationship matters for practicing physicians who counsel patients about healthy aging. The first tradition is disease...
1. Two months earlier beats twice as fast: modeling shows South Korea’s vaccine timing, not speed, saved the most lives Summary: This scenario-based modeling study used an age-structured compartmental model...
Summary Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a fatal, progressive neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system caused by persistent, mutated measles virus that remains dormant in brain tissue for...
Summary This global economic modeling study evaluated 50 years (1974–2024) of the WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) across 194 WHO member states and 14 pathogens, using a societal-perspective cost model and...
Geneva/New York, July 15, 2026 — Global childhood immunization coverage edged higher in 2025, but progress remains fragile and uneven, with 13.5 million children receiving zero vaccine doses and measles outbreaks...
Summary This prospective case-control study enrolled 258 febrile inpatients and 48 controls at a rural Tanzanian hospital over one year (2023-2024), testing blood by PCR for 35 pathogens, culture, and serology. Measles...
India — CDSCO digital submission mandate (effective 1 July) From 1 July 2026, India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) requires that all Post-Approval Change applications for human vaccines and...
For decades, the United States was the archetypal “vaccine nation” – a country that combined scientific innovation, regulatory strength, and broad uptake to drive vaccine‑preventable diseases to historic lows. Measles...