FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) — Pregnant women who received a flu shot to protect them against the H1N1 swine flu virus had a significantly reduced risk of stillbirth, preterm birth and of having a baby small for gestational age, according to a new study.
The researchers examined data from nearly 56,000 single-child births that took place in Ontario, Canada, during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
By Jenifer Goodwin
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) — Pre-teens living in states that require vaccinations for incoming middle school students are more likely to be immunized than those in states without such requirements, a new study finds.
Current vaccine guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that boys and girls aged 11 to 12 receive three immunizations or boosters: tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis (TdaP); meningococcal conjugate; and three doses of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) — Deaths from measles fell 74 percent worldwide between 2000 and 2010, but progress is still short of the World Health Organization’s target, health officials reported Monday.
“This is one of the most remarkable victories in the history of public health,” said Anthony Lake, executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), during a morning press briefing, while calling for increased vaccination efforts.
MONDAY, April 23 (HealthDay News) — The shingles vaccine is generally safe and well tolerated by patients, according to a new study.
Shingles, which affects more than 1 million people each year in the United States, is a painful contagious rash caused by the dormant chickenpox virus, which can reactivate and replicate, damaging the nervous system.
Elderly people are especially at risk because immunity against the virus that causes shingles declines with age.
WEDNESDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) — A new therapeutic vaccine appears to lengthen the lives of patients with a certain type of lung cancer, according to results of a small phase 2 trial.
The drug, belagenpumatucel-L (Lucanix), extended the lives of patients with nonprogressive non-small cell lung cancer and increased the five-year survival rate among some patients with moderately advanced cancer to 50 percent, researchers found.
TUESDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) — A vaccination may help boost the immune system of children with brain tumors, a small new study reports.
The prognosis for many children with brain tumors, known as gliomas, is grim. Radiation is the only effective treatment, although there has been hope that a vaccine could boost the immune system’s response.
MONDAY, April 2 (HealthDay News) — Measles vaccines don’t increase the risk of febrile seizures in children ages 4 to 6, according to a new study.
Febrile seizures are brief, fever-related convulsions that are not fatal and do not lead to brain damage, epilepsy or other seizure disorders.
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Feb. 27 (HealthDay News) — The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday renewed its call that all boys ages 11 and 12 receive the three-dose vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV).
The HPV vaccine has been available and recommended for girls and young women since 2006, because it’s highly effective at preventing cervical cancer. Since then, other cancers thought to be caused by HPV have increased, including anal cancer and some head and neck cancers.
TUESDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) — Routinely giving infants a new vaccine that guards against meningitis appears to be effective, a new study indicates.
The multi-center clinical trial of almost 1,900 infants found that administration of routine infant immunizations with a vaccine for serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis — a bacterium that can cause serious disease such as sepsis and meningitis — was effective against meningococcal strains and caused minimal interference with infants’ response to routine vaccinations.
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) — Each year, some 45,000 Americans die from diseases that could have been prevented by vaccines, health officials said Thursday.
Despite this, the number of American adults who get needed vaccines remains low, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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