ALLMedicine™ Influenza Center

Dec 3rd, 2021 - A 21-year-old woman arrived at the emergency department with dyspnoea, arterial hypotension and abdominal pain after 5 days with a influenza-like syndrome. SARS-CoV-2 was detected by reverse transcription PCR in a nasopharyngeal swab specimen. CT ...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - National reports suggest that Hispanic patients may underutilize influenza and pneumococcal vaccination, although studies sometimes conflict on this point. A clearer picture of adult immunization utilization in older Hispanic patients is necessary...

Dec 3rd, 2021 - In solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, viral infections are associated with direct morbidity and mortality and may influence long-term allograft outcomes. Prevention of viral infections by vaccination, antiviral prophylaxis, and behavioral me...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - The common cold is the most common infectious disease affecting humans and has a substantial economic impact on society. Human rhinoviruses, which cause almost two-thirds of colds, have demonstrated temperature-dependent replication which is optim...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - The H1N1 subtype influenza viruses (H1N1) have been causing persistent epidemics in human, swine and poultry populations since 1918. This subtype has evolved into four relatively stable genetic lineages, including classical swine influenza virus l...

Sep 9th, 2021 - This technical report accompanies the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics for the routine use of the influenza vaccine and antiviral medications in the prevention and treatment of influenza in children during the 2021-2022 season...

Sep 4th, 2019 - This statement updates the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics for the routine use of influenza vaccines and antiviral medications in the prevention and treatment of influenza in children during the 2019-2020 season. The American...

Aug 24th, 2019 - This report updates the 2018-19 recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of seasonal influenza vaccines in the United States (MMWR Recomm Rep 2018;67[No. RR-3]). Routine annual influenza vaccinat...

Jan 3rd, 2019 - Seasonal influenza vaccine guidelines, 2018-2019.|2019|Wiley SK,|nursing,administration & dosage,prevention & control,

Sep 25th, 2018 - Pregnant and postpartum women are at high risk of serious complications of seasonal and pandemic influenza infection. Pregnancy itself is a high-risk condition, making the potential adverse effects of influenza particularly serious in pregnant wom...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - This study will evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of baloxavir marboxil in healthy pediatric participants from birth to <1 year with influenza like symptoms

Dec 2nd, 2021 - Otherwise healthy index patients (IP) are randomized to either baloxavir marboxil or placebo if their influenza symptoms onset was within 48 hours of screening. Their households are enrolled within 24 hours of randomization if at least 2 household...

Dec 1st, 2021 - This group of researchers previously observed that lupus patients with an elevated interferon alpha signal produced less neutralizing antibody to influenza vaccine which was directly or indirectly associated with increased flares and autoantibody ...

Nov 29th, 2021 - This is a Phase 1b, randomized, double-blind, dose-escalating, age de-escalating, placebo-controlled study of a targeted 220 children, ages 6 months to 17 years, inclusive. This clinical trial is designed to assess the safety and immunogenicity of...

Nov 26th, 2021 - A sub-study of the CROWN CORONATION Trial (COVID-19 Research Outcomes Worldwide Network for CORONAvirus prevenTION; NCT04333732). The goal of this sub-study is to identify and characterize biomarkers of trained immunity by measuring, in vitro, imm...

Nov 19th, 2021 - The FDA granted accelerated approval to the first drug to spur growth in kids with the most common form of dwarfism, the agency announced on Friday. Vosoritide (Voxzogo), a once-daily injectable treatment, is indicated for children 5 years and old...

Nov 16th, 2021 - TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has confirmed the highly pathogenic bird flu subtype H5N8 was detected at a poultry farm in the third outbreak of avian influenza in the country this winter, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. The outbreak was discov...

Nov 16th, 2021 - (Reuters) - COVID-19 vaccines and flu vaccines can be safely administered at the same time, and doing so might increase vaccination rates, according to a report in The Lancet. Researchers randomly assigned 697 adult volunteers to receive their sec...

Nov 11th, 2021 - Some common medications for chronic conditions could affect what the flu virus does to human cells, new research suggests. In findings published in Viruses , researchers have identified a cholesterol medication as well as antidepressants and an an...

Nov 8th, 2021 - A new study published in BMJ Open adds to the evidence that zinc is effective against viral respiratory infections, such as colds. Dr Jennifer Hunter Jennifer Hunter, PhD, BMed, of Western Sydney University's NICM Health Research Institute, New So...