At the 2 year well-child check, this may be the conversation at the end of the visit: Provider: “We will see him when he turns 3 years old!” Parent: “Wow, that’s a whole year! Seems like such a long time between visits! We are used to coming in for visits so often over the past
We are now well into “Flu season”. Here are a few updates from the NYS Department of Health from the past week regarding Influenza:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION about the upcoming Flu season: The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has advised AGAINST the use of FluMist, the intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine, for this upcoming 2016-2017 flu season. This recommendation is following an analysis that showed the poor efficacy of this type of flu vaccine during the past three flu