Vaccines Articles
A UTHealth study found adults 65 and older had a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease after receiving a high-dose flu vaccine.
The Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen found that flu vaccines may protect against heart attack and stroke, even if the flu is still developed after vaccination.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted to recommend approval of the Moderna’s investigational mRNA influenza vaccine, which will be marketed under the brand name mFlusiva, for the prevention of flu in adults age 50 to 64.
ccording to three different studies, COVID-19 vaccines were associated with a lower risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), in addition to other outcomes, particularly among older adults.
According to a cohort study using target trial emulation, older adults at higher risk for dementia are less likely to have a dementia diagnosis if they received a herpes zoster (shingles) vaccine.
A study has found pediatric flu vaccines significantly reduce the number of childhood cases of influenza.
A study has found the combination of a vaccine and a drug, which both harness the immune system to attack cancer cells, is successful in cutting the risk of skin cancer recurrence and death by 49 percent.
A recent study in Taiwan that examined the vaccine effectiveness (VE) against moderate to severe COVID-19 infection in children aged 6 to 11 years found the Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 VE was 69.9 percent and the Moderna mRNA-1273 VE was 75.5 percent during Omicron BA.2/BA.5 predominance in 2022.
According to multiple large observational studies, the risk of dementia is associated with eight routine adult vaccines: the shingles, respiratory syncytial virus, influenza, DTP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis), pneumococcal, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and typhoid vaccines.
A potentially effective mucosal vaccine platform has been developed to encourage broad, protective immunity against multiple influenza virus infections.
A new study shows that influenza vaccination may help protect against heart attack and stroke even when it does not prevent people from getting the flu.