Parents who don't vaccinate their children may believe vaccines cause harm
...o apply to parents who have nonetheless decided to vaccinate their children," the authors write. "To maintain the public health benefit of immunizations, continued efforts must be made to educate the public. Many of the vaccine concerns identified among parents can be addressed through discussions with health ...Scrapping BCG vaccination in British schools is justified
...autumn 2005, the long running routine programme to vaccinate school children against tuberculosis with BCG vaccine will stop. This decision brings the UK into line with much of the rest of the world and is well justified, writes Professor Paul Fine in this week's BMJ. The spread of tuberculosis in the United K...Surveillance data suggest that preschoolers drive flu epidemics
... want to stop it from spreading, you might want to vaccinate the people who are transmitting it to everyone else. In a pandemic, where people are getting sick and dying, you might want to reallocate who gets the vaccine." The study drew its data from two real-time population health monitoring systems: the Auto...Many pediatricians say they would not continue care for families who refuse vaccines
...atrician's advice and counsel in their decision to vaccinate their children, when a parent refuses one or all vaccines the relationship between parent and pediatrician may be weakened. Some pediatricians may choose to end their participation in the care of children whose parents refuse vaccinations, the author...GlaxoSmithKline's Havrix now approved for use in children aged 12 months and older
... indication will allow healthcare practitioners to vaccinate younger children against hepatitis A with Havrix and may help to further reduce the incidence of hepatitis A in the United States, particularly among young children who often transmit the disease. "The expanded indication of Havrix marks an importan...Rapid restoration of immunity in immune-suppressed cancer patients using T-cell vaccines
...A complementary treatment currently approved is to vaccinate myeloma patients against pneumococcus, a common bacterial infection, a year after their transplantation. But why wait a year, wondered researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine? Their own investigation revealed that protective...Bank of America grant to expand community-based childhood immunization program in northern Manhattan
... to support the Start Right Coalition's efforts to vaccinate all of the approximately 6,000 children born annua...tion members in a coordinated network to reach and vaccinate all 6,000 children born annually in Northern Manhattan. The Start Right Coalition's latest research...Study shows media coverage on flu influences parents to vaccinate their children
... the importance of flu shots influenced parents to vaccinate their children against the influenza virus, according to a study done by researchers and information officers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The study's findings, published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics, looked at the 200...How can we protect patients with weakened immune systems from influenza?
...ulations of immunocompromised patients, but not to vaccinate them needlessly." Patients on chemotherapy, on immunosuppressive drugs, or with diseases that weaken the immune system may be especially vulnerable to influenza, whether the ordinary annual variety or deadlier types. The researchers will study how su...Scientists one step closer to cancer vaccine
...ecognises. Using this peptide, the researchers can vaccinate and protect against the spread of tumours from different tissues, including melanoma, colon cancer, lymphoma, and fibrosarcoma. "So far we've only conducted research on mice, so it's too early to get out hopes up too much," says research scientist El...Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters
...d are approved for use, then they could be used to vaccinate girls at puberty in order to prevent HPV infection. By preventing HPV infection, this could have the effect of preventing the pre-cancerous and cancerous changes that HPV infection can trigger. Women and men need to be more aware of HPV infection an...Europe slow to add infant pneumococcal vaccine to national programmes despite strong US results
.... Yet a number of European countries still only vaccinate selected at-risk groups against IPD, despite growing evidence that universal vaccination of infants and young children reduces their risk and also provides added indirect "herd" protection for other unvaccinated members of the community. Children in ...Scientists step closer to new treatments for River Blindness
...ical Medicine, indicate that it may be possible to vaccinate humans against River Blindness. The disease causes blindness in thousands of people in some of the poorest countries in the world, particularly in West and Central Africa. River Blindness, or Onchocerciasis, is caused by a parasitic worm and leads to...$1.5 billion needed to ensure 12-month stockpile of pediatric vaccines
...ine stockpile levels will not be adequate to fully vaccinate all children that require immunization," the researchers wrote. An interruption of 12 months, they added, would raise the risk of insufficient supplies to between 95 percent and 100 percent. A subsequent problem of shortages is that many children mis...Study finds novel vaccine curbs brain tumor growth, increases survival
... vaccine differs greatly from previous attempts to vaccinate patients against brain tumors, she adds, because those strategies required harvesting cells from each patient, growing them in the laboratory while manipulating them to express a certain protein, and then infusing them back into patients. "All we do ...How should countries best respond to a flu pandemic?
...s which emerges. A vaccine stockpile sufficient to vaccinate 20 percent of the population could reduce case numbers by a third if children were vaccinated within a few weeks of the start of a pandemic. Combining pre-vaccination with household prophylaxis could reduce case numbers by two thirds. The supercompu...Vaccinate or not? Treat or not? Study looks at tricky health decisions
...t of those imagining being parents would decide to vaccinate a child. Further, 63 percent of respondents taking... those acting as medical directors would choose to vaccinate large numbers of patients. The same pattern repeated itself in the chemotherapy scenario with 60 pe...Experimental vaccine protects lab animals against several strains of H5N1
... strain. They inactivated the virus and used it to vaccinate ferrets. The vaccine protected the ferrets from getting sick when exposed not only to the flu strain from which the vaccine was made, but also two other strains, including a deadly strain labeled A/Vietnam/1203/04. Cross-strain protection is exactly ...African American women need to receive HPV vaccine
... for the HPV vaccine, remain the most difficult to vaccinate because of various barriers to care including the need for parental consent to receive vaccines. Bonney and her colleagues feel that parental consent should be waived for the HPV vaccine as it is for other sexually transmitted infection-related healt......on of regulatory T cells in the thymus as a way to vaccinate children against diseases such as lupus, arthritis and type 1diabetes. Or, they might add regulatory T cells to improve the mix in people who already have some bad police. "We need some of the regulatory cells more than others," says Dr. Ignatowicz...