Chicken pox shots pay off in fewer hospital stays: study
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TORONTO - Governments that pay for children to be immunized against chicken pox may be saving themselves millions in the long run, a new study suggests.
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Cornelia Jefferson vividly recalls the excruciating pain that shingles caused her mother and brother. So when her doctor got a supply of the new shingles vaccine, the retiree jumped at the chance &#151; without knowing if her insurance would pay or she would be stuck with a bill for more than $150.
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Vaccinating the elderly and giving the shots yearly prevented the deaths of about one out of every 200 patients involved in a Dutch study published on Tuesday.
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MADISONâIf you miss getting a flu shot this season and you want to fix blame when you&#39;re on your sickbed, take a look in the mirror.
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The risk of polio vaccine causing the  disease has been eliminated in the United States because of a  switch to a vaccine containing an inactive form of the virus, a  government study said on Tuesday.
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The NHS is reducing waiting times for treatment, improving survival rates and living within its budget, a report says.
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NEW YORK  - Ensuring that nursing home staff get their flu shots may help prevent potentially deadly outbreaks among elderly residents, a new study suggests.
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Heavily diluted doses of existing smallpox vaccine remain effective, which means the US stockpile of the vaccine can be stretched if needed, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox has proved more effective in preventing the common childhood disease and more cost-effective than anyone predicted, according to new US research.
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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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Only 2 percent of U.S. adults last year got a shot that can protect them from painful bouts of shingles, health officials said on Wednesday in a study that shows what they call unacceptably low rates of adult vaccination against a range of diseases.
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NEW YORK  - Even when diluted, the Aventis Pasteur smallpox vaccine (APSV), which has been in frozen storage since the 1950s, yields a high rate of successful vaccination, new research shows.
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Washington&#39;s nursing homes reduced their residents&#39; pain and used fewer physical restraints over the last two years. But the percentage of residents suffering from bedsores increased slightly.
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Researchers said it may be possible to stretch the supply of flu vaccine by giving some people reduced doses that are injected into the skin instead of a muscle.
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Scientists reported yesterday that flu vaccine given in lower doses appears to provide as much protection to younger adults as regular-strength shots and could
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NEW YORK - If there was an increase in the number of people who took the day off from work or stayed home from school Tuesday, it may not have been the flu that kept them at home and on the couch.
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(HealthDay News) - Chickenpox is caused by a virus that most often affects children.