11+ hour, 33+ min ago   (542+ words) Strelciuc Dumitru / iStock Two new analyses, one from France and one from China, suggest that seasonal influenza vaccination provided moderate protection during the early months of the 202526 flu season, despite the rapid spread of influenza A(H3N2) subclade K viruses, which…...

6+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (782+ words) Blake Patterson / Flickr cc With certain exceptions, US adults could safely forego tetanus and diphtheria booster vaccination'if uptake of childhood vaccines stays high, an Oregon Health & Science University'led research team wrote yesterday in'Clinical Microbiology Reviews. Discontinuing the 10-year doses could…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (374+ words) The combined vaccine elicited higher immune response against SARS-CoV-2. Yesterday in JAMA, authors published promising results from a phase 3 trial on the safety and immunogenicity of a combined seasonal flu and COVID vaccine, Moderna's mRNA-1083, in adults 50 and older. Overall,…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (819+ words) Biserka Stojanovic / iStock Few of the many nonpharmacologic efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes during the pandemic were evidence-based, and vaccinations and antiviral drugs were underused, concludes a scoping review published late last week in JAMA…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (699+ words) A study using Medicare data finds that long-term nursing home stays and deaths after hospitalization for sepsis climbed during the COVID-19 pandemic but that patients of all races and ethnicities experienced these outcomes at similar rates. A team led by…...