Whooping Cough Booster Required for 6th-Graders
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By Maria Glod, Washington Post Staff Writer  Virginia students starting sixth grade this year must receive a new booster vaccine to protect against whooping cough, a highly contagious respiratory disease characterized by a persistent, sometimes wrenching cough.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - Manufacturers should conduct clinical studies to show that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines are effective in children less than 12 years old, a U.S. advisory panel said on Friday.
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NEW YORK  - Applying a topical anesthetic  half an hour beforehand reduces pain for children getting a  measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) shot, according to a report by  Canadian researchers.
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Sep 23, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Few children between the ages of 6 and 23 months received influenza shots in the 2002-03 flu season, which marked the first time federal health officials formally encouraged shots for that age-group, according to the Centers
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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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MONDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Some 7,000 American children under the age of 11 are treated each year in hospital emergency rooms because of problems with cough and cold medications, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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U.S. health regulators are taking a new look at the safety of children's over-the-counter cough and cold medications, especially for those under age 2, a Food and Drug Administration official said on Friday.
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Parents may be left with only love and lots of liquid to give their sniffling babies and toddlers now that the government is declaring over-the-counter cough and cold medicines too risky for tots. The Food and Drug Administration was issuing that warning Thursday to parents of children under 2.
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if you qualify as being high-risk for the respiratory illness. Although vaccines remain scarce, Dr. Heidar Heshmati, Brevard County&#39;s
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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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Health officials released a warning to all Fairfax county schools Friday to watch for signs of whooping Cough amongst school children after several students
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CHICAGO -- State health officials say an outbreak of whooping cough is sweeping through the Chicago area. Doctor Eric Whitaker of the Illinois Department of Public Health said more than 500 cases of whooping
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Thursday he would sign legislation requiring all sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer.
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Manufacturers should  conduct clinical studies to show that over-the-counter cough  and cold medicines are effective in children less than 12 years  old, a U.S. advisory panel said on Friday.
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Applying a topical anesthetic half an hour beforehand reduces pain for children getting a measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) shot, according to a report by Canadian researchers.
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A reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee.