Vaccination News

CHICAGO — In this video, Robert H. Hopkins Jr., MD, MACP, FAAP, division chief of general internal medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, addresses updates in adult immunizations.

CHICAGO — Although questions remain regarding SARS-CoV-2, including the number of boosters a person will eventually require and how to manage patients with long COVID, physicians have learned a lot about the virus.

CHICAGO — In this video, three health care providers from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine share their experiences improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

Moderna announced today that it has submitted a request to the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine in children aged as young as 6 months.

Infants born to mothers who were immunized with an investigational vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus — or RSV — received antibodies across the placenta, with no “evident safety concerns,” results from a phase 2b trial showed.

DENVER — A study of immunocompromised children found that most mounted an immune response after two doses of COVID-19 vaccine, which increased modestly after a third dose, researchers reported at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

DENVER — Adolescents seen by a resident for preventive care were more than four times as likely to receive an HPV vaccination than those seen by a pediatric or advanced care practitioner attending alone, researchers reported.

Less than a week after the CDC announced that it would extend the federal mask mandate for public transportation through May 3, a federal judge in Florida overturned it.

LISBON, Portugal — A study conducted among health care workers in the United Kingdom demonstrated that longer intervals between COVID-19 vaccine doses produced higher antibody levels, researchers reported here.

DENVER — Text and phone messages were minimally effective at re-engaging adolescents in preventive services, according to data presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.