In this COVID-19 roundup, we discuss a fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose, how vaccination impacts women’s menstrual cycles, a multivariant COVID-19 booster, and updates on recommendations for pediatric COVID-19...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee On Immunization Practices has released the 2020 recommended immunization schedule for adults.
Authors of a new study investigated the safety and immunogenicity of 3 formulations of an investigational vaccine, which contains RSV fusion protein engineered to preferentially maintain a prefusion...
Ève Dubé, PhD, answered our questions about vaccine hesitancy, best practices for increasing vaccination rates, and the best communication strategy to use with patients/caregivers—topics she also presented...
By analyzing data from 9 laboratories, researchers assessed whether the monocyte activation test could consistently and accurately measure the pyrogenic content of the first meningococcal B vaccine to be...
When PCV7 was introduced in pediatric immunization programs, adults experienced a significant decrease in pneumococcal disease. A new study evaluated the more recent introduction of the PCV13 and its impact...
Researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital evaluated whether the new zoster vaccine recombinant, adjuvanted, could induce flares among 300 individuals with rheumatoid arthritis or other systemic...
WHO and UNICEF analyzed data from 194 countries to determine whether the measles prevention milestone set by the World Health Assembly has been achieved.
