Scientists hail '100% effective' Ebola vaccine
"Ebola vaccine is 'potential game-changer'," says BBC News, while the Daily Mail cites a "100% effective jab" for the disease. These headlines stem from early results of a trial investigating the effects of an Ebola vaccine during the most recent outbreak of the virus in west Africa.Researchers gave the Ebola virus vaccine to thousands of people in Guinea who'd had close contact with an infected individual – a process called "ring vaccination". Half the sample were given the vaccine immediately, while the other half were given the vaccine after a delay of three weeks.The early results, publi...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: QA articles Source Type: news
This Is How Nigeria Beat Polio
It’s easy not to notice a negative. A house burns down on your block and it’s all you can talk about. But a house doesn’t burn down? Where’s the news?
Still, absence can be the stuff of headlines, and that fact has rarely been truer than it is in Nigeria today—where health officials are celebrating a full year without a single case of polio. A polio-free Nigeria means a polio-free Africa, since it was the only country left of the 47 on the continent where the crippling disease was still endemic. The virus, which as recently as 1988 was endemic in 128 countries, crippling 350,000 children per y...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - July 24, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized Bill and Mlinda Gates Foundation global health polio Rotary vaccines World Health Organization Source Type: news
Jerry Brown Must Sign the California Vaccine Bill
California does not often make common cause with Mississippi and West Virginia. America’s blue-red divide doesn’t come any wider than it does between the liberal laboratory of the Pacific West and the conservative cornerstones of the old south. But with a single signature on a single bill, California Gov. Jerry Brown could ensure that the largest state in the nation joins the two far smaller ones in what ought to be a simple, primal mission: keeping children healthy.
The pending bill, which passed the California legislature with bipartisan majorities and now rests on Brown’s desk, is known simply as SB277...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - June 30, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized anti-vaxxers California Disease Disneyland Gov. Jerry Brown health vaccines viruses Source Type: news
Why Jerry Brown Was Right to Sign the California Vaccine Bill
Updated: June 30, 2015, 2:32 PM EDT
California does not often make common cause with Mississippi and West Virginia. America’s blue-red divide doesn’t come any wider than it does between the liberal laboratory of the Pacific West and the conservative cornerstones of the old south. But with a single signature on a single bill, California Gov. Jerry Brown ensured that the largest state in the nation joined the two far smaller ones in what ought to be a simple, primal mission: keeping children healthy.
The law, which passed the California legislature with bipartisan majorities, does a straightforward job—remo...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - June 30, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized anti-vaxxers California Disease Disneyland Gov. Jerry Brown health vaccines viruses Source Type: news
Rubella Eliminated From The Americas, Thanks To MMR Vaccine
First we wiped out smallpox in North and South America. Then we rid the Americas of polio. Now, for the third time, the Americas are the first region in the world to eliminate yet another disease through vaccines: rubella. After 15 years of a widespread vaccination campaign with the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - May 3, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tara Haelle Source Type: news
