Flu Vaccines

Volunteers Sought for Flu Vaccine Study at Stanford

Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 7th, 2007

Autumn brings shorter days, falling leaves -- and flu vaccine shots. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital are looking for adults and children to participate in three studies that will help them better understand how the flu vaccine works in people of different ages.

Previous flu vaccine studies have shown that following vaccination, children lose their influenza-specific immune response more rapidly than adults. The researchers also know that there is a decline in immune function in the elderly, so they want to look at the differences in how the elderly respond to vaccination compared with younger...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-11-07)

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