The conversation around the flu vaccine has been reignited with controversy due to renewed attention on thimerosal, a mercury ...

Compared to the standard shot, the mRNA vaccine had an overall vaccine efficacy that was 26.6 percent higher, and 27.4 ...

From the Bedford Health Department: The Bedford Health Department, in conjunction with the volunteer vaccinating team, is offering free flu vaccinations from 9 a.m. to noon on Bedford Day, Saturday, ...

Typically, flu vaccines are made by incubating the viruses in chicken eggs. To improve flu vaccine performance and its production, high-dose, adjuvanted, and recombinant vaccines became available.

Typically, flu vaccines are made by incubating the viruses in chicken eggs. To improve flu vaccine performance and its production, high-dose, adjuvanted, and recombinant vaccines became available.

The high-dose vaccine efficacy was 7.3%. Investigators cited the DANFLU-2 trial, which is expected to conclude in 2025. That trial will look at P&I hospitalization in individuals aged 65 and older.

A total of 632,962 people received either the high-dose quadrivalent (four-strain) flu vaccine, while 997,366 people got one of two standard-dose vaccines. They were inoculated in the 2018-19 and ...

Benefits against influenza B and hospitalizations were not significant, according to the study, but the researchers said a post hoc analysis combining PCR-confirmed influenza and hospitalization ...

Among adults ages 50 to 64, the high-dose vaccine was 15.3% more effective in preventing influenza than the standard-dose vaccine (95% CI 5.9-23.8, P =0.002) and 15.7% more effective against ...

A high-dose trivalent influenza vaccine does not reduce cardiopulmonary event risk during the influenza season compared with the standard dose. These findings were published in JAMA Network Open.