Vaccine blocks deadly form of meningitis
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A vaccine targeting a deadly strain of meningitis proved to be safe and highly effective in protecting African children, researchers said on Friday, raising hope that it may help prevent epidemics that afflict many African countries.
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A developing shortage of vaccine against childhood meningitis is expected to inconvenience some pediatricians and parents, but should not become a public health threat, officials said.
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NEW YORK  - Childhood vaccination against   whooping cough (also known as pertussis) and measles is not   associated with an increased risk for encephalopathy, a disease   of the brain, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK  - There have been widespread  concerns that mercury-based preservatives used in vaccines  might impair the neurological development of children, but the  opposite seems to be true.
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The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to find ways to prevent any repetition of this year's calamity, which has restricted shots to those most at risk.
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Scientists are testing a vaccine that could prevent heart disease and reverse damage to clogged arteries.
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The Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to clear influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. as safe for Americans to use this flu season, Dr. Lester M. Crawford, the agency's acting commissioner, said Friday. It was unclear whether the lack of vaccine might lead to more flu deaths this year.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 22, 2004 - Federal health advisers said Wednesday that they were satisfied with the safety and effectiveness of a longer-lasting vaccine against bacterial meningitis, which is especially
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A government panel has recommended that all college freshmen who live in dorms receive a new meningitis vaccine that lasts years longer than the old one and prevents people from being carriers of the bacteria.
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A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections.
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The deadly meningitis epidemics that sweep across Africa killing many thousands of children could be ended by a new vaccine which has just been successfully trialled, scientists say today.
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Childhood vaccination against  whooping cough (also known as pertussis) and measles is not  associated with an increased risk for encephalopathy, a disease  of the brain, according to a new report.
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BETHESDA, Md.  - A panel of U.S. experts on  Wednesday unanimously agreed that a new Sanofi-Aventis   meningitis vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective, but  said follow-up data was needed.
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Researchers are drawing closer to creating a vaccine that would prevent certain viral infections known to cause cervical cancer, a disease that strikes about 15,000 women in the United States each year and kills 5,000, according to the Associated Press.
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A once-scarce vaccine that protects against a range of infections including meningitis is back in supply and small children should get
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A drug treatment combination can reduce deaths from tuberculosis meningitis by up to a third, scientists believe.
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LONDON - Scientists have made important progress in the quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and slash the risk of severe, life-threatening attacks by almost two-thirds.    Experts say the findings, outlined this week in The Lancet medical journal, provide robust evidence that the dream of developing a vaccine that will get babies through the most vulnerable period of infancy could become a reality by the end of the decade...