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8/1/18 Getting influenza vaccine to healthcare providers has just begun.  Major influenza vaccine manufacturer, Sanofi Pasteur announced Monday they’ve shipped the first of it’s 70 million doses for the 2018-1019 season.  Quadrivalent flu vaccines in supply are...

7/31/18   This July 30th article in JAMA reports an analysis on the costs of a 2013 Measles outbreak ( 58 cases ) in New York City. $394, 448 and 10,054 man hours were the direct costs to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

7/26/18   BMC Medicine published a study that analyzed efficacy results of HPV vaccine from several different  clinical research and data registries Medline, Embase, Cochrane, Clinicaltrials.gov…..

7/24/18 In a study published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal,  rotavirus vaccines introduced between 2006 and 2008 has led to drastically reduced acute gastroenteritis and rotavirus hospitalizations in the youngest high-risk children as seen in normal...

7/18/18 “Happiness is Protective”   “Long term happiness is based 90% on how we process life events & circumstances, only 10% on external influences” - v. Murthy, former US Surgeon General

7/12/18 Influenza and pregnancy results were published in the Journal of Infection.  The data was collected on a large cohort ( over 200,000 ) of pregnant women in Catalonia Spain.  Vilca et.al. reviewed outpatient visits and hospitalization rates from 2008-2013. ...

  7/12/18   It’s still way too early to know, however results from the treatment of a woman with SCC, squamous cell carcinoma showed complete regression of all cutaneous malignant tumors when injected with 9-valent HPV vaccine.   This interesting single...

7/5/18   MPPG announced today an agreement with Dynavax to provide Heplisav-B, their new adult Hepatitis Vaccine, to members at a 12% discount off of the catalog price.   This HepB-CpG vaccine was approved by the FDA in October 2017 and given a...

6/27/18 CDC estimates that 300 billion direct costs in healthcare dollars are saved due to vaccines.  Biopharmadive

6/26/18 “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.  Dr. Dike Drummond from The Happy MD has some simple tips and suggestions to prevent burnout long term.  His 235 ideas should help lower stress, build life balance and give a more ideal practice.

6/20/18 Dr. Adel Mahmoud a significant contributor to protecting human life through immunization has passed away.  This article from the New York Times details some of his heroic efforts when working for Merck Vaccines  Division to assure critical vaccines were...

6/18/18 Sylivia Becker-Dreps et. al. published their findings on a Tdap vaccine study in last week’s American Journal of Preventative Medicine.  They reviewed 675,167 mother-infant pairs cohort for Tdap immunization status.  Pertussis rates were lower in infants whose...

6/14/18 Read the Cochrane Report on HPV Vaccine benefits regarding pre cervical cancer prevention.  The data is huge, they evaluated over 73,000 girls and women from 26 studies.   Dr. Maurie Markman from the Cancer Treatment Center of America in...

6/13/18   The Lancet published results of an analysis on 15 years ( 2000 - 2015 ) of Hib and PCV vaccine use worldwide.  The bottom line, there’s been a drastic reduction in pediatric deaths caused by Haemophilus influenza type b and pneumonia.  Hib deaths in children...

6/12/18 172 children died from influenza last season.  This death rate is the deadliest for children in a non-pandemic year.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced these findings last week.  Roughly 80% of these pediatric deaths were in...