Immunizations not just for kids

Most people remember being a kid and making trips to the doctor’s office for routine checkups. More often than not such trips were nothing to look forward to. A big reason for this was immunizations - a painful rite of passage that all children had to endure at one time or another.

But as much as immunizations, or shots, might be looked at as a means of protecting children from disease, adults should recognize the necessity of continuing to get their immunizations as well. While certain immunizations need only be administered once, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (A...