Anti-vaccine advocate and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unilaterally revoked federal recommendations for healthy children and pregnant people to get COVID-19 booster shots.

Wide discrepancies have been reported in anti-D prophylaxis practices among Rhesus (Rh) D-negative women who undergo an abortion in their first trimester of pregnancy ... immune system may generate ...

But it's rare for antibodies by themselves to make it impossible to get pregnant. In men ... Women’s bodies can make anti-sperm antibodies if they have an allergic reaction to semen.

Maternal D typing also should be performed to identify D-negative pregnant women who might require the use of anti-D immunoglobulin prophylaxis. Although some antibodies are not likely to ...

His plasma contained a rare antibody, known as Anti-D ... About 17 per cent of pregnant women require Anti-D, but finding donors for the programme remains difficult, the government said.

Anti-D, developed using Harrison’s antibodies, prevented women with rhesus-negative blood from producing RhD antibodies during pregnancy. Australian officials hailed the discovery of Harrison’s ...

“As an Anti-D recipient myself ... to RhD-positive blood – often during a previous pregnancy – her immune system may produce antibodies that attack the baby’s blood as a foreign threat.

Harrison’s rare antibodies were crucial in developing Anti-D, the treatment that has protected millions of newborns from Rhesus disease (or Haemolytic Disease of the Foetus and Newborn) – a condition ...