HHS adolescent vaccination “hot buttons”
Executive Summary
The HHS National Vaccines Advisory Committee's adolescent working group identifies three "hot button" issues concerning adolescent immunization: school mandates for vaccination, informed consent and use of non-traditional venues for adolescent immunization. The group hopes to publish a draft "defining the problems" in the upcoming months and put out a report within a year. A number of adolescent vaccines have been approved recently, including Merck's human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil and Sanofi-Pasteur's meningococcal conjugate vaccine Menactra (1"The Pink Sheet" Feb. 28, 2005, p. 28)...