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Reducing RSV risk in older adults

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common virus that typically causes cold-like symptoms, but can lead to severe disease in older adults, particularly those over the age of 75—so getting the RSV vaccine is important to prevent infection,…

Public health history course holds lessons for today

A new course at Harvard Chan School focuses on the history of public health, highlighting longstanding issues such as vaccine hesitancy, how life expectancy has been measured and used, tensions in the relationship between the fields of public…

The importance of studying treatments in pregnant people

At the 16th Kolokotrones Symposium, experts discussed the importance of including pregnant people when testing vaccines and drugs, the challenges of collecting data for that population, and research methods that could help fill the data gap.