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Also In Global Health News: Sleeping Sickness; Aid For Philippines; U.S., China In Africa; Polio Eradication In Afghanistan; Ethiopia Famine
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Lancet Infectious Diseases Examines Hold-Ups In Implementation Of Sleeping Sickness Therapy Lancet Infectious Diseases Newsdesk examines how despite evidence that a new therapy to treat sleeping sickness, called nifurtimox-eflornithine (NECT) is a step forward in treating the (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
Also In Global Health News: Sleeping Sickness; Aid For Philippines; U.S., China In Africa; Polio Eradication In Afghanistan; Ethiopia FamineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Lancet Infectious Diseases Examines Hold-Ups In Implementation Of Sleeping Sickness Therapy (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 19, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
Crutch-induced bilateral brachial artery aneurysms [Case report - Vascular general]Email this article to a colleague.
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A 57-year-old man, who was a chronic axillary crutch user as a result of childhood poliomyelitis, was referred to our hospital because of a sudden onset of right forearm ischemia. The right forearm had no pulse, and three-dimensional computed tomography (3DCT) showed an aneurysm of the right brachial artery associated with arterial occlusion. The thrombosed aneurysm of the brachial artery was resected and the brachial artery was successfully revascularized by interposing a saphenous vein graft. Postoperative 3DCT revealed an asymptomatic left brachial artery aneurysm. His postoperative course was uneventful under warfarin ...
Source: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery - November 17, 2009 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Konishi, T., Ohki, S.-i., Saito, T., Misawa, Y. Tags: Case report - Vascular general Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Abia to Eradicate PolioEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abia State Government has said it is determined to eradicate polio from the state before the end of next year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 17, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Ghana: Suhum DCE Joins Citizens to Kick Out PolioEmail this article to a colleague.
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The District Chief Executive (DCE) of the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar Assembly, Mr. Sammy Kwabi, last Friday joined residents of the district to drum home the essence of polio immunisation in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 16, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
[Newsdesk] Childhood vaccination and progress towards MDG4Email this article to a colleague.
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Agencies and individuals worldwide are continuing their efforts to vaccinate the world's children and their achievements are highlighted by State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization, a major report published recently by WHO, UNICEF, and The World Bank. “We have good news…”, announced Daisy Mafubelu, Assistant Director General of Family and Community Health at WHO (Geneva, Switzerland). “The number of children being vaccinated is now at an all time high—and we have the numbers to prove this.” In 2008, 106 million children received routine vaccinations for childhood killer infectious diseases including measl...
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - November 16, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kathryn Senior Tags: Newsdesk Source Type: journals
New oral vaccine to be introduced to check spread of polio in IndiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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New Delhi - The Indian government will soon introduce a
bivalent oral polio vaccine to check the persistent spread (Source: Monsters and Critics Health News)
Source: Monsters and Critics Health News - November 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exploded: myth of miracle bomb detectorEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's always interesting when people take pseudoscience out of its natural habitat – north London's Islington – and off into a place where the stakes are quite high. Like the polio vaccine scare in Nigeria. Or Aids denial in South Africa. Or, in this particular case, detecting bombs in Iraq, where the New York Times and the magician James Randi have uncovered a nonsense of truly epic proportions.A British company called ATSC is selling a device which can detect guns, ammunition, bombs, drugs, contraband ivory – and truffles. The ADE651 uses "electrostatic magnetic ion attraction" and can detect these things from a kil...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 14, 2009 Category: Science Authors: Ben Goldacre Tags: New York Times Science Iraq World news Media The Guardian Comment Comment is free Source Type: news
Tanzania: Polio Plus Is About Saving LivesEmail this article to a colleague.
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If you were on the streets of Arusha before 10am last Saturday, you might have witnessed, most appropriately, a children's band leading over 100 Rotarians and friends of Rotary through Arusha town. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 5, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Also In Global Health News: Childhood Vaccines; USAID Administrator; Pakistan Polio Fight; UNICEF Fundraising; Measles In IndiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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The International Examines Contributing Factors To Uneven Distribution Of Childhood Vaccines As a follow-up to the release of the State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization by the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank last month, (Source: Pediatrics News From Medical News Today)
Source: Pediatrics News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news
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The International Examines Contributing Factors To Uneven Distribution Of Childhood Vaccines As a follow-up to the release of the State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization by the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank last month, The International examines the findings that "despite ch (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news
Treatment of an osteoporotic Hoffa fractureEmail this article to a colleague.
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Abstract Two patients with Hoffa fracture of the knee, both suffering from poliomyelitis are reported. Both had unicondylar coronal
plane fracture of the medial femoral condyle. The patients were treated with open reduction and screw fixation. Due to poor
screw purchase, reoperation was necessary in one patient. The results were satisfactory in both patients.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory KneeDOI 10.1007/s00167-009-0960-4Authors
Joseph Jeremy Hsi Tse Chang, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Tai Po Hong Kong ChinaJason Chi Ho Fan, Alice Ho Miu Ling Net...
Source: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy - November 5, 2009 Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Nasarawa Partners Carter Foundation On PolioEmail this article to a colleague.
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Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has commended Nasarawa State government's efforts towards eradicating guinea worm. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 4, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Uganda: Gulu in Polio Immunisation DriveEmail this article to a colleague.
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GULU district leaders have been called upon to moblise and sensitise parents to take children below five years for polio immunisation. The deputy resident district commissioner, Milton Odongo, made the call while addressing a rally at Kal-Ali Health Centre II in Paicho subcounty, Aswa county. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 4, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
PAKISTAN: Polio Vaccination: One Hurdle Down, One More to GoEmail this article to a colleague.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 3 (IPS) - Until the Taliban were forced to flee by the
military, the militant group’s deadly
opposition to vaccination
had been severely hampering efforts to make Pakistan
a
polio-free country in the foreseeable future. (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Nigeria: Incentives Are Enhancing Immunisation Activities in Bauchi StateEmail this article to a colleague.
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Her one-year-old son firmly tied to her back, Hadiza dragged her two-year old daughter inside the house where she lived in Kafrim-Liman, settlement in Ganjuwa Local government area of Bauchi State and slammed the door shut. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - November 3, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Major Reason For Nigerian Boycott Of Polio Vaccine [Letters]Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Health Affairs - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Frishman, A. Tags: Letters Source Type: journals
Polio Vaccine: The Authors Respond [Letters]Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Health Affairs - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kaufmann, J. R., Feldbaum, H. Tags: Letters Source Type: journals
Weakest Links In Polio Vaccination [Letters]Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Health Affairs - November 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Arya, S. C., Agarwal, N. Tags: Letters Source Type: journals
Vaccines as a trigger for myopathies.Email this article to a colleague.
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Vaccines are considered to be among the greatest medical discoveries, credited with the virtual eradication of some diseases and the consequent improved survival and quality of life of the at-risk population. With that, vaccines are among the environmental factors implicated as triggers for the development of inflammatory myopathies. The sporadic reports on vaccine-induced inflammatory myopathies include cases of hepatitis B virus, bacillus Calmette-Guérin, tetanus, influenza, smallpox, polio, diphtheria, diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus, combination of diphtheria with scarlet fever and diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus wi...
Source: Lupus - November 1, 2009 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Orbach H, Tanay A Tags: Lupus Source Type: journals
Public health response to imported case of poliomyelitis, Australia, 2007.Email this article to a colleague.
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We describe the public health response and outcomes resulting from the importation of a wild poliovirus infection in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2007. This response, based on an assessment of the risk for transmission, included offering vaccination with inactivated polio vaccine to the contacts and placing the index patient in isolation and the household contacts in quarantine until consecutive fecal specimens were negative for poliovirus by culture. The experience gained from the polio importation event in Australia may assist other polio-free countries to prepare for, and respond to, a similar event. No secondary clini...
Source: Emerging Infectious Diseases - November 1, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Carnie JA, Lester R, Moran R, Brown L, Meagher J, Roberts JA, Thorley BR Tags: Emerg Infect Dis Source Type: journals
Polio victim dies after 60 years in an iron lungEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sydney - An Australian polio victim confined to an iron lung
respirator for the past 60 years has (Source: Monsters and Critics Health News)
Source: Monsters and Critics Health News - October 31, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Chad: National Polio Vaccinations UnderwayEmail this article to a colleague.
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A three-day nationwide polio vaccination campaign began on 30 October throughout Chad, including in the east where according to the World Health Organization the rate of routine immunizations is among the weakest nationwide. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 30, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Profit Driven Swine Flu Propaganda - Pump Up the Volume - Part FiveEmail this article to a colleague.
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This article is part five in a six-part series. Be sure to read part four at http://www.naturalnews.com/027336_swine_flu_health_propaganda.htmlIn the video commentary titled, Mild Swine Flu and Over-Hyped Vaccine, on the website for the National Vaccine Information Center, the group's co-founder and president, Barbara Loe Fisher, reports: "We are witnessing a roll-out of the largest, most expensive mass vaccination campaign in the history of our nation. A rollout that is bigger than even the polio vaccine campaigns of the 1950's.""If you or your child are injured from getting a flu swine flu shot, you are on your own," Fis...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Outbreak Of Poliomyelitis In Finland In 1984-85 - Re-Analysis Of Viral Sequences Using The Current Standard Approach.Email this article to a colleague.
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In 1984, a wild type 3 poliovirus (PV3/FIN84) spread all over Finland causing nine cases of paralytic poliomyelitis and one case of aseptic meningitis. The outbreak was ended in 1985 with an intensive vaccination campaign. By limited sequence comparison with previously isolated PV3 strains, closest relatives of PV3/FIN84 were found among strains circulating in the Mediterranean region. Now we wanted to reanalyse the relationships using approaches currently exploited in poliovirus surveillance. Cell lysates of twenty strains isolated during the outbreak and stored frozen were subjected to RT-PCR amplification in three g...
Source: Virus Research - October 30, 2009 Category: Virology Authors: Simonen ML, Roivainen M, Iber J, Burns C, Hovi T Tags: Virus Res Source Type: journals
On This Day in Science History - October 28 - Jonas Salk and the March of DimesEmail this article to a colleague.
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October 28th is Jonas Salk's birthday. Salk was an American physician who developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine. For much of the 20th century, polio was a major epidemic, killing or paralyzing its victims, mostly children. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to raise funds to fight the disease and care for those who had it. The Foundation began a national radio program effort asking for just a dime from each family. The "March of Dimes" was an annual drive for funds and eventually the Foundation renamed itself. In 1955 Jonas Salk, one of the researchers...
Source: About.com Chemistry - October 28, 2009 Category: Chemistry Source Type: consumer
Swine flu - Provision of ventilation in a "worst case scenario"Email this article to a colleague.
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Editor,As a busy intensive care unit at a district general hospital in the UK, we are intrigued by the "worst case scenario" plans for swine flu in our region and the ubiquitous algorithms that form part of this planning.A Department of Health document suggests for the purposes of planning that, during a first major UK pandemic wave, the peak clinical attack rate per week would be 8% [1]. Of these patients, hospitalization rate would be 2% and of these 25% would require intensive care "if the capacity exists"Our hospital serves a population of 220,000. In our region, these estimates suggest that 352 patients will require h...
Source: Critical Care - October 28, 2009 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Alex DoyleJoseph CarterPeter Young Source Type: journals
Intestinal intussusception in adults due to acute enterovirus infectionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Three adult cases of intussusceptions, associated with enteroviruses occurring within a 3-week period, are reported. Virological studies include viral RNA detection in stool samples and staining for enterovirus protein by immunoperoxidase staining of the resected intestinal tissues. A new mechanism for intussusception associated with enterovirus is proposed. Tap water was implicated in the outbreak. Better monitoring of drinking-water may prevent other cases of non-polio enterovirus infection. (Source: Journal of Clinical Pathology)
Source: Journal of Clinical Pathology - October 27, 2009 Category: Pathology Authors: Chia, A Y, Chia, J K Tags: Case reports Source Type: journals
Molecular characterization of poliovirus isolates from children who contracted vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) following administration of monovalent type 3 oral poliovirus vaccine in the 1960s in HungaryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hungarian children were immunized with monovalent oral poliovaccine (mOPV) delivered at 6-week intervals in the order Sabin 1, Sabin 3, Sabin 2, from 1959 until 1992. During that period, 90 cases of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) were reported, 52 of which were associated with Sabin 3-related virus (76% of VAPP cases with virologic data). Because of renewed interest in type 3 mOPV (mOPV3), molecular methods were used to reanalyze 18 of the Sabin 3-related isolates from 15 VAPP patients, confirming the original identification. All isolates had the U472C 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR) substitution associa...
Source: FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology - October 23, 2009 Category: Microbiology Authors: Beatrix Kapusinszky, Zsuzsanna Molnár, Katalin N. Szomor, György Berencsi Source Type: journals
Harmony morality: The Heart of Morality (4a of 9 parts)Email this article to a colleague.
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Whom do people typically admire for their moral behavior? Those driven by Bunker morality, like Osama bin Laden or Hitler? Although perverted people (e.g., Charles Manson) are sometimes admired, this is atypical (or a naïve adolescent fantasy). Most people don't want to put on the sweater of a murderer (Rozin, Markwith & McCauley, 1994). No way.Rather, people typically admire those who are courageous and humanitarian, who treat others with deep respect, and who act beyond their own interests to help others, like Jonas Salk, who invented the polio vaccine and gave it away, or Norman Borlaug, who brought about the green...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - October 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. Tags: Evolutionary Psychology Morality Personality Relationships Social Life adolescent fantasy altruism charles manson compassion florence nightingale green revolution helpfulness Hurricane Katrina jonas salk looters love mammal Source Type: consumer
Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication --- Nigeria, january 2008--july 2009.Email this article to a colleague.
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This report provides an update on progress toward polio eradication in Nigeria during 2008--2009 and activities planned to interrupt transmission. During 2008--2009, Nigeria was the source for WPV1 transmission to 11 countries and WPV type 3 (WPV3) transmission to four countries. In addition, transmission of circulating type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) has been ongoing since 2005. WPV1 cases decreased 87%, from 574 during January--July 2008 to 73 for the same period in 2009. However, WPV3 cases rose approximately six-fold, from 51 during January--July 2008 to 303 during the same period in 2009, partly because of ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - October 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: journals
Progress towards eradicating poliomyelitis in Nigeria, January 2008- July 2009.Email this article to a colleague.
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Progress towards eradicating poliomyelitis in Nigeria, January 2008- July 2009.
Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 2009 Oct 23;84(43):445-51
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PMID: 19860018 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record)
Source: Weekly Epidemiological Record - October 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Wkly Epidemiol Rec Source Type: journals
Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication--Nigeria, January 2008-July 2009.Email this article to a colleague.
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This report provides an update on progress toward polio eradication in Nigeria during 2008-2009 and activities planned to interrupt transmission. During 2008-2009, Nigeria was the source for WPV1 transmission to 11 countries and WPV type 3 (WPV3) transmission to four countries. In addition, transmission of circulating type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV2) has been ongoing since 2005. WPV1 cases decreased 87%, from 574 during January-July 2008 to 73 for the same period in 2009. However, WPV3 cases rose approximately six-fold, from 51 during January-July 2008 to 303 during the same period in 2009, partly because of the ...
Source: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl... - October 23, 2009 Category: Epidemiology Tags: MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep Source Type: journals
CDC: Nigeria has most of world's polioEmail this article to a colleague.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Nigeria had the world's highest burden of wild poliovirus in 2008, with 798 -- 48 percent -- of the 1,651 cases reported globally, U.S. health officials say. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 22, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
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This study examines whether the pain response to administration of the diphtheria, polio, and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine and the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is affected by the order in which they are given. With the validated Modified Behavioral Pain Scale, videotaped recordings of the procedure (to assess crying), and parental ratings of pain on a visual analog scale, they found that children had less pain (on all 3 measures) when the diphtheria, polio, and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis and diphtheria, polio, and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis an...
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - October 20, 2009 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Current Best Evidence Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Polio - Strike Hinders Immunization in AdamawaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tuesday, 20 October 2009 00:00 (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 20, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
CDC: Vaccines a public health successEmail this article to a colleague.
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ATLANTA, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Vaccines are one of the greatest success stories in public health, having eliminated smallpox and nearly rid the world of polio, U.S. health officials said. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 20, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Poliovirus vaccine live oral: Paralytic poliomyelitis in infants: 3 case reportsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Reactions - October 19, 2009 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Short communication Source Type: journals
Paracetamol affects childhood jabsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Giving paracetamol to babies following a vaccine jab may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, according to research reported on by BBC news.
The study behind this news coverage is an important and well-conducted trial in which 459 babies receiving their routine immunisations were either routinely given paracetamol in the 24 hours following their injection or were given none. Although the drug was clearly successful in reducing the risk of a fever developing, it was shown to reduce the immune response to the vaccine, suggesting that it would be less effective. Although the preventative use of paracetamol had an ef...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pregnancy/child Medication Source Type: news
Physical interventions and injection techniques for reducing injection pain during routine childhood immunizations: systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi-randomized controlled trials.Email this article to a colleague.
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CONCLUSIONS: Pain during immunization can be decreased by: (1) injecting the least painful formulation of a vaccine; (2) having the child sit up (or holding an infant); (3) stroking the skin or applying pressure close to the injection site before and during injection; (4) injecting the least painful vaccine first when 2 vaccines are being administered sequentially during a single office visit; and (5) performing a rapid intramuscular injection without aspiration.
PMID: 19781436 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Clinical Therapeutics)
Source: Clinical Therapeutics - October 14, 2009 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Taddio A, Ilersich AL, Ipp M, Kikuta A, Shah V, Tags: Clin Ther Source Type: journals
Flu vaccines revealed as the greatest quackery ever pushed in the history of medicineEmail this article to a colleague.
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(NaturalNews) Prepare to have your world rocked. What you're about to read here will leave you astonished, inspired and outraged all at the same time. You're about to be treated to some little-known information demonstrating why seasonal flu vaccines are utterly worthless and why their continued promotion is based entirely on fabricated studies and medical mythology.If the whole world knew what you're about to read here, the vaccine industry would collapse overnight.This information comes to you courtesy of a brilliant article published in The Atlantic (November 2009). The article, written by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Le...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 14, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Grand Challenges Explorations Round 4Email this article to a colleague.
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is now open. Applications are being accepted until November 2, 2009.
Phase I grants will be for $100,000 USD. Phase I projects that show promise in the first year will be eligible for follow-on funding.
Topics for Round 4 are: Create New Technologies for Contraception Create New Ways to Induce and Measure Mucosal Immunity Create Low-Cost Diagnostics for Priority Global Health Conditions Create New Ways to Protect Against Infectious Disease.
TOPIC: Create New Technologies for Contraception What We Are Looking For: The goal of this topic is to solicit novel and innovative approaches to preventing unintended pregnancy. We ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - October 13, 2009 Category: Research Authors: Grand Challenges in Global Health/Gates Foundation Source Type: funding
Call for Proposals for the Post-Polio Health International Research Fund for Post-Poliomyelitis and Neuromuscular Respiratory ResearchEmail this article to a colleague.
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Deadline for Phase 1 is Friday, March 5, 2010 (to be awarded in 2011). For criteria and how to submit an application, read the following: The GINI Research Fund was established in 1995 by the Board of Directors of Gazette International Networking Institute (GINI). Impetus for this decision was a generous bequest from polio survivor Thomas Wallace Rogers. In 2003, GINI changed its name to Post-Polio Health International (PHI), and the fund is now called The Research Fund. The Research Fund supports the work of researchers investigating the late effects of poliomyelitis and/or neuromuscular respiratory disease through one o...
Source: ScanGrants feed - October 13, 2009 Category: Research Authors: Post-polio Health International Research Fund. Source Type: funding
Nigeria: Aliero Council Releases N5 Million to Fight PolioEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Aliero Local Government in Kebbi has released N5 million for the improvement of health care services in the area. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 13, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gail McGovern: Have Fun Saving the WorldEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today I’m answering the question: Where would you like the organization to be in 2020?
I am very impressed with the talent and willingness of employees and volunteers in the Red Cross to rally around some of the changes we’ve been making, whether it’s the One Red Cross initiative, the steps that are happening in biomedical to ensure compliance, the work we’re doing with Marketing and Development messages, and so on. In virtually every area, we are making enormous strides in transforming the American Red Cross.
I’m amazed and pleased with how quickly the organization has embraced the direction. It gives me ...
Source: Red Cross Chat - October 12, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gail J McGovern Tags: Leadership International Source Type: organizations
Rwanda: Immunisation Campaign Ends TodayEmail this article to a colleague.
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The three-day special immunization campaign against polio and measles is set to end today as opposed to the initial deadline of Friday, October 9. (Source: AllAfrica News: Polio)
Source: AllAfrica News: Polio - October 12, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Understanding the Challenges of Cancer Survivors With Pre-existing DisabilitiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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We know so little about the cancer experience of people who had a functional limitation, such as fibromyalgia, sensory impairment, polio, and depression, prior to their cancer diagnosis and treatment. If you have completed active treatment for your cancer, I invite you to participate in a study to help us understand how cancer survivors who had a functional limitation before being diagnosed with cancer take care of their health. Your information will help health care providers work more effectively with survivors such as yourself. You can earn $ 25 by completing a questionnaire packet. If you are over the age of 21 a...
Source: Kidney Cancer Association - October 11, 2009 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: organizations
Children and Orthopedic ImpairmentsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The definition of an, "Orthopedic Impairment," is one that includes impairments caused by congenital anomalies such as absence of a member, clubfoot, impairments caused by disease such as bone tuberculosis, poliomyelitis, or impairments for other causes to include amputations, fractures, cerebral palsy, burns, or fractures. (Source: Disabled World)
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Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal lawEmail this article to a colleague.
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(NaturalNews) Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America. On behalf of plaintiffs Dr. Gary Null and other licensed health care workers of New York State, the lawsuit charges that the FDA violated the law in its hasty approval of four swine flu vaccines by failing to scientifically determine neither the safety nor efficacy of the vaccines."The suit will seek an injunction against the FDA from approving the vaccine," attorney Jim Turner told NaturalNews on Thursday evening's Natural News Talk Hour sh...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 9, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
Historical Data Shows Vaccines are Not what Saved UsEmail this article to a colleague.
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(NaturalNews) With all of the hype surrounding the H1N1 swine flu virus lately, everyone is very concerned with the safety and effectiveness of vaccines, and rightly so. This is a very important question that we must all ask ourselves and find out what the truth is. As the debate rages on an even more important question has rarely been asked. Do vaccines even protect you from the viruses and illnesses that they claim to?If you only get your news and information from mainstream news and educational sources, then the question about whether vaccines are effective is never even raised. This lack of discussion give the percepti...
Source: NaturalNews.com - October 9, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news
