How will you address this question when your patients ask? Find out in this podcast.
"Do I really need a flu shot this year? I’m healthy….I don’t have heart disease or asthma, and I just hate needles!”
How will you address this question when your patients ask? Here, with some succinct and useful advice, is pediatric nurse practitioner, Patsy Stinchfield, RN, MS, CPNP, who is Director of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
Flu Vaccination Again This Year?: What To Say When Patients Ask
Nirsevimab doses for 2024-2025 RSV season can be reserved with new program
February 2nd 2024Nirsevimab was approved by the FDA on July 17, 2023, ahead of the traditional RSV season, though in October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended it be prioritized for the highest-risk infants amid limited availability.
Recent reports of measles in multiple states
January 25th 2024Tina Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, tells Contemporary Pediatrics, “This is not new and demonstrates what is known, in that if vaccination rates do not stay at a level that is protective, outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases will occur.”