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Pandemic and seasonal flu: what you need to know: these recommendations on prevention and treatment will help you prepare for the coming flu season
This coming flu season will be interesting--and confusing. As of August 6, 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 6506...
Journal of Family Practice, 09/01/09 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
Preparing for H1N1's uncertain future
At press time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was expected to release...
Family Practice News, 08/01/09 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
Preventive services: the good, the bad, and the unproven: latest recommendations from the USPSTF reinforce some long-standing advisories and contradict others
The past 12 months have been busy ones for the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which issued 34 new recommendations since our...
Journal of Family Practice, 07/01/09 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
CDC recommendations expand vaccine indications: children ages 5-18 should get the flu vaccine. Asthma patients and smokers should get the pneumococcal vaccine
Highlights of the 2008 recommendations of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), detailed in the child and adult...
Journal of Family Practice, 03/01/09 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
CDC: Older kids should get annual flu vaccine, too: routine vaccination should include 5- to 18-year-olds and start this year, if possible
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has made 2 significant changes to its annual recommendations for the prevention of influenza...
Journal of Family Practice, 10/01/08 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
Should you screen—or not? The latest recommendations: while USPSTF recommendations on hypertension and sickle cell disease have stayed the same, those for Chlamydia and carotid artery stenosis have changed
Not enough time and too many potential tests to do. This is the problem faced daily by family physicians. We want to practice up-to-date preventive...
Journal of Family Practice, 07/01/08 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
Sobering lessons from 2 travel-related outbreaks: measles recently infected US residents not considered at risk, as well as the unvaccinated
Measles is still a threat. Endemic transmission of measles no longer occurs in the United States (or any of the Americas), yet this highly...
Journal of Family Practice, 04/01/08 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
Vaccine update: new CDC recommendations from 2007
The year 2007 was rather calm, compared to the 3 previous years in regards to new vaccines and vaccine recommendations. Although no breakthrough...
Journal of Family Practice, 03/01/08 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
Varicella vaccination: 2 doses now the standard: the nation's top vaccine panel now calls for 2 doses of the varicella vaccine in young children—not one. Doing so reduces the risk of breakthrough infection by about 75%
The varicella vaccine has had tremendous success over the last few years, but its success has stalled. The varicella vaccine has had tremendous...
Journal of Family Practice, 01/01/08 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication -
Flu vaccination rates: how can you do better? Offer the vaccine to anyone who wants it, both before and during flu season, stresses the CDC
Each year, the flu causes an average of about 36,000 excess deaths and over 200,000 hospitalizations in the US. (1,2) Much of this morbidity and...
Journal of Family Practice, 10/01/07 by Doug Campos-Outcalt · More from publication
