How Aggressive are Your Student’s College Vaccination Policies?
Conclusion
College campuses vary in regards to their vaccine policies. The meningitis vaccine is the most commonly required vaccination for all incoming freshmen, based on the recommendations of the CDC. Several other vaccinations are required and recommended, with much variation by individual colleges. Most universities provide a religious exemption for students, but some do not. It is worthwhile to investigate what your university vaccine policies are, in addition to the exemptions that exist for colleges in which your student has an interest.
Learn More to Make Your Own Informed Vaccination Choices
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Source: vactruth.com - September 3, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Picks Top Stories Mandatory Vaccination Meningitis meningococcal disease New York State Department of Health U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention University of Washington Vaccine Adverse Events Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 188
Welcome to the 188th LITFL Review. Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chuck of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Unbelievable talk from John Hinds at SMACC US – Crack the Chest. Get Crucified. If you’re unclear why it is that the FOAM world was so saddened at John’s loss, this will quickly jog your memory. [AS]
The Best of #FOAMed Emergency Medi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 13, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Anand Swaminathan Tags: Education LITFL review LITFL Reviews Source Type: blogs
The CDC Made These Two Radical Changes and 30,000 Diagnoses of Polio Instantly Disappeared
The graph is from the Ratner report (1), the transcript of a 1960 panel sponsored by the Illinois Medical Society, on which sat three PhD statisticians and an MD, met to discuss the problems with the ongoing polio vaccination campaign.
The polio vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1954. From ‘50 thru ‘55, the striped and clear portions of the bars represent about 85% of the reported cases, or 30,000 per year, on average. Those cases were automatically eliminated by two radical changes the CDC made to the diagnostic parameters and labeling protocol of the disease as soon as the vaccine wa...
Source: vactruth.com - July 5, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Shawn Siegel Tags: Logical Shawn Siegel Top Stories Acute Flaccid Paralysis Dominion Council of Health Illinois Medical Society National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Ratner Report Salk Vaccine vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) Source Type: blogs
FDA OPDP Issues Fifth Letter of Caution for the Year, Cites Oak Pharmaceuticals For Exhibit Banner
Almost like clockwork, the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) has released its fifth enforcement letter of 2015—they have issued one letter in January, February, March, April, and now, as of the past week, one in May. OPDP sent the Untitled Letter to Oak Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a subsidiary of Akorn, Inc.) regarding the company’s barbiturate anticonvulsant, Nembutal. View the promotional material here. The agency found that Oak’s table exhibit banner was misleading because it omitted “important risk information associated with the use of Nembutal,” and also omitted materi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Prince Charles’ letters confirm that he’s not fit to be king
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This post was written for the Spectator Health section, at short notice after the release of the spider letters. The following version is almost the same as appeared there, with a few updates. Some of the later sections are self-plagiarised from earlier posts.
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The age of enlightenment was a beautiful thing. People cast aside dogma and authority. They started to think for themselves. Natural science flourished. Understanding of the natural world increased. The hegemony of religion slowly declined. Eventually real universities were created and real democracy developed. The modern world w...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 15, 2015 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Duchy Originals Foundation for Integrated Health Freedom of Information Act Prince Charles Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation Anti-science antiscience badscience CAM herbal medicine herbalism homeopathy politics quackery Que Source Type: blogs
Prince Charles ’ letters confirm that he ’ s not fit to be king
Jump to follow-up
This post was written for the Spectator Health section, at short notice after the release of the spider letters. The following version is almost the same as appeared there, with a few updates. Some of the later sections are self-plagiarised from earlier posts.
Picture: Getty
The age of enlightenment was a beautiful thing. People cast aside dogma and authority. They started to think for themselves. Natural science flourished. Understanding of the natural world increased. The hegemony of religion slowly declined. Eventually real universities were created and real democracy developed. The modern world w...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 15, 2015 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Duchy Originals Foundation for Integrated Health Freedom of Information Act Prince Charles Prince of Wales Prince's Foundation Anti-science antiscience badscience CAM herbal medicine herbalism homeopathy politics quackery Que Source Type: blogs
Lyme Disease: The Great Imitator
Spring is my favorite season. Warmer weather, budding flowers and lots of greenery in yards, gardens and parks encourages outside activities and fills me with energy. The spring season also brings out lots of crawling and flying critters like bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, as well as some of the more unpleasant pests like ticks and mosquitos. If you enjoy spending time outside like I do, hiking, gardening or walking the dog, be aware that ticks and their bites can be not only annoying, but dangerous.
Jana’s Experience
Jana Braden found out how dangerous tick bites can be the hard way. She enjoyed the outdoors a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Chronic Conditions Source Type: blogs
Tips to avoid medical errors in the emergency department
Emergency medicine physicians: Could these be your cases?
A 35-year-old presents with shortness of breath and numbness to the legs. CXR and EKG are normal. She is discharged to see her doctor in two days, but is found dead at home. Autopsy reveals a dissecting aortic aneurysm.
A 15-month-old is triaged to fast track and seen by a physician assistant for fever, lethargy, and ear pain. Treatment includes Augmentin. The next day the patient is admitted with pneumococcal sepsis and meningitis with severe brain damage.
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Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 12, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Roneet Lev, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Malpractice Source Type: blogs
FDA Acting Commissioner Ostroff Addresses the "State of the FDA"
The 2015 FDLI Annual Conference kicked off yesterday in Washington, DC. The conference hosted a variety of impressive speakers from the Food and Drug Administration, as well as FDA lawyers and in-house counsel. Dr. Stephen Ostroff, the Acting Commissioner at FDA, spoke as the conference's keynote speaker. After congratulating previous Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on an impressive tenure as FDA Commissioner, Ostroff ran through a long list of recent FDA accomplishments--"hitting the highlights," as he called it. Following Ostroff's address, a panel of industry experts provided a "to do list" for the agency for the co...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
FDA seeks $4.9 billion for FY 2016; Commissioner Hamburg Reflects on FDA's Accomplishments Over the Past Year
Dr. Margaret Hamburg will step down from her post as Commissioner of the FDA next month. Hamburg and the FDA were busy in the few days before the announcement of her resignation, however. The Agency released a budget request for FY 2016, and Hamburg wrote a recap of the FDA's past year. Below is a summary of both.
FDA's Budget for FY 2016
In FDA's budget request, Hamburg stated that the agency is requesting a total of $4.9 billion, including a $148 million budget authority to: increase focus on improved oversight of imported foods, combat the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, promote the dev...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 6, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
"This life-threatening case of purpura fulminans resulted from a...
"This life-threatening case of purpura fulminans resulted from a systemic Neisseria infection. Neisseria causes many types of infection, most commonly gonorrhea and meningitis. This hematological emergency involves both skin necrosis and disseminated intravascular coagulation, and can progress rapidly into multi-organ failure. This case was treated with third-generation cephalosporins while the patient was supported in the ICU. See this image in Figure 1 to learn more." By figure1 on Instagram Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - January 31, 2015 Category: Urologists and Nephrologists Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Senior Immunization Update
First patient this morning began with a question:
What’s this new coxie vaccine something-or-other I’ve been hearing about? Can you explain that to me?
Cox? Oh, you must mean Pneumococcus. Yes, I can explain that:
There’s a very common germ that lives on our skin and in our noses, and usually doesn’t cause us any trouble. It’s full name is streptococcus pneumoniae, but we usually call it by its nickname: Pneumococcus. It originally got the name because it’s a fairly frequent cause of pneumonia (lung infection), though it also causes other kinds of infections, like skin, bloodstream, an...
Source: Musings of a Dinosaur - January 15, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: notdeaddinosaur Tags: Medical Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 066
Welcome to the 66th edition of Research and Reviews in the Fastlane. R&R in the Fastlane is a free resource that harnesses the power of social media to allow some of the best and brightest emergency medicine and critical care clinicians from all over the world tell us what they think is worth reading from the published literature.This edition contains 6 recommended reads. The R&R Editorial Team includes Jeremy Fried, Nudrat Rashid, Soren Rudolph, Anand Swaminathan and, of course, Chris Nickson. Find more R&R in the Fastlane reviews in the R&R Archive, read more about the R&R project or check out the...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - January 14, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nudrat Rashid Tags: Cardiology Education Emergency Medicine General Surgery Intensive Care Pediatrics Pre-hospital / Retrieval R&R in the FASTLANE Resuscitation critical care recommendations Review Source Type: blogs
