Tetanus Diptheria Pertussis Vaccine Tdap,Dtap,Dpt News 
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(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) A University of Pittsburgh-developed program successfully boosts vaccination rates in adult patients seen at primary care offices, two recent studies demonstrated. Physician offices participating in the 4 Pillars Practice Transformation Program had nearly three times the increase in patients getting the Tdap vaccine for protection against pertussis (whooping cough) compared to non-participating offices. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - October 28, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Your NEJM Group Today: Election & Healthcare Reform, Third-Trimester Tdap Vaccination, Michigan IM Opportunity (FREE)
By the Editors
NEJM Group offers so many valuable resources for practicing clinicians. Here ' s what we chose for you today:NEJM Audio … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - October 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
The Number Of Parents Who Refuse To Vaccinate Is On The Rise
A decade ago, the first vaccine against human papilloma virus was administered in Australia to help prevent several deadly cancers, including cervical, anal and throat and tongue cancer. Since then, the HPV vaccine has been introduced in 130 countries, and the number of new cervical cancer cases has been cut in half worldwide.
“In Australia there’s already been a 90 percent reduction in infections in the 10 years the program has been running,” Ian Frazer, chief executive of the Translational Research Institute, told the BBC. Cervical cancer in Australia is also dropping, according to the Au...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 6, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
More Teens Get Needed Vaccines In Blue States
(Reuters Health) - Parental politics may influence whether teens get recommended vaccinations, according to a U.S. study.
Dividing states into red and blue based on how they voted in the 2012 presidential elections, researchers found that in that year, adolescents in blue states were significantly more likely to have received three important vaccines recommended for 11 to 12 year olds.
“These associations are important because they demonstrate that there are broader forces associated with political affiliation that may influence acceptance of immunizations for adolescent children,” said senior author Linda M. N...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Why Aren't More Parents Vaccinating Their Kids Against Cancer?
If there were a vaccine that could protect your 11-year-old son from getting cancer as an adult, you’d make sure he got it, right?
As it turns out, this immunization exists, but a majority of young boys are not adequately protected, as journalist Jane Brody noted in The New York Times on Tuesday.
The human papillomavirus vaccine ― which protects against HPV-associated cancers including throat and tongue, cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, and penile cancers ― is strongly recommended as cancer prevention for 11- and 12-year-old boys and girls by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
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Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 25, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Why Aren't More Parents Vaccinating Their Kids Against Cancer?
If there were a vaccine that could protect your 11-year-old son from getting cancer as an adult, you’d make sure he got it, right?
As it turns out, this immunization exists, but a majority of young boys are not adequately protected, as journalist Jane Brody noted in The New York Times on Tuesday.
The human papillomavirus vaccine ― which protects against HPV-associated cancers including throat and tongue, cervical, vaginal, vulvar, anal, and penile cancers ― is strongly recommended as cancer prevention for 11- and 12-year-old boys and girls by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
The bad n...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Potential Implications of Delayed Pertussis Vaccination Potential Implications of Delayed Pertussis Vaccination
What are the health-related and financial implications of DTaP vaccination delays? < br / > < i > The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal < /i > (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - July 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pediatrics Journal Article Source Type: news
Uganda Rolls Out Compulsory Immunization to Dispel Anti-Vaccine Myths
Women wait to immunize their children at the Kisugu Health Centre in Kampala, Uganda, where free vaccinations take place. The nurse in the foreground is Betty Makakeeto. Credit: Amy Fallon/IPSBy Amy FallonKAMPALA, Jun 29 2016 (IPS)Patience*, a Ugandan maid, planned on taking her three-year-old son for polio immunization during the country’s mass campaigns a year ago, until her landlord’s wife told her a shocking myth.“The medicine they are injecting them with means the boy when he’s an adult won’t be able to reproduce,” Patience, 32, recalled to IPS what she’d been informed. “She said: ‘Don’t even thin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Amy Fallon Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Population Poverty & SDGs Religion Women's Health immunisation Maternal and Child Health Uganda Vaccination Source Type: news
A bummer for kids: Nasal flu vaccine not effective
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Every year, many of my patients have been able to skip the needle — and still get vaccinated against the flu. That was the great thing about the nasal spray version of the flu vaccine, known as the LAIV (live attenuated influenza vaccine): kids scared of needles could get a squirt up each nostril and be all set.
This coming flu season, everyone is getting the shot.
It turns out that the nasal spray just didn’t work that well. Despite studies from the 2002-2003 and 2004-2005 flu seasons that seemed to show that the nasal spray actually worked better than the shot in children ages 2-8 years, over t...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - June 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Cold and Flu Infectious diseases Parenting Prevention Source Type: news
Small Febrile Seizure Risk Seen After Several Coadministered Vaccines
By Kelly Young
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH
Trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine — when coadministered with either a diphtheria-tetanus-acellular-pertussis (DTaP)-containing vaccine or pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) — carries a small but significantly increased risk for febrile seizure in young … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - June 5, 2016 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Whooping Cough Shot Safe for Pregnant Women
It also offers short-term protection to vulnerable newborns, researchers say
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Pregnancy, Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis Vaccines, Whooping Cough (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - May 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Whooping Cough Shot Safe for Pregnant Women
MONDAY, May 23, 2016 -- The whooping cough vaccine is safe for pregnant women, a new study indicates.
The researchers also found the tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine, which protects against whooping cough, is critical for the... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 23, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news
Pertussis vaccination in pregnancy is safe, study finds
Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine is recommended for all pregnant women in the U.S. as the key medical intervention to protect newborn infants from pertussis (whooping cough). However, the safety of giving the Tdap vaccine to pregnant women has not been fully determined. According to a new study the Tdap vaccine is safe for both mothers and infants. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - May 12, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Obamacare Boosts DTaP Vaccine Rates
(MedPage Today) -- Less cost-sharing also led to higher vaccination completion rates (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - May 4, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
OB/GYNs Up Tdap Vax Rates Among Pregnant Hispanics (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Vaccination rates jumped from 1.9% to 60.1% with intervention (Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease)
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - April 27, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
