At the February meeting of The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Committee conducted three important votes which altered or created new recommendations for meningococcal vaccine
Last week HuffPost Live featured a discussion of vaccination and for once I was pleased to see a media conversation that didn’t pose the topic as a debate. The three people interviewed in t
As I mentioned in Monday’s post, I recently hosted a special conference call that was intended to provide other bloggers with information on seasonal influenza and the universal recommendati
We’re worried about this flu season. At Vaccinate Your Family, we keep a close eye on the spread of flu each fall and winter – and things are looking serious. This week, the CDC reported t
Do children now have to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for school? No! The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently voted to add COVID-19 vaccines to the routine childhood vaccinatio
This blog was originally published by the Society for Women’s Health Research – read here. Even as stories about vaccine hesitancy and declining vaccination rates appear across news head
Flu season is coming – here’s why you shouldn’t call it “just” the flu. Experts are predicting that the 2022-23 flu season could be severe. While masking and social dista
By Dorit Reiss By 2022, literally billions of doses of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines have been given around the world, and extensive data exists from many monitoring systems, suggesting that while they have
Today, Academic Pediatrics published a study that looked at whether the aluminum in vaccines could be connected to asthma in children. The study did NOT find that the aluminum in vaccines caused asthm
Good news for parents – COVID vaccines are now available for children ages 6 months to 5 years old! We’re here to answer all of your questions about the COVID vaccines for babies and kids.