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  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 2 months ago | contemporarypediatrics.com | Joshua Fitch |John A Parkinson |Tina Tan

    According to multiple national reports, a child who was not vaccinated has died amid a measles outbreak occurring in Texas.

  • 2 months ago | contemporarypediatrics.com | Joshua Fitch |John A Parkinson |Tina Tan

    Contemporary Pediatrics' editor-in-chief, Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP, is also the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), a community of over 13,000 physicians, scientists and public health experts who specialize in infectious diseases.1 According to IDSA's website, the society's purpose to improve the health of individuals, communities, and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health, and prevention relating to infectious...

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Tina Tan
Tina Tan @MedtechTinaTan
18 Oct 24

Here's some free advice to entrepreneurs doing their start-up pitch: Please do not mumble or worse, mumble quickly. Not naming names, just saying #startups #innovators #howtopitch

Tina Tan
Tina Tan @MedtechTinaTan
18 Oct 24

I don't think this is said enough nor do #healthtech developers take this into account but as .@dacadoo CEO says about getting consumers to adopt your #digitalhealth product: make it relevant, make it easy to understand, make it fun #consumerhealth #FH24 https://t.co/DFXWQBKtbT

Tina Tan
Tina Tan @MedtechTinaTan
18 Oct 24

CEOs of #digitaldrug combination products highlight how adding the software-enhanced label to a drug could benefit pharma by strengthening patent estate, making that patent cliff less steep #FH24 #healthtech #digitaltherapeutics .@closed_loop_med .@Click_Tx https://t.co/HbkCIOKTGp