2017-18 Flu Vaccine Returns Now Accepted

5/16/18 Get your credit, Sanofi Pasteur is now accepting returns of unused Fluzone vaccines and Flublok Quadrivalent from the 2017-2018 season.  All returns must be received by July 31st.  Contact (800) VACCINE for returns of Flublok and Fluzone vaccine purchased...

About Flu, Who Knew?!

5/15/18 In the days before the influenza vaccine, the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 1918 infected more than 500 million people and killed more than 50 million worldwide.  The high mortality rate in those 20-40 years of age was a unique feature of this pandemic....

June ACIP Meeting Agenda now Available

5/10/18 The CDC posted the agenda for the upcoming June ACIP meeting. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’s upcoming meeting is scheduled for June 20-21, 2018 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.  Some of the topics on the...

News at ClearGate

5/8/18 ClearGate adds a Practice/Merchant Support Center and EMV Solutions, advancing service and state of the art security.  ClearGate Merchant Services is one of MPPG’s vendors providing reduced rates to member practices. After realizing that many practices were...

Men B Awareness & Vaccination

5/3/2018   Pfizer Vaccines is supporting 3 Premier Broadcasts on Meningitis B awareness and vaccination.  The program will be approximately 30 minutes and will be presented by either Dr. Karla Loken of Ob Hospitalist Group, Avon IN or Dr. Duane Hougendobler, the...

More Mumps Cases

5/2/18 Mumps cases were announced last week on the Campus of William & Mary.  There has been an increase in Mumps cases in the United States and this had prompted a change to the ACIP Mumps immunization recommendations.  MMRII, the vaccine manufactured by Merck is...