Vaccines

Retail giant expanding into two new states, with additional growth in Texas.

A conversation with AAFP President Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.

Steps toward improvement include more access to primary care.

BD says results could be available within two hours.

Abrupt cutoff ‘would create wide-ranging chaos’ in health care, White House says.

Attorneys general file petition to withdraw requirement.

Administration pushes for vaccines and boosters for the fall.

Agency seeks to reduce exposure risks as in-person schooling resumes

Study links discrepancy to adults’ misbeliefs about vaccine safety

AAFP president discusses endorsement, patient approaches, next round of shots.

Four for adult vaccines effective immediately, four pending approval for youths.

Company claims rivals copied proprietary mRNA technology to make shots.

Back-to-school season is prime time to reach parents and children about immunizations.

Codes enable billing for lab tests, administering vaccines

The pandemic underscored the incredible power of vaccination.

The move will delay the vaccine’s authorization for this younger group.

An EUA for the smaller shots would plug a hole in the nation’s vaccination strategy.

Spikevax is now the second COVID-19 vaccine approved by US regulators.

The company says a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine is effective against the latest variant of the disease.

Nearly a third of hospital personnel had still not been vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-September.

The move comes just in time for the holiday travel season.

The administration is also reportedly planning on purchasing millions of doses of the company’s antiviral pill.

The company is asking the FDA to make the additional shots available to anyone 18 years old or older.

Wrangling over the requirement continues in the courts.

After a panel federal judges put a temporary halt on the mandate, the U.S. Surgeon General says the administration is ready to fight for the requirement.

The regulation would affect more than 17 million healthcare workers.

The agency moved quickly to approve the smaller shots.

The vaccine is just awaiting a recommendation from the CDC before they can be rolled out.

A previous analysis found the vaccine was 90.7 percent effective against severe COVID-19.

The FDA is expected to act on an EUA application for the smaller doses next week.