Adolescent Medicine

• In the Journals

• School-entry requirements key in boosting adolescent vaccination compliance

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

• In the Journals

• School-based health centers effective at increasing immunizations rates

• May 18, 2012
• Besides increasing vaccination rates, school-based immunization recall is cost-effective, according to study results published online.
  Allison Kempe, MD,...More »

• In the Journals

• Text-messaging reminders can increase vaccination rates, but overall rates still low

• Infectious Diseases in Children, June 2012
• Text-messaging reminders to parents may provide a cost-effective way to increase immunization rates, but more work is needed to boost overall influenza...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Increased HPV vaccine uptake for boys failed to increase rate for girls

• April 29, 2012
• BOSTON — Immunizing boys against human papillomavirus infection improved overall vaccine uptake for adolescents, but did not increase the female...More »

• In the Journals

• Pertussis affected very young infants in 2010 California outbreak

• April 2, 2012
• Infants aged younger than 6 months experienced the highest attack and hospitalization rates during the 2010 pertussis outbreak in California, according to...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• PVC13 preventing community-acquired pneumonia

• Infectious Diseases in Children, May 2012
• Serotypes 19A and 14 are the most common types of pneumococcal strains found in Italian children aged 5 years and younger, and results of a new study...More »

• Perspective

• AAP now recommends HPV vaccine for boys and girls

• March 13, 2012
• The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases issued an updated policy statement on human papillomavirus vaccination and now...More »

• ACIP reviewed meningococcal vaccine data

• February 29, 2012
• Routine vaccination with meningococcal vaccine for children aged 9 months to 10 years would likely be unnecessary, according to data presented during this...More »

• Perspective

• FDA panel recommends strains for 2012-2013 flu vaccine

• February 29, 2012
• The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee recommended the strains to be included in the influenza virus vaccine for the...More »

• Health Policy

• CDC publishes ACIP recommendations for HPV vaccination in males

• December 30, 2011
• The CDC recently published the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations on the routine use of human papillomavirus vaccine.
  In October,...More »

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