Vaccination News

A vaccine for recurrent UTIs significantly reduced UTI episodes and a need for health care resources, reducing “the personal burden” of disease, according to researchers.

The FDA this week revised the dates for several upcoming meetings of its vaccine advisory board to discuss pediatric COVID-19 vaccines.

Healio is tracking updates on the widening outbreak of monkeypox.

Last week, the CDC confirmed that a Massachusetts resident who traveled from Canada using private transportation was infected with monkeypox virus.

The CDC’s vaccine advisory committee voted Thursday to recommend that children aged 5 to 11 years receive a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

Globally, more than 37 million people are living with HIV, nearly two-thirds of them in Africa.

Rituximab-treated patients with MS may be vaccinated for COVID-19 as soon as possible, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

New guidance from the Infectious Diseases Society of America provides information on how to manage drug interactions between Paxlovid — an oral antiviral authorized for COVID-19 — and commonly prescribed medications.

The FDA on Tuesday authorized a booster shot of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years.

Twenty-eight months after identifying its first case, the United States is nearing what President Joe Biden this week called “a tragic milestone”: 1 million COVID-19 deaths.