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UrduNo one knows what will happen when flu season arrives, compounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but one thing is certain: It’s time to get your flu shot The looming flu season poses the prospect of a “twindemic,” with the diseases…
Tag: Vaccination
Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Communicating About COVID-19 Vaccine
New Brunswick, N.J. (Sept. 17, 2020) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick Professor William Hallman is available for interviews on how to communicate with the public about a potential COVID-19 vaccine. “For a COVID-19 vaccine to be embraced by the public, officials can’t…
Athletes Should be Vaccinated Against Influenza
Athletes often fear undue side effects or a training-induced deficient immune response to vaccination – in particular when vaccination is carried out during ongoing training/competition. However, influenza is a virus disease which can lead to large health problems and interfere…
Study Uncovers Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Flu Vaccination Rates among U.S. Dialysis Facilities
• Among US patients undergoing dialysis, those visiting dialysis facilities with higher proportions of minorities are less likely to be vaccinated against influenza, and the disparity seems to be increasing.
HPV Vaccinations During Global Pandemic
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection and the cause of most cervical cancers, and some vaginal, penile, anal and oral cancers. The HPV vaccine has proven effective in preventing infection and six types of HPV-attributable cancers. …
Parents of 1 in 2 unvaccinated U.S. adolescents have no intention to initiate HPV vaccine
Study results documenting parental hesitancy to begin and complete their child’s HPV vaccine series were published in The Lancet Public Health by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
Eradicating disease: Scientists trace and identify origin of smallpox vaccine strains used in Civil War
Scientists and historians working at McMaster University, the Mütter Museum and the University of Sydney have pieced together the genomes of old viruses that were used as vaccination strains during and after the American Civil War ultimately leading to the eradication of smallpox.
EXPERT PITCH: WVU pediatricians urge vaccinations, well-child visits during COVID-19 pandemic
Even during the COVID-19 global pandemic, West Virginia University pediatricians Dr. Lisa Costello and Dr. Kathryn S. Moffett recommend parents and caregivers continue their children’s routine well child visits to screen for health and development and immunizations to prevent outbreaks…
Study Explores Possible Candidates for Vaccine Treatment for Liver Cancer
Article title: Experimental analysis of T cell epitopes for designing liver cancer vaccine predicted by system-level immunoinformatics approach Authors: Syed Aun Muhammad, Sidra Zafar, Samana Zahra Rizvi, Imran Imran, Fahad Munir, Muhammad Babar Jamshed, Amjad Ali, Xiaogang Wu, Numan Shahid,…
Early clinical trial supports tumor cell–based vaccine for mantle cell lymphoma
A phase I/II clinical trial by researchers at Stanford University suggests that vaccines prepared from a patient’s own tumor cells may prevent the incurable blood cancer mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) from returning after treatment. The study, which will be published June 19 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine (JEM), reveals that the vaccines are a safe and effective way to induce the body’s immune system to attack any tumor cells that could cause disease relapse.
Rutgers Pediatricians Decry Decline of Child Immunizations Due to COVID-19
Rutgers Pediatricians discuss in Q&A how parents can help keep up to date with vaccinations during the coronavirus crisis.
New Map Reveals Distrust in Health Expertise Is Winning Hearts and Minds Online
Communities on Facebook that distrust establishment health guidance are more effective than government health agencies and other reliable health groups at reaching and engaging “undecided” individuals, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.
UNLV Vaccination Expert Explores How Vaccine Refusal Might Change in Light of COVID-19
As governors across America begin to unveil and deploy plans to reopen their respective states, at the center of the debate a question has emerged: how soon is too soon? Some states, including Nevada and neighboring California, are taking a…
Psychology Research: Antivaxxers Actually Think Differently Than Other People
In an article published recently in the journal Vaccine, two researchers in the Texas Tech University Department of Psychological Sciences suggest some people find vaccines risky because they overestimate the likelihood of negative events, particularly those that are rare.
Study results will inform immunization programs globally
The results of the B Part of It study – the largest meningococcal B herd immunity study ever conducted – are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Expert Comments on Gallup Survey Results: Fewer in U.S. Continue to See Vaccines as Important
According to a new Gallup survey, 84 percent in the United States say vaccinating children is important, down from 94 percent in 2001. Dr. Sharon Nachman, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital is available to discuss the…
Rutgers Infectious Disease Experts Available to Discuss New Jersey Legislation Banning Religious Exemption for Vaccines in Public Schools
The New Jersey State Senate today will vote on removing religious exemptions from vaccinations requirement for children who attend public schools. If passed, New Jersey would become the fifth state in the country to require all children receive specific immunizations…
Peanut allergy vaccine to rewrite the immune system
Peanut allergies could become a thing of the past as breakthrough research from the University of South Australia develops a radically novel vaccination that’s poised to cure the potentially life threatening condition.
Anal cancer rates and mortality have risen dramatically among Americans
Rates of new anal cancer diagnoses and deaths related to human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common sexually transmitted infection, have increased dramatically over the last 15 years, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). The results of their study will be published in the November issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
New Effective Vaccines for Lyme Disease are Coming
A new paper published in the October 17 2019 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases reiterates the need to stop the infection and defines a strategy for developing effective vaccines.
Gut Immunity More Developed Before Birth Than Previously Thought
The first comprehensive look at the immune system of the fetal gut shows that it is far more developed before birth, and could help develop new maternal vaccines and understand if we are predisposed to autoimmune diseases before birth.