Immunization - Adult Immunization News

• Antibiotic Resistance Common in H. Pylori Antibiotic resistance in Helicobacter pylori is widespread across World Health Organization (WHO) regions, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Roche Touts New Flu Drug as Tamiflu Suffers Generics Hit Swiss drugmaker Roche's hopes of recapturing lost ground in the generics-flooded influenza market got a boost after a late-stage study showed its new medicine reduced symptoms in people at high risk of complications.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Age Threshold of 50 for New Zoster Vaccine Not Cost-Effective: Study The new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) guideline that recommends the new recombinant adjuvanted zoster subunit vaccine (RZV) over the live attenuated zoster vaccine (ZVL) and lowers the vaccination age to 50 years is not cost-effective, according to a new analysis.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Cutaneous Basaloid Squamous Cell CA Regressed After HPV Vaccine Treatments Combined systemic and intratumoral human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine administration resulted in complete regression of multiple cutaneous basaloid squamous cell carcinomas, according to a case report.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Drug Combination Boosts Older Adults' Immunity in Early Trial A phase 2a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial showed that a combination of drugs decreases the incidence of infections, including influenza and pneumonia, in older adults.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Explaining Herd Immunity May Convince More People to Get Flu Shots The knowledge that getting a flu shot can help prevent flu from spreading in the community may help convince more people to get vaccinated, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• Live and Inactivated Flu Vaccines Have Similar Efficacy in Children Live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) and inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) have similar efficacy in children, according to results from a Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) study.
  Reuters Health Information, July 2018
• California Puts Pediatrician Bob Sears on Probation He was under investigation for improperly writing medical exemptions for vaccines and now must complete demands of a 35-month probation.
  Medscape Medical News, July 2018
• Congo Completes Surveillance of Ebola Contacts, No New Cases Democratic Republic of Congo moved closer to declaring its Ebola outbreak over when the health ministry said it had completed surveillance of the last people who came into contact with patients and had not found any new cases.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2018
• Modified Polio Vaccine Extends Lives in U.S. Brain Cancer Study Some 21% of patients with advanced brain cancer treated with a modified polio vaccine were alive after three years, compared with 4% of patients with similar tumors who received standard therapies, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2018
• Clamor for GSK Shingles Shot Points to Bigger Profits GlaxoSmithKline is facing "unprecedented" demand for its new shingles vaccine Shingrix, suggesting the product could be a bigger money-spinner than the company and analysts initially thought.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2018
• BCG Vaccine Leads to Lasting Improvement in Blood Sugar in Type 1 Diabetes Three years after receiving bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, adults with longstanding type 1 diabetes showed improvement in hemoglobin A1c to near-normal levels and the improvement persisted over the next five years, with no reports of severe hypoglycemia.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2018
• EULAR 2018Vaccine Guidelines in the Works to Bolster Immunity Provisional vaccine guidelines for people with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease are in the final stages of review and will be released later this year.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• Study Confirms Higher Risk of Dengue in Kids Who Got Sanofi Vaccine An analysis of data on Sanofi's dengue vaccine, which has been given to more than 800,000 school children in the Philippines, confirms it increases the risk of hospitalization and severe dengue in those who had never previously been infected with the mosquito-borne virus.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2018
• More US Kids Unvaccinated in States That Allow Non-Medical Exemptions A growing number of children are missing out on recommended vaccinations in states that permit parents to skip inoculations due to their personal beliefs even when there's no medical reason kids can't be vaccinated, a U.S. study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2018
• Fewer Than 1 in 10 Adults Get All High-Priority Preventive Care Only 8% of US adults aged 35 years and older received all the appropriate recommended preventive care. Nearly 5% received none of those services.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• Medical Workers in Congo City Finish Vaccinating Contacts of Ebola Patients Medical workers in Democratic Republic of Congo have given all the immediate contacts of Ebola patients in the city of Mbandaka an experimental vaccine as they try to thwart a disease that has killed around 25 people, the health ministry said.
  Reuters Health Information, June 2018
• Specific Viruses Tied to Asthma Treatment Failure in Kids Some, but not all, viruses are linked to treatment failure in pediatric asthma exacerbations, a new study showed; the findings suggest these kids may need different workup.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• More Hospitals Requiring Influenza Vaccine for Workers The rate went from 37% to 61% in 4 years, with some sectors showing larger jumps than others. Still unclear is whether that will translate into fewer influenza cases among patients.
  Medscape Medical News, June 2018
• Single-Injection Inactivated Polio Vaccine Immunogenic in Rats A new, stabilized single-injection inactivated polio vaccine elicits neutralizing immune responses in rats, researchers report.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018