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Mitchell Warren: In an Unpredictable HIV Vaccine Search, Hope Still Reigns

2013-05-16T17:29:13Z

Nothing about AIDS vaccine research and development has ever been easy or straightforward except for one simple truth: to end the AIDS epidemic we will ultimately need an effective vaccine.

Read more: Global Fund to Fight AIDS TB and Malaria, Male Circumcision, HIV Vaccine, Condoms, Pepfar, AIDS Vaccine, Vaccines, Impact News

HPV Vaccine: 2 Doses May Be As Good As 3

2013-04-30T16:06:45Z

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Senior Writer
Published: 04/30/2013 11:45 AM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily

Two doses of the vaccine against hu...

Read more: Hpv Vaccine 2 Doses, Video, HPV Vaccine Two Doses, HPV Vaccine, Hpv Vaccine Doses, Healthy Living News

Lori Sokol: Vaccine of Hope

2013-04-30T10:52:10Z

"We have developed a vaccine to prevent breast cancer!" No, you're not seeing things. These were the exact words expressed by Dr. Vincent Tuohy, immunologist at the Cleveland Clinic, who announced the development of his breakthrough breast cancer vaccine earlier this month.

Read more: Women's Health, Breast Cancer Research, Women, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Vaccine, Breast Cancer Treatment, Vaccines, Healthy Living Health News, Cancer Prevention, Breast Cancer Prevention, Healthy Living News

Elijah Wolfson: Eradicating Polio: How a $5.5 Billion Investment Could Pay Huge Dividends

2013-04-26T13:01:22Z

A person could do a lot with $5.5 billion in liquid assets. It's also the amount of money that global health officials want so they can enact a six-year plan to wipe polio off the face of the earth.

Read more: Polio, Rinderpest Research, Polio Cases, Polio Plan, Smallpox Research, Polio Vaccine, Global Health Initiatives, Smallpox Vaccine, Global Health, Rinderpest, Polio Prevention, Polio Research, Health News, Healthy Living News

Kristin van Ogtrop: Everything Will Be Better in the Morning

2013-04-25T08:00:00Z

My mother was talking about more than energy level and circadian rhythm. It's also an expression of the belief that the future will be an improvement upon the past. It is about faith, determination and progress.

Read more: Poor Countries Vaccines, Global Mom Relay, Access to Vaccinations, Developing World Vaccines, Global Motherhood, Vaccinations, Access to Vaccines, Vaccines, Impact News

Impatient Optimists: Unique Partnership Breaks Vicious Cycle and Saves Millions of Lives

2013-04-24T19:31:18Z

Twenty years ago, while working with the US Agency for International Development, I was charged with getting more Haemophilus Influenzae type B (Hib) ...

Read more: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI Alliance, Impact, Vaccines, Impact News

Peter Yeo: Twenty million reasons to keep up momentum on global immunizations

2013-04-24T14:29:39Z

In the past two decades, immunization efforts have averted an estimated 20 million deaths globally. Yet, for all the progress that has been made--than...

Read more: Global Health, Polio, Measles, Millenium Development Goals, United Nations, Vaccinations, Immunization, Children's Health, Vaccines, World News

Impatient Optimists: Manju: A Frontline Health Worker In Action

2013-04-23T13:23:08Z

Manju Kumari is an "Anganwadi Worker" or frontline health worker in Bihar, one of India's poorest states. Chosen by her village as their health repres...

Read more: India, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Polio, Video, Health, Immunization, Bihar, Vaccines, Impact, Impact News

Michael Hodin: Childhood Immunization Leaves Adults Behind

2013-04-18T18:14:40Z

The global health community has barely begun to recognize how vaccination can enable a healthy, active aging process. This aha! moment had better come soon, because vaccination isn't just good health policy, it's great economic policy.

Read more: Adult-Immunization, Shingles, Pneumonia, Adult Vaccination, Bill Gates, Immunization, Childhood-Immunization, Vaccines, Fifty News

Endalkachew Demmisse: A Call for History Makers

2013-04-18T12:17:45Z

This is my call -- from a poor nation to history makers -- to be the generation who can change the course of history. Let's march mercilessly against TB, HIV and malaria. In an age of vaccines, antibiotics and dramatic scientific progress, these diseases can be brought under control.

Read more: Malaria, Tb, Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Fighting Malaria, Tuberculosis, Big-Push, AIDs Epidemic, Vaccines, Impact News

Tia Powell: Protecting Our Children From Bioterrorism Requires Testing Of Anthrax Vaccine

2013-04-17T12:37:00Z

Last month, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released a thoughtful report recommending against studying the anthrax vaccine in children. I might have agreed, had I not spent a year co-chairing an IOM report on protecting the public from a deadly anthrax attack.

Read more: Public Health, Anthrax, Research, Fda, Bioethics, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Bioterrorism, Anthrax Vaccination Kids, Healthy Living Health News, Anthrax Vaccine, Anthrax Vaccine Kids, Vaccines, Healthy Living News

Polio Vaccine Developer Dies

2013-04-14T00:15:23Z

PHILADELPHIA — Dr. Hilary Koprowski, a pioneering virologist who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, died this week at hi...

Read more: Obituary, Hilary Koprowski, Polio, Hilary Koprowski Dead, Oral Polio Vaccine, Hilary Koprowski Death, Polio Vaccine, Science News

Ciro de Quadros: Harnessing the Power of Vaccines to End Polio

2013-04-12T09:13:46Z

We must capitalize upon the historic opportunity to eradicate polio. Success will eliminate an ancient scourge - and it will also demonstrate a global commitment to a future where children receive all of the vaccines they need and deserve.

Read more: Polio, Vaccinations, Vaccines, Polio Vaccine, Impact News

'Old Fashioned' Diseases That Are Making A Comeback

2013-05-01T23:41:33Z

By Corrie Pikul

Here's what you should know about four retro diseases that are still around -- and a fifth that's back with a vengeance.

1. The ...

Read more: Whooping Cough, Gout, Mumps, Measles, Infectious Diseases, Old Diseases, Old World Diseases, Common Diseases, Old Time Diseases, Diseases, Vaccinations, Vaccines, Own-Healthy, OWN News

Activists Aim To Eradicate Polio By 2018

2013-04-03T10:21:13Z

WASHINGTON -- A new global plan aims to end most cases of polio by late next year, and essentially eradicate the paralyzing disease by 2018 – if...

Read more: Gates Foundation Polio, Polio, Video, World Health Organization Polio, Polio Vaccine, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Polio, Impact News

Minh Chau: How to Plan Your Next Great Adventure - Part 2 of 2

2013-03-31T18:41:09Z

This is part two of "How to Plan for Your Next Great Adventure." Part one dealt with figuring out your itinerary and finding the right price. In this follow up, we'll take a look at other things to consider (travel insurance and unexpected costs) as you prepare for your trip of a lifetime.

Read more: Planning, Travel Insurance, Vacation, Travel Medicine, Around the World, Vaccines, Travel News, Travel News

Elizabeth Gore: Does Being a Blessed Society Make Us Dangerous?

2013-03-30T08:21:30Z

I love being an American. I'm a Texan, an outdoorswoman -- but if you told me I had to give up some rights or change some laws so that my daughter could safely go to school, attend church, or walk home -- I would do it.

Read more: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, Global Motherhood, Elizabeth Gore, Global Mom Relay, Vaccines, Impact News

105 US Kids Died Of Flu; Most Didn't Get Vaccine

2013-03-25T12:19:55Z

NEW YORK -- The flu season is winding down, and it has killed 105 children so far – about the average toll.

The season started about a month ea...

Read more: Flu Vaccine, Flu Death Toll, Child Flu Death Toll 2013, Kid Flu, Flu Death Toll 2013, How Many Kids Died of Flu, Parents News

Claire McCarthy, M.D.: Where Do You Get Your Information About Vaccine Safety?

2013-03-22T14:00:01Z

Parents' worries about the safety of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine are on the rise. And yet, doctors and scientists aren't more worried. What's going on?

Read more: Immunizations, HPV Vaccine, Parenting, Immunization Safety, Claire McCarthy, Vaccine Hesitancy, Vaccine Safety, Parents News

Noelle A. Galperin: The Meaning of Advocacy

2013-03-21T15:52:38Z

For me, there is no substitute, no equivalent way to connect with the greater human cause than putting two life-saving drops of polio vaccine into the mouth of a 3-year-old child.

Read more: India Polio, Polio, Impactx, Political Advocacy, Vaccines, Polio Vaccine, Impact News

How Climate May Affect Flu's Spread

2013-03-18T16:49:19Z

For anyone who's ever suspected that flu spreads more easily in certain kinds of climes than others, you may be on to something.

The National Inst...

Read more: Flu Vaccine, Flu Outbreak, Climate Flu Transmission, Flu-Weather-Patterns, Climate Flu Spread, Weather Flu Spread, Weather Flu Transmission, Flu Season, Flu-Weather-Prediction, Influence, Healthy Living News

More Parents Fear HPV Vaccine Despite Evidence That It Is Safe

2013-03-18T11:44:18Z

By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK | Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:04am EDT

(Reuters Health) - More parents of teen girls not fully vaccinated against human pap...

Read more: HPV Vaccine, Should Girls Get Hpv Vaccine, Teen Girls Hpv, Gardisil, Hpv Vaccine Side Effects, Vaccine for HPV, Side Effects of Hpv Vaccine, Gardisil Side Effects, Parents News

Mitchell Warren: Listening to Women's Voices on HIV Prevention

2013-03-08T16:41:18Z

Women and girls have been at the center of the HIV prevention research agenda for more than a decade. Women account for half of new HIV infections worldwide, in part because there are too few prevention options that they can control.

Read more: HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Women's Health, AIDS Vaccine, Africa, HIV Prevention, Global Motherhood, Microbicides, International Women's Day, HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Impact News

Elizabeth Gore: Why Moms Matter

2013-03-07T10:35:55Z

Today, we launch Global Mom Relay -- an interactive, online conversation over the next 62 days that features moms, celebrities, experts and others who will shares stories of motherhood and talk about what we can do to improve the health of mothers and children around the world.

Read more: Global Health, Mother's Day, Johnson & Johnson, UN Foundation, Global Mom Relay, United Nations Foundation, United Nations, Pregnancy, Motherhood, Parenting, Global Motherhood, International Women's Day, Maternal Health, Vaccines, Cookstoves, Johnson and Johnson, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates, Social Good, Children's Health, Impact News

Wendy Sue Swanson, MD, MBE, FAAP: Is It Really an Ear Infection?

2013-02-28T15:21:25Z

Fortunately the majority of children recover from ear infections without any intervention. But about 20-30 percent of the time, they need help fighting the infection.

Read more: Otitis Media, Ear Infections, Less Is More, Antibiotics, Immunizations, Ear, Unnecessary Antibiotics, Vaccines, Parents News