GOVERNMENT will add three more new vaccines if the ongoing vaccination programme to wipe out two main child killer diseases under the immunisation month is successful, a health official has revealed. Government is targeting to eradicate measles and polio as well as reducing child deaths from vaccines-preventable diseases under the ongoing programme. In an interview […]
No drop in U.S. kids' pneumonia rate after vaccine
Yahoo Health February 16, 2011 A childhood vaccine against pneumonia-causing bacteria introduced in 2000 hasn’t made a visible dent in the disease, U.S. researchers said Monday. In the first study to provide national estimates of childhood pneumonia, they found rates of the lung infection had stayed more or less constant between 1994 and 2007. At […]
