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Study finds antiviral treatment is largely underused in children with influenza

Nov. 13, 2023—Vanderbilt research finds antiviral medications are underused in young children diagnosed with influenza despite national guidelines supporting their use

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Flu season starting late but expected to increase for the holidays

Nov. 8, 2023—The current flu season has started later and more gradually than last year although cases are expected to begin increasing in November before falling off in March.

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Flulapalooza 2023

Oct. 5, 2023—This year, 10,603 faculty, staff, postdoc scholars and students were vaccinated at VUMC's Flulapalooza event.

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Study explores how often children diagnosed with flu experience serious neuropsychiatric side effects

Jul. 24, 2023—A Vanderbilt study is among the first to quantify how often children diagnosed with flu experience serious neuropsychiatric side effects.

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High-dose flu vaccine beneficial for pediatric stem cell transplant patients

Mar. 2, 2023—Vanderbilt was the lead site for an influenza vaccine study in pediatric allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients that may lead to a change in the current flu vaccine recommendations in this vulnerable population.

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Risk of household flu spread skyrocketed during pandemic

Feb. 2, 2023—A Vanderbilt study found that the household spread of flu during the 2021-2022 season was more than twice as high as it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Flu season came early, hit hard in Tennessee

Dec. 21, 2022—Flu season came a month early this year in Tennessee and hit hard, disproportionately affecting children, according to Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Tennessee Department of Health and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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Employee flu vaccine deadline moved forward to Nov. 18

Nov. 8, 2022—Already this year, influenza is circulating widely in Tennessee with the state currently experiencing ‘very high’ activity levels according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the first and most important step in preventing flu is to get a flu vaccine each year. Flu vaccine...

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Study to evaluate nasal flu vaccine for children

Jul. 28, 2022—Pediatricians with the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program are looking for healthy infants and children (6 months – 8 years of age) to take part in a nasal influenza vaccine study.

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Study explores parents’ reluctance to flu, COVID vaccines for children

Apr. 7, 2022—Vanderbilt research found parents who are reluctant to vaccinate their children against the flu are more than five times as likely to decline the COVID-19 vaccine for their children.

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Study to explore neurologic impact of flu treatment

Feb. 24, 2022—A Vanderbilt study will explore the neurologic and psychiatric complications of flu and evaluate adverse effects of the antiviral treatment oseltamivir, also known by the brand name Tamiflu.

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Children’s Hospital program brought flu vaccines to underserved areas

Jan. 27, 2022—by Christina Echegaray Before the current rise in flu cases in Middle Tennessee, a group of doctors and nurses at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt set out in the fall to protect children from flu before it ever arrived. The team, led by pediatrician Elizabeth Williams, MD, MPH, dubbed its project “The Mobile...

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