The inconvenient truth of vaccine refusal
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When I talk to parents who are hesitant about vaccines, what they most want to talk to me about are possible side effects of the vaccine. They worry about everything from fevers and soreness to additives to possible links to autism. They rarely worry about the diseases that vaccines prevent—and that’s what worries me most of all.
It is the inconvenient truth of vaccine refusal: when you don’t get vaccinated against an illness, you are more likely to catch it.
A study just released in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) makes this very clear. Researchers looked at information ...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - March 22, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Parenting Prevention Vaccines Source Type: news
Featured Review: Vaccines for preventing herpes zoster in older adults
Vaccine helps prevent shingles in older adults for up to three years The varicella zoster virus causes chickenpox and can remain dormant inside nerve cells. After many years, it can reactivate and travel through the nerve to the skin, causing itching, numbness, tingling or local pain, and then blisters along the nerve path. These blisters are often accompanied with inflammation of the nerves and severe pain, which can affect quality of life. This is called herpes zoster or shingles. It affects people with low immunity such as older people. There are about 5.22 episodes of shingles for every 1000 older people. This is ...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - March 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: mumoquit at cochrane.org Source Type: news
Two-Dose Chickenpox Shot Gets the Job Done: Study
Adding second shot at ages 4 to 6 is almost 100 percent effective (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - March 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Two-Dose Chickenpox Shot Gets the Job Done, Study Shows
Adding second shot at ages 4 to 6 is almost 100 percent effectiveSource: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Chickenpox, Childhood Immunization (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - March 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Two-Dose Chickenpox Shot Gets the Job Done, Study Shows
Adding second shot at ages 4 to 6 is almost 100 percent effective (Source: U.S. News - Health)
Source: U.S. News - Health - March 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Two-Dose Chickenpox Shot Gets the Job Done, Study Shows
MONDAY, March 14, 2016 -- Among school children, two doses of the chickenpox vaccine is better than one, a new study finds.
Giving the first dose at age 1 and the second dose at ages 4 to 6 is nearly 100 percent effective in preventing the once... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Two-Dose Chickenpox Shot Gets the Job Done, Study Shows
Title: Two-Dose Chickenpox Shot Gets the Job Done, Study ShowsCategory: Health NewsCreated: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 3/14/2016 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - March 14, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Chickenpox vaccine trials: What is it? How much does it cost?
DOCTORS are trialling a new vaccine to protect children against chickenpox. But where can you buy it and how much is it? (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Now children could get a vaccine for chickenpox if trials prove successful
The Varilrix vaccine, which has been available in the UK since 2013 but only given to those vulnerable to complications, will be given to all children between 12 and 23 months in some hospitals (file photo) (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Don’t shrug off shingles
If you had chickenpox as a kid, there is a good chance you may develop shingles later in life. “In fact, one in three is predicted to get shingles during their lifetime,” says Dr. Anne Louise Oaklander, director of the Nerve Unit at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital.
The same varicella-zoster virus that causes chickenpox also causes shingles. After the telltale spots of chickenpox vanish, the virus lies dormant in your nerve cells near the spinal cord and brain. When your immunity weakens from normal aging or from illnesses or medications, the virus can re-emerge. It then travels along a nerve to trigge...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - February 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Healthy Aging Infectious diseases Vaccines Source Type: news
New Medical Laboratory Test from Washington University School of Medicine Could One Day Replace the Popular PCR Assays Used by Many Pathologists
Called ‘ViroCap,’ this new diagnostic technology is able to discover more viruses in patient samples, as compared to PCR genome sequencing tests It could be the ultimate multi-analysis medical laboratory test ever. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a diagnostic test that they claim tests for any virus infecting […] (Source: Dark Daily)
Source: Dark Daily - February 5, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: jude Tags: Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing big data Block Scientific Inc. CAP Today chickenpox virus clinical laboratory Dark Daily Dark Report DNA Ebola gastrointestinal virus Genome Research genome sequencing tests Gregory Storc Source Type: news
Health Tip: Chickenpox Can Be Dangerous
Title: Health Tip: Chickenpox Can Be DangerousCategory: Health NewsCreated: 2/5/2016 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 2/5/2016 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General)
Source: MedicineNet Kids Health General - February 5, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news
Chickenpox, Shingles Vaccines Linked to Rare Eye Inflammation
Title: Chickenpox, Shingles Vaccines Linked to Rare Eye InflammationCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/25/2016 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/26/2016 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Eyesight General)
Source: MedicineNet Eyesight General - January 26, 2016 Category: Opthalmology Source Type: news
Chickenpox, Shingles Shot Tied to Rare Eye Problem
But study doesn't prove cause-and-effect (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - January 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Chickenpox, shingles vaccine may cause corneal inflammation in some patients
In use for more than 20 years, the varicella zoster virus vaccine for chickenpox and shingles is considered an essential medicine by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, researchers have found, in rare instances, a link between the vaccine and corneal inflammation. It is a finding the researchers say should be discussed by primary care physicians and patients with a history of eye inflammation before getting vaccinated. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - January 20, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
