World Immunization Week 2017- Vaccines Work

Written on 20 March 2017. Posted in 2017

World Immunization Week – celebrated in the last week of April – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.
Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) aims to prevent millions of deaths from vaccine-preventable diseases by 2020 through universal access to immunization. In order for everyone, everywhere to survive and thrive, countries must make more concerted efforts to reach GVAP goals by 2020.

Philadelphia’s Greek-American Community gathers to learn about CLEO Research

Written on 03 July 2015. Posted in 2015

By: Aphrodite Kotrotsios, Co-Publisher

Philadelphia, PA- On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, Philadelphia’s Greek-American community gathered at Estia Restaurant in Philadelphia to learn about the Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes (CLEO) presented by Dr. Theoklis Zaoutis, M.D., M.S.C.E.  Established in 2011, CLEO is a joint effort between the Department of Pediatrics of the “Aghia Sophia” and Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece and the Department of Pediatrics “P. & A. Kyriakou” Children’s Hospital, Athens, Greece.

Vaccines are safe, effective, and save lives.

Written on 12 January 2017. Posted in 2017

American Academy of Pediatrics emphasizes safety and importance of vaccines. Vaccines prevent life-threatening diseases, including forms of cancer. American Academy of Pediatrics is ready to work with the White House and the federal government to share the extensive scientific evidence demonstrating the safety of vaccines.

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Vaccines: Questions & Answers with Paul Offit

Written on 14 May 2015. Posted in 2015

Text by Greg Johnson

At the tender age of 5, Paul Offit, a native of Baltimore, spent several months in 1956 in the city’s Kernan Hospital for Crippled Children while recovering from a clubfoot operation. Housed with him were around 20 children crippled from polio, a debilitating and paralyzing disease for which there was a new vaccine, but one which had not yet reached popular use.

Parents of the children in the hospital, which has been renamed and is now a part of the University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute, were only allowed to visit for one hour each week on Sunday. Offit’s mother was pregnant at the time and unable to visit him, and he can vividly recall staring out the window, awaiting his father’s weekly return.

This distressing childhood experience would remain with Offit, and guide and influence his future work in pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases.