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20
Jul 2012
Rotavirus vaccines making a global difference
From Cincinnati to Mexico to Belgium to Australia, vaccines to protect against rotavirus are significantly reducing deaths and hospitalizations from severe childhood diarrhea. Worldwide, rotavirus causes more than 453,000 deaths a year, according to the latest mortality estimates. That’s down from a pre-vaccine estimate of 527,000 deaths a year from the World Health Organization (WHO).
By: Tim Bonfield | 0
Research and Discoveries
 

29
Feb 2012
Ridding the world of meningitis
Even in a world of modern antibiotics, meningitis maintains a stubborn foothold. This bacterial infection of membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord continues to kill or permanently disable an alarming number of infants, children and adults. Effective vaccination programs against the two most common causes of meningitis mean that today it primarily affects low
By: Blog Editorial Team | 0
Vaccines
 

03
Jan 2011
Best Way to Thwart Flu? Vaccinate All Children Starting at 6 Months (Part 2)
The best way to disrupt the spread of influenza is immunization for everyone — even the healthiest people — beginning at 6 months of age. But what about the very young — infants under 6 months for whom no flu vaccines are licensed? The best way to protect them from influenza is by vaccinating their
By: Mark C. Steinhoff MD | 0
Vaccines
 

20
Dec 2010
Best Way to Thwart Flu? Vaccinate All Children Starting at 6 Months (Part 1)
The best way to disrupt the spread of influenza is immunization for everyone — even the healthiest people — beginning at 6 months of age. That’s what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends. And more and more studies are proving the benefits, including a Finnish study that recently reported that flu immunization in
By: Mark C. Steinhoff MD | 0
Vaccines
 

25
Oct 2010
What we learned from H1N1 and how it helps us this flu season
Flu season 2010-11 is fast approaching and as part of our preparation for this year’s strains of influenza, we’re remembering lessons from last year’s H1N1 pandemic. It was a flu season unlike any that we’ve seen before. With H1N1, we were reminded that pregnant women are more profoundly affected by influenza than the general population,
By: Beverly Connelly MD | 1
Vaccines
 

12
Oct 2010
Pro-vaccine movement could try opponents’ tactics
Maybe we just need to scare the hell out of people. That was the message from one the country’s leading advocates for childhood immunizations during a talk last week at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting in San Francisco. After all, said Paul Offit, MD, chair of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, that’s
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Vaccines
 

10
Aug 2010
Whooping cough epidemic linked to people who refuse vaccines
California’s whooping cough epidemic could be the worst in 50 years. As of late July, the state reported nearly 2,200 cases of the bacterial infection, including seven deaths — all infants younger than two months. And now whooping cough is on the rise in other states, too. Why? Because people aren’t getting vaccinated. It happened
By: Bob Frenck MD | 0
Vaccines
 

10
Feb 2010
Encouraging news in global vaccine work
Stamping out disease may have seemed like nothing more than a pipe dream a few generations ago, but today we know the power of modern medicine: once common diseases like small pox and polio are now usually only mentioned in medical textbooks and documentaries on the History Channel. And we dare to dream of even
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Vaccines
 

03
Feb 2010
Lancet officially retracts study linking autism and MMR vaccine
The British medical journal Lancet yesterday announced its decision to officially retract Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 study linking autism and the MMR vaccine. The decision was the result of long standing scientific concerns about the article – more than a dozen studies have proven there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism spectrum disorders –
By: Bob Frenck MD | 0
Vaccines
 

18
Oct 2009
Debating the Science of Vaccines
The H1N1 vaccine is now available to the public, but instead of making plans to get the vaccine, many families are writing it off and encouraging other families to do the same. This, and an increasing trend among young, educated parents to question the safety and necessity of childhood vaccinations, has me worried that parents
By: Bob Frenck MD | 1

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