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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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Catch up on important immunization news from the month of September.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The combination vaccine produced robust immune responses from vaccine candidates in a phase 1/2 clinical trial.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

RBI-4000 is a self-replicating RNA (srRNA) vaccine developed to stimulate virus-neutralizing immune responses to rabies for prophylactic use.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 17, 2023

The updates include new recommendations for COVID-19 and pneumococcal vaccines.

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Immunization Vaccines 503

Drug Topics

APRIL 24, 2024

In response to historically low flu vaccine coverage rates, Kristen Thorson, PharmD, urges pharmacists to think back to their pandemic immunization efforts and “know the power of their recommendation,” to boost public protection from influenza.

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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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Drug Topics

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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Immunization Vaccines 502

Drug Topics

AUGUST 30, 2022

This National Immunization Awareness Month, prepare your pharmacy to offer important vaccines.

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Drug Topics

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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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 7, 2023

During a podcast hosted by Permanente Medicine, Sandra Fryhofer, MD, chair-elect of the Board of Trustees for the American Medical Association and a liaison to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, discussed the importance of vaccines for the fall and winter seasons.

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Drug Topics

MARCH 5, 2025

Researchers investigated the acceptability of community pharmacy-led influenza vaccination and patients willingness to return for future immunization.

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IDStewardship

MARCH 7, 2025

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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STAT

MARCH 5, 2025

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), has served the American people since 1964. ACIP advises the director of the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines in the U.S.

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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 490

Drug Topics

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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Drug Topics

APRIL 30, 2024

Recent research on COVID-19 vaccination shows that vaccines help fight variants, led to lower cases among children in California, and that boosters provide longer lasting protection.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Researchers suggest that vaccine champion programs could be a promising avenue to increasing immunization rates.

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Vaccines Immunization 346

STAT

MARCH 27, 2025

as the nation’s health secretary last month on the condition that Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, keep him apprised of agency actions, especially those related to vaccines.  Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the Senate health committee, voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.    Read the rest…

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Offering immunization services at the pharmacy promotes public health and strengthens patient-pharmacy staff relationships.

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Drug Topics

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted routine immunization programs around the world.

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Drug Topics

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Immunizations against influenza, COVID-19, and RSV are lower than they were this time last year, and hospitalizations have increased across all age groups.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Vaccines were tested against various strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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Vaccines Immunization 281

STAT

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Vaccines are the original immunotherapy, in the view of Ryan Sullivan, a cancer immunotherapy researcher and oncologist at Mass General Cancer Center. But many other modes of immunotherapy for cancer were approved first — checkpoint blockade drugs like Keytruda and engineered immune cell therapies like Yescarta.

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Drug Topics

MARCH 21, 2023

Attitudes, behaviors, and barriers to immunizations are examples of themes that affect perceptions of childhood vaccines.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Patients with SCD are more vulnerable to hospitalization due, in part, to SCD’s impact on the spleen, which filters infections in the blood and is a crucial organ for the immune system.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Pharmacy staff members said that VaxCheck was compatible with pharmacy workflow but there were several barriers to its implementation.

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Immunization Vaccines 281

Drug Topics

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Vaccine manufacturers, including Novavax, are still hard at work updating immunizations against a mutating SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

More detailed information can be found on the CDCs website at www.cdc.gov/vaccines.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 8, 2024

Study authors noted that intranasal vaccine delivery could offer benefits such as needle-free administration and induction of mucosal immunity.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Maternal immunization can prevent RSV in infants.

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Drug Topics

MARCH 27, 2025

Kelly Goode, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA, FCCP, professor in the department of pharmacotherapy and outcomes science at Virginia Commonwealth University, discusses the current landscape of immunization recommendations.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2023

A panel of experts review the criteria used to select a specific high-dose flu vaccine formulation for immunization.

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STAT

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. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The panel provides opinions on the incorporation of vaccine awareness and administration from public and state levels.

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Immunization Vaccines 247

STAT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

has unveiled an advertising campaign aimed at boosting vaccination rates in children, which have steadily fallen over the past decade and took an even greater dip during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. LONDON — Facing a growing outbreak of measles, the U.K. Read the rest…

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