VEC Announcements
Vaccine safety booklet
Vaccine Safety and Your Child is a new resource offered by the Vaccine Education Center at CHOP. The booklet contains excerpts from the book for parents, Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction, co-authored by Paul Offit and Charlotte Moser and published by Columbia University Press. Sections related to general vaccine safety concerns, the vaccine schedule, vaccines and specific diseases, and what is contained in the vaccine vial provide answers to parents’ most common questions about vaccines. Booklets are available for order ($1 each plus shipping) or download:
New Medscape videos
Drs. Offit and Reilly recently had new videos posted on Medscape:
- Multiple Vaccines Safe, Not Linked to Autism – Dr. Offit
- Immunizing Kids Who Have Cancer – Dr. Reilly
Website updates
The VEC recently updated the information on both the VEC and Parents PACK websites:
- VEC website updates – In addition to updates throughout the site and changes to the site navigation, tables showing disease risks versus vaccine risks were added to the vaccine pages.
- Parents PACK website updates - In addition to changes to the home page, content was updated throughout. Watch for a new interactive trivia game coming soon to the Parents PACK website!
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