Recommendations and Reports: Pneumococcal Vaccine for Adults Aged ≥19 Years: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2023
This report describes ACIP recommendations for the use of pneumococcal vaccine in U.S. adults. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Source Type: news
China: From Zero-Covid to Zero-Control
Medical equipment supplied by the World Food Programme (WFP) arrives in Beijing.
Meanwhile, as COVID-19 infections surged in China, coronavirus experts gathered at the UN health agency in Geneva on January 3, to discuss next steps. Photo courtesy of Yingshi ZhangBy Jan ServaesBRUSSELS, Jan 4 2023 (IPS) Three years after the coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Chinese government began in December to abruptly scrap its harsh containment policy known as “zero-Covid.”
This zero-Covid policy relied on strict lockdowns, use of a Covid tracking app, domestic travel restrictions, and quarantin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 4, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Servaes Tags: Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Development & Aid Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Nurse-Driven Protocol Ups Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates
FRIDAY, Dec. 30, 2022 -- A nurse-driven protocol for improving pneumococcal vaccination rates in immunosuppressed patients is associated with significant increases in vaccination rates, according to a study published online Dec. 1 in The Journal of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 30, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
As COVID-19 Cases Surge, China Races To Vaccinate a Reluctant Elderly Population
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19. But even as cases surge, 64-year-old Li Liansheng said his friends are alarmed by stories of fevers, blood clots and other side effects.
“When people hear about such incidents, they may not be willing to take the vaccines,” said Li, who had been vaccinated before he caught COVID-19. A few days after his 10-day bout with the virus, Li is nursing a sore throat and cough. He said it was like a “normal cold” with a mild fever.
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Source: TIME: Health - December 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JOE McDONALD / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 wire Source Type: news
China ’s Stunning U-Turn on Zero-COVID Takes Xi Jinping From Suffocating Control to Callous Inaction
Even for China, where the distance between official narrative and empirical evidence is often a chasm, the last few days have been jarring. On Tuesday, officials announced five deaths from COVID-19—up from two the previous day, which were the first recorded in the country since Dec. 3. On Wednesday, there were officially none. But a glance online tells a different story. Dozens of hearses line up at a Beijing crematorium; bodies wrapped in orange plastic pile in hospitals; patients on ventilators are crammed on a ward floor.
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The decision by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) le...
Source: TIME: Health - December 21, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Campbell / Singapore Tags: Uncategorized China Londontime overnight Source Type: news
Does the keto diet cloud brain PET imaging?
Patients on ketogenic diets appear to have circulating metabolites that reduc...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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Keto diet improves PET/CT of cardiac sarcoidosis (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 21, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
PET reveals risk of cardiovascular events in pneumonia patient
FDG-PET/CT scans have shown that vascular inflammation may be a trigger fo...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading:
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PET/CT scans predict low thyroid function in radiotherapy patients (Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 19, 2022 Category: Radiology Source Type: news
The Case for Cautious COVID Optimism This Winter
At this time last year and two years ago, daily new infections and covid-related hospitalizations were already accelerating at a fast clip. BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, the latest Omicron subvariants, came to comprise the majority of cases during a relative lull in the pandemic. Combined with a Thanksgiving Holiday that saw the most travelers since the pandemic started, there has been a steady increase in covid metrics.
However, there are many reasons to be optimistic. A combination of factors—a high level of population immunity, Omicron family antigenic drift, convergence of mutations that seem to have hit an evolutionary ceili...
Source: TIME: Health - December 13, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michael Daignault and Monica Gandhi Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance Source Type: news
Real-World Study Shows Patients Treated with IMBRUVICA ® (ibrutinib) Were Less Likely to Initiate a Next-Line Treatment than Patients on Acalabrutinib in First-line Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
NEW ORLEANS, December 12, 2022 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced results of a real-world study showing that patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) treated with first-line acalabrutinib monotherapy were 89 percent more likely to start a next-line treatment than those treated with IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib).[1] These data suggest the potential that first-line treatment with IMBRUVICA® in routine practice may provide patients with the ability to use once-daily, all-oral IMBRUVICA® as a monotherapy treatment for a longer period without the need to start the next line of ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - December 12, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Janssen Presents First Data from MajesTEC-2 Trial of TECVAYLI ™ (teclistamab-cqyv) in Combination with DARZALEX FASPRO® (daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj) and Lenalidomide in Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma
NEW ORLEANS, December 10, 2022 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today new results from a cohort of the Phase 1b MajesTEC-2 study of TECVAYLI™ (teclistamab-cqyv), a first-in-class, BCMAxCD3 bispecific T-cell engager antibody, in combination with DARZALEX FASPRO® (daratumumab and hyaluronidase-fihj) and lenalidomide. According to the results, the immune-based triplet therapy regimen had a manageable safety profile with no unexpected safety signals observed. A very good partial response (VGPR) or better was achieved by 90.3 percent of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple ...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - December 10, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
New Results from the Phase 3 GLOW Study of Fixed-Duration Treatment with IMBRUVICA ® (ibrutinib) Plus Venetoclax Demonstrate Robust Efficacy and Sustained Response in Older, Unfit Patients with Previously Untreated Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
NEW ORLEANS, December 10, 2022 – The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced new four-year follow-up results from the Phase 3 GLOW study (Abstract #93), which showed investigational, fixed-duration treatment with IMBRUVICA® + venetoclax (I+V) reduced the risk of progression or death by 79 percent among older and/or unfit patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) compared to patients treated with chemoimmunotherapy.[i] These results were highlighted in an oral presentation during the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting.1CLL is the most com...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - December 10, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Latest News Source Type: news
Pneumococcal Vaccine Lowers Hospitalization Risk for Elderly Pneumococcal Vaccine Lowers Hospitalization Risk for Elderly
Older adults who received the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine were less likely to be hospitalized for pneumonia, a new study found.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - December 6, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Small victories: South Africa is struggling to improve kids ’ health decades after apartheid’s demise
KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA—
By her country’s standards at the time, there was nothing too unusual about how Nosipho Mshengu arrived in the world. She was born on the side of the road on 20 September 1993, as her mother tried to get from Mafakatini, a rural village in South Africa where there was then no health facility, to a Roman Catholic clinic an hour away. The bus she awaited was nowhere in sight when time ran out, and Mshengu made her entry then and there.
This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.
A little more than 14 years later, Mshengu was pregnant herself. Her labor story...
Source: ScienceNOW - November 22, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Among Children After COVID-19 Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Among Children After COVID-19
England experienced an increase in invasive pneumococcal disease cases among children once COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, highlighting the importance of maintaining childhood vaccine coverage.Emerging Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines)
Source: Medscape Critical Care Headlines - November 16, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Tags: Infectious Diseases Journal Article Source Type: news
Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake Remains Low in At-Risk Canadians Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake Remains Low in At-Risk Canadians
Clinicians should encourage vaccination against pneumococcal disease as COVID-19 and flu cases rise, researchers say.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - November 11, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Public Health & Prevention News Source Type: news
