Croup Vaccine Safe in Early Study
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THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- A new vaccine that may help protect children against croup is being tested by scientists at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Richard Knox reports on the contamination of flu vaccines manufactured by Chrion. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the contamination was detected early enough
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A UK study of more than 5,000 children has ruled out any link between the MMR vaccine and autism, researchers say. They claim that the scale of their study provides the strongest evidence yet that safety fears about the three-in-one jab are groundless.
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The smallpox vaccine protects for a lifetime, and so does actual an infection of measles or mumps, according to the first long-term study of immunity to childhood diseases.
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THE first US vaccine against SARS, which swept parts of Asia and around the world last year, is ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers said today.
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NEW YORK  - The results of the first early  test of a new type of tuberculosis vaccine show that it elicits  strong immune responses in adults with or without a previous  bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination.
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NEW YORK  - In the first 2 years after the  pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar was licensed, the vast majority of  adverse reactions reported to U.S. health officials have been  minor.
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BETHESDA, US: A new Sanofi-Aventis meningitis vaccine aimed at protecting adolescents throughout their college years is safe and effective but should undergo longer-term studies if approved, a panel of US experts concluded.
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NEW YORK  - Two new nasally administered  vaccines for respiratory infections are being tested, and  researchers now say that giving them together to young children  appears feasible.
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A panel of US experts on Wednesday unanimously agreed that a new Sanofi-Aventis meningitis vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective, but said follow-up data was needed.
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A vaccine designed to protect against two strains of the human papillomavirus that are leading causes of cervical cancer has been successful in a major trial.
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A new study from researchers at the University of Calgary recommends all children with croup be treated with steroids, even those children with the mildest symptoms.
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The first TB vaccine to be developed in more than eighty years has passed safety trials in the UK.
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New research into the MMR vaccine has dismissed fears of any link between the injection and autism. Concerns had been raised that children who were given the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine had an increased
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A new type of meningitis vaccine boosted the immunity of infants as young as six months, offering a potential new weapon against this deadly disease, British and Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - 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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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.