[W]e didn’t use the words service-learning or experiential learning for several years, consciously, because at Stanford, words count. They can get you in trouble. We did not want our efforts to connect students’ service with academics to appear to faculty as some sort of “touchy-feely” exercise, which is what those words would connote in their minds. Timothy K. Stanton, Director Haas Center for...

This report summarizes recommendations approved on February 21, 2013, by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the use of influenza vaccines. An expanded 2013 ACIP influenza vaccination recommendation statement is scheduled to be published in MMWR Recommendations and Reports before the start of the 2013-14 influenza season. Providers should consult the expanded 2013 ACIP i...

On July 14, CDC reported a substantial delay in the availability of a proportion of influenza vaccine for the 2000-01 season and the possibility of a vaccine shortage. Since then, resolution of manufacturing problems and improved yields of the influenza A (H3N2) vaccine component have averted a shortage. Although safe and effective influenza vaccine will be available in similar quantities as la...

The US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Health and Human Services first developed the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 1980 (1). The dietary guidelines provide advice to healthy Americans on food choices to promote healthy eating and reduce risk of disease. The dietary guidelines were updated in 1985, 1990, and 1995 to ensure their accurate interpretation of the most recent...

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other innovation in modern medicine. National immunization committees play a vital role in the development of evidence-based recommendations for the use of vaccines. The present article describes the evolution and work of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization in Canada as the group marks its 50th anniversary. The article also provides insight in...

Introduction The Pharmacodynamic/ pharmacokinetic Technologies Advisory Committee (PTAC) of Cancer Research UK has the objective of increasing the extent of mechanistic and hypothesis testing in early phase clinical trials. PTAC reviews all applications submitted to the New Agents Committee (NAC) and with expertise in PET, MRI and MRS as well as many of the other currently emerging technologies...

A meeting of the Special Committee* on Organ Transplantation, set up by the Joint Consultants Committee "to consider the remaining transplantation problems on a wide basis, and possible amendments of the law in relation thereto," was held under the chairmanship of Sir John Richardson on 27 October 1969, when all memberst except Mr. Myles Gibson were present. It considered the following issues l...