Immunization - Adult Immunization Features

• Simple Text Reminders Help Increase Vaccine Uptake   Dr Maurie Markman discusses the importance of implementation research to address pragmatic questions.
  Medscape Oncology, January 09, 2025
• The Year’s Hottest Topics in Pediatric Medicine As we head into 2025, Dr William Basco comments on 2024’s most important news for pediatric clinicians.
  Medscape Pediatrics, January 07, 2025
• Diener’s Top 12 Neurology Stories in 2024   Prof Christoph Diener picks his top neurology publications in 2024 covering Alzheimer’s, stroke, Parkinson’s, migraine, glioblastoma, long COVID, and the GLP-1 drugs.
  Medscape Neurology, December 20, 2024
• Communicating Benefits of Prenatal Vaccination to Patients Vaccination coverage in pregnant people remains suboptimal. As the virus season continues, learn how to communicate the importance of prenatal vaccination to pregnant patients in your care.
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 06, 2024
• Higher Risk for Herpes Zoster Complications With IBD Patients with IBD were more likely to have complications of herpes zoster than those without IBD, highlighting the importance of vaccination in this population.
  Medscape Medical News, December 06, 2024
• BCG Vaccine May Protect Against Long COVID Symptoms A clinical trial with long-term follow-up found that administering BCG vaccine during the active phase of COVID-19 appeared to offer protection against long COVID symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, December 03, 2024
• Travel Medicine in Primary Care: The Pre-Travel Consultation   The Curbsiders share an expert’s tips on counseling, malaria prophylaxis, traveler’s diarrhea, sex tourism, and vaccination.
  The Curbsiders, November 26, 2024
• This Holiday Season, Protect Yourself and Your Patients Dr Mandy Cohen, director of the CDC, urges healthcare providers to get vaccinated and to share vaccination guidance with patients.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 21, 2024
• Health Maintenance in Ulcerative Colitis: 5 Things to Know Drs Sandra Naffouj and Emanuelle Bellaguarda outline key tips for maintaining health in patients with ulcerative colitis.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 21, 2024
• ACG 2024 8 New GI Studies With Practice-Shifting Implications   Dr David Johnson highlights studies on increasing disease rates, the surprising effects of palliative care consultations, and drugs on the verge of approval.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 12, 2024
• How to Stay Safe When Caring for Patients With Mpox Prompt identification of suspected mpox cases is a vital first step to maintaining workforce safety, experts said at a WHO webinar.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, November 12, 2024
• COVID-19 Linked to Increased Risk for Pemphigus, Pemphigoid COVID-19 infection increased the risk for autoimmune blistering diseases, but vaccination had protective effects, according to the results of a retrospective cohort study.
  Medscape Medical News, November 11, 2024
• Fall Vaccine Updates From ACIP: New Recs   ACIP has issued several important vaccine changes that are effective right now.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 08, 2024
• America’s PCPs: Take a Bow Dr Kenny Lin says encouraging recent statistics on tobacco use, obesity, and opioid deaths reflect, at least in part, hard work by the nation’s primary care clinicians.
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 05, 2024
• Low Zoster Vaccination Rates in Immunocompromised Veterans Only 13.4% immunocompromised adult US veterans younger than 50 years received the recombinant zoster vaccine by mid-2023, which reflected a lag in the adoption of revised national recommendations.
  Medscape Medical News, October 11, 2024
• Guidance for Practicing Primary Care During Flu Season Linda Girgis, MD, shares the World Health Organization's latest clinical practice guidelines for influenza for the 2024-2025 season and best practices to consider for primary care physicians.
  MDedge, October 10, 2024
• Transforming Public Health Data Systems Post-Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the urgent need to modernize public health data systems. Health providers play a key role, says CDC's Dr. Jennifer Layden.
  CDC Expert Commentary, October 01, 2024
• Recent Studies in Alzheimer's, MS, and Headache   Christoph Diener discusses biomarkers for Alzheimer's, valproate exposure and congenital malformation, GLP-1s and vascular events, the MS–COVID vaccine link, and headache drugs.
  Medscape Neurology, September 25, 2024
• One Dose of MVA-BN Moderately Effective Against Mpox In an emulated target trial, a single dose of modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic vaccine was moderately effective in preventing mpox infection.
  Medscape Medical News, September 18, 2024
• Antipsychotics Tied to Severe Respiratory Infection Risk The use of antipsychotics for schizophrenia was associated with higher risk for severe cases of COVID-19 and non–COVID-19 respiratory infections but not mild infection.
  Medscape Medical News, September 17, 2024