Influenza Treatment Updates For This Year’s Flu Season
Influenza is viral infection that attacks your respiratory system and affects more than 3 million Americans every year. An annual vaccine can help prevent the flu and limit its complications. The FDA has recently approved several antivirals that can lessen fever and flu symptoms, shorten the duration of symptoms and reduce the risk of complications.
New mRNA Flu Vaccine Shows Early Efficacy Against Multiple Strains
March 4, 2022
Building on the success of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology used to develop a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus, a novel quadrivalent mRNA-1010 vaccine for influenza was developed. The vaccine appears promising according to early results from the phase 1 study...
Egg-Free Influenza Vaccine Safe, Effective In Healthy Children
February 4, 2022The novel cell-culture-derived quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV4c) provided protection against influenza in healthy children and adolescents across seasons regardless of previous influenza vaccine...
New mRNA Flu Vaccine Shows Early Efficacy Against Multiple Strains
January 6, 2022Building on the success of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology used to develop a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus, a novel quadrivalent mRNA-1010 vaccine for influenza was developed. The vaccine appears promising according to early results from the phase 1 study...
Influenza Tied to Long-Term Parkinson Disease Risk
December 14, 2021A bout of flu, but not other infections, may increase an individual's risk for Parkinson disease decades later...
Researchers Aim to Improve US Vaccination Rates Among Patients with CVD
December 1, 2021The rate of influenza vaccination in US adults with CVD remains much lower than the national target despite known incidence of increased influenza‐related complications, cardiovascular events, and deaths in this high‐risk population...
FDA Approves Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine for Children 6 Months and Older
October 27, 2021The FDA has expanded the indication for the cell-based quadrivalent influenza vaccine (Flucelvex) to include children as young as 6 months...
