HPV Vaccine Benefits: The Cochrane Meta Analysis

6/14/18 Read the Cochrane Report on HPV Vaccine benefits regarding pre cervical cancer prevention.  The data is huge, they evaluated over 73,000 girls and women from 26 studies.   Dr. Maurie Markman from the Cancer Treatment Center of America in...

2017-2018 Pediatric Influenza Deaths

6/12/18 172 children died from influenza last season.  This death rate is the deadliest for children in a non-pandemic year.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced these findings last week.  Roughly 80% of these pediatric deaths were in...

The New HepB Vaccine for Adults

6/7/18   Heplisav-B Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant), Adjuvanted is the first US licensed vaccine for manufacturer Dynavax.  This HepB-CpG vaccine was approved by the FDA in October 2017. It is indicated for patients 18 years of age and older and is only 2 doses. ...

The ABCs of Vaccine Buying for Healthcare Professionals

How to buy vaccines at a discount: A. Make sure you have a proper place to store your vaccine supply. B. Open direct purchase accounts with the vaccine manufacturers:  The 4 listed below are MPPG’s discounting partners. Sanofi Pasteur  (800) Vaccine Pfizer Vaccines ...

DTaP Safety Surveillance Results

6/5/18 Pediatrics reported results of DtaP adverse events as reported to VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) between 1991 and 2016.  With over 20 years of data collected from VAERS on acellular pertussis vaccine use, there were no unexpected or new adverse...