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Flu Shots (11/1/07)
Ask your primary care doctor or cystic fibrosis team about getting immunized against influenza. Vaccines are now available.

Infection Control Policy (11/1/07)
One important goal of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC is to create an environment that is safe and comfortable for all CF families by reducing or halting the spread of organisms and germs in the hospital and clinics. In 2001, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation developed recommendations for infection control based on research, theory and/or state and federal regulations. Many of these recommendations were implemented at Children’s in 2002.

Throughout 2007,  a team of infection control doctors and nurses, CF center doctors and nurses, as well as inpatient and outpatient respiratory therapists, have met to review our data, as well as current research, to make sure we were doing everything possible to provide the best infection control possible. As a result of this work, we have updated and revised our CF infection control policy.

Additional information about infection control is available through the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Please contact us at 412-692-5630 for questions or more information.

CF Patient Begins 2,000 Mile Bike Ride To, From Florida
WTAE-TV, (5/16/07)