Easing pain during vaccination
To reduce the discomfort or pain of vaccinations, apply firm, but comfortable, pressure on the intended site for 30 seconds.
To reduce the discomfort or pain of vaccinations, apply firm, but comfortable, pressure on the intended site for 30 seconds.
While most providers believe that veering from the recommended vaccine schedule is risky, they often agree to parents’ wishes.
Centralized notification system might be more effective than messages from health care provider offices.
The majority of patients who have gotten the measles in the current outbreak were unvaccinated.
Diseases such as measles and whooping cough are making a comeback because a growing number of people choose to follow a movement based in fear mongering.
The resurgence of measles in California accentuates an important need to revisit vaccination policy and practice in the United States.
Bexsero, manufactured by Novartis, has been approved as a vaccine for group B meningitis.
After vaccination, 62% to 88% of patients treated with the vaccine had antibodies in their blood that killed three different N. meningitidis serogroup B strains.
There were 644 new measles cases in 27 states in 2014, according to the CDC.
In a survey conducted by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 33% of clinicians routinely recommend the HPV4 vaccine to 11- and 12-year-old males.