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Global childhood vaccinations edge closer to pre-pandemic levels: WHO report

STAT

Global childhood immunization coverage has nearly rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report, with 4 million more children receiving full immunization in 2022 compared to 2021. Overall, 20.5 million children who missed at least one dose in 2021. Overall, 20.5

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Tackling immune-mediated disease with CAR Tregs

European Pharmaceutical Review

Recognising the potential of CAR T cells to act as highly targeted therapeutics, several biotechnology companies – including Sangamo Therapeutics – have established development pipelines of CAR T regulatory cells (Tregs) that aim to tackle immune?mediated What are Tregs and how are they applicable to immune-mediated disease?

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Bracing for rough respiratory virus season, European officials urge vaccination

STAT

and Europe are ramping up their campaigns urging eligible people to get another vaccine round against Covid and flu, promoting the immunizations as people’s best way to protect themselves and reduce pressure on health systems during what is expected to be another tough winter. LONDON — Health officials in the U.K.

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Baby monitor videos yield evidence for long-suspected link between seizures and unexplained toddler deaths

STAT

27, 2022, Katie Czajkowski-Fell and Justin Fell weren’t woken up. Toddlers’ immune responses can be more assertive than adults’, burning into action against a world they’re still getting used to, routinely sparking high fevers, potentially irritating the brain.

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STAT+: Fate Therapeutics plans mass layoffs, after early end to cell therapy deal with Janssen

STAT

According to Pitchbook, Fate had 545 employees in 2022, up from 449 recorded in the company’s 2021 annual report. The firm is also dropping one of its experimental drugs, FT596, a cell-based cancer therapy that uses a class of immune cells known as natural killer cells.

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OCTAVE study reveals vaccine response in patients with impaired immune systems

Express Pharma

Preliminary data from the OCTAVE study in August 2021 showed that a significant proportion of clinically at-risk patients with immunocompromised or immunosuppressed conditions, mounted a low, or undetectable, immune response after two doses of the same SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.

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Opinion: The window is closing to stop deadly drug-resistant fungi like Candida auris

STAT

Clinical cases have risen each year since it was first publicly reported in 2016, with 2,377 reported in 2022, and the CDC notes that based on limited information, 30–60% of those infected with C. auris infects people whose immune systems are already weakened due to other health issues. auris have died. auris itself.

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