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
Get Vaccinated for a Healthy Back-to-school Start
By Stacy Simon It won’t be long before the new school year begins and students head back to the classroom - if they haven't already. Protect your children by making sure they are up to date with vaccinations. In fact, your state may require children entering school to be vaccinated against certain diseases. Check with your child’s doctor, your child’s school, or your health department to find out.Some diseases that are preventable through vaccines, such as whooping cough and chickenpox, are still common in the US. Thanks to vaccines, some other diseases are no longer common. But according to the Centers f...
Source: American Cancer Society :: News and Features - August 3, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Prevention/Early Detection Cervical Cancer Source Type: news
The 8 Things Your Health Insurance DOESN'T Cover
Whether you’re looking to choose a new health insurance policy, going on Medicare, or are unsure of the details of your current health plan, there are several services that you may think are covered but in actuality they’re not. Knowing in advance what services you’re going to have to pay for can help you make smart health choices.
First, How to Get Coverage
If your employer offers health insurance, you’re generally all set. But if you’re leaving your employer or find yourself recently without health insurance (and are not Medicare age), here are your health insurance coverage options:
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Medicare Monday: Access to vaccines for older Americans
When you think about vaccines, you may not think about the need for them later in life, but vaccines for older Americans are a critical component of maintaining health as you age. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, our immune systems weaken over time, which puts older Americans at higher risk for certain diseases. Important vaccines for older Americans include the flu, tetanus, hepatitis A and B, pertussis (whooping cough), pneumococcal, meningococcal, shingles and more. (Source: The Catalyst)
Source: The Catalyst - July 18, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Vaccines Part D Medicare Medicare Monday Source Type: news
Nigeria: Lagos to Distribute Tetanus Vaccinations to Women
[Daily Trust] Lagos -The Lagos State government plans to distribute tetanus toxoid to all women of child-bearing-age as part of measures to reduce child and maternal related deaths in the state. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - July 8, 2016 Category: OBGYN 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
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
Alaska scientist receives $1.6 million award for vaccine research
(University of Alaska Fairbanks) A treatment credited with saving about nine million lives a year worldwide and bringing major human diseases including smallpox, tetanus, whooping cough and polio under some degree of control is said to have begun with a milkmaid, a boy, a cow and a doctor about two hundred years ago.Yet in all that time, the details of how the treatment actually works are still unclear. Dr. Andrea Ferrante, a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist, hopes to change that. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 30, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Kenya: State Faces Suit Over 'Unsafe Vaccines' Test
[Nation] A Nairobi company has threatened to sue the government for failing to pay Sh13.8 million for tests on the controversial tetanus and polio vaccines. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 27, 2016 Category: African Health 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
60 Minutes updates viewers on poliovirus therapy for glioblastoma
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CBS's 60 Minutes updates viewers on the polio virus therapy for brain tumor developed and tested at Duke's Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.
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FDA's breakthrough therapy designation expedites development
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In a poignant, two-part segment May 15, 2016, CBS’s 60 Minutes returned to Duke to update viewe...
Source: dukehealth.org: Duke Health News - May 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dg62 Source Type: news
Kenya: Tetanus Vaccination to Kick Off in 11 High Risk Counties
[Capital FM] Nairobi -Vaccination against neonatal tetanus will be conducted in 11 counties identified as high risk areas, the Ministry of Health has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 13, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Vaccine Boosts Glioblastoma SurvivalVaccine Boosts Glioblastoma Survival
A novel combination of cytomegalovirus-targeted dendritic cell vaccine and tetanus preconditioning shows a significant increase in survival and improved immune response in glioblastoma. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - May 12, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Kenya: Measles Drive Targeting 19 Million Children to Start Monday
[Nation] Ministry of Health will launch a measles-rubella and tetanus vaccination campaign Monday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
