By: Sharon Kirkley, PostMedia News 04 October 2010 Pediatricians want to add another shot to the panoply of vaccines Canadian children receive, urging that every baby in the country be vaccinated against a virus that sends thousands of children to hospital each year. Rotavirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach […]
Some elderly patients can't get whooping cough vaccine
By: Rong-Gong II, Los Angelos Times 25 October 2010 Whooping cough shot wasn’t tested on older people, but state says they should get it. Some doctors are erroneously telling elderly patients that they cannot receive an inoculation for whooping cough, despite recommendations issued this summer by state health officials urging senior citizens to […]
Flu Research to Examine Pregnancy Vaccination/Benefit to Infant
Posted in the Daily News Journal 27 September 2010 Nashville — The Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program is looking for dozens of pregnant women to participate in research on the use of flu vaccine. The study will evaluate the immune responses to the influenza vaccine in both mother and infant. Vanderbilt is one of several sites […]