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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The study , published Wednesday in Nature, underscores the importance of never lighting up that first cigarette, based on its conclusion that smoking has much longer harmful effects on immune responses than previously understood. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 2, 2024

The new understanding of immune cells could not only contribute to the development of lung disease treatments, but treatments for other organ systems as well.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Abrysvo is currently approved to treat RSV-associated lower respiratory tract disease in adults aged 60 years and older, and in infants through the immunization of pregnant individuals.

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JUNE 4, 2024

The immunizing technicians stated they had greater job satisfaction and had a greater sense of being valuable pharmacy members

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MARCH 27, 2024

Researchers studying the ways these systems change with age refer to them collectively as “immunosenescence,” or, more poetically, the “ twilight of immunity. ” But even as scientific understanding of the phenomenon has grown over the past decade, the forces driving it remain murky.

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JULY 26, 2024

Study finds traces of “epigenetic scars” on the immune cells of patients who recovered from chronic hepatitis C infection.

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Immunization 130

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

As elite hunters of the immune system, T cells are constantly prowling our bodies for diseased cells to attack. New research shows that some cancer cells can fire a long nanotube projection into the T cell that, like a vampire’s fang, sucks energy-creating mitochondria from the immune cell, turning the predator into prey.

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Immunization 145

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The ads, which tell parents to contact their general practitioners if they’ve missed getting their kids immunized, are designed to capture parents’ desires to keep kids safe. Read the rest…

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Two separate study findings reported that a subset of dormant CD4+ cells could spontaneously produce HIV RNA and proteins, impacting a patient’s HIV-specific immune responses.

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Immunization 137

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us one thing, it is how little we really know about how the human immune system works. Decoding and harnessing the power of the human immune system is one of the great frontiers of biomedicine.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

Researchers explored the overall efficacy of various pediatric vaccines and their effects on antibiotic use, while also addressing vaccine hesitancy among parents.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Moderna announced Monday that, in a Phase 3 clinical trial, its combination Covid-19 and influenza vaccine generated stronger immune responses in older adults than individual vaccines that target those viruses.

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Immunization Vaccines 144

Pharmacy Times

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Fractional COVID-19 dosing resulted in fewer adverse effects and costs while producing similar immune responses compared to a full dose vaccine.

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Immunization Vaccines 139

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MARCH 28, 2024

For scientists who study the human immune system, the penny dropped at different points in the early frenetic months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking back now, many marvel at the realization that they witnessed and were able to chronicle something no other scientists had ever actually seen.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

New research published Thursday in Science has identified proteins present in the blood of people with long Covid that could point the way to a much-needed diagnostic test and possibly to future therapeutic targets.

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Immunization 145

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MAY 21, 2024

Research presented at DDW 2024 found there was no significant association between immune response and hepatitis B vaccine types in patients with Hepatitis C.

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STAT

MARCH 21, 2024

This “summer of discovery,” as McKenna called it, brought him back to the immune system. McKenna discussed possibilities with his teenagers and Prometheus’ chief scientific officer.

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Immunization 131

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JULY 30, 2024

Immunization rates have not returned to pre-pandemic levels, leaving millions of children and infants at risk for measles or diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis.

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Immunization 107

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MAY 21, 2024

Checkpoint inhibitors, drugs that unleash the immune system, have turned into blockbuster therapies that have transformed outcomes for some patients with deadly cancers.

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Immunization 121

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The evidence presented to the WHO team pointed to what’s sometimes called an immunity gap that was created by the pandemic. But a rapidly organized meeting Thursday between the World Health Organization and health officials in China assuaged much of that concern.

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Drug Topics

JULY 16, 2024

COVID-19 patients had reduced absolute granulocyte, monocyte, and lymphocyte counts at 10 months post-infection compared to noninfected individuals.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis had a higher risk of shingles when treated once a day with 4 mg of baricitinib, 100 mg of peficitinib, or 30 mg of upadacitinib.

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Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 23, 2022

Francesca Ceddia, MD, senior vice president of respiratory vaccines at Moderna, said the company is in early stages of development for a combined mRNA vaccine for influenza, COVID-19, and RSV.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For community pharmacists, cooler temperatures, school buses on the roads and Friday night football are not just signs of a changing season – they are indicators that patients will soon be seeking vaccinations for the 2023-2024 respiratory illness season.

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Vaccines Immunization 148

Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A new study from Yale School of Medicine and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that patients with long COVID had increased antibodies that help fight different viruses and lower levels of cortisol.

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MARCH 22, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized a new antibody to protect immunocompromised individuals against Covid-19.    The drug, known as Pemgarda and marketed by the biotech Invivyd, is the first such drug to become available since the agency pulled AstraZeneca’s Evusheld off the market in January 2023.

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Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 15, 2024

RSV and influenza vaccines demonstrated hemagglutination inhibition titers that were noninferior to those with sequential administration.

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MAY 13, 2024

Takeda has made a strong play for a stake in the Alzheimer’s disease market, paying $100 million upfront for an option on AC Immune’s amyloid-targeting immunotherapy. The option fee could be followed by another up to $2.1

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

The shingles vaccine appears to confer long-term immunity, according to research.

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AUGUST 2, 2024

The technology from Diakonos Oncology initiates a natural immune response that targets and eliminates cancer cells by activating cytotoxic TH1 cell signaling pathways.

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Pharmacy Times

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Champions for Vaccine Education, Equity, and Progress reported that the majority of pharmacists believe that it is important to prioritize vaccine development and distribution.

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Immunization Vaccines 145

Drug Topics

MARCH 27, 2024

mRNA-1283 generated a stronger immune response against both the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 5 and the original virus strains of SARS-CoV-2 compared with Spikevax, Moderna’s licensed COVID-19 vaccine.

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Vaccines Immunization 212

Drug Topics

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Vaccine approvals included two immunizations for RSV and a new pentavalent meningococcal shot.

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Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Approved with 3 new indications, bimekizumab-bkzx is the first and only interleukin-17 inhibitor approved for these diseases.

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Immunization FDA 139

Drug Topics

JUNE 28, 2024

The updates follow the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practice meeting held June 26 to 28, 2024.

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Vaccines Immunization 196

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

The risks of severe neonatal morbidity, neonatal death, and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit were all significantly lower during the first month of birth in infants whose mothers were vaccinated against Covid-19, and protection against the virus continued for up to six months after birth, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA (..)

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Vaccines Immunization 145

Drug Topics

MARCH 26, 2024

Posters presented at the APhA 2024 Annual Meeting and Exposition discussed pharmacist barriers in pediatric immunizations, a novel meningococcal vaccine, and the need for inpatient reviews of vaccination history.

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