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American Family Physician
November 15, 2005
Sanford R. Kimmel |
Prevention of Meningococcal Disease Invasive disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis has an average annual incidence of one case per 100,000 in the United States. The disease can be rapidly fatal or result in severe neurologic and vascular sequelae despite antibiotic therapy.   |
Nurse Practitioner
July 2011
Lori Mertz |
Meningococcal Disease: Early Recognition is Vital to Patient Outcomes Education of healthcare professionals to improve identification and provide immediate treatment of patients with symptoms consistent with meningococcal disease will result in improved outcomes. |
American Family Physician
July 1, 2004
Lo Re & Gluckman |
Travel Immunizations The approach to vaccine recommendations should be based on a thorough assessment of the risks for travel-related diseases, the time available before trip departure, and current knowledge of the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases. |
American Family Physician
July 15, 2003
Sur et al. |
Vaccinations in Pregnancy Routine vaccines that generally are safe to administer during pregnancy include diphtheria, tetanus, influenza, and hepatitis B. Other vaccines, such as meningococcal and rabies, may be considered. |
American Family Physician
December 1, 2002
Sanford R. Kimmel |
Vaccine Adverse Events: Separating Myth from Reality Vaccines have turned many childhood diseases into distant memories in industrialized countries. However, questions have been raised about the safety of some vaccines because of rare but serious adverse effects that have been attributed to them. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2001
Richard Kent Zimmerman |
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine for Young Children Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, approved in 2000 for use in the United States, was designed to cover the seven serotypes that account for about 80 percent of invasive infections in children younger than six years... |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2001 |
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine: What a Parent Needs to Know Why should my child get this vaccine?... What exactly is the pneumococcal vaccine?... Are there some children who should not get pneumococcal conjugate vaccine or who should wait until they are older?... |
Managed Care
March 2008 |
Proposed 2009 HEDIS Measures Address Immunization, Obesity Rates The National Committee for Quality Assurance wants to expand what the committee's Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures look at in 2009. |
Chemistry World
March 17, 2011
Hepeng Jia |
International recognition helps Chinese vaccine industry Vaccines made in China will now be supplied through United Nations agencies to developing countries, after recognition from the World Health Organisation that China's State Food and Drug Administration has complied with international standards for vaccine regulation. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 10, 2014
Fitzpatrick & Mohan |
Vaccines: Fire in the Cold Chain It's only recently that vaccine producers experienced the commercial returns commensurate with vaccines: long record of positive public health performance. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Ebola vaccine shown to be safe in humans GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine is capable of triggering an immune response in humans, according to a new study. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2006
Pasternak et al. |
Vaccines: Market on the Rebound The vaccine business was safely inoculated against higher profits. But innovative therapies and looser government controls may spark an outbreak. Are pharmaceuticals ready for this opportunity? |
Pharmaceutical Executive
February 1, 2009
Joanna Breitstein |
Vaccines for All The world is suffering. But just over the horizon is a new access equation that could speed innovative vaccines to where they're needed most. |
Chemistry World
December 9, 2011
Jennifer Newton |
Turning Bacteria's Shield Into a Weapon Against it Scientists in Germany have synthesised the core part of a sugar compound produced by the pathogenic bacteria responsible for meningitis - Neisseria meningitides - which could be used in a vaccine for meningococcal diseases, in particular meningitis B. |
