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Cat Vaccinations
Some available vaccines can increase your cat's longevity and improve the quality of her life. Others are not necessary.
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Cervical Cancer And Gardasil
Gardasil was approved in 2006, but the hyped vaccine does not benefit the appropriate population and has not been tested for long-term safety.
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Vaccine a Disappointment
Merck has stopped clinical trials for an HIV vaccine that initially carried so much promise.
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Is Shingles Vaccine Effective?
Shingles vaccine is effective in reducing the incidence, severity, duration and complications of shingles and recommended by the CDC for use in adults 60 years and above.
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Vaccinations for Central America
Find out what vaccinations you and your family need before heading off to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua or Panama.
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What Is a Pneumonia Shot?
Commonly known as the pneumonia shot, the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) protects against 23 types of pneumococcal bacteria.
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Smoking Vaccine
Study: An anti-smoking vaccine, delivered by a shot in the arm, keeps nicotine from reaching the brain.
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Merck Meningitis Vaccine Recalled
As New Jersey awaits their health commissioner to sign off on mandatory vaccination of school children for meningitis, 1 million doses of the vaccine are being recalled.
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Recommended Cat Vaccinations
Vaccinations are imperative to the health of your cat. I've outline different cat vaccinations and kitten vaccinations that might be recommended by your veterinarian.
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Vaccines and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Understanding vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases is an important step in making informed decisions regarding vaccinations.
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Merck Recalls Vaccines
Merck & Co., Inc. and the FDA have announced the voluntary recall of over 1 million doses of HIB and hepatitis B vaccines.
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Chlamydia Vaccine to Help Koalas
Not endangered but falling, koala population suffers from an STD, causing reproductive rates to drop. Stress increases illness levels. Vaccine to slow spread of disease.
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Flu Vaccine Helps Prevent Sickness
The influenza vaccination can decrease the risk of contracting the flu, even when the vaccine is received late in the flu season.
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Yellow Fever Vaccine
Unless you are traveling to Africa or South America, yellow fever is not an infectious travel risk that need concern you.
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Can Effective Cancer Vaccines be Developed?
The development of vaccines to fight cancers is an attractive concept, since it is viewed as a natural process. Although the field has been marked with dismal failures, increased understanding of the immune process has led to newer, potentially more effective vaccines.
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Diabetics Need Vaccines
People with diabetes need to get their pneumonia and flu vaccines soon.
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Do Vaccines Really Protect Us?
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Vaccines a Great Medical Discovery
Vaccines have saved millions of peoples lives. A truly great discovery of this millennium.
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Vaccines Save Lives and Money
Vaccines can be a pain but they do save lives. Here is some of the proof.
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Vaccines: Part 1
Over the next few weeks I hope to answer some questions concerning vaccines. For example: Why do we vaccinate children? What is in those vaccines?
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What is in Those Vaccines: Part II?
What is in the hepatitis vaccine and how come that vaccine can be given so early after a child is born?
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What is in Those Vaccines: Part III?
The DTaP vaccine has saved literally millions of lives over the years. Click above to see what is in that vaccine and why we must vaccinate every generation with DTaP.
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What is in Those Vaccines?
Abbreviations can make the world of vaccines seem like nonsense. Over the next few weeks I will be defining what those silly abbreviations mean.
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Why Wait To Give Vaccines?
When you give a vaccination is important. Too soon and you get poor protection
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A Vaccine That Prevents Rotavirus Diarrhea
A vaccine that prevents rotavirus diarrhea
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Buffalo Field Campaign Vows To Protect Newborns
Pregnant females and calves die at the hands of the DOL
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Can Vaccinations Cause Cancer?
Vaccine associated sarcoma (VAS) is an aggressive, fast-growing feline cancer that is often fatal. Both rabies and feline leukemia vaccinations have been linked to VAS.
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HCV Vaccine in the works!
On February 29th at the Keystone Symposia scientific meetings held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Epimmune announced the development of a vaccine for the prevention and treatment of Hepatitis C.
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HIV Vaccine: Where Do We Stand?
The article discusses HIV vaccine research in general and profiles a recently announced major breakthrough.
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How Informed are Our Choices? - Part 1
We are in the age of information and still our society insists on blindly going through life unaware of the impact our everyday living has. Inform yourself, empower yourself and make our population a little more aware and caring.
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How to Manage Post Herpetic Neuralgia
Post herpetic neuralgia is an extremely painful complication of herpes zoster. Learning how to manage post herpetic neuralgia is essential as it is very debilitating.
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HPV Protection
On June 8, 2006 the Food and Drug Administration approved use of the world's first vaccine against cervical and other anogenital cancers caused by HPV.
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It's Cold and Flu Season Again
Get a flu shot early as it takes about 5-6 weeks to become effective.
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Jonas Salk, the Salk Polio Vaccine
A biography of Dr. Jonas Salk who pioneered the vaccine against the polio virus.
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Lyme Disease Vaccine
New Lyme disease vaccine soon to be approved by FDA in United States.
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Mumps
Mumps is mainly a mild childhood infection of 5 to 9-year-olds, but can affect adults as well. Infection in adults is associated with more severe complications than kids.
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New Pneumococcal Vaccine Approved
Streptococcus pneumoniae causes a number of life threatening diseases in children under 2 years of age. This new vaccine could save a lot of lives
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New Rotavirus Vaccine
A new rotavirus vaccine may soon protect children from a very common cause of diarrhea and dehydration.
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New Rotavirus Vaccine on the Horizon?
A couple of companies are close to delivering a vaccine that could prevent a worldwide epidemic that kills around 500,000 children (3 months to 2 years old) each year. Click above to find out more.
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Oral Vaccine for Shipping Fever Could Help Cattle Breathe Easier
A new oral vaccine for shipping fever in cattle may be on the market in about three years. Also known as bovine respiratory disease, shipping fever costs U.S. producers in excess of $1 billion annually.
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Pregnancy Complications with LEEP
Cervical abnormalities are often treated with a surgical procedure known as LEEP. Evidence shows that women have more pregnancy complications following a LEEP.
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Rare Disorder Associated With Flu Vaccine
Don't let fears of side-effects keep you from getting the Flu vaccine.
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Science in Industrial Revolution
The period of the Industrial Revolution, c.1780 to 1840, saw discoveries and advances in the natural sciences including the development of the first electric battery.
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Shingles Basics
In about 10%-20% of cases, chickenpox is followed later in life by shingles, characterized by a painful rash.
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