Felicia K. Taylor, MBA, CAE Chief Executive Officer New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics After over a year of navigating the pandemic, pediatricians now have direction about how to secure COVID-19 vaccines for their offices and guidance for administering it to children ages 12 and above. NJAAP is partnering with the Department of Health ... Read More
Jeanne Craft, MD, FAAP President New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics We are all emerging into a new normal. After more than a year of living under the shadow of the SARS-COV2 pandemic, businesses are opening, families are travelling, and friends are gathering.Vaccination, handwashing, masking if you are unvaccinated, and staying home if you ... Read More
Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network July 06, 2021, 12:00 PM ET CDCHAN-00445 Recall of LeadCare® Blood Lead Tests Due to Risk of Falsely Low Results Summary Magellan Diagnostics, Inc. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued a recall notice concerning the use of some LeadCare® Blood Lead Tests (certain LeadCare ... Read More
Clinicians for Climate Action New Jersey was founded in 2021 to engage New Jersey healthcare professionals to advocate for climate change solutions in order to support a transition to a healthy, equitable and sustainable future. Read more
As children begin to have play dates and return to school, camp and day care, routine childhood vaccinations are critical to keeping them healthy. Many children fell behind on receiving routine vaccinations during COVID-19; CDC’s public sector vaccine ordering data show a 14% drop in 2020-2021 compared with 2019 – with orders for measles vaccine down by ... Read More
