The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, the world’s largest organization of professionals dedicated to the treatment, control, and eradication of infectious diseases affecting children, has bestowed 29 distinguished physicians and scientists…
The September meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices gave short shrift to the extensive preparation and robust expertise that providers across all of healthcare had come to expect…
What a difference a year makes. I think it’s safe to say that no one would have predicted a month ahead of IDWeek 2024 that all childhood vaccines, the fundamental…
Vaccine mandates for school entry have proven to be effective for decades and resulted in high vaccination rates. These vaccines save lives and prevent long term complications from common infectious…
The firing of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, and the related, subsequent resignations of four top CDC leaders, for reportedly refusing to be a rubber stamp on…
Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed the labelling of COVID-19 vaccines in a manner that runs counter to the immense scientific evidence over multiple years we across the…
Andrea Green Hines, MD, FPIDS, is Associate Professor, Adult and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). She also serves as Medical Director for the Children’s Nebraska…
Our Society numbers greater than 2,700 members, at more than 500 institutions, across the country and around the world. Deciding where and when to speak using that larger Society voice…
Monica I. Ardura, DO, MSCS, FPIDS, is Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Medical Director of the Host Defense Program and Section Chief of the…
Last week the new, inexpert Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices hosted its first meeting. Prior to that debacle, the American Academy of Pediatrics and PIDS aligned in withholding our formal…
“The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is intended to provide “expert advice” on federal immunization policy. That is how the committee operated prior to the extraordinary firings earlier this…
Leena B. Mithal, MD, MSCI, FPIDS is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is…
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