1.CDC Adult Immunization Schedule by Age, Recommendations for Ages 19 Years or Older, United States, 2025https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/adult-age.html 2.Updated Recommendation for Universal Hepatitis B Vacci...
The CDC states that universal recommendation for HBV vaccination could increase the number of individuals vaccinated before the onset of chronic liver disease and other comorbidities, such as obesity or diabetes, which may make vaccination less effective.1 “This is a major step forward th...
1.CDC Adult Immunization Schedule by Age, Recommendations for Ages 19 Years or Older, United States, 2025https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/adult-age.html 2.Updated Recommendation for Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination in Adults Aged 19–59 Years — United States, 2024https://www....
Beginning in 1991, the CDC recommended that hepatitis B vaccination became standard of care for infants, making it the first shot most babies receive before leaving the hospital. That said, many adults born before the 1991 hepatitis B vaccine recommendation are living unprotected against the hepatiti...
In 1984, the CDC revised its recommendation to include routine screening of pregnant women in high risk groups, as well as vaccination of infants born to carriers within a week of birth. Once again, no studies demonstrating the safety of these recommendations were forthcoming. ...
but when one factors in underreporting, the CDC estimates that the number is likely closer to 20,700.10This uptick is one reason the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices changed its HBV vaccination recommendation for adults from a risk-based to a universal recommendation ...
The article reports on the revised respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and PRecention (CDC) for people aged 60 years or older.Harris, EmilyJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association...
Another top story was about the CDC’s recommendation for all adults in the United States to be tested for hepatitis B virus.Rita K. Kuwahara, MD, MIH,a primary care internal medicine physician at Georgetown University and Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board member, said the updated guid...
Children and adolescents were not included in the universal screening recommendation because of the low prevalence of hepatitis B and the high level of HBV vaccination in this age group. However, those who have risk factors and are not fully vaccinated should be tested. ...
The new guidance came after some states initiated similar changes, and the CDC noted that those states "have not seen increased hospitalizations or deaths related to COVID-19." Lower rates of COVID hospitalizations were among the reasons California shortened its five-day isolation recommendationin ...