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The exact efficacy varies by year, but data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that for all flu vaccines (meaning nasal and the shot) the 2023-2024 flu vaccine was 42% ...
The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first flu vaccine that does not have to be administered by a health care provider, but it won’t be available in time for this ...
You can now vaccinate yourself — or your children — against the flu with a nasal spray. On Sept. 20, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever vaccine that adults can give ...
Since 1990, when the vaccine was introduced as a routine vaccination in children, rates of acute Hepatitis B has decreased in the United States by 82%. This vaccine is given as a series of shots, the first dose is given at birth, the second between 1 and 2 months, and the third, and possibly fourth, between 6 and 18 months.
Pegfilgrastim, sold under the brand name Neulasta among others, is a PEGylated form of the recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (GCSF) analog filgrastim. [19] It serves to stimulate the production of white blood cells ( neutrophils ).
Live attenuated influenza vaccine is sold under the brand names FluMist and FluMist Quadrivalent in the United States; and the brand name Fluenz Tetra in the European Union. [4] [6] FluMist was first introduced in 2003 by MedImmune. [9] [10] [11] In the United States, FluMist is approved for self- or caregiver-administration.
At-home nasal flu vaccine, FluMist, could be approved for self-administration starting in 2024. ... has asked the FDA to allow adults ages 18 to 49 to give themselves the vaccine, or to give it to ...
The NCVIA requires that all health care providers who administer vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type b and varicella must provide a Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) to the vaccine recipient, their parent or legal guardian prior to each dose. A VIS must be ...