http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has found that low-income and minority parents may be more receptive to vaccinating their daughters against Human Papillomavirus (HPV), while white, middle-class parents are more likely to defer the vaccination. The findings appear online in the May issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-explores-perceptions-parental-hpv-vaccination.html Cancer Tue, 14 May 2013 12:54:27 EST news287754860 Shingles vaccine is associated with reduction in both postherpetic neuralgia and herpes zoster, but uptake in the US is low. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-shingles-vaccine-reduction-postherpetic-neuralgia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:00:01 EST news284745319 Chicken pox, the childhood affliction of earlier generations, has been largely neutralized by the varicella vaccine, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, which appears in the current online issue of Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-varicella-vaccine-long-term-effectiveness-chicken.html Pediatrics Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:10:03 EST news283955824 Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of Florida studied health care providers to determine the factors associated with disparities in Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among girls, ages 9 to 17, from low-income families. They found that physician vaccination strategies and the type of practice play a role in whether or not girls were vaccinated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-hpv-vaccination-disparities-girls-low-income.html Cancer Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:11:48 EST news283579901 The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) announced its recommended 2013 adult immunization schedule that includes important updates to the pneumococcal, Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis), and influenza vaccines. Because current vaccination rates are low, ACIP also urges health care providers to regularly assess patient vaccination histories and implement intervention strategies to increase adherence. This recommendation will be published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians (ACP). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-acip-adult-immunization.html Health Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:33:29 EST news278616801 Fewer people are dying from cancer in the United States, but a government report published Monday warned that a lack of preventative measures could stem a steady decline in mortality rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cancer-lacking.html Cancer Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:38:19 EST news276802672 (HealthDay)—A United Nations proposal to ban the vaccine preservative thimerosal—which contains a form of mercury—should not go through, says a leading group of U.S. pediatricians. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-vaccine-kids-poor-nations-experts.html Medications Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:50:02 EST news274962361 In an age when physicians are often short on time and deluged with information, printed reminders about screening tests, vaccinations and other health topics can help them provide care that more closely reflects current medical guidelines and evidence-based medicine, finds a new review from The Cochrane Library. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-doctors-health.html Health Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:56:11 EST news274524957 A new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has found that improving Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates in black women may require culturally sensitive approaches that address ethnic-specific barriers. The findings are published online in the November/December issue of the journal, Women's Health Issues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-subgroups-black-women-uptake-hpv.html Health Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:31:20 EST news272035872 New research led by the University of Sydney's Family Medicine Research Centre reveals many Australians are inadequately protecting against potentially serious infectious diseases before travelling abroad. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-vaccination-infectious-disease-priority-australian.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:25:55 EST news268651555 (HealthDay)—The only thing predictable about the flu is its unpredictability, U.S. health officials said Thursday, as they urged virtually all Americans to get vaccinated for the coming season. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-flu-season-approaching-sleeve.html Health Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:00:02 EST news267987538 Influenza vaccination rates vary widely in Canada by ethnicity, with black and white Canadians being the least likely to be vaccinated, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-flu-vaccination-vary-widely-ethnicity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:00:18 EST news266491371 (HealthDay)—Parents and doctors can do more to protect girls from cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), say U.S. health officials who are concerned by lagging HPV vaccination rates among females. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-girls-hpv-vaccine-cancer-cdc.html Cancer Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:39:45 EST news265563578 (HealthDay)—Most kindergarten children in the United States are up to date on their vaccinations, a new government report finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-kindergarten-vaccines-cdc.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:23:58 EST news264954211 Most U.S. adults support laws that allow teens to get medical care for sexually transmitted infections without parental consent. But when asked about the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), most adults want parents to have the final say on whether their teen or pre-teen gets the shots. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-parental-consent-hpv-vaccine-waived.html Health Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:32:33 EST news261833547 Monitoring the effectiveness of the HPV vaccine in Canada requires that data from multiple registries and other data sources be combined. Linking registries can be problematic, however, since they are often managed by unrelated organizations. Privacy legislation may also restrict the sharing of data for such linkages. To address these challenges, Dr. Khaled El-Emam and his team at the CHEO Research Institute have developed a secure protocol that allows the linking of individual patient records without revealing personal information, which has been published in PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-protocol-linking-registries-hpv-surveillance.html Medical research Tue, 10 Jul 2012 07:46:25 EST news261125166 (HealthDay) -- Pre-teens living in states that require vaccinations for incoming middle school students are more likely to be immunized than those in states without such requirements, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pre-teens-vaccines-middle-schools-require.html Pediatrics Mon, 07 May 2012 10:40:01 EST news255605124 The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the World Health Organization and others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cdc-worst-measles-year-years.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:50:02 EST news254061072 Promoting immunizations as a part of routine office-based medical practice is needed to improve adult vaccination rates, a highly effective way to curb the spread of diseases across communities, prevent needless illness and deaths, and lower health care costs, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-boost-adult-immunizations-office-based-action.html Health Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:08:12 EST news245502482 Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. - mostly babies and toddlers - were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace," as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-whooping-vaccine-side-effects.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:40:01 EST news245069565 A California hospital raised its employee influenza vaccination rate above 90 percent by shifting from a voluntary vaccination program to one mandating all healthcare workers either get vaccinated or wear a mask at work for the entire flu season (December through March). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-strict-policy-hospital-worker-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:09:27 EST news242928560 (AP) -- After years of decline, measles is on the rise in Europe, according to a new report released Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-measles-outbreaks-europe.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:40:01 EST news241977589 More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren't getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press analysis found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-kids-school-shots-states.html Health Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:12:16 EST news241686724 Higher flu vaccination rates for health care personnel can dramatically reduce the threat of flu outbreak among nursing home residents, according to a study published in the October issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-flu-vaccines-nursing-home-workers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:05:29 EST news235047912 Evidence has long shown routine vaccines to be safe and effective, but a growing community of critics still claims that they pose more danger than the diseases they prevent. A Google search of "vaccine," for example, produces links to government and science-based vaccine websites on the same screen as official-sounding anti-vaccination links. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-internet-anti-vaccine-messages-dangerous.html Health Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:55:06 EST news230280825 Geisinger Health System vaccinated more than 92% of all employees against influenza this season, with a modification of a mandatory program. On average, fewer than half of all healthcare workers receive flu vaccinations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-health-high-flu-vaccination-mandating.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:57:21 EST news227354218 Concern over vaccine safety is one of the primary factors preventing parents from having their asthmatic children vaccinated for influenza, or flu, according to Michigan researchers. Parents who do not vaccinate their children are also less likely to view flu as a"trigger" for their child's asthma, the researchers noted. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-parents-reluctance-vaccinate-asthmatic-kids.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 May 2011 16:59:50 EST news224783962 A systematic effort to improve flu vaccination rates for healthcare workers has increased flu vaccinations rates from 59 percent to 77 percent at the University Health System (UHS) in San Antonio. A report detailing their interventions to increase vaccination was published in the June issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-systematic-effort-hospital-employee-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 May 2011 14:50:18 EST news223739404