The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Erased Decades of Progress on Childhood Vaccination
While the world waits for a COVID-19 vaccine, children across the globe are going without shots already known to be life-saving. With the world in disarray due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of children vaccinated this year against infections like diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles and pneumococcal disease has fallen to levels not seen since the 1990s, according to a new report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “In other words,” the report reads, “we’ve been set back about 25 years in about 25 weeks.” That stark figure comes from the Gates Foundation’s annual Goalkee...
Source: TIME: Health - September 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Vaccine proves effective against the most severe type of pneumonia
(Murdoch Childrens Research Institute) A pneumococcal vaccine was effective at protecting children in Laos against the most severe type of pneumonia, a new study has found. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 10, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Directed Enhanced Service Specification Seasonal influenza and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination programme 2020/21
All GP practices are expected to provide essential and those additional services they are contracted to provide to all their patients. This enhanced service specification outlines more specialised services to be provided. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Seasonal influenza DES specification – updated
The Influenza and Pneumococcal Immunisation Directed Enhanced Service specification has been amended and republished to provide for additional new cohorts of patients to be vaccinated in general practice. (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - September 6, 2020 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Updated flu DES offers little detail as GPs face 'one year at a time' updates on expanded campaign
GP practices will receive the same £10.06 fee per vaccination as last year under the 2020/21 flu and pneumococcal DES, as the government insisted plans for the 'biggest flu campaign ever' would go ahead despite a lack of detail in the updated specification. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - September 4, 2020 Category: Primary Care Tags: Contracts & funding Source Type: news

In-Hospital Heart Failure Deaths Down With Routine Vaccinations
TUESDAY, Sept. 1, 2020 -- For patients with heart failure, influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations are associated with lower in-hospital mortality, according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2020: The Digital... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 1, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Vaccine narrows racial disparities in pneumococcal disease
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) In a major public health success, the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine PCV13, or Prevnar 13, in 2010 in the United States is associated with reduction in socioeconomic disparities and the near elimination of Black-white-based racial disparities for invasive pneumococcal disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Flu, Pneumonia Vaccination Tied to Lower Dementia Risk Flu, Pneumonia Vaccination Tied to Lower Dementia Risk
Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination may lower risk for the development of Alzheimer ' s disease in older adults, two large observational studies suggest.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines)
Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines - July 28, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Psychiatry News Source Type: news

Morocco: Hospitals to Be Supplied With Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccines This Autumn (Minister)
[MAP] Rabat -- Moroccan hospitals will be supplied with influenza and pneumococcal vaccines during the coming autumn, Health minister Khalid Ait Taleb announced on Saturday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 26, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Oxford ’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Takes a Big Leap Forward, Showing Success in Early Trials
The foot race to develop the first effective vaccine against COVID-19 involves an awfully crowded field, with 137 candidate vaccines in pre-clinical study worldwide and another 23 actually in development. But a leader seemed to emerge today with research published in the Lancet reporting promising results in a robust study by investigators at Oxford University in England. The study began in April, with a sample group of 1,077 adults aged 18 to 55—an age group young enough to tolerate exposure to SARS-CoV2, the virus that causes COVID-19, with less risk of adverse effects than would be seen in older, more vulnerable a...
Source: TIME: Health - July 20, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 showed robust immune responses in all participants in Phase I/II trial
Interim results from the ongoing Phase I/II COV001 trial, led by Oxford University, showed AZD1222 was tolerated and generated robust immune responses against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in all evaluated participants. COV001 is a blinded, multi-centre, randomised controlled Phase I/II trial with 1,077 healthy adult participants, aged 18-55 years. It assessed a single dose of AZD1222 against a comparator meningococcal conjugate vaccine, MenACWY. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - July 20, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured AstraZeneca Business and Industry Source Type: news

Coronavirus Remains Front and Center at June ACIP Meeting
The CDC ' s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met virtually June 24 to discuss topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic and issues pertaining to vaccines for influenza and meningococcal disease. (Source: AAFP News)
Source: AAFP News - July 1, 2020 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Clinical guidance for healthcare professionals on maintaining immunisation programmes during COVID-19, NHS England (updated 29th June 2020)
The national immunisation programme is highly successful in reducing the incidence of serious and sometimes life-threatening diseases such as pneumococcal and meningococcal infections, whooping cough, diphtheria and measles. It remains important to maintain the best possible vaccine uptake to prevent a resurgence of these infections. This will also prevent increasing further the numbers of patients requiring health services, as well as outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and allow us to provide important protection to children and other vulnerable groups. Where possible, the routine immunisation programmes should be...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 29, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Flu Vaccine Only 39% Effective This Past Season, CDC Panel Says Flu Vaccine Only 39% Effective This Past Season, CDC Panel Says
The influenza vaccine was even less effective against A/H1N1pmd09 virus but was better against B/Victoria virus, according to a CDC panel. They also voted on a new meningococcal vaccine.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - June 25, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news

Model May Help Predict Risk for Testing Positive for COVID - 19
Risk reduced with pneumococcal polysaccharide, flu vaccine; melatonin, paroxetine, or carvedilol use (Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge)
Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge - June 25, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Family Medicine, Infections, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Pathology, Pharmacy, Pulmonology, Journal, Source Type: news