Vaccines
Conference Coverage
HPV vaccination rates tripled with practice’s comprehensive intervention
ATLANTA – A comprehensive intervention tripled HPV vaccination rates in a pediatric health care group practice.
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Pediatric update: 2 vaccine changes and the latest word on media time
Among the vaccine changes, only 2 doses—not 3—are now needed for human papillomavirus protection, according to ACIP, and the American Academy of...
Article
The art of persuasion
Although generally more information is a good thing, too much false information can result in limiting health care.
From the Journals
Two doses of HPV vaccine may be noninferior to three
The immunogenicity response to two doses of the 9-valent HPV vaccine in children and adolescents was noninferior to the immunogenicity of the...
Conference Coverage
Challenges of influenza, measles, pertussis guide outbreak management
Recent U.S. outbreaks of pertussis, influenza, and measles have revealed epidemiologic shifts that pose new prevention and management challenges...
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Inhaled laninamivir reduces risk of influenza in young children
The inhaled neuraminidase inhibitor laninamivir has been shown to significantly reduce the likelihood of developing influenza among children...
Conference Coverage
Research yields 5 key points about vaccine hesitancy
Five factors are key to understanding why parents hesitate to vaccinate their children.
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School-located influenza vaccination programs can be effective
School-located influenza vaccination can increase flu vaccination rate in both suburban and urban settings.
Feature
Another Zika vaccine heads to Phase I trials
The candidate vaccine is known as the Zika Purified Inactivated Virus (ZPIV) vaccine and contains whole but inactivated Zika virus particles to...
From the Journals
Low parental confidence in HPV vaccine stymies adolescent vaccination rates
More than a quarter of U.S. parents surveyed refused human papillomavirus vaccination in their adolescents because of a lack of overall trust in...
From the Journals
Study finds no increase in microcephaly with Tdap vaccine in pregnancy
The combined tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine is not associated with an increased risk of microcephaly and other...