Flu Vaccine Providing Less Protection
Getting a flu shot may not provide as much protection as you think this season. The Centers for Disease Control has reported a rise in resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Of the 350 influenza isolates...
View ArticleVaccine Antibody Shows Promise for Ovarian Cancer and Melanoma
In a recent study, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that giving patients with advanced melanoma or ovarian cancer that have been immunized with a GVAX vaccine, periodic infusions...
View ArticleWA Student Dies From MRSA
Chris Feden, a 20-year-old student from Tenino, Washington, has died from complications of pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus commonly referred to as MRSA. Feden, a student...
View ArticleChanges to Next Season’s Flu Vaccine
To keep up with the latest influenza outbreaks caused by strains that are not included in the current vaccine, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recommended that producers...
View ArticleFlu Shots for All Children Recommended
The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently voted to extend its recommendations for annual flu shots for children. Current recommendations cover children aged 6 months to 5 years...
View ArticleVaccine – Autism Link, Afterall?
Officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have agreed that vaccines administered to a 9-year old girl contributed to her condition. Hannah Poling of Athens, GA, and her family may...
View Article$2,000 For Exposure to Malaria
Seattle volunteers will be paid an estimated $2,000 or more to hold a paper cup containing mosquitoes infected with malaria against their arm, waiting for the insects to bite to test the effectiveness...
View ArticleWomen Given GARDASIL Have Fewer Abnormal Pap Smears
A new study shows that the HPV vaccine, GARDASIL, reduced abnormal Pap test results by 43 percent compared to women not given the vaccine. GARDASIL is FDA approved against the human papilloma virus...
View ArticleOne Step Closer to the Cause of Autism
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center are one step closer to understanding the cause of Autism. Approximately 1 in every 150 children is diagnosed with Autism in the United States. Autism is a...
View ArticleMerck Seeks GARDASIL Approval for Older Women
Merck & Co., Inc., has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and designated as priority a review of GARDASIL, a vaccine against types 6, 11, 16, and 18 of the human...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Vaccine Reduces Mortality
Researchers at Brooke Army Medical Center reported yesterday at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research that clinical trials are indicating their HER2 peptide E75...
View ArticleMore Than 20 Percent Of U.S. Children Aren’t Properly Immunized
Parents, caregivers and healthcare providers have spent the past week learning more about the benefits of infant immunization through an awareness program launched by the U.S. Department of Health and...
View ArticleOver 60? New Shingles Vaccine Highly Recommended
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly recommend a new vaccine, Zostavax, for anyone age 60 or older. The vaccine reduces the incidence of painful shingles, also known as herpes...
View ArticleUnder-vaccinating your child by choice?
The Centers for Disease Control issued a statement that indicated 20 percent of our 2-year-olds are under-vaccinated. ABC News and others reported on the announcement, saying that kids are missing...
View ArticleMontezuma’s Revenge No Threat to New Vaccine
Travelers to Mexico and many other locations around the world are warned to beware of Montezuma’s revenge and don’t drink the water. Doctors refer to Montezuma’s revenge as travelers’ diarrhea and it...
View ArticleNew Vaccine May Be Keeping Childhood Rotavirus at Bay
Rotavirus causes vomiting and diarrhea in the youngest children and can often be severe enough to warrant hospitalization. It can be even worse. Each day, 1,600 children around the world under the...
View ArticleDid Gardasil Cause Jenny’s Paralysis?
Jenny was a healthy, happy 13-year-old from Northern California until about 15 months ago when signs of muscle deterioration began appearing. At that time, she’d also completed the third and final...
View ArticleHIV Vaccine Study Halted as Too Logistically Complex
A vaccine that will prevent infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is thought to be the best hope for ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic sweeping the globe and the Vaccine Research Center (VRC)...
View ArticleFlu Vaccine Seems Less Effective for Elderly
The final results of a study involving thousands of male and female pneumonia patients, aged from 65 to 94, has revealed a questionable degree of benefit of annual influenza vaccinations in the elderly...
View ArticleFDA Announces Selection of This Season’s Flu Vaccine
The typical vaccination for influenza contains three strains of the influenza virus, carefully chosen to bring the greatest relief to the largest audience. One or two of those virus strains changes...
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