Vaccination

Although relatively few, reports of adverse ocular events following COVID-19 vaccination may warrant caution or delay of boosters in lower-risk groups with active ophthalmic complications, according to research in Vaccines.

In this video, Andrew Ciupek, PhD, spoke with Healio about non-treatment-related presentations from at the World Conference on Lung Cancer.

SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with mRNA vaccines was found to be safe in a large cohort of Danish patients with HF and in turn reduced risk for all-cause death, according to a poster presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.

Influenza vaccination rates were low in younger patients with CVD despite having the opportunity to be vaccinated at no cost, researchers reported in the European Heart Journal – Quality of Care & Clinical Outcomes.

Researchers in Denmark announced the successful completion of an “innovative” trial assessing effects of influenza vaccine dosages on hospitalizations using only routinely collected data.

Women born in the 1990s had a significantly lower HPV infection rate compared with those born a decade earlier — a finding that allowed researchers to connect greater HPV vaccination coverage with direct protection and herd immunity.

Although progress has been made in eliminating mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B by 2030, 26% of countries have not introduced a birth dose into routine hepatitis B vaccination, noted data in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Data from a large cohort in England suggest that risk for myocarditis, while small overall, is significantly higher after SARS-CoV-2 infection in unvaccinated individuals vs. after COVID-19 vaccination, researchers reported.

Hypertension was associated with increased risk for COVID-19 requiring hospitalization during the omicron surge, even in patients with full vaccination and a booster, researchers reported in Hypertension.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease tolerated COVID-19 vaccines well regardless of pregnancy status, according to a poster presented at the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology Annual Meeting.