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...
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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
Bordetella Pertussis: Concepts in Pathogenesis and TreatmentBordetella Pertussis: Concepts in Pathogenesis and Treatment
This review offers new insight into the pathogenesis of this infectious disease and discusses new and current treatment options. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Whooping Cough (Pertussis)
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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
GPs welcome NICE advice on bronchiolitis in children
Guidance should help cut antibiotic prescribingRelated items from OnMedicaGPs slash total antibiotic scrips by over 7% in a yearPoint-of-care diagnostics needed to curb antimicrobial resistanceA fifth of children with persistent cough have whooping cough (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - June 22, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
'Please vaccinate your kids,' pleads mom of infant in hospital with whooping cough
A Vancouver Island mother whose baby is hospitalized with whooping cough says her sick daughter is proof that children who are not vaccinated can harm others. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - June 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
'Please vaccinate your kids': mum shares SHOCKING images of baby girl with whooping cough
A MOTHER has posted heartbreaking photos of her baby girl after she unexpectedly caught whooping cough in a desperate bid to get other parents to vaccinate their children against the illness. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Don't Fall For The Latest Zika Virus Conspiracy Theory
While it may not be the most widespread Zika conspiracy theory on the internet, it's certainly among the weirdest.
The fact-checking website Snopes revealed last Wednesday that at least a few people falsely believe Americans are immune to Zika virus, as these tweets demonstrate:
@SpeakerRyan @WashTimes Say NO to more Obama requested FAKE #Zika virus funding. American immune systems are immune to it. Virus isn't new— Chad (@FlyOSUBuckeye1) May 22, 2016
@ABC dont spread propaganda about a non-existent threat to Americans Fake Zika war is a terrorist tactice— Barbara Adams (@SheSellsBoise) ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 2, 2016 Category: Science 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
New App Advises and Reminds Pregnant Women about Vaccinations
The Maternal Immunations (MatImms) app is aimed at pregnant women to guide them about infections that could be harmful to them and their baby, such as flu and whooping cough, and which could be prevented by getting vaccinated in pregnancy. (Source: eHealth News EU)
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Whooping Cough Shot Safe for Pregnant Women
It also offers short-term protection to vulnerable newborns, researchers say (Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge)
Source: Pulmonary Medicine News - Doctors Lounge - May 23, 2016 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: webmaster at doctorslounge.com Tags: Infections, Pediatrics, Pulmonology, Obstetrics, News, Source Type: news
Whooping cough shot safe for pregnant women
HealthDay News The whooping cough vaccine is safe for pregnant women, a new study indicates. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - May 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Whooping Cough Shot Safe for Pregnant Women
It also offers short-term protection to vulnerable newborns, researchers say
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Related MedlinePlus Pages: Pregnancy, Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Pertussis Vaccines, Whooping Cough (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
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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
