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When the CDC releases its 2011 the Child and Adolescent Immunization schedule on Feb. 11, it will include updated recommendations for the use of quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines in adolescents, according to today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. [+] more

Publication in the Jan. 27 issue of "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" formalizes the recommendations made this fall by the federal agency's advisory committee on immunization practices. The committee's guidelines call for "routine vaccination of adolescents, preferably at age 11 or 12 years, with a booster dose at age 16," the report says of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine. [+] more

Remarkable news was recently announced, proving the real-world impact of vaccination in preventing rotavirus diarrhea, a common childhood disease that each year takes the lives of more than half a million children—mostly in developing countries—and results in the hospitalization of millions more worldwide. [+] more

Remarkable news was recently announced, proving the real-world impact of vaccination in preventing rotavirus diarrhea, a common childhood disease that each year takes the lives of more than half a million children—mostly in developing countries—and results in the hospitalization of millions more worldwide. [+] more