Moderna is one of two drugmakers that announced on Thursday the full results of a closely watched trial of an experimental vaccine given to patients with melanoma.
Nizamiye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria, where the country’s first Ebola patient was admitted this week. An African health official said that if authorities could not come up with ways to stamp out the outbreak, “the whole continent can be affected.”
Ending routine vaccination for hepatitis B at birth, as the health secretary has recommended, would increase the number of chronic infections by as much as 83 percent, a team of researchers reported.
Last December, a panel of advisers chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommended that parents should decide whether or when infants should get the shot if they were born to mothers who test negative for hepatitis B.
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