Adolescent Medicine

• Meeting News Coverage

• Parental discussion key to improving HPV immunization rates

• November 26, 2012
• NEW YORK — Providing parents with the appropriate information regarding HPV vaccine and its benefits is important. But according to Kenneth A....More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Parental discussion key to improving HPV immunization rates

• Infectious Disease News, December 2012
• NEW YORK — Providing parents with the appropriate information regarding HPV vaccine and its benefits is important. But according to Kenneth A....More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• A third dose of MMR vaccine may result in decreased disease spread during a mumps outbreak

• Infectious Diseases in Children, December 2012
• Giving a third dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine may have helped decrease the mumps attack rate by as much as 96% among adolescents in an...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• A third dose of MMR vaccine may result in decreased disease spread during a mumps outbreak

• Infectious Disease News, December 2012
• Giving a third dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine may have helped decrease the mumps attack rate by as much as 96% among adolescents in an...More »

• Editorial

• Here Comes Influenza Season

• Pediatric Annals, November 2012, Volume 41 Issue 11
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• In the Journals

• Suboptimal response to H1N1 vaccine reported in Down syndrome

• Infectious Diseases in Children, November 2012
• Adjustments to the influenza vaccination schedule may be necessary for children with Down syndrome, although more data are needed in this population of...More »

• In the Journals

• Suboptimal response to H1N1 vaccine reported in Down syndrome

• Infectious Disease News, November 2012
• Adjustments to the influenza vaccination schedule may be necessary for children with Down syndrome, although more data are needed in this population of...More »

• In the Journals

• HPV vaccine linked to syncope, skin infections post-vaccination

• HemOnc Today, November 10, 2012
• The quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine was associated with same-day syncope and skin infections in the 2 weeks after vaccination, according to a...More »

• In the Journals

• Telephone reminders about missed vaccines offered short-term effect

• September 7, 2012
• An intervention that involved contacting parents and their adolescent-aged children to come back to their clinician’s office for immunizations...More »

• In the Journals

• School-entry requirements key in boosting adolescent vaccination compliance

• Infectious Disease News, June 2012
• Sending parents educational materials about necessary adolescent vaccinations does not lead to compliance as effectively as school-entry requirements,...More »

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