The ACIP or Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is a group of fifteen volunteer medical and public health experts who make vaccine recommendations for children and adults in the United States. The ACIP: helps the CDC set the US childhood immunization schedule, along with the AAP and AAFP. includes a consumer representative and fourteen experts […]
Although so-called alternative immunization schedules have been pushed by ‘vaccine friendly’ or disease friendly pediatricians for years, including Bob Sears and Jay Gordon, it is important to keep in mind that they are completely untested. Remember, there is no official alternative immunization schedule that you can follow. At best, you can follow a non-standard, parent-selected,
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In addition to most of the childhood immunizations, a few vaccines are given to pre-teens and teens to protect them against tetanus, pertussis, HPV, and meningococcal disease, including: Tdap – booster to protect against tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis HPV – the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV2, HPV4, or HPV9) MCV4 – vaccine that protects against four
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