Immunization

As the margin between acquisition cost and sales price continues to narrow for traditional community pharmacy medication dispensing, many pharmacies are increasingly turning to service-based opportunities to improve their profitability.

Vaccinations are often given to protect populations whose immune systems are most vulnerable, but pharmacists are aware that some vaccinations are also important during the adolescent and young-adult years.

Pharmacists have long been considered among the most accessible and trusted health care advisers.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) consists of a group of more than 150 related viruses, some of which have been identified as causes of certain types of cancer.

The 9-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) recombinant vaccine (Gardasil 9, Merck & Company, Inc.) is indicated for women and men aged 9 to 26 years for the prevention of certain diseases, precancerous lesions, and genital warts caused by HPV.

The pharmacist is in a key position to assess and communicate about a patient’s specific vaccine needs.

Community pharmacists have become an integral part of the fight to prevent herpes zoster (shingles).

About 1 out of 3 people in the United States will develop shingles, and there are about 1 million cases each year.

As a whole, adult vaccination coverage has remained unchanged without significant improvement.

Vaccines prevent patients from acquiring serious and potentially fatal diseases. It is our job as pharmacists to utilize every opportunity we have to immunize patients.

Making investments in vaccines could result in millions fewer deaths and cases of poverty.

An executive order allows New York pharmacists to administer the influenza vaccine to children.

Researchers from the CDC assessed adverse effects (AEs) following HepB vaccinations using the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).

The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics released an updated vaccination schedule.

Using mouse models, direct injection of CpG/anti-OX40 into tumors creates a systemic immune response.

The updated 2018 immunization schedules for children and teens has been released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

From time to time, localities experience outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and need to engage emergency teams to assist in vaccination efforts.

It is important for patients to have accurate and reputable drug information resources at their disposal.

When frontline pharmacists are trained to provide travel health services, they can expand access to patients due to their convenience.

This year’s influenza season has reached epidemic levels, according to a recent CDC briefing on current US flu activity.

Adults aged 65 years and older are especially vulnerable to complications associated with influenza, yet vaccination rates remain well below national health goals. This program will focus on the pharmacist’s role in administering and increasing awareness of the annual influenza vaccination for older adults.

We explore the physical and legal effects that may occur when an infant erroneously receives a third flu shot from the pediatrician.

In recent weeks, increasing influenza activity in the United States reported from CDC surveillance data has made headlines, and health care providers are preparing for a challenging flu season.

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Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) infects approximately 4 million Americans annually. As a result of this infection, there are approximately 445,000 hospitalizations and 22,000 deaths in the United States each year.

Health care providers can administer egg-based influenza vaccines to people with egg allergy without taking precautions, according to a newly-updated influenza vaccine practice parameter from the Influenza Vaccine and Egg Allergy Practice Parameter Workgroup commissioned by Joint Task Force on Practice Parameters (JTFPP).

What does it take to move the small but important proportion of those who refuse or delay immunization away from skepticism and into acceptance?