Vaccination

A trial of the influenza antiviral baloxavir suggests that the drug could be used as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent infection among household contacts of someone infected with the virus.

As the federal government lays off workers at CDC and NIAID, shutters programs, cuts research grants, and considers changes in Medicaid and Medicare, asthma patients will experience worse outcomes, according to experts.

Partnering with dental clinics to offer HPV vaccines to eligible children and adolescents improved vaccination rates by more than 8 percentage points in 1 year, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

CDC advisors recommended this week that the age at which some patients can get vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus be lowered to 50 years old.

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.

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?

COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy was not associated with major structural birth defects, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Among patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, hospitalization due to COVID-19 was more than twice as likely in those using glucocorticoids or CD20 inhibitors, according to data published in RMD Open.

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