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Vaccine Hesitancy Trends from 2019 to 2022 Evaluated

Drug Topics

As vaccine hesitancy grows, fewer children are receiving routine childhood vaccines.

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Five Things For Pharmacists To Know About Measles in 2025

IDStewardship

Although I have practiced in the area of infectious diseases pharmacy for quite a while now, measles has not been of much clinical relevance to me beyond MMR for routine vaccination. Vaccination is the best way to prevent measles This is an obvious one, but necessary to state right out the gate. MMR is given in 2 doses.

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Cultural, Health System Barriers Impact HPV Vaccination Rates

Drug Topics

Researchers aimed to identify the barriers impeding HPV vaccine uptake since 2019 among US mid-adults aged 27 to 45.

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Dengue Vaccine: What Pharmacists Need to Know

Pharmacy Times

The FDA approved the first vaccine for dengue disease in May 2019.

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Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

STAT

kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 and fears that anti-vaccine sentiment stirred up by the pandemic could be spreading to other shots. The percentage of U.S.

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Study Finds Significant Drop in Vaccine Confidence During COVID-19 Pandemic

Pharmacy Times

In a 2019 survey, middle-aged participants were considerably more apprehensive about getting vaccinated than younger groups, which was not the case in the 2022 survey.

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Gates Foundation to fund trial of long-awaited new tuberculosis vaccine candidate

STAT

The Gates Foundation unveiled plans Wednesday to fund a long-awaited trial for what, if proven effective, would be the first new tuberculosis vaccine in over a century. The 26,000-person, Phase 3 study, set to begin next year, will test a vaccine known as M72/AS01 that showed promising results from a smaller trial in 2019.

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