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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket. Some older people are really eager to be vaccinated. Kennedy Jr.,

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High-Risk Older Adults Lack Knowledge, Awareness of RSV Vaccine

Physician's Weekly

Knowledge of RSV disease and RSV vaccine eligibility is low among hospitalized older adults, according to a study published online April 1 in JAMA Network Open. were RSV-vaccinated and unvaccinated, respectively. were unsure if they were eligible for vaccination or thought they were not. The researchers found that 47.2%

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Report: Flu vaccine effective for 2022/2023 season

Medical Xpress

During the 2022 to 2023 influenza season, vaccination is effective for reducing the risk for medically attended influenza among children and adults aged younger than 65 years and for symptomatic influenza among children, according to research published in the Feb. 24 issue of the U.S.

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Leveraging allogeneic dendritic cells for neoantigen cancer vaccines

Medical Xpress

A new research perspective was published in Genes & Cancer on January 30, 2023, entitled, "Leveraging a powerful allogeneic dendritic cell line towards neoantigen-based cancer vaccines."

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Adherence to pediatric vaccine recommendations on the rise

Medical Xpress

The percentage of children under 19 months who received all recommended vaccines on-time steadily improved from 22.5% The research will be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2023 Meeting, held April 27-May 1 in Washington, D.C. in 2011 to 34.9% in 2020, according to a new national study.

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Over 1 million lives saved across Europe by COVID-19 vaccines since the end of 2020

Medical Xpress

COVID-19 vaccination directly saved at least 1,004,927 lives across Europe between December 2020 and March 2023, according to new research being presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Copenhagen, Denmark (15-18 April).

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FDA committee votes unanimously in favor of a one-shot COVID-19 vaccine approach. Five questions answered

Medical Xpress

Food and Drug Administration's key science advisory panel, the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, met on Jan. 26, 2023, to chart a path forward for COVID-19 vaccine policy.