Influenza Vaccine

Good news for people who received a high-dose recombinant influenza vaccine this year. The vaccine offers more protection against flu than an egg-based standard-dose vaccine for older adults aged 50 and...

The CDC’s new guidance for the 2022-2023 flu season includes preferential advice on which drugs to prescribe for older adults.

A flu shot can offer significant protection to patients at high risk for adverse cardiovascular events, according to a new analysis.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants to adopt a new quality tracker to keep tabs on influenza vaccination among healthcare personnel in skilled nursing facilities. 

A decision to recommend high-dose influenza shots over standard-dose vaccines would be a welcome change, long-term care stakeholders say.

A study of 26 million Medicare recipients has linked regular flu shots with lowered mortality — except in skilled nursing facility residents. The results suggest that vaccines alone are not enough to...

Given together, the vaccines are safe and spur a robust antibody response, a first-of-its-kind trial finds.

Older adults have the same immune response to each drug when they are co-administered as when given separately. This is also true of safety and tolerability, the drugmaker says.

Study participants’ immune responses to the newly approved pneumonia vaccine and an adjuvanted flu drug were the same, whether the drugs were given together or a month apart, the drugmaker reports. And...

Clinicians deciding whether to give flu and COVID-19 vaccine shots together can refer to the latest CDC guidance. It states that COVID-19 shots and other vaccinations may now be co-administered “without...