Search results for "Vaccinations"
New vaccines, recommendations can make keeping up a chore
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2013/09/editors.htm. This issue includes stories on vaccination, handling difficult patients, and communicating about cancer care. ... Managing adult vaccination has gotten even trickier recently, with new vaccines
September 2013
Correcting myths about pneumococcus, flu, zoster vaccines
Research has shown that vaccination of health care workers can have a much greater effect on patient mortality than vaccinating the patients themselves (since the sick and elderly have less response ... Poland. Since ACP and a number of other groups have
June 2009
Coronavirus
It found that only six individuals developed severe immediate allergic reactions (absolute risk, 0.16%) and 232 (13.65%) developed mild symptoms after their second vaccination.
February 2022
Highlights
Seroprotection was defined as antibody titers of 1:40 or greater on the hemagglutination inhibition assay 21 to 28 days after vaccination. ... Results appeared in the Jan. 1 Annals of Internal Medicine. Seroprotection rates after vaccination were higher
January 2013
Infectious disease
One of the most effective methods of preventing transmission of HPV is pre-exposure vaccination, according to the guidelines. ... HPV vaccination is recommended routinely for boys and girls aged 11 or 12 years old and can be administered beginning at 9
June 2015
Research at SGIM meeting targets prevention
MIAMI—From smoking to weight loss to vaccination, much of the research at the Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) annual meeting focused on preventive medicine. ... Out of the almost 600 respondents, only 51% said that they stock the vaccine
July 2009
Coronavirus
The reactions developed a median of seven days after vaccination (range, 2 to 12 days). ... In contrast to immediate hypersensitivity reactions (eg, anaphylaxis, urticaria), these delayed reactions (dubbed ‘COVID arm’) are not a contraindication to
May 2021
Coronavirus
On contraindications to vaccination. Dr. Sax, clinical director of the division of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston: People ... On treating infection after vaccination. Dr.
March 2021
Coronavirus
With six cases after more than 6 million vaccinations, the rate of reported CVST is 0.87 cases per million doses. ... The very low prevalence of this complication of vaccination, however severe, relative to the benefits of preventing Covid-19 (a
April 2021
Immunization
ACP recognizes August as National Immunization Awareness Month and recommends that physicians use the opportunity to discuss the annual flu vaccine and other vaccinations with their adult patients.
August 2016