Most recent by Theodore C. Eickhoff, MD
Penicillin: An accidental discovery changed the course of medicine
Experts discuss options for flu vaccines
I was disappointed by the recently published recommendations and reports on influenza by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It was an extensive document, but purposefully gave no advice on which vaccines are preferable. The committee’s statement, “No preferential recommendation is made for one influenza vaccine product over another for persons for whom more than one product is otherwise appropriate,” begs the question of what is advisable based on available information.
Experts discuss options for flu vaccines
I was disappointed by the recently published recommendations and reports on influenza by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. It was an extensive document, but purposefully gave no advice on which vaccines are preferable. The committee’s statement, “No preferential recommendation is made for one influenza vaccine product over another for persons for whom more than one product is otherwise appropriate,” begs the question of what is advisable based on available information.
Conventional wisdom of influenza A; a historical perspective
Many years ago, one of the authors, Donald Kaye, MD, had the good fortune to work with Edwin D. Kilbourne, MD, who was one of the leading researchers in the area of influenza. It was several years after the influenza A(H2N2) pandemic of 1957 and the A(H2N2) virus was circulating yearly causing interpandemic epidemics. At that time, there were a number of dogmas of conventional wisdom about influenza A.