Influenza and Up-to-Date COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel - National Healthcare Safety Network, United States, 2022-23 Influenza Season
This report describes the percentage of health care personnel working in hospitals and nursing homes who received a flu vaccine and the percentage who received a COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - November 9, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
Coadministration of COVID-19, Influenza Vaccines Seems Effective
THURSDAY, Nov. 9, 2023 -- Coadministration of the BNT162b2 BA.4/5 bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162b2-biv) and seasonal influenza vaccine (SIV) generally has similar effectiveness against COVID-19- and SIV-related outcomes compared with... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Here ’s How the CDC Will Track Viruses Over the Holiday Travel Season
If you’ve traveled overseas recently, you might have been greeted upon your return by people in a handful of airport terminals in the U.S. recruiting passengers to get tested for the COVID-19 virus. It’s been a surprisingly productive way to keep track of how much COVID-19 might be entering the country, via travelers, as well as which variants they are bringing in.
Just in time for the busy holiday travel season, the program’s operators, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Concentric by Ginkgo Bioworks (a Boston-based biotech firm), and XpresCheck, which recruits and tests the passeng...
Source: TIME: Health - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
There ’s a Shortage of RSV Treatments. Here’s What Doctors Recommend
A recently approved treatment was supposed to protect babies from RSV, but demand is outpacing the supply of the medication.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved nirsevimab, an antibody that sticks to and prevents Respiratory Syncytial Virus from infecting cells, in July. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) then recommended the medication for all babies either born during the RSV season or those up to eight months old entering their first RSV season, which runs from about November to March. RSV can be a dangerous and potentially deadly disease, especially for infants; about 58,000 to 80,...
Source: TIME: Health - November 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Pfizer and BioNTech announce positive topline data for mRNA-based combination vaccine program against influenza and COVID-19
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced positive topline results from a Phase 1/2 study (NCT05596734) evaluating the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of mRNA-based combination vaccine candidates for influenza and COVID-19 among healthy adults 18 to 64 years of age. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - October 30, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Pfizer Business and Industry Source Type: news
Covid Shots May Slightly Raise Stroke Risk in the Oldest Recipients
A federal study hinted at increased risk when the vaccine was given with the high-dose flu shot, but the research is far from conclusive. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Influenza Research Stroke Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns Age, Chronological Elderly Youth Source Type: news
Why Vaccinate Healthy 2- to 17-Year-Olds Against Influenza? Why Vaccinate Healthy 2- to 17-Year-Olds Against Influenza?
This year, for the first time, healthcare professionals in France are invited to offer influenza vaccination to all children.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - October 17, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Pediatrics News Source Type: news
Flu Shots Up for Children in States With Vaccine Mandate
TUESDAY, Oct. 10, 2023 -- Children living in states with a vaccine mandate during the 2020 to 2021 influenza season had a higher predicted probability of receiving an influenza vaccine, according to a study published online Oct. 10 in... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - October 10, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
How Old Do You Have to Be To Receive Yellow Fever Vaccine?
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In the United States, Yellow Fever (YF) is rare and usually due to traveler’s coming to the US from Africa (34 countries) or South America (13 countries, see maps here) This wasn’t always true. There were numerous outbreaks in the past few centuries. However, after the Spanish-American War, a YF commission was sent to Cuba that proved YF was mosquito-borne and 1 year later major improvement was seen due to a multi-pronged mosquito control program.
“In May 1900, the U.S. Army,…formed the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission to gather data in Cuba that might inspire improvements in the publi...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 9, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
How seniors can access 4 key vaccines this fall — for COVID, flu, pneumonia, and RSV
COVID-19, influenza, pneumococcal, and — for the first time — respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines will all be available this fall for older adults. But medical experts warn high costs and patchwork rollouts could be barriers for seniors trying to protect themselves. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - October 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
News at a glance: More success for fusion, medical tests under scrutiny, and a grizzly reintroduction
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Fusion experiment beats previous energy record
Lightning has struck a second time for physicists using lasers to achieve nuclear fusion, in which two atomic nuclei combine into one while releasing enormous amounts of energy. On 30 July, the 192 lasers of the stadium-size National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory instantaneously crushed a tiny capsule filled with heavy isotopes of hydrogen. In doing so, they prompted a fusion reaction that produced more energy than the laser beams deposited onto the target. The new results, presented by NIF scientists at a conf...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 5, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
COVID-19 levels in N.S. remain low as respiratory-illness season approaches, Strang says
Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health gave an update Tuesday morning on respiratory illnesses and the rollout of influenza and COVID-19 subvariant vaccines this fall. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - October 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Nova Scotia Source Type: news
Nobel Prize Awarded to mRNA Pioneers Who Paved the Way for COVID-19 Vaccines
It was an unlikely collaboration, and it began in an unlikely place, but the partnership that Katalin Kariko and Dr. Drew Weissman formed in the 1990s at the University of Pennsylvania has now led to a shared Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Kariko and Weissman were awarded the Nobel for their work in tweaking the genetic material mRNA to make it more amenable to working in vaccines. Their discovery led to the first approved mRNA vaccines, targeting the COVID-19 virus, in 2020. And that success is seeding mRNA-based strategies across a number of different conditions, including other infectious diseases as well as...
Source: TIME: Health - October 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Women Have Higher Risk for Solicited Reactions After Flu Shot
FRIDAY, Sept. 29, 2023 -- The risk for solicited reactions following influenza vaccine is higher for women than men, according to research published online Sept. 28 in the Journal of Epidemiology& Community Health.
Marilou Kiely, Ph.D., from... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 29, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
