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The World Health Organization estimates that vaccines prevent between 2 and 3 million deaths per year, and that this figure would rise by 1.5 million if all children received recommended vaccinations (1). The careless storage and monitoring of vaccines makes achieving...

Preparing for a Vaccines for Children (VFC) site visit can feel overwhelming. Site visits are conducted to insure that vaccines are being ordered in appropriate quantities, stored and handled properly, and that only VFC eligible patients are receiving VFC vaccines, with...

Urgent care clinics offer the perfect opportunity for patients to be vaccinated. According to the Urgent Care Association of America, there were around 7,000 urgent care clinics in 2016, and more than half (66 percent) of urgent care patients have an outside primary care...

Proper vaccine storage and monitoring equipment is essential to delivering safe and effective vaccines to patients. Medical-grade vaccine refrigerators and accurate temperature monitoring devices can be thought of as an insurance policy for sensitive and expensive...

Recognition of the need for medical-grade refrigeration is on the rise. Tight temperature control has proven to be very influential in the potency and effectiveness of certain vaccines and medications. This has led to an increase in regulation, guidelines, and...

Each week during flu season, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) posts FluView, a weekly influenza surveillance report prepared by the Influenza Division. The report provides a quick synopsis of important flu virus statistics presented in easy to read charts and...