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How to Talk with Patients About Vaccines
Conversations about vaccines with many patients can be easy. For some patients, vaccines can be a difficult topic. Talking with patients about uncomfortable topics can be challenging. However, it is part of providers’ everyday interactions with patients. Within these interactions, the uneasiness surrounding certain topics more often emanates from the patient than the provider. In…
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Vaccines and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Information Summaries Information summaries are provided for each vaccine currently routinely recommended for children, adolescents, adults, and pregnant women in the United States, along with the diseases they prevent. Each summary begins with a box summarizing recommendations for the vaccine, organized by age groups (infants, children, adolescents, and adults). The next box summarizes the Important…
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Monitoring Vaccine Safety
Safety standards for vaccines are very high given they are used among healthy persons for prevention rather than treatment, and it is often difficult to predict who will be exposed to and develop a particular disease, if they are not immune. Additionally, vaccines often target vulnerable populations such as infants and pregnant individuals. Vaccines can…
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Establishing Ongoing Funding for Post-Authorization Vaccine Safety Science
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Vaccines and Breastfeeding
Smallpox and yellow fever vaccinations should not be given to women who are currently breastfeeding. Both vaccine viruses have been transmitted to infants from breastfeeding mothers and caused adverse events1. However, these vaccines are not routinely recommended to the general population in the United States. Other vaccines that are currently routinely recommended for the general…
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IVS partners with GVDN
IVS is a partner in the Global Vaccine Data Network™ and consortium creating Safety by Numbers, a newsletter supporting vaccine safety communication.
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IVS launches website for the public to learn about COVID-19 vaccines
IVS launches website for the public to learn about COVID-19 vaccines for children, pregnant women and adults: www.letstalkcovidvaccines.com
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Vaccines and Pregnancy
Below is a table summarizing the recommended use of vaccines during pregnancy in the U.S. Included in this table is information most relevant to women of child-bearing age for certain vaccines. For more information about these vaccines and their use outside of pregnancy, please see the individual summaries on the following pages, or the websites…
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Introduction
This site contains useful information on vaccines that are routinely recommended for most children, adolescents, adults and pregnant women in the United States. This information has been compiled and tailored for all vaccine providers and their staff. First, evidence-based strategies for talking with patients about vaccines are described. Then, the vaccine safety system is discussed.…