Guarding girls' health.
Byline: The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran Feb. 12, 2007): The human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil is administered in a three-shot sequence over six months. The duration of the sequence was incorrect in a Friday editorial. An important debate is under way in Oregon and the rest of...

ANA's best practices in seasonal influenza immunization for health care personnel.
Introduction: Despite well-documented evidence of the importance and benefits of seasonal influenza immunization of health care personnel (HCP), vaccine coverage rates continue to fall below the 2010 national health objective goal of 60%; vaccination of HCP is an important component of influenza prevention programs in the United...

Patient-held records improve vaccination rates.
Patient-held vaccination records were associated with improved childhood immunization rates in an analysis of National Immunization Survey data. The rate of up-to-date vaccinations was 84% for children with a patient-held vaccination record and 77% for those without one. Dr. James T. McElligott, who reported the...

Patient-held records improve vaccination rates.
Patient-held vaccination records were associated with improved childhood immunization rates in an analysis of National Immunization Survey data. The rate of up-to-date vaccinations was 84% for children with a patient-held vaccination record, 77% for those without one. Dr. James T. McElligott, who reported the findings...

Pennsylvania Department of Health Joins American Lung Association and Famous Faces of Influenza Joy Behar and Former Philadelphia Eagle Mike Quick to Urge Influenza Vaccination.
American Lung Association Unveils Regional Influenza Education Campaigns to Encourage Americans to See Themselves and Their Loved Ones Among the 'Faces of Influenza' PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Lung Association's Faces of Influenza, a multi-year national public awareness initiative, aims to help Americans put a...

Immunization info lagging for children under 6.
Fewer than half of U.S. children under 6 years of age participated in an immunization information system in 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. One of the Healthy People 2010 goals is to increase to at least 95% the proportion of children under 6...

World health. (Health).
MEASLES: Nearly 800,000 children worldwide die each year from measles despite success in recent international efforts to vaccinate all children against the highly infectious disease, according to a new report by the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunization, which warns that in some parts of the world, only 5...

Audio: NACCP, Families Fighting Flu, and the Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Team Up to Educate Families About Annual Childhood Flu Vaccination.
New Survey: Misinformation, Concern among Mothers Regarding Protecting Children from the Flu ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- News Facts -- Today the National Association of Child Care Professionals (NACCP), Families Fighting Flu (FFF) and the Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition (CIIC) are launching the second...

Leaders aim to break barriers to vaccination.
ATLANTA -- Concerns about removing financial barriers to childhood vaccination took center stage at an immunization congress sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, Dr. Walter Orenstein reported at the summer meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization...

HPV vaccination position statement, USA.
The recommendations on HPV vaccination of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been supported in a position statement of the US Society for Adolescent Medicine. In June 2006, the committee recommended that the three-dose HPV vaccine be routinely administered--and...