Below is a list of links we recommend for families to learn more about vaccines, their effectiveness, their safety, the diseases they prevent, and more.
 

This site from the Immunization Action Coalition has pictures of children with vaccine-preventable disease.  Any parent considering not immunizing their child should look at this website.  Americans have a sense of security that these diseases will not affect their child, but they are still possible and vaccines are an important method to stop children from harm.

The Center for Disease Control is an excellent resource for many health and safety topics, from birth defects to breastfeeding to immunizations and diseases.  Travelers can follow the links to their destination to see which immunizations and medications are recommended for their trip.  The CDC also has a short video answering the most common questions parents have about vaccines and their safety.

Vaccinate Your Baby is an awareness campaign for vaccines.  Their site has news and information for parents who want to learn the truth about immunizations and how to protect their children against vaccine-preventable diseases.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has a web site page on vaccine education, vaccine safety regarding thimerosol and mercury.

A list of resources has been compiled by Immunize.org, click here. 

Ethical Concerns with Vaccines:

Autism and Vaccines:

 
Vaccines and Safety  

Thimerosal/Mercury:  Vaccines and Autism

Vaccines and Autism

Listen to Dr Paul Offit discuss the vaccine safety concerns (about 30 min) here.  Dr Offit is Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a founding advisory board member of the Autism Science Foundation, discusses the debate over vaccines and why the link between autism and vaccines has been discredited. His book Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All explains the origins of the anti-vaccine movement and how it has affected public health

Please read the "Related Documents" at the bottom of the page if you are interested in the studies that investigate the link between immunizations and autism and how to interpret the facts in this "dilemma".

Vaccine Information Sheets (VIS):  If you need VIS in another language, click here.

Chickenpox (Varicella): Varicella

Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis:  DTaP

Hepatitis A:  Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B:  Hepatitis B

Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib):  Hib

Human Papillomavirus:  Gardasil

Influenza for the 2011-2012 season: Intranasal and Injectable

Measles, Mumps, Rubella:  MMR

Meningococcal:  Meningococcal

Pneumococcal Conjugate:  PCV 13

Pneumococcal Polysaccharide (high risk people only):  PPV23

Polio:  Polio

Rotavirus:  Rotavirus

Tetanus, Diptheria, and Pertussis:  Tdap

Typhoid (not given in our office, high risk people/travel vaccine):  Typhoid

Yellow Fever (not given in our office, high risk/travel vaccine):  Yellow Fever