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Forgetting Adult Immunization During Covid-19
Every day the COVID-19 pandemic continues to bring on new economic, social and health challenges for all members and especially those most at risk to ...
Addressing the public health impact of vaccine hesitancy
In recent news, vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs), specifically measles, are making a resurgence. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cases of measles have increased by 30%, ...
The Outbreak of Vaccine Hesitancy
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), measles cases have skyrocketed with a 300 % increase worldwide in the first three months of 2019 alone, when compared to ...
August is National Immunization Awareness Month – get the facts about vaccination
All month long, there will be stories, debates and conversations about vaccinations. Once common-place in life, vaccinations today face scrutiny. The anti-vax movement has taken ...
Health in the Headlines
Experts at the School of Health Professions and Human Services, the Saltzman Community Services Center, the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant ...
The return on measles and how this once eradicated disease is making an epic comeback
Once long gone and considered a thing of the past – measles is back in America. The childhood disease that was usually easily contained by a ...
Measles is back…and our experts want people to leave the facts about vaccinations to the experts
Last week, America hit a record. Confirmed cases of measles eclipsed 700 cases. The disease that was once considered eradicated is now back and it has ...
Do the religious really have a right NOT to vaccinate? Contact our experts to find out.
As measles, mumps and other once easily controlled and previously eradicated diseases are now spreading across states and communities in America – the great vaccination debate ...
Endangered immunity: Low vaccination rates trigger a resurgence of measles
The measles vaccine prevented approximately 21.1 million deaths from 2000 through 2017, a recent CNN article reports: Yet measles, a disease that has been close to elimination in ...
