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vaccin pneumovax :: Article Creator Merck's Pneumococcal Shot Claims Back-to-Back Phase III Wins Pictured: Merck sign at its office in California/iStock, hapabapa Merck's investigational pneumococcal vaccine V116 aced two Phase III trials, eliciting strong immune responses in both the Phase III STRIDE-3 and STRIDE-6 trials, the company announced Thursday. Without providing specific data, the drugmaker said that in STRIDE-3, V116 significantly outperformed the standard 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine at eliciting an immune response in adults who had not been immunized before. Meanwhile, STRIDE-6 showed that Merck's investigational shot could prime immunity against all 21 targeted pneumococcal serotypes in adults aged 50 years and above who had been vaccinated at least a year prior. Both STRIDE-3 and STRIDE-6 also demonstrated that V116's safety profile was comparable to the standard vaccine comparator used in these ...

oral polio vaccine age :: Article Creator Shot To Protect Against Polio And Five Other Diseases Is Approved By Gavi Why It Matters: Combining vaccines could offer longevity. Oral polio vaccines, administered in droplet form, have driven down polio cases by more than 99 percent in recent decades. But because the drops contain live viruses — detectable in the excrement of children who get the vaccine — the virus can spread and cause new infections in countries with poor sanitation. The new vaccine won't have this problem. "More children today, in 2023, are paralyzed from circulating vaccine-derived polio than wild polio," said Dr. James Campbell, a pediatric infectious disease expert at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who studies vaccine development. He called the Gavi approval an "important step" in quelling the virus globally because it will give children in low- and middle-income countries access to a product th...

other mrna vaccines :: Article Creator Targeted MRNA Delivery Will Lead To Cheaper Cures For Many Diseases Illustration of a lipid nanoparticle created to deliver mRNA into the body Dr_Microbe/iStockphoto/G​etty Images The technology in the mRNA covid-19 vaccines can be adapted to deliver genetic material to the blood stem cells in bone marrow, animal studies show. This should lead to better and cheaper treatments for a wide range of conditions, from inherited disorders and infectious diseases such as HIV to even ageing. "With a single injection, you can modify the fate of cells," says Stefano Rivella at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "This is the future of medicine. The sky is the limit." mRNAs, or messenger RNAs, carry instructions for making proteins. They can be made to instruct cells to make any protein we want, including those needed for the various forms of CRISPR genome editing. Being able to g...

ncqa colorectal cancer screening :: Article Creator Health Advocate Earns NCQA Certification For HEDIS® Certified Measures Recurring recognition underscores commitment to industry-leading analytics as foundation of Health Insights Dashboard™ PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Advocate, a leading provider of integrated health advocacy, well-being and population health benefits programs, announced today that its Health Insights Dashboard™ has received the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Measure Certification™ for the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures for the seventh consecutive year. Health Advocate utilizes HEDIS measures within the Dashboard to create a unique, tailored experience for its clients and their members across all of the organization's comprehensive data-driven solutions. "Health Advocate remains committed to the highest levels of innovation, quality an...

cvs booster shot appointment :: Article Creator How, Where And When To Get Updated Covid Booster Shots The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Thursday that teenagers and adults get updated booster shots from Pfizer or Moderna. The shots — also known as bivalent vaccines —are designed to target both the original coronavirus strain and the currently circulating omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5. The decision follows a similar recommendation from a panel of independent advisers to the CDC, which voted in favor of the shots Thursday. The CDC's recommendation means the shots can now be administered to the public. But a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said people likely won't start getting updated boosters until after Labor Day. After that, appointment availability is expected to ramp up over several days, with appointments becoming more broadly available in a few weeks, a senior administr...

preventive medicine reddit :: Article Creator Full-Body AI Scans Could Be The Future Of Preventive Medicine When I told my doctor I had an opportunity to get a full body MRI for work, he told me not to do it.  He cited the general medical community's opinion that, for most adults, the benefits of full body scans won't outweigh the risks of chasing down a (likely benign) finding with invasive follow-up procedures. Because while there's a slim chance the scan will lead to an early diagnosis of a serious health condition or cancer, the likelihood it'll find something a little off in your body is all but guaranteed. If they were a good idea, he said, doctors would be recommending them to all of their patients who could afford to get one. (Prices for a full-body scan, which look for tumors and other abnormalities in all the major bodily systems, range from $1,350 to $2,500.)  Like any reporter who does things for the plot, I ignored the adv...