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Whenever the subject of vaccines comes up, it’s more often than not in the context of myths and controversies questioning their safety, effectiveness, and overall value. And with strong supporters on both sides of this polarizing issue, how can we as healthcare professionals ensure the health and safety of our patients?
Explore this question and more on VacciNation, providing new insights on vaccines, the illnesses they prevent, and how opposing viewpoints on them can impact the world around us.
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Dispelling Common Misconceptions About Vaccines
Guest: Barbara Pahud, MD
More patients are receiving conflicting information about vaccines, and after the rise of preventable outbreaks in 2019, Dr. Barbara P…
How to Curb Patients’ Vaccine Hesitancy
Guest: Claudette Poole, MD
There’s been a rising number of parents who delay or refuse vaccines for their child, causing the World Health Organization to list va…
Vaccinations: How Can HCPs Respond to Patients Choosing Not to Get Them?
It’s an unfortunate reality that an increasing number of patients are refusing to get vaccinated—regardless of whether that’s the recommendation for themselves or…
Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: The (Disregarded) Value of Vaccines
As physicians, we know that vaccines help protect people from preventable diseases, but somehow this message is getting lost among our patients. With mor…
The Importance of Immunizations
August is National Immunization Awareness Month sponsored by the National Public Health Information Coalition. Dr. Jennifer Caudle discusses the important role imm…
Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine: Selling HPV & Cervical Cancer
Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection remains one of the most common sexually transmitted infections in both females and males, with about 9 in 10 people …
Addressing the Challenges of Influenza Vaccination on US College Campuses
Guest: Lisa Ipp, MD
Although most college students in the U.S. believe it is important to get an annual influenza vaccine, less than half say they typically ge…
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, & the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
Guest: Meredith Wadman, BM, BCh, M.S.
Until the late 1960s, tens of thousands of American children suffered crippling birth defects if their mothers had been expo…
The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vacci…