Adult Vaccinations

black family practice doctors near me :: Article Creator Asian American Doctors, Overrepresented In Medicine, Are Largely Left Out Of Leadership For 15 years, orthopedic surgeon Charles S. Day has been working to highlight the striking lack of diversity in his field, publishing studies showing orthopedics had the fewest Black, Hispanic, and female residents of any surgical specialty. Day himself is Asian American, a group that's abundant in medicine. But as he dug further, his datasets and personal experiences began to collide. He found that white doctors were more than four times as likely as their Asian American colleagues to be promoted to medical school department chair positions in a wide array of medical specialties, and that Black and brown doctors were more than twice as likely as Asians to be promoted. In 2019, according to a new analysis by Day, Asian Americans made up 13% of...

flu vaccine 2020 :: Article Creator Vir's GSK-Backed Flu Vaccine Candidate Fails Phase II Trial Pictured: Flu vaccine vials and syringe/iStock, vchal Topline data from the Phase II PENINSULA study showed that Vir Biotechnology's investigational flu shot VIR-2482 fell short of its primary and all secondary efficacy endpoints, the biotech announced Thursday. Patients inoculated with the highest 1,200-mg dose of the vaccine candidate saw a 16% drop in influenza A-like illness as compared with placebo, an effect that did not satisfy statistical significance, according to Vir's news release. PENINSULA defined this primary endpoint as PCR-confirmed influenza A infection with at least one respiratory and one systemic symptom. Phil Pang, Vir's chief medical officer, called these findings "disappointing" in a statement, but nevertheless said that the company needs to conduct further analysis to "better understand these ...

aafp colon cancer screening 2021 :: Article Creator ACP Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines May Negate Screening Gains The American College of Physicians (ACP) guidance against CT colonography use to screen for colorectal cancer (CRC) represents a step backward – particularly in underserved communities where screening rates are lower and CRC death rates are much higher. ACP's guidance to start routine screening at age 50 rather than 45 as the American Cancer Society recommends may also hinder recent gains against the nation's third leading cancer killer. About a third of those who should be screened for CRC can't or won't get a colonoscopy. We need more testing options – not fewer. CT colonography (CTC) is an American Cancer Society and United States Preventive Services Task Force-recommended screening test. Landmark studies in the New England Journal of Medicine and elsewhere show CTC is less invasive than and comparably accura...

hib vaccine for infants :: Article Creator Study: 17% Of US Children Do Not Finish Vaccine Series Yesterday in Pediatrics researchers mined vaccine records of 16,365 US children ages 19 to 35 months in 2019 to determine how many complete the seven common multidose vaccine series given in infancy and early childhood. They found 1 in 6 US children had incomplete vaccine series. Currently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends several vaccine series, each consisting of 1 to 4 doses, to protect against 15 diseases in the first 2 years of a child's life. FotoDuets / iStock The present study surveyed a random sample of US caregivers who provided vaccine records for their children. The main outcome was uptake for the seven series of vaccines deemed most important for preventing childhood illness, which includes diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP, 4 doses), pneumo...