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Most pregnant people got vaccinated for COVID-19 in 2022

Written by Charlie King | 5 Oct 2024

A study of more than 28,000 pregnancies from 2022 has found that the majority of pregnant people received the COVID-19 vaccine during its initial release. The study, co-led… read more.

Lower HPV vaccination among girls with mental health conditions

Written by Gary Finnegan | 6 Sep 2024

Girls with mental illness or neurodevelopmental conditions are less likely than their peers to be vaccinated with the HPV vaccine that protects against future cervical cancer – raising… read more.

Only 9 percent of older Americans were vaccinated against RSV before the disease hit this fall and winter

Written by Charlie King | 10 Mar 2024

A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health found that only 9 percent of older Americans had been vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prior to this fall and winter,… read more.

Survey finds many Americans are letting their guard down during respiratory illness season

Written by Charlie King | 12 Nov 2023

Despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning this year will be potentially dangerous for respiratory illnesses, a third of Americans are not concerned about the threat,… read more.

Countries encouraged to assess readiness for vaccination by pharmacists with new tool from FIP

Written by Charlie King | 3 May 2023

During World Immunization Week, the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) offers a new resource to help countries self-assess readiness of their regulations to enable pharmacist-delivered vaccination services and, where… read more.

Most long covid effects resolve within a year after mild infection

Written by Charlie King | 15 Jan 2023

Most symptoms or conditions that develop after mild covid-19 infection linger for several months but return to normal within a year, finds a large study from Israel published… read more.

Attitudes towards corona vaccination among medical and nursing staff

Written by Charlie King | 16 Nov 2022

Due to their close contacts with patients, people working in the medical and nursing fields have a higher risk of infecting themselves and others with the COVID-19 coronavirus…. read more.

Study suggests severe obesity blunts antibody response to COVID-19 vaccines

Written by Charlie King | 11 May 2022

New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Maastricht, Netherlands (4-7 May), suggests that adults (aged 18 or older) with severe obesity generate… read more.

Third dose of COVID-19 vaccine does not appear to increase severe adverse events

Written by Bruce Sylvester | 7 May 2022

Investigators report that even though there was some increase in cases of low-severity adverse events after third-dose vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infection with mRNA vaccines, such third-dose vaccination did… read more.

Third wave of COVID-19 hit rural America especially hard

Written by Charlie King | 16 Feb 2022

The third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2021 spread far faster in rural America, much of which has low rates of vaccination. A new… read more.

COVID-19 vaccination much more effective at preventing hospitalization than prior infection only

Written by Bruce Sylvester | 18 Nov 2021

COVID-19 vaccination is about five times more effective at preventing COVID-related hospitalization than prior infection only, researchers reported on Oct. 29, 2021 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,… read more.

Study estimates that, without vaccination, mortality in children under five would be 45% higher in low-income and middle-income countries

Written by Charlie King | 9 Feb 2021

A new modelling study has estimated that from 2000 to 2030 vaccination against 10 major pathogens

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