Vaccines
Clinical Inquiries
How should we manage a patient with a positive PPD and prior BCG vaccination?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: Prior bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination increases the likelihood of a positive tuberculosis (TB) 5TU purified...
Commentary
Should HPV vaccination be mandatory?
Should we force drug therapy because patients might get the disease based on future behavior?
Practice Alert
Are you up to date with new immunization recommendations?
Practice Alert
Pandemic influenza: How it would progress and what it would require of you
Medical Education Library
Acute Otitis Media: Influence of the PCV-7 vaccine on changes in the disease and its management
Practice Alert
Pertussis: A disease re-emerges
Clinical Inquiries
What illnesses contraindicate immunization?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: The Advisory Council on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reports that the only contraindication for all vaccines is a history...
Clinical Inquiries
Who should get hepatitis A vaccination?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: The following groups are at increased risk of contracting or having severe outcomes from hepatitis A and should receive...
Practice Alert
Meningococcal vaccine: New product, new recommendations
Practice Alert
Influenza vaccine: New recommendations for infants and children aged 6 to 23 months
Clinical Inquiries
Should the varicella vaccine be given to all children to prevent chickenpox?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: Healthy, unimmunized children who have not had varicella infection should be vaccinated (strength of recommendation: A,...