Update on Routine Childhood and Adolescent Immunizations.

Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, United States, January to June, 2004 and update on childhood immunizations.

Recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedule, United States, 2003 and update on childhood immunizations.

Each year, CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) reviews the recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedule to ensure that it is current with changes in manufacturers' vaccine formulations and contains revised recommendations for the use of licensed vaccines, including those newly licensed. The recommended childhood immunization schedule for 2003 has remained the...

Impact of immunizations on the disease burden of American Indian and Alaska native children.

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people have suffered disproportionately from infectious diseases compared with the general US population. As recently as 25 years ago, rates of hepatitis A and B virus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, and Streptococcus pneumoniae infections were as much as 10 times higher among AI/AN children compared with the general US child population. In the past qua...

Adverse effects of adolescent immunizations.

Optimal protection against preventable diseases for adolescents can be provided through routine vaccination. Vaccinations recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention can reduce morbidity and mortality associated with influenza, meningococcal, human papillomavirus, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis infections. Most reported ad...

Update on childhood and adolescent immunizations: selected review of US recommendations and literature: part 2.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To provide a clinically relevant synopsis of research findings regarding childhood and adolescent vaccines. RECENT FINDINGS Vaccine coverage is relatively static or improving for the vaccines included in the 2010 annual harmonized immunization schedules. Providers should be reviewing patients' immunization records at each visit to take advantage of any opportunity to adminis...