Vaccines and Medications

These schedules from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list the age or age range when each vaccine is recommended. View this site to print out a personalized immunization schedule or consult a catch-up schedule if your child has missed any shots.

Medication Guides are paper handouts that come with many prescription medicines. The guides address issues that are specific to particular drugs and drug classes, and they contain FDA-approved information that can help patients avoid serious adverse events.

Giving kids medicine safely can be complicated. It may be frightening to give a young child certain medications knowing that too much or too little can cause serious side effects.

This table includes not only vaccine ingredients (e.g., adjuvants and preservatives), but also substances used during the manufacturing process,
including vaccine-production media, that are removed from the final product and present only in trace quantities.