
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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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.
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1 month 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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1 month ago |
contagionlive.com | John Parkinson |Tina Tan
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And since Robert Kennedy Jr has taken over as HHS Secretary, he has instructed the CDC to no longer publish a public awareness campaign about influenza vaccines,1 and also postponed the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting that was supposed to happen this week.
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