Exercise May Boost Immune Response to Flu Vaccine
Physical activity and acute exercise offer some benefit for influenza vaccination response, according to a review published online.
Physical activity and acute exercise offer some benefit for influenza vaccination response, according to a review published online.
Dr Robert Popovian discusses access to immunization services among adults in low-income communities and efforts to expand pharmacists’ authority to administer vaccines to increase vaccination rates for this vulnerable population.
Patient and hospital staff’s vaccine status may influence patients’ willingness to undergo a surgery during a pandemic.
A phase 2 study assessed safety and immunogenicity of administering a high-dose quadrivalent influenza vaccine with a mRNA-1273 vaccine booster dose in older adults.
Researchers evaluated the risk of confounding bias in simulated test-negative studies that assessed estimated COVID-19 and influenza vaccine effectiveness.
As the medical field shifted its priorities to treating COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic, routine immunization was one of the many medical fields to experience disruption. What was the scope of this disruption and what are possible ways to address it?
Compared with the 2019 to 2020 school year, vaccination coverage among children in kindergarten decreased by about 1 percent for all vaccines in the 2020 to 2021 school year.
Vaccine effectiveness 75 percent during 2019 to 2020 season, when vaccine-mismatched viruses predominated
While several cases of facial paralysis were observed during the phase 3 clinical trials of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, a causal relationship could not be established. With the US Food and Drug Administration recommending monitoring of vaccine recipients, the researchers looked at a disproportionality analysis using the WHO’s pharmacovigilance database, VigiBase.