Adult Immunization Guidelines from CDC Released.The article presents information on adult immunization guidelines released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.ElliottChairWilliamChairT.ChairInternal Medicine Alert
including the nuances of immunizations in patients with solid tumors, hematologic malignancies, patients receiving transplant and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, and unique needs for long-term survivors
June 30, 2023 Author(s): Luke Halpern, Assistant Editor The new RSV vaccines are expected to be available in fall 2023. CDC Director Rochelle P Walensky, MD, MPH, announced her endorsement of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendations for use of both new re...
"When infants begain getting vaccinated against hepatitis B in 1991, we saw a dramatic reduction of infection rates so it has been frustrating to watch rates of infection in adults rise when we know that there is a safe and effective vaccine that can prevent hepatitis B," says Dr. Arun Jes...
Understanding the potential risks associated with pneumococcal disease, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) provided newrecommendations to improve vaccine coverage and protection among adults. Previously, the committee recommended up to two doses of the PPSV23 ...
The agency's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 14 to one in favor of lowering the age for adult vaccination, which the CDC said gives more people the chance to protect against the disease at ages when the risk of infection increases substantially. ...
"A 'should' is something that is then taken by others than us to mandate such things and also to make people feel that they haven't done the right thing," said Dr. Sarah Long, one of the members of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. ...
"We do continue to see unfortunate disparities in adult influenza vaccinations," Schuchat said. "In children, we don't see those patterns." In fact, the vaccination rates for Asian American children (66 percent), Latino children (61 percent), black children (57 percent) and multiracial childr...
the obvious policy choice, but I just want to reiterate that that was very much not the case," Dr. Matthew Daley, head of the COVID-19 vaccines work group within the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said at their meeting Tuesday. But that's where the data took them....
A new adult vaccine has received a double thumbs-up from the American federal health system. On the heels of the Food and Drug Administration approval of Shingrix, a new vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline for the prevention of shingles, a federal committee of immunization experts voted Wednesday to re...