effective vaccine that can prevent hepatitis B," says Dr. Arun Jesudian, Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine. "These greatly expanded and simplified recommendations from the CDC will help protect millions of adults against this potentially deadly ...
Recommendations and Reports 2 MMWR / December 20, 2013 / Vol. 62 / No. 10 on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for HCP in 1982 (5). Although a high proportion of healthy vaccine recipients in clinical trials respond to hepatitis B (HepB) vaccination, the ...
Prior recommendations had advised the pneumococcal shot for two vulnerable age groups: children under the age of 5 and seniors age 65 and older. People of other ages with certain health conditions are also advised to get the shot. Pneumococcal disease is caused byStreptococcuspneumoniaeand related ...