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5/11/18 Universal flu vaccine research received another shot in the arm from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation and the Lucy and Larry Page family.  This announcement was made on April 27th during the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Bill...

4/26/18 “Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community.” - EULA BISS

4/24/2018   Pfizer has granted FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation for Trumenba, their Meningococcal Group B Vaccine. Pfizer Inc. announced today this Breakthrough Therapy designation from the FDA for active immunization to prevent invasive disease caused by...

4/17/18 Physician’s can access needed vaccines at a discount through an MPPG membership. Stop paying list price, loyalty based contract prices are available directly from manufacturers Merck, Sanofi Pasteur and Pfizer  (Meningitis B Vaccine, Trumenba only).  Start...

4/12/18 The CDC has posted a Childhood Immunization Update for healthcare professionals. This 1- hour presentation is intended for use by physicians or vaccine coordinators during grand rounds presentations or other educational meetings. You may customize it with your...

4/11/18 “Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”   - Florence Nightingale

4/5/18 A new study finds that behavioral prompts help improve vaccination rates. Using educational campaigns or simply attempting to persuade people to get their vaccines is less effective than indirect behavioral nudges.  “When it comes to vaccines, I think we have...

4/3/18 Dr. Paul Offit follows-up with more information on why children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their younger siblings are at greater risk of infections from vaccine preventable diseases.  He recaps in his article the various studies that have proven over and...

3/29/18 Dr. Anna Beavis a gynecologic oncologist fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore lead a study that analyzed data from a 2015 national immunization survey of U.S. parents of teens ages 13 to 17.  The results showed fewer parents  intended to vaccinate...

3/28/18 Dr. H Cody Meissner shares in an AAP News article interesting and helpful information regarding pneumococcal vaccines in children.  In the article Dr. Meissner discusses some brief history of the vaccine development, the differences in the vaccines and the...

3/27/18 In an article published in JAMA yesterday it was reported that parents of children with ASD were less likely to fully vaccinate their ASD child as well as their siblings. This finding means that these children are at increase risk of vaccine preventable...

3/22/18 A substantial increase in Mumps cases in the U.S has prompted a new recommendation from the CDC’s ACIP.  This recommendation calls for a third dose of Mumps containing vaccine in persons at increased risk for Mumps during an outbreak.  Five studies provided...

3/20/18 Although influenza has been declining, the rate of hospitalizations is still high according to the latest FluView CDC data.  Hospitalization rates rose slightly to 89.9 laboratory confirmed influenza associated hospitalizations per 100,000.  Unfortunately the...

3/14/18 Using technology to improve patient success starts with getting them to the health care provider’s office.  This article discusses 5 things to know about provider partnerships with transportation services Uber & Lyft.

3/13/18 As reported in Healio, Amanda F. Dempsey, MD, PhD, et. al. found that certain interventions had more success than other mandated measures in getting adolescents to initiate and complete the HPV vaccine series.  How a health care provider recommends the vaccine...