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New challenges - Disease Prevention through Vaccination
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 16 11
The successful implementation of mass immunization programs and the subsequent eradication or reduction of smallpox, polio, measles, pertussis, meningococcal meningitis, diphtheria, mumps, rubella, and…
Ensuring vaccine safety and monitoring: checks and balances
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 16 11
The challenge is to reduce the number of injections and minimize the side effects without compromising effectiveness and patient acceptability. Before the FDA can…
Number of children poisoned by medication rising dramatically, study says
• Public Health • Sep 16 11
The number of young children admitted to hospitals or seen in emergency departments because they unintentionally took a potentially toxic dose of medication has…
Protesting vaccines: Fact or Myth
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Antivaccination movements often can have a significant effect on public health, primarily as a result of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. But, are the fears…
More U.S. doctors facing charges over drug abuse
• Drug Abuse • • Public Health • Sep 14 11
Michael Jackson’s doctor, accused of killing the pop star with a powerful anesthetic, has joined a small but growing number of U.S. physicians facing…
The importance of vaccination and resistance to it
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
The marketing of Gardasil and similar prototypes in the pipeline illustrates that pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies are engaged in vaccine research.
With the…
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Sexually transmitted HPVs, common in adults and sexually active adolescents,…
Pneumococcal Pneumonia
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
The Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterium (often called pneumococcus) can cause a variety of diseases, from severe, potentially life-threatening pneumonia, meningitis, and bacteremia to common but…
Influenza
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Historically, influenza (the flu) epidemics have cased havoc. Charlemagne’s army may have been decimated by the flu during an epidemic in 876. The great…
Measles, Mumps and Rubella
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
As late as the 1950s, and before a vaccine was developed, parents were encouraged to expose their children to diseases like measles, mumps, and…
Polio
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Probably no disease created as much fear as polio. Paralysis and death were the major hazards of- this disease. Probably the most famous polio…
Milestones in vaccine history
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
It was almost 100 years after Jenner’s seminal work that vaccination moved beyond smallpox. The French chemist, Louis Pasteur, developed what he called a…
It all started with compox
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
No discussion of vaccines can be considered complete without a discussion of smallpox and Edward Jenner, a country doctor in England who is credited…
What are vaccines and how do they work?
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
The doctrine holding that infectious diseases are caused by the activity of microorganisms within the body is referred to as the germ theory of…
Disease Prevention through Vaccination: The Science and the Controversy
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Each one of us is constantly warding off the potential for infection or disease. After all, the world is filled with countless microbes, fortunately…
Clinical research into LGBT populations
• Public Health • • LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
For public health departments and providers to plan appropriate services for a population, especially a vulnerable one, it is essential to have reliable data…
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: A Neglected Issue
• Public Health • • LGBT Health • Sep 13 11
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) communities have existed in all cultures throughout recorded history; however, it is only in the last two decades…
Hold the pillow mint, send up the yoga mat
• Alternative Medicine • • Public Health • Sep 13 11
Hotel chains are delivering everything from yoga videos to recumbent bicycles to guests who prefer to work out their jet lag, or shape up…
Flu vaccines for nursing home workers effective in reducing outbreaks: study
• Flu • • Public Health • Sep 12 11
Higher flu vaccination rates for health care personnel can dramatically reduce the threat of flu outbreak among nursing home residents, according to a study…
Cognition research aims to reduce medical errors
• Public Health • Sep 12 11
How doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can be better prepared to reduce medical mistakes and improve patient care is the focus of…
Consolidation of health plans may help lower hospital costs, study finds
• Public Health • Sep 08 11
Increased consolidation among health plans nationally may benefit consumers by lowering hospital prices, at least in those regions where health plans are the most…
Healthier living could cut 2.8 million cancer cases
• Cancer • • Public Health • Sep 07 11
Healthier lifestyles and better diets could prevent up to 2.8 million cases of cancer each year, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) said on…
UCSF, UC Merced to Study Effectiveness of Anti-Tobacco Programs
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 07 11
Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco, and UC Merced will examine the effectiveness of state and local antismoking programs across the United…
Even mild cognitive impairment appears to substantially increase risk for death
• Public Health • Sep 06 11
Cognitive impairment, even when detected at an early, mild stage, is a significant predictor of decreased life expectancy.
According to a new, long-term study…
Pharmacists need to provide better information to teenagers on risks and benefits of medicines
• Public Health • Sep 05 11
Hyderabad, India: A large proportion of teenagers regularly and frequently take some form of medication without receiving targeted information about the risks and benefits,…