vaccination
AGA Offers New Vaccination and Cancer Screening Guidance for IBD Patients
The American Gastroenterological Association has released a new clinical practice update with recommendations about ...
MAY 6, 2025
Miguel Regueiro, MD, Picks His Favorite IBD Research From ACG 2024
Miguel Regueiro, MD, sat down with GEN to talk about some of his favorite studies focused on treating IBD.
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Health Maintenance for Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Patients with IBD are at increased risk for vaccine-preventable diseases, malignancies, and bone mineral disease, ...
JUNE 30, 2023
Booster Dose Strategy Has Mixed Support of the ACIP Panel
The White House Coronavirus Task Force is calling for boosters of the mRNA vaccines because data show that immunity ...
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
VA Mandates COVID-19 Vaccination Among Medical Staff
The Department of Veterans Affairs said it will begin mandating COVID-19 vaccination for its health care employees.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
New Triple-Antigen Vaccine For Hep B Could Become Standard In Some Patient Groups
A new triple-antigen vaccine against infection with the hepatitis B virus confers greater protection than the ...
MAY 13, 2021
The Scope: Talking COVID Vaccines With Freddy Caldera, DO
Freddy Caldera, DO, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on why gastroenterologists should be out in front of ...
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Hep Vaccines Lacking Among Liver Patients
While guidelines call for patients with chronic liver disease to receive vaccinations against the hepatitis A and B ...
AUGUST 26, 2020
‘Astonishing Numbers’: Vaccine Efforts In the 1918 Flu Pandemic
In the winter of 1917-1918, patients with a particularly harsh form of influenza began appearing in the office of ...
JUNE 29, 2020
Reminder Calls Boost Shingles Vaccination Compliance
Simple phone calls help remind patients to get the second dose of a vaccine against shingles, according to new ...
MARCH 4, 2020
Recommended Pneumococcal Vaccine Omitted for Many GI Patients at Risk
Gastroenterologists provide care to one-fourth of patients at high risk for pneumococcal disease because they are ...
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
