Vaccination News

The FDA recently approved Rezzayo, a weekly injectable treatment for adults with candidemia and invasive candidiasis.

SEATTLE — An intervention called LinkUP improved rates of COVID-19 testing and vaccination referral acceptance among people who inject drugs, with increased impact among those experiencing homeless, researchers found.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, World TB Day, which is observed each year on March 23, has marked the need for more — more research, more testing, more treatment options, and more access for patients globally.

Researchers estimated that more than half of children aged 9 to 13 in the U.S. Virgin Islands have been previously infected with dengue virus, making them eligible for vaccination, according to findings published in MMWR.

People who slept less than 6 hours per night had lower antibody responses to hepatitis and influenza vaccinations compared with those who slept 7 to 9 hours, according to researchers.

The FDA said children aged 6 months to 4 years who completed a three-dose series of Pfizer-BioNTech’s monovalent COVID-19 vaccine can now receive the company’s bivalent booster under an expanded emergency use authorization.

Despite an increase in adolescent HPV vaccination over the last decade, many parents remain unsure about whether it is necessary to have their children vaccinated, researchers reported in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In the early months of 2020, amid a rapidly worsening pandemic, the U.S. government declared public health and national emergencies to help the country respond to COVID-19.

A longer interval between doses of COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 5 to 11 years was associated with higher effectiveness against symptomatic infection, according to a real-world study published in Pediatrics.

The rate of teenagers vaccinated against HPV is improving but a significant number of parents remain hesitant about their children receiving the vaccine, a study found.