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Category Archives: Infection Prevention
Syringes Up!: New Vaccine Guidelines
Imagine a world where consumers all knew about the latest developments in preventive health… Earlier this month the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) released the 2010 immunization schedules. Revised annually, the immunization schedules are what doctors in the U.S. use to … Continue reading
Posted in Infection Prevention, Vaccines
Tagged immunization, prevention, preventive health, vaccination, vaccine
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Swine Flu, Meet Your Match
After so much fanfare about swine flu and the availability of the H1N1 vaccine, getting vaccinated today was somewhat anticlimactic. When I stepped into our administrative offices earlier this afternoon to get my shot, I half-expected a movie-like scene: a … Continue reading
Reevaluating the HPV Vaccine
The HPV vaccine has been a huge success story for the scientific, medical and public health communities. Over the past two decades we have gone from identifying that cervical cancer is caused by infection with the HPV virus to the development … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer Prevention, Infection Prevention
Tagged cervical cancer, HPV, preventive health, Vaccines
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Why Childhood Vaccines Still Matter, Part 2
An earlier blog discussed a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine on increasing rates of vaccine refusal by parents and the associated rise in measles cases (see “Why Childhood Vaccines Still Matter,” dated May 20, 2009). Just this past … Continue reading
Posted in Infection Prevention
Tagged immunization, pertussis, preventative, preventive health, vaccination, vaccine
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