Consumer Health: What you need to know about flu vaccination if you have cancer
As flu season approaches, it's important to understand the need to get vaccinated for influenza, or flu. Indications are it could be a different flu season than what the U.S. experienced the past two years. If you have cancer, it's especially important that you protect yourself from the flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a yearly flu vaccination for everyone 6 months and older, with rare exceptions. While it's not 100% effective, vaccination… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - October 6, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
AHN Administers Updated Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 Boosters
Network’s Clinicians Also Encourage Annual Influenza Vaccinations as Flu Season Arrives(PRWeb October 05, 2022)Read the full story at https://www.prweb.com/releases/ahn_administers_updated_moderna_and_pfizer_covid_19_boosters/prweb18938037.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - October 5, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Two Are Better Than One: Expanding Our Covid-19 Vaccine Antigens
Like influenza, SARS-CoV-2 is an expert at mutating and evading prior immunity. This includes vaccine-induced immunity. New research suggests that expanding the target area of our vaccines to include the virus' nucleocapsid protein may offer stronger and broader protection. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 3, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Coronavirus business pharma & Source Type: news
Can You Get The Flu Vaccine And Covid-19 Booster At The Same Time?
Also, here's the best time to get the influenza shot in general. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - October 2, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Science /science business pharma Source Type: news
New recommendations for the composition of influenza vaccines in 2023 for the southern hemisphere
The World Health Organization has announced the recommended viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2023 southern hemisphere influenza season. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Big COVID-19 waves may be coming, new Omicron strains suggest
Nearly 3 years into the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 faces a formidable challenge: finding new ways around the immunity humans have built up through vaccines and countless infections. Worrisome new data show it is up to the challenge. Several new and highly immune-evasive strains of the virus have caught scientists’ attention in recent weeks; one or more may well cause big, new COVID-19 waves this fall and winter.
“We can say with certainty that something is coming. Probably multiple things are coming,” says Cornelius Roemer, who studies viral evolution at the University of Basel. Whether they will also lead to many ho...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 27, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Flu Vaccine Not Linked to Increased Guillain-Barr é Syndrome Risk Flu Vaccine Not Linked to Increased Guillain-Barr é Syndrome Risk
Although past studies have suggested a link between the influenza vaccine and Guillain-Barr é syndrome, a large new study showed no increased risk for older adults ― including those with comorbidities.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - September 27, 2022 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Flu vaccination enhanced service guidance
This guidance on recording flu vaccination, payments and collaboration is for commissioners and practices delivering the 2022/23 seasonal influenza vaccination programme enhanced services. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - September 27, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Decline in Pediatric Vaccinations: What Does It Mean for Flu? Decline in Pediatric Vaccinations: What Does It Mean for Flu?
An influenza expert and pediatrician weighs in on why we must not be complacent about routine vaccinationsMedscape Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines)
Source: Medscape Infectious Diseases Headlines - September 26, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Infectious Diseases Commentary Source Type: news
Is A Universal Influenza Vaccine — One Shot For All Strains— On The Horizon?
Flu vaccines need to be readministered every year to keep pace with viral mutations. "Universal vaccines" could change this. Here, we describe a recent success in the development of a universal influenza A vaccine. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 26, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: William A. Haseltine, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation business pharma & Source Type: news
Updated Patient Group Direction (PGD) for the seasonal flu service
Following the publication of the Community Pharmacy Advanced Service Specification for seasonal influenza last month, the inactivated influenza vaccine PGD has been updated to reflect the changes to training requirements as set out in the Advanced Service Specification. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - September 26, 2022 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Africa: New Recommendations for the Composition of Influenza Vaccines in 2023 for the Southern Hemisphere
[WHO] The World Health Organization has announced the recommended viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2023 southern hemisphere influenza season. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Influenza: the green book, chapter 19, UKHSA (updated 21st September 2022)
Influenza immunisation information including updates for public health professionals.
21 September 2022Updated to include information on timing of Novavax COVID-19 vaccination.
6 September 2022Chapter extensively revised with new and updated information. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
HHS: Meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee; Correction
Notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health making corrections to theSeptember 14, 2022, notice announcing a meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). The meeting will be held on September 22-23, 2022. Agenda items include presentations on COVID-19, monkeypox, influenza, and polio vaccination, as well as vaccine safety, innovation, and gaps in rural vaccination coverage. The confirmed meeting time and agenda will be posted on theNVAC website. Pre-registration for the meeting is required. (...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - September 20, 2022 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
President Biden Says the Pandemic Is Over. What Does That Mean?
When the first cases of COVID-19 began accumulating around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) was under pressure to declare the disease a pandemic. That announcement unlocked the keys to additional funding, resources, and emergency actions to control cases.
Now, in a 60 Minutes interview, President Biden has said that “the pandemic is over.” He cited the fact that people are no longer wearing masks, that large public events such as the Detroit Auto Show have resumed in person, and that concerns about COVID-19 no longer dictate our behaviors in the way they did over the past two years.
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Source: TIME: Health - September 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
