Chicken-pox vaccinations save millions
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Chicago - Vaccinating children against chicken pox saves the US health care system nearly $100-million a year in reduced hospital visits for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found.
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A new vaccine could prevent the majority of cases of cervical cancer, suggest the results of a major trial. The vaccine protects against the virus that causes cervical cancer, which kills almost a quarter of a million women worldwide each year.
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GlaxoSmithKline's experimental vaccine  against a virus that causes cervical cancer could cut the  number of cases and deaths from the illness by up to 76  percent, the drug company said on Monday.
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Diluting smallpox vaccine that is more than 50 years old is almost 100 percent effective, which means the current US stockpile can be expanded if needed, a new study found.
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GlaxoSmithKline's GSK.L experimental   vaccine against a virus that causes cervical cancer could cut   the number of cases and deaths from the illness by up to 76   percent, the drug company said on Monday.
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THE United States has ordered 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine, costing $1.16 billion, from pharmaceutical VaxGen, health secretary Tommy Thompson said today.
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death.
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A new vaccine being tested on Canadian women appears 100 per cent effective in protecting against multiple strains of the virus that causes cervical cancer, bringing the world a &quot;huge&quot; step closer to the first vaccine against cancer, researchers report.
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Cautious optimism is building over the prospect of defeating the respiratory disease known as valley fever, largely because of $40 million in grants that will be used toward vaccine testing.
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A significant number of deaths and serious side effects could result from a mass smallpox vaccination program, a new analysis suggests.
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Influenza kills tens of thousands every year in this country and requires the hospitalization of about a quarter-million. In epidemic years, mortality can be in the millions, even when there is enough vaccine to go around.
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NEW YORK  - Immunity against smallpox is retained and can be still be detected for at least 20 years after vaccination. Even people vaccinated in the 1950s may still have a robust immune response after exposure to this serious virus, a research team reports in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
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The approval of a new vaccine against smallpox was announced Saturday by the Food and Drug Administration, which says the shots could be made quickly if the virtually extinct virus reappears.
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A vaccine against virulent bacterial meningitis could save the lives of nearly 3,000 people over the next decade, at the cost of more than $1 million a life.
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By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 15--AUSTIN -- The high cost of the vaccine that protects against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer is becoming a key issue in opposition to Gov. Rick Perry's order that schoolgirls receive the shots.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the U.S. health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found...
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The Department of Health is to consider vaccinating children in England against chickenpox.