Medical Director’s Notes

About the LIAV flu vaccine

For the 2018-19 flu season, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has added the intranasal live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) back to the list of recommended flu vaccines for children and adults.Â The ACIP recommended against LAIV for the past few seasons because of poor effectiveness.Â ...

30 July, 2018

Is it time for a Lyme vaccine?

Notes from the Medical Director Dr. Kristen Feemster is the Medical Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health's Immunization Program. Is it time for a Lyme vaccine? The New York Times recently reported what we've seen for several years now: that Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases...

27 February, 2018

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