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Yesterday marked 100 days since Congress has failed to extend long-term funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, January 10, for a CHIP Day of Action and tell Congress to fund CHIP long-term immediately. Congressional inaction... READ MORE

The legislation, enacted in 2011, required parents to talk to a doctor before they could get their child exempted from vaccinations for nonmedical reasons. Read the whole article >> READ MORE

Please read the following health alerts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and share with your colleagues Screening patients in hurricane-affected areas There have been media reports and accounts of various infectious diseases in hurricane-affected areas,... READ MORE

More than three times as many men than women in the U.S. have oral infections with human papillomavirus (HPV), a virus responsible for causing 31,500 new cancers every year, found a new study. And the HPV strain responsible for the vast majority of HPV-related cancers in the U.S.... READ MORE

For the 2017–18 season, Medicaid will reimburse up to five monthly palivizumab doses from November 27 through May 15. Except for the date change to accommodate a Monday start, the eligibility criteria for palivizumab will remain the same as during 2016–17, and will continue to... READ MORE

The potentially life-saving cancer vaccine has been around for more than a decade, so why isn’t everyone getting it? Read the whole article >> READ MORE

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued updated recommendations Monday for the flu vaccine, but some parent and pediatricians were disappointed that the FluMist nasal vaccine is once again not recommended. Read the whole story >> READ MORE