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May 3, 2010 — McNEIL RECALLS CERTAIN CHILDREN'S LIQUID PRODUCTS
March 23, 2010—Update on Rotarix vaccine recall: Rotarix, a rotavirus vaccine has been recalled. Mercer Island Pediatrics does not use the Rotarix vaccine which was first introduced in 2008. Instead, we utilize a vaccine called Rotateq that is manufactured by Merck. The vaccine was recalled on March 22, 2010. GlaxoSmithKline announced that it has detected the presence of a contaminating virus, the PCV-1 virus, in its oral rotavirus vaccine, Rotarix. The US Food and Drug Administration has similarly issued a statement confirming that there is no evidence that the finding poses a safety risk. PCV-1 is a known virus that does not multiply in humans and is not known to cause illness in humans. The World Health Organization and the European Medicines Agency are not expected to change current guidelines for using the drug, arguing that the benefit from the vaccine far outweighs any potential risk, according to a statement by GlaxoSmithKline. Please continue to visit our website for any updates. January 27, 2010—Dr. Danette Glassy receives a grant from Healthy Futures for improving Health Outcomes for Young Children. This grant is funded by MacNeil pharmaceutical, through the American Academy of Pediatrics. 7 grants were awarded for $7500 each. This money will be used to teach healthy and safe medication administration in child care by partnering with Child Care Health Consultants, Child Care Providers, and the Washington State Department of Early Learning. Over the next year, 4 train-the-trainer seminars will be developed and a Webinar produced. For more information about healthy and safe child care, go to
December 2009— Our resident, Dr. Aaron Grigg, has been awarded a CATCH grant. The grant is for research into attitudes of Hispanic/Latino families in the utilization of emergency services for their children. Dr. Grigg states: Overcrowding of emergency departments continues to worsen in many cities, pediatric hospitals included. Non-urgent visits create a backlog with detrimental effects on patients who require emergent treatment. An emergency visit is also a lost opportunity for building a relationship with the child's medical home. Our goal is to understand the reasons Hispanic/Latino parents bring their children to the emergency department for non-urgent medical conditions, and barriers that discourage families from seeking this care at primary care sites. This understanding will allow us to create a survey to identify the prevalence of these concerns in a representative sample of Spanish-speaking families. We plan to identify these reasons through a series of focus groups, led by a bilingual, bicultural facilitator. We will include Latino parents who have recently taken their child to the emergency department for care. The ultimate objective of this investigation is to inform the design of an effective intervention to promote appropriate use of health resources and improve access to a medical home for Latino children.
· August 30, 2009—Dr. Glassy talks with KING 5
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