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by hernews
Posted: Fri., April 25, 2008, 11:00 am
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As part of National Infant Immunization Week (April 19-26), parents, caregivers and health providers are being reminded of the benefits of vaccination and the importance of routine childhood vaccination.
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by hernews
Posted: Fri., April 18, 2008, 01:45 pm
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By Dennis Thompson
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, April 18 (HealthDay News) -- For the first time, a doctor's arsenal now includes a vaccine that can actually prevent cancer.
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by hernews
Posted: Thu., April 17, 2008, 01:39 pm
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By Steven Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- The current U.S. flu season has been the worst in four years, due, in part, to a vaccine that was not a good match for certain circulating strains of flu virus, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Fri., April 11, 2008, 03:11 pm
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FRIDAY, April 11 (HealthDay News) -- A new HIV/AIDS vaccine designed to overcome the problem of preexisting immunity to common vaccine vectors is being tested in an early clinical trial at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Thu., April 10, 2008, 01:25 pm
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By Serena Gordon
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- American researchers have developed a nasal spray anthrax vaccine that provides protection against the potentially deadly bacterium, at least in mice.
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Wed., April 9, 2008, 09:00 pm
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By Steven Reinberg
EmpowHer's HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, April 9 (HealthDay News) -- In 2006, the largest U.S. outbreak of mumps in 20 years swept across eight Midwestern states, but a new study claims things could have been much worse.
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Wed., March 19, 2008, 08:31 am
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will consider whether to expand use of a vaccine intended to prevent cervical cancer to women aged 27 to 45, the vaccine maker said Wednesday.
Gardasil, made by Merck & Co., currently is approved for use in girls and women aged 9 through 26 to block four types of human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer and genital warts.
A decision is expected by mid-year.
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Fri., March 7, 2008, 07:01 am
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ATLANTA - The parents of a girl who won a government settlement described how their hearts were broken as they watched their healthy, red-haired toddler transformed into an irritable, odd-behaving child after she got several childhood shots.
“Suddenly my daughter was no longer there,” said Terry Poling, the girl’s mother, in a news conference Thursday. She and her husband Jon said their daughter Hannah, now 9, has been diagnosed with autism.
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Wed., February 20, 2008, 02:40 pm
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What is the controversy with the HPV vaccine?
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by EmpowHer
Posted: Fri., January 25, 2008, 02:45 pm
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By E.J. Mundell
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental AIDS vaccine used in a recent trial may have placed participants at higher risk of infection with HIV -- although whether or not that was truly the case remains unclear.
What is clear is the concern among experts that the news will keep would-be trial participants away from future AIDS vaccine studies.
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