HHS issued the amendment in order to increase access to childhood vaccines and decrease the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks as children return to daycare and school.
Review of the Advisory Committee Immunization Practices updates to the pediatric immunization schedule and significant revisions to the adult immunization schedule.
Family physicians and pharmacists identified areas for improvement in antibiotic allergy documentation to prevent the prescribing of suboptimal treatments.
Simulation experiments demonstrated that a vaccine efficacy of 80% is required to extinguish the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic without any other additional measures.
The trial, which is the first to be implemented under Operation Warp Speed, is expected to enroll around 30,000 adults and will be conducted at multiple clinical research sites across the US.
The researchers found 28.9% of pediatricians with knowledge of the guidelines reported full implementation, while 64.3% reported partial implementation.
A team of investigators report on the findings from a randomized controlled trial of 3 enhanced influenza vaccines and a standard-dose vaccine in older adults.
A large clinical trial of the first US COVID-19 vaccine could begin next month, according to Moderna Inc., which developed the vaccine with the US National Institutes of Health.
The purpose of this project is to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of the 4 Pillars Practice Transformation Program to increase uptake of the HPV vaccine among pediatric patients.
