Shingles

Though most primary care physicians indicate a willingness to accept expanded recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice suggesting administration of recombinant zoster vaccine for adult patients who are immunocompromised, cost concerns and knowledge gaps limit vaccine delivery.

Dual action for neuropathy and neuralgia pain relief as well as for use in diabetes-related nerve pain and shingles.

But investigators find that individuals who had shingles that spread to the central nervous system had nearly twice the risk of developing mental deterioration, though it is rare.

There are more than 70 cases of monkeypox across 18 states in the United States, as of this week.

Unlike the 2022 simplification updates for the hepatitis B and pneumococcal vaccine recommendations, ACIP’s recommendations for patient eligibility for zoster vaccination have become more complicated this year.

Lyrica is indicated for neuropathic pain associated with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, fibromyalgia, spinal cord injury nerve pain, and pain after shingles in adult patients.

Pharmacists as immunizers are vaccine distributors, educators, facilitators, and administrators.

Famvir, a prodrug of penciclovir, is a nucleoside analog DNA polymerase inhibitor indicated for adults patients who are immunocompetent with herpes labialis (cold sores); treatment of recurrent episodes of genital herpes; and treatment of recurrent episodes, suppressive therapy of recurrent episodes and herpes zoster (shingles).

The new study analyzed KSHV’s latent-lytic switch, a process in which the virus exits its dormancy state to replicate in the host cell.

Of the 7 herpesviruses examined in the study, herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus were associated with incidence of prediabetes and diabetes among individuals with normal glucose tolerance.

The results of a network analyses show that the elevated potential of contracting the virus is also linked to infliximab and tofacitinib, as well as several combination treatments.

Kank-A Mouth Pain Liquid is for the treatment of canker sore pain and other abrasions inside the mouth.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy has been a challenge among adult patient populations.

They added that policy decisions around preventing and treating health conditions is important and should account for the indirect costs of the conditions as well.

Quiz questions to assess your knowledge on common treatments for cold sores.

Those hospitalized for COVID-19 were 21% more likely to develop shingles.

Valtrex is a nucleoside analogue DNA polymerase inhibitor that can treat herpes virus infections.

Ganciclovir ophthalmic gel (Zirgan) is a topical ophthalmic antiviral that is indicated for the treatment of acute herpetic keratitis (dendritic ulcers).

Individuals with multiple sclerosis should follow vaccine guidelines before starting disease-modifying therapies, case study results show.

This will increase Moderna’s vaccine catalog to 5, including vaccines against cytomegalovirus (CMV), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), and HIV, in addition to the immunizations for HSV, and VZV.

Shingles can cause significant pain and, in some rare instances, can be life-threatening.

The median duration of discomfort and pain was shorter in the vaccinated group than in the placebo group, at 21 days and 24 days, respectively, investigators say.

Maribavir (Livtencity) is indicated for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients with post-transplant cytomegalovirus infection.

But results of analysis show that the positive effects of vaccination still outweigh the potential adverse events.

The calculation instrument displayed good discrimination, with a C-index of 0.72, as well as good calibration, investigators say.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking at least 3 targeted therapies were found to have a greater risk of developing herpes zoster.

Wright said that there would be 1 drug that could inhibit the reactivation of all 9 of the herpesviruses.

After varicella zoster virus causes chickenpox, it remains dormant in the central nervous system and can later reactivate to cause shingles

This will be the third collaboration between Pfizer and BioNTech in the infectious diseases field, following the influenza vaccine collaboration in 2018 and the COVID-19 vaccine collaboration in 2020.

When assessing treatments for flu and cold symptoms, it is important for the pharmacist to consider not only the patient’s current medication regimen, but also other OTCs and disease states.