Adapted from the NCI Cancer Bulletin, vol. 4/no. 10, March 6, 2007 (see the current issue 3). Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) published in the February 28, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) have provided the first national estimate of the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection among […]
Archives for March 2011
More Questions About Whooping Cough Vaccine In Kids 8 To 10
By Kevin Crowe, Watchdog Institute and Brooke Williams, Watchdog Institute Washington — On the tail of the biggest whooping cough outbreak in California in more than 60 years, federal health officials said Monday that while the vaccine is highly effective, immunity may be waning for children ages 8 through 10. The federal Centers for Disease […]
New polio case traced to refusal
PESHAWAR, March 29: A new case of polio has been reported in the semi-tribal Frontier Region of Lakki Marwat, as parents continue to refuse vaccination of their children in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata. Deputy director of the Expanded Programme of Immunisation, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr Jan Baz Afridi told Dawn on Tuesday that an […]
Pilot project improved adolescent immunization rates
WASHINGTON — A pilot project in North Carolina among 18 health centers increased adolescent immunization coverage rates by 26% in 1 month, according to data presented here this week. The project was designed to increase age-appropriate immunization rates for the tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccine, meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Menactra, Sanofi-Pasteur) and human papillomavirus vaccine and was conducted through […]
MedImmune to Present 11 Abstracts on Influenza at 45th Annual National Immunization Conference
WASHINGTON, March 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — MedImmune announced today it will present a total of 11 abstracts at the 45th National Immunization Conference (NIC) at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC, March 28 – 31, 2011. These abstracts advance the body of existing data and knowledge surrounding influenza prevention and trends in vaccination, highlighting MedImmune’s […]
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