Pertussis booster seen needed later in childhood
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NEW YORK  - Protection against whooping   cough, also known as pertussis, appears to wane a few years   after immunization with pertussis vaccine during infancy.   Therefore, booster vaccination is probably warranted at 5 to 7   years of age, doctors from Sweden conclude in a report in the   journal Pediatrics.
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A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel unanimously agreed yesterday that MedImmune's nasal flu vaccine FluMist worked in children under age 5, but it had a decidedly mixed opinion on whether the product was safe enough for children younger than 2.
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(HealthDay News) -- Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is a bacterial respiratory infection that's often characterized by a &quot;whoop&quot; sound when the person breathes.
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Most adults can determine at what age their children should get vaccinated or discern from a label when to take their medicine, but they still need help understanding many basic health instructions, a new study shows.
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A spoonful of honey might quiet a childâs cough more effectively and safely than the most common over-the-counter cough medicine.
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[Health India]: London, Oct 28 : A study published in the journal &#39;Thorax&#39; has revealed that high levels of antibodies to allergens in a baby&#39;s umbilical cord blood might be more important in the development of childhood allergies and asthma than exposure
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U.S. health regulators said on Friday they have been reviewing the safety of over-the-counter children's cough and cold medications, especially for those under age 2.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Getting the flu shot for a young child protects both the little one and his or her family from getting sick this season, research shows.
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Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the government said in its first national estimate. About two-thirds of the cases were children who took the medicines unsupervised. But about one-quarter involved cases in which parents gave the proper dosage and an allergic reaction or some other problem developed, the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Less than two weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration warned parents that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines were too dangerous for children younger than 2.
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LONDON  - Rates of Haemophilus influenzae  type B (Hib) infection in the UK have increased in recent  years, despite the fact that England and Wales have been  routinely vaccinating infants against the disease since 1992,  researchers report in the British Medical Journal.
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Children under 2 should not be given  over-the-counter cough and cold medicines because they are too  risky, U.S. health authorities warned on Thursday.
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Children should receive a cholesterol test alongside their routine vaccinations at the age of 15 months, experts have proposed.
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Children who got antibiotics as babies  had a higher risk of developing asthma by age 7, Canadian  researchers said on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Two new nasally administered  vaccines for respiratory infections are being tested, and  researchers now say that giving them together to young children  appears feasible.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines can be dangerous for young children and there is no evidence they work, doctors told a U.S. advisory panel on Thursday.
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Prospects for a malaria vaccine have been boosted by âtantalisingâ results from a trial in 2000 children in Mozambique. Although the vaccine reduced the risk of infection by only 30% compared with a control
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At least half of the young children who are supposed to get annual flu shots have not been doing so. Among children with chronic medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease, about two-thirds are missing out on the vaccine.