Kobayashi, Miwako;
Pilishvili, Tamara;
Farrar, Jennifer L;
Leidner, Andrew J;
Gierke, Ryan;
Prasad, Namrata;
Moro, Pedro;
Campos-Outcalt, Doug;
Morgan, Rebecca L;
Long, Sarah S;
Poehling, Katherine A;
Cohen, Adam L.
his report compiles and summarizes all published recommendations from CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of pneumococcal vaccines in adults aged ≥19 years in the United States. This report also includes updated and new clinical guidance for implementation from CDC.
Bef...
Estimated rates of influenza-associated hospitalization and death are generally highest among individuals 65 years of age and older (1-4), an age group for whom influenza vaccine effectiveness is often lower relative to younger populations (5, 6). Two inactivated influenza vaccines approved in the U.S. f...
Kligerman, Seth;
Bykowski, Julie;
Hurwitz Koweek, Lynne;
Policeni, Bruno;
Ghoshhajra, Brian;
Brown, Michael;
Davis, Andrew;
Dibble, Elizabeth;
Johnson, Thomas;
Khosa, Faisal;
Ledbetter, Luke;
Leung, Steve;
Liesbeskind, David;
Litmanovich, Diana;
Maroules, Christopher;
Panell, Jeffrey;
Powers, William;
Villines, Todd;
Wang, Lily;
Wann, Samuel;
Corey, Amanda;
Abbara, Suhny.
Syncope and presyncope lead to well over one million emergency room visits in the United States each year. Elucidating the cause of syncope or presyncope, which are grouped together given similar etiologies and outcomes, can be exceedingly difficult given the diverse etiologies. This becomes more challen...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United
States; 148,869 lung cancer-associated deaths occurred in 2016
(1). Mortality might be reduced by identifying lung cancer
at an early stage when treatment can be more effective (2).
In 2013, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
re...
Ren, Clement L;
Esther, Charles R;
Debley, Jason S;
Sockrider, Marianna;
Amin, Nikhil;
Bazzy-Asaad, Alia;
Davis, Stephanie D;
Durand, Manuel;
Ewig, Jeffrey M;
Yuksel, Hasan;
Lombardi, Enrico;
Noah, Terry L;
Radford, Peggy;
Ranganathan, Sarath;
Teper, Alejandro;
Weinberger, Miles;
Brozek, Jan;
Wilson, Kevin C.
Infantile wheezing is a common problem, but there are no guidelines for the evaluation of infants with recurrent or persistent wheezing that is not relieved or prevented by standard therapies. An American Thoracic Society-sanctioned guideline development committee selected clinical questions related to u...
Birkmeyer, John D;
Bronner, Kristen K;
Bubolz, Thomas A;
Campbell, Diane E;
Fisher, Elliott S;
O’Connor, Gerald T;
Poage, James F;
Sharp, Sandra M;
Skinner, Jonathan S;
Stukel, Thérèse A;
Wennberg, David E.
The United States leads the world, by a substantial measure, in its monetary commitment to medical care. If, as we have long believed, more care is better care, then American medicine must surely be the best in the world. But where is the “best” of American medicine?
Previous editions of the Atlas h...
