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'Vaccine Gap' Puts Pressure On Public Health System

2012-05-25T09:03:17Z

By Nancy Derringer

On the subject of vaccines, medical opinion is widespread and settled: They are among the triumphs of public-health medicine, pr...

Dr. Orin Levine: A Winning Game Plan for the Decade of Vaccines

2012-05-22T12:07:25Z

Among the resolutions the WHA will consider is one supporting the Global Vaccine Action Plan, a road map to ensure that by the end of this decade, every child, everywhere enjoys the full benefits of immunization.

Read more: World Health Assembly, Global Vaccine Action Plan, Millenium Development Goals, Decade of Vaccines Collaboration, Vaccines, Impact News

Mitchell Warren: The "Best Hope" for AIDS Vaccine Advocacy

2012-05-17T10:06:34Z

If the world acts with strategy and speed to implement the proven and emerging options, the epidemic should be on a measurable downward trajectory over the next five to ten years. Why, then, do we still need an AIDS vaccine? Because we want to end the epidemic.

Read more: Hiv, Prep, Research and Development, Science, Male Circumcision, Vaccine, Aids, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Antiretroviral Drugs, Impact News

Tom Murphy: Routine Vaccination Solutions for Nigeria Will Save Lives and Money

2012-05-10T12:30:05Z

Nigeria is home to one out of every eight child deaths worldwide, and the Decade of Vaccines Economics projects 90 percent vaccine coverage can save 600,000 lives and $17 billion in Nigeria over the next 10 years.

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Lesa Mitchell: Two Big Ones, Off the Shelf

2012-05-08T18:47:05Z

We've done a pretty good job of harvesting research, but in an economic crunch, why not try to do more? To illustrate the upside, here are two stories of "shelf technologies" that got turned into startup companies -- and what it took to do it.

Read more: Horn Fly, Small Business, Flyvax, Polytorx, Entrepreneurship, Concrete, Vaccines, Small Business News

Dr. Orin Levine: Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

2012-05-08T11:22:48Z

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

Read more: Polio, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Measles, Unicef, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Project Optimize, Video, Impact News

Anne Geddes: Giving Every Child A Shot@Life

2012-05-02T13:06:36Z

There is no difference in the way a mother feels about her pregnant self, her birth, and the unrequited love for her newborn -- wherever she lives in this world. In this universal oneness, we are all connected.

Read more: Mother's Day, Motherhood, Maternity, Global Motherhood, Every Woman Every Child, Preventable Disease, My Pregnancy, Shot@Life, Vaccines, Impact News

Dr. Orin Levine: Global Motherhood: Perils And Promise In Ghana

2012-04-26T14:05:45Z

In the United States, we can practically start planning our kids' birthdays from the day they come home from the hospital; deaths in childhood are quite rare. In Ghana, though, you can't take a child's fifth birthday for granted.

Read more: Child Mortality, Ghana Children, Pneumonia, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Diarrhea, Africa, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Ghana, Global Motherhood, Immunization, Infant Mortality, Parents, Ivac, Vaccines, Home News

David Katz, M.D.: Toil, or Tirade? Hard Truths About Hype

2012-04-26T07:55:54Z

Tirades are, by their very nature, apt to gain a lot of attention and "go viral." They are dramatic. They are extreme, provocative, and full of intrigue. Hype sells. Unfortunately, much of the time -- it is wrong.

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Alanna Levine, M.D., F.A.A.P.: My Dad Cheated Death, and Others Can Too

2012-04-23T19:07:28Z

World Immunization Week is a call to action but for me, as a pediatrician and a mom, it also serves as a reminder of how lucky we, as Americans, are to have access to critical preventative vaccines.

Read more: World Immunization Week, Polio, Global Motherhood, Shot at Life, Children's Health, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines, Impact News

Noah Gray: Why Does Donald Trump Think Vaccines Cause Autism?

2012-04-13T17:14:00Z

Why would Mr. Trump do this? Why would he carelessly extend a wildly unpopular theory amongst researchers to a public that may not be aware of the actual science and decade-plus amount of work that have gone into discrediting the link between vaccines and autism?

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Dr. Orin Levine: First Steps Toward the Last Mile in Nigeria

2012-04-13T14:58:15Z

Likewise, as one of only three remaining countries in the world with endemic polio transmission, they have recently ramped up efforts to eradicate polio from the country, and thereby, help rid it from the entire world.

Read more: Nigeria, Ivac, Immunization, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Parents, Vaccines, Meningitis, Polio, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Diphtheria, Tetanus, NIgeria Vaccine Summit, Orin Levine, Pertussis, Impact News

Another Potential Health Benefit Of The HPV Vaccine

2012-04-04T12:01:53Z

A new study suggests that the vaccine against human papillomavirus can significantly cut the likelihood of virus-related disease even among women who ...

Read more: Hpv, HPV Vaccine, Vaccine, Preventative Healthcare, Womens Health, Gynecology, Health, Women News

Shawn Lawrence Otto: New Poll: Even Religious Voters Overwhelmingly Want Candidates to Debate Science

2012-04-04T11:02:18Z

It turns out that the presidential campaign staffers have it completely, one hundred and eighty degrees wrong when it comes to science. Overwhelming majorities of American voters want the candidates to debate the big science issues facing the country.

Read more: HPV Vaccine, John McCain, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Science, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Barack Obama, 2012 Presidential Election, Creationism, Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Anti-Science, Evolution, Climate Change, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Blacks Have Trouble Clearing Cervical Cancer Virus: Study

2012-04-01T20:58:08Z

CHICAGO -- Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: Th...

Read more: Black Women, HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Cervical Cancer, Cancer, Human Papillomavirus, Video, Black Voices News

David Katz, M.D.: Measles: Back To The Future Of Public Health?

2012-03-24T12:24:12Z

If measles does make a meaningful comeback, it would imply public health is sliding back as we head into the future. We don't want to go there.

Read more: Healthy Living Health News, USA Today, Cdc, Measles, Infectious Diseases, Mmr, Prevention, Dr. David Katz, Autism, Immunization, Outbreak, Vaccines, Personal Health, Global Public Health, Vaccine, Vaccinations, Autism Vaccines, Healthy Living News

HPV Vaccine: Are Black Girls Missing Out?

2012-03-22T12:38:52Z

Despite its reputation as a "strong weapon in prevention," the HPV vaccine may not be benefiting adolescent females equally, a new study has found.

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Read more: Hpv, HPV Vaccine, Stds, Video, Gardasil, Gardasil Vaccine, Cervical Cancer, Poll, HPV Vaccination for Boys, Black Voices News

Dr. Bob Sears: California Bill AB2109 Threatens Vaccine Freedom of Choice

2012-03-22T11:09:16Z

The California legislature is considering a bill that would require parents to obtain their doctor's signature prior to enrollment in public school if they wish to skip vaccines for their child. On the surface, this doesn't seem like a bad idea.

Read more: Immunizations, Vaccine Laws, Vaccinations, Vaccines, California, ab2109, Unvaccinated, California Politics, San Francisco News

Ned Breslin: Few Celebrating MDG Success in Water

2012-03-14T13:22:26Z

Access means that there is a tap nearby that people could use. Functionality means that water actually flows from that tap. Far too often the tap does not produce water, so it is therefore not effective at what the Millennium Development Goal is really trying to do -- eradicate water poverty.

Read more: Global Health, Polio, Millennium Development Goals, Polio Vaccine, United Nations, Clean Water, Clean-Water, Public Health, Unicef, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Impact News

FDA Approves First 4-In-1 Flu Vaccine

2012-03-01T10:55:00Z

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials have approved the first vaccine that protects against four strains of the common flu, offering one additional l...

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Virginia Lawmakers Debate Interfering In Women's Health

2012-02-28T15:13:00Z

The Virginia Senate, following in the lower house's footsteps, considered two bills this week that expose a major philosophical difference dividing Re...

Read more: Virginia, HPV Vaccine, Video, Virginia Hpv Vaccine, Women's Health, Virginia-Mandatory-Ultrasound, Mandatory Ultrasound Bill, Hpv Vaccine Mandate, Cervical Cancer, Politics News

Monica Gallagher Sakala: On Surviving Childhood

2012-02-27T13:48:19Z

It is outrageous to me that Somali women accept that their baby could die at anytime, yet educated American parents willingly put their own children's lives in danger based on Internet rumors.

Read more: Women's Health, Motherhood, Child Vaccines, Global Motherhood, Vaccinations, Measles Outbreak, Child Health, Infant Mortality, Vaccines, Maternal Health, DC News

Bill Gates: Why Our Foundation Invests in India

2012-02-10T14:19:26Z

I go to India at least once a year to see the progress of the work our foundation is doing there and I'm always struck by two things -- the dynamism of the place, and the tremendous need. Unfortunately, the former doesn't cancel the latter out.

Read more: Foreign Aid, India, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Global Poverty, Polio Vaccine, India Polio, UK Aid India, Impact News

How I Live With An STD

2012-02-09T14:05:17Z

Anonymous | The Daily Muse

From the time I received the first call notifying me of my abnormal Pap smear results until the day the doctor confir...

Read more: HPV Vaccine, Hpv, Stds, Living With an Std, Cervical Cancer, Std, Women Hpv, Cervical Cancer Screening, Women News

Seth Mnookin: Autism Roundtable: Cross-Disability Solidarity, Goals for the Future, and What it Means to "Fit in"

2012-01-27T07:53:59Z

I asked some of the people who've influenced my thinking about autism to collaborate on a virtual roundtable. This conversation, which took place before the Times story on the DSM, is open-ended and free-ranging. The participants, in alphabetical order:

Read more: Public Library of Science, Thinking Person Guide's to Autism, Steve Silberman, John Elder Robison, Loving Lampposts, New York Times, Autism, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, Autism Vaccines, Ari Ne'eman, Vaccines, Todd Drezner, Science News