Health
Health official: States should post local vaccination info
How many kids are vaccinated at your child's school? Federal health officials think you should be able to easily find out.
Aug 27, 2015
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State immunization laws should eliminate non-medical exemptions, say internists
Support for eliminating existing exemptions, except for medical reasons, from immunization laws was among the policy recommendations adopted last weekend at the summer meeting of the Board of Regents of the American College ...
Jul 29, 2015
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Pediatrics
One child in five still not vaccinated: WHO
One-fifth of the world's children are still not receiving routine life-saving vaccinations and efforts to ensure global immunisation coverage remain "far off track," the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Apr 22, 2015
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Medications
Federal health officials face tough questions on flu vaccine
Federal health officials are facing questioning about why this year's flu vaccine isn't giving good protection against the winter menace.
Feb 3, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Flu hospitalizations of elderly hit record high, CDC says
Some new evidence this is a particularly bad flu season: Flu-related hospitalizations of the elderly are the highest since the government started tracking that statistic nine years ago.
Jan 30, 2015
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Medications
Only about half of teenage girls receive HPV vaccine at the CDC's recommended age
It's a virus that is responsible for almost all cases of cervical cancer but a new study by University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston researchers indicates that only about half of the girls receive the vaccine at the ...
Jan 21, 2015
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Medications
Flu vaccine not working well; only 23 percent effective
As predicted, this year's flu vaccine is doing a pretty crummy job. It's only 23 percent effective, primarily because it doesn't include the bug that is making most people sick, according to a government study released Thursday.
Jan 15, 2015
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Medications
Vaccine spray may not work for swine flu in kids
Health officials say the nasal spray version of the flu vaccine did not protect young children against swine flu last winter and might not work again this year.
Nov 6, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
CDC: most kindergartners are getting their vaccinations
(HealthDay)—Most American children entering kindergarten are getting their required vaccinations, according to research published in the Oct. 17 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and ...
Oct 17, 2014
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Medications
NIH's Fauci says vaccine for Ebola not far away
The nation's top infectious disease official says there's hope that a vaccine against Ebola will be available as early as next July.
Aug 4, 2014
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