Vaccination guidance updated

Early management of head injury: summary of updated NICE guidance.

Head injury is the commonest cause of death and disability in people aged 1-40 years in the UK. Each year, 1.4 million people attend emergency departments in England and Wales with a recent head injury. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published guidance onmanaging head injury in 2003 (clinical guideline 4) and updated this in 2007 (clinical guideline 56), which resu...

AAP Issues Updated Guidance on Palivizumab Prophylaxis for RSV Infection.

Volume 90, Number 12 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 867 The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases has updated its guidance on the use of palivizumab (Synagis) prophylaxis in infants and children at increased risk of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Because the palivizumab package labeling does not include a definition of high-risk children...

Updated aluminum pharmacokinetics following infant exposures through diet and vaccination.

Aluminum is a ubiquitous element that is released naturally into the environment via volcanic activity and the breakdown of rocks on the earth's surface. Exposure of the general population to aluminum occurs primarily through the consumption of food, antacids, and buffered analgesics. Exposure to aluminum in the general population can also occur through vaccination, since vaccines often contain...

ECDC GUIDANCE Varicella vaccination in the European Union

Central European Vaccination Advisory Group (CEVAG) guidance statement on recommendations for influenza vaccination in children

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination in infants and children with existing health complications is current practice in many countries, but healthy children are also susceptible to influenza, sometimes with complications. The under-recognised burden of disease in young children is greater than in elderly populations and the number of paediatric influenza cases reported does not reflect the actual fr...