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 […]
Understanding and Controlling the Hazards of Surgical Smoke
By Debra A. Novak*, DSN, RN, and Stacey M. Benson, MS, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, National Personal Protective Technology, Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pa. More than 500,000 workers are exposed to surgical smoke every year; numerous studies have documented dangerous atmospheric agents in surgical smoke causing a range of adverse health symptoms and effects.[1,2,3] […]
Sex Ed For Teens Doesn't Come In a Box
Note from SaneVax: With all due respect to the author of this article, potential promiscuity issues are not the biggest problem with HPV vaccines. All vaccines carry some risk. When you are talking about vaccinating a healty population – no risk is acceptable.
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