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Early BCG shot for low birth weight babies cuts newborn deaths: JIPMER study

PUDUCHERRY: Administering the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine immediately after birth can significantly reduce newborn deaths, especially among low-birth-weight infants, according to a landmark ...
Medical Xpress

Vaccines: News and Research on BCG Vaccine

In Johnson County, Iowa, the number of tuberculosis cases has increased in recent years—and so has the cost of containing it. The cost of contact tracing and surveillance, traveling each day to ...
WSB Radio

100-year-old tuberculosis vaccine may help regulate blood sugar in people with Type 1 diabetes

A vaccine developed more than a century ago to fight tuberculosis may offer a surprising new benefit, helping treat Type 1 diabetes. Dr. Denise Faustman of Massachusetts General Hospital says the BCG ...
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Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and Beyond: Is Systemic Immunotherapy for BCG-Naïve Non–Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer Progress or Overreach?

At first glance, the findings appear encouraging: CREST and POTOMAC demonstrated modest but statistically significant improvements in event-free survival (EFS) and disease-free survival (DFS), ...
Foreign Policy

How One Vaccine Could Help Fight Drug-Resistant Infections

This issue is preventing our website from loading properly. Please review the following troubleshooting tips or contact us at [email protected]. Argument: How One Vaccine Could Help Fight ...
Medscape

Are Vaccines Doing More Than Just Preventing Infection?

Long regarded as disease-specific, some widely used vaccines may confer broader health benefits that extend beyond protection against intended pathogens. Evidence suggests that certain live attenuated ...