Vaccination

NEW ORLEANS — At the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting, Douglas S. Paauw, MD, MACP, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington, addressed several common medical myths among patients.

VIENNA — After decades of fits and starts, scientists finally got the world’s first vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus across the finish line in 2023.

Healio will have live coverage of this year’s ESCMID Global, one of the largest medical conferences dedicated to infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in the world.

Clinical Infectious Diseases has launched a new series that will provide an in-depth look at real-life complex cases and the associated diagnostic and management decisions that ID clinicians deal with regularly.

SAN DIEGO — In 2024, administration of the four FDA-approved RSV vaccinations was low, ranging from 0.27% to 0.58%, according to a poster presented here.

A colleague who spends summers in New Mexico, where there is an ongoing measles outbreak, had a question for Healio’s infectious diseases news team: If she was vaccinated against measles in the 1960s, does she need another shot?

Measles outbreaks in the United States have presented primary care providers with an ethical dilemma — how to balance a patient’s right to forgo vaccinations with the safety of other vulnerable patients who may be put at risk because of that choice.

Another unvaccinated child has died from measles in Texas, according to state health officials.

CHICAGO — Acute respiratory syncytial virus was associated with elevated incidence of cardiovascular events among older adults, specifically HF hospitalization and stroke, according to new research.