As measles outbreaks grow, the AAP is taking aim at vaccine misinformation online. AAP President Kyle E. Yasuda, M.D., FAAP, sent letters today to the CEOs of Google (which owns YouTube), Facebook (which owns WhatsApp and Instagram) and Pinterest requesting that they partner with the Academy to make sure parents using their platforms are seeing credible, science-based information. “Right now, pediatricians […]
A young boy in Oregon spent 47 days in an intensive care unit (ICU), resulting in more than $800,000 in medical costs, because he was not vaccinated against tetanus, according to a case study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Case study co-author Dr. Carl Eriksson, an associate professor of pediatric […]
Facebook is taking another stand against fake news. On Thursday, the social media giant said that it had removed more than 150 Facebook and Instagram accounts, pages and groups – 137 stemming from the United Kingdom, and an additional 31 from Romania – that pushed “coordinated inauthentic behavior” to spread hate speech and divisive comments […]
(Reuters) – A measles outbreak that has stricken at least 225 people in New York state since October began with a traveler who visited Israel during the Jewish high holidays and returned to a predominantly ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Rockland County. A similar pattern unfolded three months later and nearly 3,000 miles (4,800 km) away […]
A new bill would ban the Texas health department from tracking vaccine exemptions — a move medical experts say would curb their ability to identify outbreaks. State Representative Bill Zedler, R-Arlington PATRICK MICHELS Texas state Representative Bill Zedler doesn’t understand the fuss over the resurgence of infectious diseases. “When I grew up, I had a […]
Chelse Spinner, Lili Ding, David I. Bernstein, Darron R. Brown, Eduardo L. Franco, Courtney Covert, Jessica A. Kahn Abstract BACKGROUND: Clinical trials of the 4-valent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine demonstrate high efficacy, but surveillance studies are essential to examine the long-term impact of vaccine introduction on HPV prevalence in community settings. The aims of this study were to determine during the 11 […]
AAP adds LAIV to 2019 immunization recommendations AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases. Pediatrics. 2019;doi:10.1542/peds.2019-0065. February 5, 2019 H. Cody Meissner The AAP’s Committee on Infectious Diseases has updated its childhood and adolescent immunization recommendations for 2019 to include the use of a live-attenuated intranasal influenza vaccination, or LAIV, in instances in which a child would otherwise […]
Rates of HPV-positive tumors are increasing among patients with oropharyngeal cancer in the U.S., regardless of sex or race, according to a retrospective cohort study published in Cancer. Additionally, gender and race are independently associated with survival in HPV-negative — but not HPV-positive — tumor status, researchers observed. “The ability to examine sex- and race-based differences […]
BY ROBERT PREIDT, HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 28, 2019 (HealthDay News) — HPV vaccination rates for younger American adolescents are alarmingly low, researchers say. “While we have seen gains in HPV vaccination coverage, we are still falling behind at the younger ages,” said study lead author Robert Bednarczyk. He’sassistant professor of global health and epidemiology at […]
Flu Shot Beats Nasal Spray for Effectiveness in Children by Gail Connor Roche A flu shot was more effective than nasal spray in protecting children aged 2 to 17 years old against a widely circulating type of influenza, according to a recent study that included more than 17,000 young people from 42 US states. To reach […]