New look for websites
Exciting news! As part of a redesign and update for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s website, several Vaccine Education Center (VEC) websites have also gotten a new look and updated navigation. The updated sites include more imagery, a mega navigation and breadcrumb navigation at the tops of pages and jump navigation to allow readers to get to certain parts of a page without the need to scroll. Check out our new look on these sites:
Vaccine Education Center (vaccine.chop.edu) — “Vaccines & Diseases” is the new “Look at Each Vaccine” section with the same vaccine-by-vaccine content. The new “Vaccine Safety” section includes previous sections related to vaccine ingredients and vaccines and other conditions as well as other safety concerns and our vaccine safety references page. “Vaccine Science & History” includes those topics as well as our global immunization information. In addition to the schedules, the “Vaccine Schedule” section includes our age-based pages, vaccine considerations for specific groups, info related to altering the schedule, and other schedule-related issues. Our popular “Human Immune System” remains a section of its own on this website.
Vaccine Update (vaccine.chop.edu/vaccineupdate) — Our popular “Resources” section has moved to this website, so providers can more easily navigate to the various resources we offer. The navigation on this site will continue to include the newsletter, webinars, online learning and calendar sections.
Parents PACK (vaccine.chop.edu/parents) — Perhaps the most exciting change to this website is the addition of a new section, “Evaluating Information,” which gathers all of our tools and articles as well as external resources in one place to help people sort through the information they are seeing and hearing. Our “Rash Information” has also moved to this site, so families can more easily find it. The mobile app has been moved to a new “Resources” section on this site, and other sections remain, including the newsletter, personal stories and Dr. Handy’s Corner.
We hope you will take some time to check out our updated sites! Can’t find something? Let us know, so we can help. Find any bugs or broken links? We want to hear that too! This has been a huge project, and we are so excited for you to see the results! We hope you find the updates and changes to be helpful, but we welcome any and all feedback as we continue to work to make our materials available to you and your patients, families, colleagues, friends and others!
Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction
Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction, by Dr. Paul Offit and Charlotte Moser, will be released by Columbia University Press in September 2024. The updated book (previous version published in 2011) has been expanded to address vaccines across the lifespan as well as new vaccines, e.g., COVID-19, mpox, dengue and RSV. The new version also addresses additional vaccine safety concerns, including information about DNA, fertility, talking to others with differing views about vaccines, and getting vaccines when taking certain types of medications.
Find out more or see where to get the book on the Columbia University Press website.
Have you registered for the upcoming webinar?
The next “Current Issues in Vaccines” webinar will occur on Sept. 11 at noon ET. Drs. Offit and Handy will discuss, “Implementing ACIP Recommendations this Fall.”
Find out more or register today.
The Vaccine Education Center (VEC) would like to thank our co-sponsors, the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Thomas F. McNair Scott Endowed Research and Lectureship Fund, which supports this program.
Print-on-demand program launch
As a reminder, the VEC is making changes to our tear pad ordering program. Beginning on Sept. 16, providers will be able to order our popular Q&A sheets, infographics and “Special Topics” sheets individually. Whereas previously Q&A sheets were available in pads of 50, offering individual sheets will enable us to offer fewer sheets per order and a wider array of our titles.
Check out the titles:
- Vaccine- and Vaccine Safety-Related Q&A Sheets
- “Special Topics” Online Series Q&A Sheets
- Vaccine- and Disease-related Infographics
New look for websites
Exciting news! As part of a redesign and update for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s website, several Vaccine Education Center (VEC) websites have also gotten a new look and updated navigation. The updated sites include more imagery, a mega navigation and breadcrumb navigation at the tops of pages and jump navigation to allow readers to get to certain parts of a page without the need to scroll. Check out our new look on these sites:
Vaccine Education Center (vaccine.chop.edu) — “Vaccines & Diseases” is the new “Look at Each Vaccine” section with the same vaccine-by-vaccine content. The new “Vaccine Safety” section includes previous sections related to vaccine ingredients and vaccines and other conditions as well as other safety concerns and our vaccine safety references page. “Vaccine Science & History” includes those topics as well as our global immunization information. In addition to the schedules, the “Vaccine Schedule” section includes our age-based pages, vaccine considerations for specific groups, info related to altering the schedule, and other schedule-related issues. Our popular “Human Immune System” remains a section of its own on this website.
Vaccine Update (vaccine.chop.edu/vaccineupdate) — Our popular “Resources” section has moved to this website, so providers can more easily navigate to the various resources we offer. The navigation on this site will continue to include the newsletter, webinars, online learning and calendar sections.
Parents PACK (vaccine.chop.edu/parents) — Perhaps the most exciting change to this website is the addition of a new section, “Evaluating Information,” which gathers all of our tools and articles as well as external resources in one place to help people sort through the information they are seeing and hearing. Our “Rash Information” has also moved to this site, so families can more easily find it. The mobile app has been moved to a new “Resources” section on this site, and other sections remain, including the newsletter, personal stories and Dr. Handy’s Corner.
We hope you will take some time to check out our updated sites! Can’t find something? Let us know, so we can help. Find any bugs or broken links? We want to hear that too! This has been a huge project, and we are so excited for you to see the results! We hope you find the updates and changes to be helpful, but we welcome any and all feedback as we continue to work to make our materials available to you and your patients, families, colleagues, friends and others!
Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction
Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction, by Dr. Paul Offit and Charlotte Moser, will be released by Columbia University Press in September 2024. The updated book (previous version published in 2011) has been expanded to address vaccines across the lifespan as well as new vaccines, e.g., COVID-19, mpox, dengue and RSV. The new version also addresses additional vaccine safety concerns, including information about DNA, fertility, talking to others with differing views about vaccines, and getting vaccines when taking certain types of medications.
Find out more or see where to get the book on the Columbia University Press website.
Have you registered for the upcoming webinar?
The next “Current Issues in Vaccines” webinar will occur on Sept. 11 at noon ET. Drs. Offit and Handy will discuss, “Implementing ACIP Recommendations this Fall.”
Find out more or register today.
The Vaccine Education Center (VEC) would like to thank our co-sponsors, the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Thomas F. McNair Scott Endowed Research and Lectureship Fund, which supports this program.
Print-on-demand program launch
As a reminder, the VEC is making changes to our tear pad ordering program. Beginning on Sept. 16, providers will be able to order our popular Q&A sheets, infographics and “Special Topics” sheets individually. Whereas previously Q&A sheets were available in pads of 50, offering individual sheets will enable us to offer fewer sheets per order and a wider array of our titles.
Check out the titles:
- Vaccine- and Vaccine Safety-Related Q&A Sheets
- “Special Topics” Online Series Q&A Sheets
- Vaccine- and Disease-related Infographics