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Measles Aerosol Vaccine Works -- But Not Quite Well Enough
Spraying a measles vaccine up children's noses gave them some protection against measles but fell short of the immunity conferred by an individual measles vaccine injection in a study recently published in New England Journal of Medicine.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - April 20, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tara Haelle Source Type: news
Sudan: MSF Supports the Ministry of Health to Respond to Measles Outbreak
[MSF] Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the Sudanese Ministry of Health (MoH) to respond to a measles outbreak in parts of Sudan. In North Darfur, a mass vaccination was launched at the end of March, 2015 to stem the outbreak and increase the immunisation coverage in the population.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Lions Clubs Mobilise for World Immunization Week
[GAVI] Geneva -Advocacy toolkit launched to help Health Ministries spread the word about vaccination against measles and rubella in developing countries
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: UN Resumes Vaccination for Three Million Children
[NEWS] For the first time since the start of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, thousands of health workers are fanning out across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in nationwide immunization campaigns with an aim to protect three million children against preventable but potentially deadly diseases such as measles and polio.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 27, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Immunization Vaccines Have No Link to Ebola - Health Official
[LINA] The Deputy Program Manager of the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) at the Ministry of Health has clarified that the vaccines against measles, polio and mebendazole expected to be administered in May has no connection with the Ebola vaccine trial.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 1, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Guinea: Vaccination Teams Defeat 'Ebola Effect' in Guinea
[IRIN] Gueckedou -The odds were stacked against Guinea's vaccination teams. The initial side effects of the measles vaccine can easily be mistaken for the first symptoms of hemorraghic fever and a false rumour had spread blaming the distribution of deworming pills in late 2013 for bringing Ebola into the country.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Primary Care at Apex of Deliberations Over VaccinesPrimary Care at Apex of Deliberations Over Vaccines
Physicians are the guardians of public health, but recent measles outbreaks have shown that renewed vigilance is needed. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - May 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
Celebrating the ACP Centennial: From the Annals Archive-Measles and Vaccination.
PMID: 25938995 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine - May 5, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Cotton D Tags: Ann Intern Med Source Type: research
Liberia: UN to Begin Polio, Measles Vaccinations As Ebola Transmissions Plummet
[UN News] United Nations agencies and their partners today announced a massive campaign to vaccinate more than 600,000 children against polio and measles in Liberia as a crucial step towards recovery and the restoration of health services in the West African country, where Ebola transmissions have dwindled in recent weeks.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 11, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: VP Boakai Warns Parents Over Measles Disease
[New Dawn] Liberia's Vice President Joseph N. Boakai is urging every parent or guardian to take his/her child or children for the ongoing measles vaccination at the various health centers across the Liberia.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 11, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
An Anthropological Approach To California's Vaccination Problem
By Tom Jacobs
As we were reminded during California's recent measles outbreak, a surprising number of well-educated people decide each year not to have their children immunized against an array of communicable diseases. Trying to discern why they make this dangerous decision is a priority for public health officials, and a perplexing puzzle to the rest of us.
Newly published research shows that cultural anthropology can both help us understand their thinking, and suggest ways of productively communicating the importance of vaccination.
San Diego State University anthropologist Elisa Sobo spent time with a community of p...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 31, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pediatric Vaccines and Neurodevelopment: Primate Study Finds No Adverse Behavioral Effects
Julia R. Barrett, MS, ELS, a Madison, WI–based science writer and editor, is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences.
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Citation: Barrett JR. 2015. Pediatric vaccines and neurodevelopment: primate study finds no adverse behavioral effects. Environ Health Perspect 123:A156; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.123-A156
News Topics: Infectious Disease, Mental Health, Mercury, Neurologic Health
Published: 1 June 2015
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General practice web-based decision aid improves MMR vaccination uptake
Commentary on: Tubeuf S, Edlin R, Shourie S, et al. Cost effectiveness of a web-based decision aid for parents deciding about MMR vaccination: a three-arm cluster randomized controlled trial in primary care. Br J Gen Pract 2014;64:e493–9. Implications for practice and research Decision aids can help inform parents about vaccine decisions for their children, which is critical in an age of vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Web-based decision aids may be a low-cost or free means of helping parents to understand the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination, supplementing information they receive from healthcare provide...
Source: Evidence-Based Nursing - June 22, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Hendrix, K. S., Downs, S. M. Tags: Health policy, General practice / family medicine, Child health, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, Vaccination / immunisation, Child health, Health service research Source Type: research
Congo-Kinshasa: DRC - MSF Teams Vaccinate 42,000 Children Against Measles in the Region of Bunyakiri
[MSF] Members of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency team in the province of South Kivu, in eastern DRC, have vaccinated children and young people aged between 6 months and 15 years after the authorities declared a measles epidemic in the region of Bunyakiri, where several confirmed cases of measles had been recorded.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 26, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: 98 Percent Polio, Measles Vaccines Administered
[Concord] The health campaign result for the just concluded nationwide polio and measles vaccination exercise has shown that about 1.2 million children under five (98%) as well as 1.48 million (98.8%) were administered with the polio and measles vaccines.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 30, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
