11.19.2015 MenB Vaccination Opportunities!

With Thanksgiving break next week and Winter break next month, now is the time to contact your families with kids in college or with kids who are college bound!  After reading about Andy Marso’s experience as well as Jamie Schanbaum’s it seems there should be more...

11.17.2015 Encouraging RSV Vaccine Results

Dr. Collins of the NIH reports on the collaborative research effort of NIH, NIAID and MedImmune below.   Vaccines are brilliant and the approach they use with this RSV vaccine is particularly...

11.12.2015 Vaccine Hesitant Parents

Do you need something effective to share with parents to alleviate any concerns? Although this audio program below came out in response to the measles cases in California earlier this year as well as the subsequent legislation to eliminate non-medical exemptions, it...

11.5.2015 California’s 1st Flu Death

The victim, a Santa Clara County resident was less than 65 years of age.  This loss of life is a profound reminder that flu has to potential to kill, however we know it doesn’t have to.  Improving immunization rates is a start to prevention and providing Influenza...

11.3.2015 Use of Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccines

This is to inform you that on October 23, 2015 the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published the June 24, 2015 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation stating a MenB vaccination series may be administered to individuals between...