Infectious Disease

The CDC's 2013 immunization schedules include several new recommendations regarding which patient groups should receive the various pneumococcal vaccines.

Vaccination is crucial for older adults and patients with chronic disease.

Pharmacists can play an important role in informing adult patients of the vaccines they should receive to help protect against a range of infectious diseases.

Preventive measures and herd immunity are having a major impact on disease prevalence.

For patients who have reservations about flu vaccination, this guide can ease concerns.

For patients who have reservations about flu vaccination, this guide can ease concerns.

A new study using a mouse model suggests that an inflammatory response to influenza infection makes patients more susceptible to developing invasive pneumococcal disease.

As part of an interdisciplinary team at Pennsylvania Hospital, clinical pharmacists helped improve performance on 9 medication-related core measures.

An animated video demonstrating how influenza virus enters a human cell, penetrates the nucleus, replicate itself, and emerges to infect other cells.

A discussion of efforts to develop a universal influenza vaccine that will be capable of protecting against any potential strain of the influenza virus.

This video from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases discusses the causes of influenza pandemics.

Due to their increased susceptibility to pneumococcal pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease, welders are advised to receive the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.

According to the results of a study, it appears more difficult to eradicate nasopharyngeal carriage of pneumococcal and other bacterial diseases than it is to eradicate invasive disease.

Far more patients claimed to have adhered to their antibiotic prescriptions than actually did, according to the results of a study that used an electronic system to record when pill bottles were opened.

Doug Long, vice president of industry relations at IMS Health, discusses his predictions for the 2012-2013 flu season.

Pharmacists can debunk the myths and provide the facts about treatment for bronchitis.

Pharmacists can debunk the myths and provide the facts about treatment for bronchitis.

The kidneys and liver get a lot of attention when it comes to adverse reactions, but the lungs are susceptible to damage as well.

A study found significantly reduced rates of all otitis media and otitis media with effusion in children who received the H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine.

A review of 2 recent studies finds statistically significant advantages of antibiotics in terms of initial resolution of symptoms and clinical failure rate.

The American Association of Pediatrics recommends that all children older than 6 months receive the seasonal flu vaccine and has updated vaccine dosage guidelines for young children.

Since 2010, the CDC has recommended that all Americans older than 6 months receive the annual influenza vaccine, but coverage rates have so far fallen short of goals.