The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has voted to recommend that pediatric patients (2 to 18 years old) who have not previously received hepatitis A vaccine be routinely vaccinated at any age. Currently, the CDC recommends routine hepatitis A vaccination for children 12 to 23 months of…
The CDC ACIP has voted to expand routine and catch-up HPV vaccination in males through 26 years of age who are inadequately vaccinated.
Vaccination of solid organ transplant candidates and recipients remains a critical component of preventing infection related morbidity and mortality.
The Sabin strain-based inactivated polio vaccine demonstrated an immunogenicity profile noninferior to that of the conventional inactivated polio vaccine.
Compared with the live zoster vaccine, adjuvanted recombinant zoster vaccine had significantly higher vaccine efficacy (VE) against herpes zoster (HZ) and postherpetic neuralgia in older adults. There were also no differences in safety between the 2 vaccines, according to a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials published in Vaccine. This systematic review of published randomized…
Alert comes just days after a measles outbreak was declared in Los Angeles County
The number — 695 cases — is the highest since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000
The vaccine, called Mosquirix, was approved by the European Medicines Agency in 2015
The number of reported measles cases in the United States hit 465 as of April 4.
Investigators assessed the risk for herpes zoster and provided recommendations regarding treatment in patients with psoriasis.
