Pneumo Vaccination Cuts Kids' Hospital Visits
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NEW YORK  - Giving young children the  pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar has had a significant impact on  pneumococcal diseases, such as pneumonia and middle ear  infections, researchers report.
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Separate flu shots in the spring and fall can protect children against infection and is easier on parents than giving two doses a month apart in the fall, according to researchers from Duke University Medical Center and the University of Washington.
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The Department of Health is considering introducing a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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NEW YORK  - Exposure to polychlorinated   biphenyls (PCBs) -- chemicals widely used in industry --   apparently reduces children's immune response to vaccinations,   according to a report.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are considering easing the restrictions.
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NEW YORK  - In the first 2 years after the  pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar was licensed, the vast majority of  adverse reactions reported to U.S. health officials have been  minor.
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Health officials are urging healthy adults and schoolchildren to skip getting a flu shot because British regulators have shut down a major flu-shot supplier and dosages are in short supply.
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Only 29 percent of U.S. children  with asthma get the flu vaccine even though it is recommended  to protect against serious influenza complications common with  asthma, federal health officials said on Thursday.
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As another school year approaches, health experts are singing a familiar refrain: Get your child vaccinated against communicable diseases.
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NEW YORK  - Kids who need their tonsils  removed can be in and out of the hospital on the same day, in  many cases, Spanish doctors report.
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Treatment with Synagis (palivizumab), a type of antibody therapy, is not a cost effective way of preventing infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in high-risk infants, according to two new reports published in the medical journal Pediatrics.
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Children who are treated at home for severe pneumonia do just as well as youngsters admitted to hospital, a finding that could be a boon for health care and medical costs in poor countries.
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A vaccine that fights pneumonia and other diseases could save the lives of thousands of children each year in Latin America, but high costs have kept it from those who need it, a researcher told a congress of health professionals Thursday.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- A new vaccine that may help protect children against croup is being tested by scientists at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
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The supply issues with Prevnar, a vaccine that protects kids from bacterial infections, have been resolved and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups are now recommending that doctors resume giving the full four doses of the vaccine, according to a report released Thursday.
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Thousands of low-income adults won&#39;t be getting their annual flu shot from county health centers or hospitals this year because the Harris County Hospital District&#39;s entire 60,000-dose order has been canceled.
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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