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Prioritizing Teen Health on World Meningitis Day

On World Meningitis Day (April 24), Dr. Freda Lewis-Hall, Pfizer's Chief Patient Officer and Executive Vice President, and Mary Dell Harrington, co-founder of Grown & Flown, the largest U.S.-based online community for parents of children who are high school and college age, hosted a Facebook Live event to raise awareness of the importance of talking with teens about health care. Nearly 300,000 people viewed the discussion, which highlighted how parents can create a "Health Check List" with their teenagers. Topics discussed included: how parents can help teens keep their health on track, the importance of ensuring teens are up-to-date on vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and information about meningococcal disease, including Group B disease, and linking to the educational site MeetMeningitis.com.

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