Immunization - Adult Immunization Features

• Mirror, Mirror: How Digital Twins Can Rescue Healthcare The key to overcoming complexity is simplicity.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 23, 2024
• Treating Psoriatic Arthritis in Primary Care A rheumatologist reviews the main updates to the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology's 2019 recommendations.
  Medscape Rheumatology, July 19, 2024
• New Mid-Year Vaccine Recommendations From ACIP Important changes to vaccination recommendations for COVID, flu, RSV, and pneumococcal disease -- and what's behind the changes -- are summarized here.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Specific Antipsychotics Linked to Increased Pneumonia Risk Specific antipsychotics prescribed in high doses were linked to an increased risk for pneumonia in patients with schizophrenia, new research showed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 05, 2024
• Online Diagnosis of STIs? Ethicist Says We Are Nowhere Close Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the use of websites for diagnosing sexually transmitted diseases.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2024
• On the Front Line With Long COVID and POTS A pioneer in dysautonomia shares pearls on approaching patients with long COVID and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.
  Medscape, June 03, 2024
• 5 Things to Know: COVID-19 Vaccines for Immunocompromised People CDC experts share what clinicians should know about COVID-19 prevention in immunocompromised patients.
  CDC Expert Commentary, May 16, 2024
• The Immunology of COVID and the Future A leading light in immunobiology takes us through long COVID, nasal vaccines, and the next frontier of the field.
  Medscape, May 15, 2024
• More Resources Needed to Detect Cancer Earlier   Screenings have cut cancer rates, but there’s a lot of work to be done when it comes to awareness, disparities, and vaccines, author Bruce Ratner says.
  WebMD, May 07, 2024
• Did You Just Say a Blue Snake Bit You? What happens when a patient is bitten by an exotic reptile.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 02, 2024
• How Can Doctors Best Assess Worsening Dengue Cases? It is important to inform patients about warning signs such as abdominal pain, repeated vomiting, decreased urine output, or dizziness when standing, says an epidemiologist.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 18, 2024
• An Escalation of Dengue in Brazil A perfect storm of epidemiologic factors is exacerbating the spread of dengue in Brazil and throughout the world.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 10, 2024
• The ED Sailed Smoothly in the Early COVID-19 Days The findings of this study, which focused on the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, may be useful to administrators and policymakers in case of a future pandemic outbreak.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2024
• ASCO Releases Vaccination Guidelines for Adults With Cancer A recent ASCO guideline provides recommendations for routine and additional vaccinations for adults with solid tumors or hematologic malignancies as well as their household contacts.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2024
• Digital Nudges Found to Be Duds in Flu Vax Trial Reminders sent via text message or patient portal did not increase rates of influenza vaccination.
  Medscape Medical News, March 28, 2024
• No Increased Stroke Risk After COVID-19 Bivalent Vaccine There is no increased risk for stroke during the 6 weeks following receipt of either brand of the COVID-19 bivalent vaccine, new research shows.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2024
• Severe Flu Confers Higher Risk for Neuro Disorders vs COVID Hospitalization for influenza raises the risk for future neurologic conditions more than hospitalization for COVID-19, the results of a large study showed.
  Medscape Medical News, March 22, 2024
• Unleashing Our Immune Response to Quash Cancer We need to ramp up our game if we are going to be able to use our immune system to quash a cancer. Fortunately, we have abundant and ever-growing capabilities for doing just that.
  Medscape, February 20, 2024
• Bivalent Vaccines Protect Even Kids Who've Had COVID   New data could help parents see the value in a yearly COVID booster vaccine for their children.
  Medscape, February 06, 2024