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Maternity care provider acceptance of a future Group B Streptococcus vaccine - A qualitative study in three countries
CONCLUSION: Maternity care providers are engaged in the topic of GBS management and there is opportunity to leverage attitudes and beliefs that will support a strong recommendation for a GBS vaccine. However, knowledge of GBS, and of the limitations of current prevention strategies vary among providers in different regions, and between different provider types. Targeted educational efforts with antenatal providers should focus on highlighting safety data the potential benefits of vaccination over current strategies.PMID:36803900 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.02.037
Source: Vaccine - February 21, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Sarah Geoghegan Francia Acosta Laura C Stephens Hanah Gillan Sandra Valera Richard J Drew Maeve Eogan Adam J Ratner Andrew P Steenhoff Karina M Butler Kristen A Feemster Source Type: research

Single-centre, cross-sectional study on the factors and reasons for non-vaccination among patients with rheumatoid arthritis
CONCLUSIONS: We found that the factors associated with non-vaccination varied by vaccine type; therefore, vaccinations should be promoted with individualised strategies.PMID:36702156 | DOI:10.1093/mr/road003
Source: Herpes - January 26, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hirofumi Miyake Ryuichi Minoda Sada Yukio Tsugihashi Kazuhiro Hatta Source Type: research

Factors and Reasons for Non-vaccination among Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Single-centre, Cross-sectional Study
Conclusion These findings, which demonstrated that the factors and reasons for non-vaccination varied by vaccine type, suggest that individualised strategies should be used to promote vaccination in this population.PMID:36575017 | DOI:10.2169/internalmedicine.1067-22
Source: Herpes - December 27, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Hirofumi Miyake Ryuichi Minoda Sada Atsushi Manabe Yukio Tsugihashi Kazuhiro Hatta Source Type: research

RSV Cases Are Rising in Kids and Babies. What Parents Should Know
On top of continued concerns about COVID-19 and the anticipated wave of flu cases this fall and winter, health experts are also confronting another infectious disease: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). RSV typically strikes during the colder months, when people gather indoors and are more likely to spread disease through close contact and respiratory droplets. It’s particularly common among infants and young children, as well as the elderly, who are more vulnerable to infections because of their less developed or weakened immune systems. After years of having no vaccines against the virus, scientists are moving quic...
Source: TIME: Health - November 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Public Health Source Type: news

He battled AIDS, COVID-19, and Trump. Now, Anthony Fauci is stepping down
Anthony Fauci, the renowned physician-scientist who has led the $6.3 billion National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for nearly 4 decades and since early 2020 has been the U.S. government’s voice of scientific reason during the COVID-19 pandemic, will step down from government service in December. Fauci, 81, had said in recent interviews that he planned to retire from the government by the end of President Joe Biden’s administration, but did not give a date until today. He said in a statement that although leading NIAID “has been the honor of a lifetime,” he plans to “pursue...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 22, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

2020-21 Influenza vaccination campaign strategy as a model for the third COVID-19 vaccine dose?
CONCLUSIONS: such meaningful results confirm the effectiveness of the strategies implemented in the present campaign, suggesting their possible application in the debated COVID19-third-dose vaccination campaign.PMID:34739469 | DOI:10.23750/abm.v92iS6.12230
Source: Acta Bio-Medica : Atenei Parmensis - November 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Maurizio Lecce Pier Mario Perrone Federica Bonalumi Silvana Castaldi Monica Cremonesi Source Type: research

Socioeconomic costs of children & lt;5  years hospitalised with acute respiratory infections in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
CONCLUSION: These comprehensive estimated costs of ARI admissions in children < 5 years are high. These costs can be used as a basis for planning treatment and preventive strategies, including cost-effectiveness studies for influenza and, in future, RSV vaccines.PMID:33931252 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.04.010
Source: Vaccine - May 1, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: I-Ching Sam Nabeela Ahmad Jaafar Li Ping Wong Anna Marie Nathan Jessie Anne de Bruyne Yoke Fun Chan Source Type: research

Revisiting A & P Learning Outcomes | Episode 54
Host Kevin Patton previews the newly revised HAPS Learning Outcomes for A&P, discussing the goals of the revision and samples a few of the changes. Why is noon a good time to get your flu shot? Are there neurons that actively erase memories? Vaping: why A&P teachers need to keep up with the news.00:42 | Timing of Vaccinations02:36 | Sponsored by HAPS03:04 | Neurons That Erase Memory08:22 | Sponsored by AAA08:47 | Vaping13:45 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program14:28 | Revisiting the HAPS Learning Outcomes for A&P41:43 | Staying ConnectedIf you cannot see or activate the audio pla...
Source: The A and P Professor - October 20, 2019 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs

2019 Health Law Professors Conference
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 27, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

The Development of a Veterans Health Administration Emergency Management Research Agenda
Conclusions Using a systematic evidence base and consensus development process among stakeholders within and outside VA, we report on the first national VA comprehensive emergency management program evaluation and research agenda. VA provides a unique national laboratory for the conduct of high quality research that will improve VA’s and our Nation’s emergency medical and public health preparedness and the role of health delivery systems in that endeavor. To effectively foster the conduct and expansion of emergency management evaluation and research within VA, the consensus was that VA needs to build program evaluation...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - March 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Aram Dobalian Source Type: research

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