Cidara Therapeutics stock skyrocketed more than 90% on Monday after the company presented a promising update for its universal flu shot.

A newly posted agenda for next week’s meeting of the just-appointed group of outside vaccine advisers to the US Centers for ...

Moderna has had its funding for the development of mRNA-based vaccines to combat pandemic flu viruses, including bird flu, terminated by the Department of Health and Human Services, but the company is ...

Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. Research findings ...

Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver and ... Nature Communications (2025).

Vaccine experts who are not involved in the project said universal flu and coronavirus vaccines are a worthy goal, but they questioned whether this project could produce one.

Follicular-phase vaccination was associated with 0.82 extra cycle days (95% CI 0.40-1.24) with a flu shot only and 0.99 more days (95% CI 0.55-1.43) with concurrent flu and COVID-19 vaccinations.

This natural variation explains why flu vaccine effectiveness fluctuates year to year, sometimes showing lower protection rates than other common vaccines with more stable targets.

Similarly, early 2024-25 data from the U.S. shows that the vaccine was 41% to 55% effective against flu hospitalizations in adults and 63% to 78% effective against flu hospitalizations in children.

It you have flu shot side effects at all, they will likely start eight to 12 hours after your shot, says Thomas Russo, M.D., professor and chief of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo ...

It’s time to get your influenza vaccine, but what are flu shot side effects for 2024? ... the best strategy is to see an allergist who can assess the nature of that reaction,” he says.