Tina Tan
Executive Editor at FirstWord HealthTech
Editor of @fwhealthtech | Geekoid that gets excited about techy stuff and strokes of engineering genius
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1 week ago |
contemporarypediatrics.com | Tina Tan
Last week, the FDA approved an expanded indication for Sanofi's MenQuadfi meningococcal vaccine—for the prevention of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, W, and Y—that now includes children aged 6 weeks to 23 months. The approval expanded on the previous indication for individuals aged 2 years or older.
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2 weeks ago |
contemporarypediatrics.com | Tina Tan
On May 20, 2025, the FDA announced a new COVID-19 vaccination regulatory framework for future seasonal vaccines and additional clinical trial requirements for approval of vaccines intended for healthy individuals.
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2 months ago |
healio.com | Caitlyn Stulpin |Kristen Dowd |Tina Tan |Susan Ashley Speckhart
Key takeaways: Two doses of MMR vaccine are 97% effective and leave recipients protected for life. Several populations of adults are not immune and may need another dose. A colleague who spends summers in New Mexico, where there is an ongoing measles outbreak, had a question for Healio’s infectious diseases news team: If she was vaccinated against measles in the 1960s, does she need another shot? The answer is not so cut and dried.
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2 months ago |
contemporarypediatrics.com | Tina Tan
The April 2025 issue of Contemporary Pediatrics is now available in digital form! Below, find a message from our Editor in Chief Tina Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, who highlights articles featured in this month's issue with a focus on pediatric allergy awareness. Tina Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS:Happy Spring!It is amazing how vaccine hesitancy and anti-public health sentiments have substantially increased over the last several months especially with spread of the measles outbreaks.
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2 months ago |
contagionlive.com | John Parkinson |Tina Tan
This is the second in a series looking at the reduction and restructuring of federal health services and how that will affect public health and infectious disease clinical care. This past Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it was going to reduce its workforce by laying off 10,000 full-time employees, and when combined with HHS’ other efforts expect to reduce the workforce by 20,000 employees.
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