Chickenpox Vaccine Cuts Deaths but Raises Questions on Shingles
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Even as the vaccine protects children, questions are arising about whether its use will increase the incidence of a related disease, shingles, in adults.
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The flu vaccinations that doctors hoped would save the lives of fragile elderly people have apparently failed to lower death rates, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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(HealthDay News) - Chickenpox is caused by a virus that most often affects children.
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They have reported promising results from a test vaccine that could slash the death toll. 30 per cent and more than halved the risk of getting severe malaria, which can be fatal.
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TORONTO (CP) - A single dose of flu vaccine could be stretched to protect as many as five people if split into smaller doses and delivered directly into the skin rather than into the muscle of the upper arm, two studies rushed to print Wednesday suggest.
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A study from the Netherlands suggests that elderly persons who receive a yearly influenza vaccination have reduced risk of death from all causes, according to a study in the November 3 issue of JAMA.
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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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(11-03-2004) - Yearly flu shots significantly reduce deaths from all causes in people 65 and older, Dutch researchers found in a study that underscores the seriousness of this year&#39;s US vaccine shortage.
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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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U.S. deaths from chickenpox dropped to the lowest level ever after a vaccine to prevent the childhood disease was introduced in 1995, a study shows.
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In the old days, kids had to suffer through the chicken pox using home remedies to ease the itching. But in 1995, a vaccine was introduced that protects kids against the ailment.
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A few decades ago, Thomas P. McGorry, the second pediatrician to hang a shingle in Loudoun County, was called upon to treat copperhead bites, measles, whooping cough and meningitis.
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Can a vaccine help stave off forms of the disease?
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection and death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of children in Mozambique, hardly performed perfectly
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For the first time in its history, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created a permanent panel of ethicists on vaccine distribution, to help navigate the life-and-death
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NEW YORK  - Since the universal childhood  varicella vaccination program was implemented in the United  States in 1995, there has been a sharp decline in  chickenpox-related deaths, according to researchers from the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Researchers say vaccinating all children against chickenpox is the only way to stop deaths from the illness.