Immunization - Adult Immunization News

• CV Deaths Jumped in 2020, Reflecting Pandemic Toll The American Heart Association 2020 Statistical Update offers lessons for addressing structural issues that drive health disparities.
  Medscape Medical News, January 27, 2023
• Long COVID Affecting More Than 33% of College Students, Faculty The median age of participants was 23 years. The study is unique for evaluating mostly healthy, young adults and for its rare look at long COVID in a university community.
  WebMD Health News, January 27, 2023
• 'Smart' Skin Patch the Future of Early Alzheimer's Diagnosis? A new skin patch that incorporates microneedles can detect the proinflammatory cytokine IL-6 in the lab, suggesting it may have the potential to diagnose preclinical Alzheimer's and other diseases.
  Medscape Medical News, January 27, 2023
• CDC Still Looking at Potential Stroke Risk From Pfizer Bivalent COVID Shot New data from one CDC database shows a possible stroke risk link for older adults who received an updated Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot, but the signal is weaker than what the agency had flagged earlier in January, health officials said on Thursday.
  Reuters Health Information, January 26, 2023
• FDA Panel Backs Shift Toward One-Dose COVID Shot The FDA's vaccine advisers lent support to the agency's plan to try to simplify future COVID shots, with an aim of having many people get just one dose in the fall.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2023
• Bivalent Booster Helps Prevent Symptoms from XBB.1.5: Study New data for the bivalent COVID-19 booster shot shows that it cuts the risk in half for symptomatic infection from the now predominant Omicron subvariant, XBB.1.5.
  WebMD Health News, January 26, 2023
• Promising Cancer Survival Trends Seen in Nordic Countries Across 23 types of solid cancer, 5-year survival reached between 50% and 100% for 17, and there was even marked improvement for the six most fatal types.
  Medscape Medical News, January 26, 2023
• Florida Gov. Falsely Claims Bivalent Booster Boosts Odds of COVID Fewer than 11% of eligible Floridians have received an updated booster vaccine, according to the CDC. Research into the efficacy of the bivalent booster in preventing infection continues.
  Kaiser Health News, January 26, 2023
• The FDA Wants an Annual COVID Vaccine: What You Need to Know Is pivoting to an annual COVID-19 shot a smart move?
  WebMD Health News, January 25, 2023
• Q&A With Long COVID Patient, Researcher: Treatments Lagging The co-author of a new study on long COVID is also a long COVID patient. She shares her story as a patient and of her work to study its origins, what we know, and what we need to do.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2023
• Flu, Other Common Viruses Linked to Neurologic Conditions Researchers found 22 links between viruses and common neurologic conditions often seen in older people.
  WebMD Health News, January 24, 2023
• FDA Wants Annual COVID Boosters, Just Like Annual Flu Shots US health officials want to simplify the recommended COVID-19 vaccine protocol.
  WebMD Health News, January 24, 2023
• Sinopharm Unit Gets OK for Clinical Trials of mRNA COVID Vaccine Sinopharm said on Friday its biotech unit has received regulatory approval for clinical trials of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine targeting the Omicron variant.
  Reuters Health Information, January 23, 2023
• China Making 'Enormous Progress' on Vaccinating Elderly: WHO The World Health Organization's immunization director praised China on Friday for making quick progress on vaccinating older people with COVID-19 shots and boosters since lifting anti-virus controls last month.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2023
• Mpox: Dermatology Registry Data Pinpoints Unique Signs The study analyzed 101 mpox cases from 13 countries reported last year to the American Academy of Dermatology/International League of Dermatologic Societies registry.
  MDedge News, January 23, 2023
• China Plays Down COVID Outbreak With Holiday Rush at Full Tilt People across China crowded into trains and buses for one of its busiest days of travel in years on Friday, feeding fears of new surges in a raging COVID-19 outbreak that officials say has hit its peak.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2023
• How Does SARS-CoV-2 Affect Other Respiratory Diseases? Nonpharmacological measures have curbed the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and of other infectious agents as well.
  Medscape Medical News, January 20, 2023
• Israel Says Has Not Found a Link Between Pfizer COVID Shot and Stroke Israel has not identified any evidence linking strokes to an updated coronavirus vaccine made by US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, according to a health ministry official.
  Reuters Health Information, January 19, 2023
• Combo of Previous COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination Gives Best Protection It’s called “hybrid immunity” and it offers better protection from COVID reinfection.
  WebMD Health News, January 20, 2023
• Highly Anticipated HIV Vaccine Fails in Large Trial "It's obviously disappointing," Anthony Fauci, MD, told MSNBC, noting that other areas of HIV treatment research are promising. "I don't think that people should give up on the field of the HIV vaccine."
  WebMD Health News, January 19, 2023