Technically Speaking: IAC's Needle Tips Just Released Online!
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Vaccine Update for Healthcare ProvidersNeedle Tips, the 20-year flagship publication of the Immunization Action Coalition, is published quarterly and offers a concise summary of the latest immunization information and new resources for healthcare professionals. The November 2015 issue of Needle Tips has just been released online. You can download the entire issue or simply click below on the articles you'd like to access directly:
- Lead story! ACIP Expands Recommendations for the Use of Meningococcal Serogroup B Vaccine to Include Adolescents and Young Adults
- "Ask the Experts" questions answered by CDC staff: Three pages of Q&As about the use of meningococcal vaccines and HPV9 vaccine
- IAC's New Campaign! MCV4: You’re Not Done If You Give Just One. Give 2 MCV4 Doses to Strengthen Protection
- What's New with Vaccines? Vaccine Highlights: Recommendations, schedules, and more
- IAC's Free Nationwide Workshops on Using Standing Orders to Vaccinate Adults
- New! Screening Checklist for Preteen and Teen Vaccination – HPV, MCV4, and Tdap
- Newly updated! Its Federal Law! You must give your patients current Vaccine Information Statements
- Updated! Summary of Recommendations for Child and Teen Immunization (Birth through age 18 years)
- Updated! Summary of Recommendations for Adult Immunization (Age 19 years and older)
- Meningococcal ACWY Vaccine Resource Materials: Standing orders and guidance chart
If you would like to receive immediate email notification whenever new issues of Needle Tips are released, visit IAC's "Subscribe" webpage.
Related links
- Needle Tips home page, including access to back issues
- Needle Tips: Download entire PDF of current issue
- Needle Tips: Table of Contents
- Needle Tips magazine viewer
- Vaccinate Adults: IAC's quarterly publication for healthcare professionals who provide services to adults
- Subscribe to all IAC publications
Contributed by: Deborah Wexler, MD
Categories: Technically Speaking, Vaccine Update Nov. 2015
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