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Smoking, Asthma Now Constitute Indications for Pneumococcal Vaccination
The AAFP has adopted recommendations (1-page PDF; About PDFs) from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, for the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, or PPSV23.The provisional recommendations...
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Breast-feeding and a subsequent diagnosis of measles
Silfverdal SA et al.- Immunization against measles provides effective protection against the disease. A more modest reduction in the risk of a measles diagnosis is associated with breast-feeding. The associations with a...
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Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Jan. 6, 2009, issue
Outbreaks of Viral Hepatitis Linked to Lapses in Infection Control Practices in Health Care Settings While transmission of Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV) virus in health care settings is considered rare, recent reports of outbreaks...
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Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Jan. 6, 2009, issue
Outbreaks of Viral Hepatitis Linked to Lapses in Infection Control Practices in Health Care Settings While transmission of Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV) virus in health care settings is considered rare, recent reports of outbreaks...
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Health Highlights: Jan. 1, 2009
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Updated immunization recommendations for flu shots for children have been unveiled by three leading U.S.health groups. The revised 2009...
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Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (SNVBF) Announces that Government Investigation Rules Out Healive's Role in Child's Death
BEIJING, Dec.31 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- (NYSE Alternext US: SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, today provided an update regarding the suspension of the Company's inactivated hepatitis A vaccine Healive, following a report of the...
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Study Shows Correlation In New Mexico Between Childhood Immunization Rates And Medicaid Enrollment
New Mexico has the highest proportion of children in the nation enrolled in Medicaid.An article published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE highlights research showing that childhood immunization rates in the state suffered when...
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HPV-16 oncoprotein vaccine protects against head and neck cancer in mice
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Immunization with a vaccine that targets the E6 and E7 oncoproteins of human papillomavirus-16 (HPV-16) prevents mice with HPV-16-positive head and neck squamous cell cancers (HNSCCs) from expressing these...
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HPV-16 oncoprotein vaccine protects against head and neck cancer in mice
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Immunization with a vaccine that targets the E6 and E7 oncoproteins of human papillomavirus-16 (HPV-16) prevents mice with HPV-16-positive head and neck squamous cell cancers (HNSCCs) from expressing these...
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Health Groups Release 2009 Immunization Schedules
Updated immunization recommendations for childhood influenza vaccinations are included in the 2009 Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules released jointly today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the...
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Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedules Revised
The 2009 recommended childhood and adolescent immunization schedules have been approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the...
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Sinovac Announces that Government Investigation Rules Out Healive's Role in Child's Death
- Autopsy Results Show the Death was Caused by Myocarditis - BEIJING, December 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of vaccines in China, today provided an update regarding the suspension of the Company's...
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Sinovac Announces that Government Investigation Rules Out Healive's Role in Child's Death
- Autopsy Results Show the Death was Caused by Myocarditis - BEIJING, Dec.31 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. , a leading provider of vaccines in China, today provided an update regarding the suspension of the Company's...
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Sinovac Announces that Government Investigation Rules Out Healive's Role in Child's Death
- Autopsy Results Show the Death was Caused by Myocarditis - BEIJING, Dec.31 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. , a leading provider of vaccines in China, today provided an update regarding the suspension of the Company's...
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Sinovac Announces that Government Investigation Rules Out Healive's Role in Child's Death
- Autopsy Results Show the Death was Caused by Myocarditis - BEIJING, Dec.31 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. , a leading provider of vaccines in China, today provided an update regarding the suspension of the Company's...
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Sinovac Biotech provides update on suspension of vaccine Healive - Update
Wednesday, Sinovac Biotech Ltd.(SVA: News ), a provider of vaccines in China said government investigation ruled out the company's role in the death of a minor in the Fengtai District in the City of Beijing on November 27, 2008, after the...
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Sinovac Announces that Government Investigation Rules Out Healive's Role in Child's Death
- Autopsy Results Show the Death was Caused by Myocarditis - BEIJING, December 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd., a leading provider of vaccines in China, today provided an update regarding the suspension of the Company's...
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Reports outline immunization study results from Immunology Center
- (NewsRx.com) -- New investigation results, 'The safety of post-exposure vaccination of mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis,' are detailed in a study published in Vaccine (see also Immunization).'New post-exposure...
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SDI Reports: Number of Flu Vaccines Given in Physicians Offices Lower This Season
The Number of Vaccines Given After Thanksgiving Has Not Rebounded PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Despite recommendations from the CDCs Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that healthcare providers encourage...
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Merck Focusing on Combination Vaccine
Manufacturer Stops Sales of Monovalents for Measles, Mumps, Rubella Merck & Co.has stopped production and sales of its monovalent vaccines for measles, mumps and rubella. The manufacturer instead plans to focus on its...
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Paediatricians recommend Rotarix as optional vaccine for diarrhoea
Paediatricians have started increasingly recommending oral rotavirus vaccine as an option for immunizing infants between 6 to 24 weeks of age against rotavirus-caused gastroenteritis.Rotarix, the novel rotavirus vaccine, manufactured by...
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Paediatrics recommends Rotarix as optional vaccine for diarrhoea
Paediatricians have started increasingly recommending oral rotavirus vaccine as an option for immunizing infants between 6 to 24 weeks of age against rotavirus-caused gastroenteritis.Rotarix, the novel rotavirus vaccine, manufactured by...
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GSK Ready to Supply Relenza to Meet New CDC Interim Recommendations this Flu Season
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Dec.19 /PRNewswire/ -- GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is prepared to respond to public health needs for RELENZA(R) (zanamivir) Inhalation Powder this flu season following a Health Alert Advisory issued by the Centers...
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Adults Urged To Get A Flu Vaccination
According to a recent Rand Corporation survey, by mid-November 2008, only three in ten adults aged 18 years and older had been vaccinated against influenza.Only one in five adults said they intended to receive the vaccine during the...
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Kansas Identifies First Flu Case
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced today that the first flu case of the 2008-2009 flu season has been identified in south-central Kansas.Health officials are reminding Kansans that if they've not already done...
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