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About the Red Book® – General Information
About the Red Book
About Red Book Online
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Red Book Editors Through The Ages
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About the Red Book®
For 70 years, the Red Book® has set standards of quality, authority and value that no competitive resource can match. The newly revised and updated 2009 Red Book® continues this tradition of excellence with the latest findings and clinical guidelines on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 common childhood conditions.
With incomparable breadth and depth of coverage, the 2009 Red Book® brings you vital practice-focused information in topic areas such as immunizations, school health, blood safety, sexually transmitted infections, drug therapy, and antimicrobial prophylaxis; and diseases from anthrax and smallpox to West Nile virus, tuberculosis, influenza, and pneumococcal infections.
Red Book® is developed by the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases, and its content, including contributions from hundreds of experienced practitioners, is reviewed by the CDC and FDA.
About Red Book® Online
Red Book® Online is the online home of the report of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases. Offering instant Web-based access, you will find the complete text of the Red Book®, the complete visual library of over 2,000 images, vaccine status information, infectious disease news, and much more.
As a subscriber, you will have access to essential infectious diseases and immunization information, including important updates. Red Book® Online is available to both individuals and institutions.
Red Book® Online won an award from the Fall/Winter 2008 World Wide Web Health Awards Program from the Health Information Resource Center (HRIC), a national clearinghouse for consumer health programs and materials (Silver Award, Web site from an Association/Professional Society in the Health Promotion/Disease & Injury Prevention category).
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History of the Red Book®
Excerpt from "A History of the American Academy of Pediatrics: June 1930-June 1951" by Marshall Carleton Pease, BS, MD
"Immunization Procedures" (1938) [now known as the "Red Book"] has appeared under a varying list of titles, such as "Immunization and Therapeutic Procedures for Acute Infectious Diseases" (1939), "Therapeutic Procedures for Acute Infectious Diseases and on Biologicals" (1943), etc. "Immunization Procedures" first appeared as an eight-page booklet (1938). With each succeeding publication its size was expanded, until by 1948 eighty-four pages were required to briefly cover the material which it seemed necessary to include between its covers. The series of eight issues quite accurately mirrors the rapid increase in the therapeutic agents which were considered necessary for the successful treatment of acute infectious diseases, between 1937 and 1948.
Excerpt from "American Academy Of Pediatrics: The First 50 Years (1930-1980)" by James G. Hughes, BA, MD, FAAP
A mimeographed report was first put out by this committee [the Committee on Immunization and Therapeutic Procedures for Acute Infectious Diseases, now known as the Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID)]. The succeeding year, 1938, the report was published in pamphlet form and a revision of the pamphlet was made almost every year. There was immediately a great demand for the pamphlet from physicians, students, health departments, teachers, pharmaceutical houses, etc. The publishing and distribution of the pamphlet was financed by the Academy Central Office from a pamphlet and publication fund that was created by the Executive Board in 1962. The publication is now known as the Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (Red Book)....
Red Book® Editors Through the Ages
| John A. Toomey | 1938-1947 | 8 editions |
| John J. Miller | 1951-1952 | 2 editions |
| Aims McGuinness | 1955 | 1 edition |
| Edward C. Curnen | 1957 | 1 edition |
| Alex J. Steigman | 1961 | 1 edition |
| Franklin H. Top | 1964-1970 | 3 editions |
| Alex J. Steigman | 1974-1977 | 2 editions |
| Jerome Klein | 1982 | 1 edition |
| Georges Peter | 1986-1997 | 5 editions |
| Larry Pickering | 2000-2009 | 4 editions |
Source: 2001 Tales From the Red Book, prepared for the 43rd Pediatric Symposium in Long Beach, California
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