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Introduction Congress established the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program in 1994 to provide routine vaccines at no cost to eligible children. Since introduction of the VFC program, vaccination of children [...]

Introduction Based on safety and efficacy data, vaccinations are the best defense to protect persons and communities from serious vaccine-preventable diseases. 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Vaccines for [...]

Introduction The World Health Organization describes immunization as a 'global health and development success story,' responsible for preventing 3.5-5 million deaths each year. * In the United States, the Advisory [...]

Millions of young children are vaccinated safely in the United States each year against a variety of potentially dangerous infectious diseases (1). The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends [...]

From Mr Michael Chen. Sir, Gary Schmitt and Daniel Blumenthal make a point that has been overlooked by the US as it advocates maintaining the status quo across the Taiwan [...]

From Mr Michael Chen. Sir, China's lambasting of Taiwan's bid to join the World Health Organisation for the ninth consecutive year shows its recent gestures of friendship are nothing more [...]

AUTHORS: Michael G. Chen, Louis Letendre, H. Clark Hoagland, Michelle M. Ryks and the Mayo Bone-Marrow Transplant Team. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. According to the authors' abstract of a poster [...]

Ever since he stormed to re-election in 2005 with surprising union support, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has enjoyed unusually warm relations with organized labor, negotiating contracts that critics have called overly generous. On Friday, though, Mr. Bloomberg began to push in the other direction, if gently, declaring in his budget address that if the city's pension and health benefits systems were not reformed, ''we'll fundamentally bankrupt big municipalities like us.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, in a dramatic presentation Thursday that included a Ric Burns-narrated video and a marching band, invoked Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Sept. 11 attacks as he called for New Yorkers to endure the current economic crisis and ''come out stronger together.'' In his annual State of the City address, Mr. Bloomberg described New York as ''shaken'' but ''not broken,'' and he put forward a nine-point plan to preserve and create 400,000 jobs, which he said he could accomplish without new government spending. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]