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Measles, vaccine hesitancy, and the ACIP

Common Sense Family Doctor

For comparison, there were 285 cases of measles in the United States in 2024, and there have already been more reported cases than in all but two years since 2000. In a 2024 American Family Physician editorial , Dr. Doug Campos-Outcalt reviewed best practices for diagnosis and prevention of measles. Kennedy, Jr.,

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CMS Final Medicaid Drug Rebate Rule Details New Misclassification Penalties and Numerous Other Changes

FDA Law Blog

Another rejected proposal was a definition of “vaccine” (vaccines are exempt from Medicaid rebates), which would have limited this term to a product that is administered prophylactically – i.e., to prevent rather than treat a disease. The most noteworthy are the following: 1.

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A Vitamin K Deficient Bleeding AKA Hemorrhagic disease of the newborn podcast

PEMBlog

Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. They perceive that the intramuscular vitamin k is a vaccine. These are some of the points in the history that could lead to you making the diagnosis. Imaging is targeted at the differential diagnosis in the site of bleeding. 1997 Jan;99(1). Kher P, Verma RP.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

PEMBlog

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , we explore pertussis, also known as whooping cough – a disease that remains a public health challenge despite widespread vaccination efforts. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Available at: [link] Accessed December 3, 2024.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Go back in your mind, November of 2020, COVID is at its peak, we don’t have vaccines quite yet. That started in November of 2020.

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