All the News Posted September 8, 2010

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September 8, 2010

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Pneumococcal shots give space for new strains-study

Dosing Schedule of Pneumococcal Vaccine Linked With Increased Risk of Getting Multiresistant Strain

Vaccine suspensions and drug disasters has made 2010 a annus horribilis for Glaxo Smith Kline

Error causes Bangladeshi infant vaccine deaths

US government to spend billions to help Big Pharma produce flu vaccines faster

Mandate Flu Vaccination for Healthcare Workers, Say Infectious Disease Experts

No sweat getting flu vaccine this season, officials report

Is Whooping Cough Vaccine Working?

Side effects of vaccination

Professional Vaccine skeptic analysis and rebuke

Vaccine hope for hepatitis E

Have Polio-Free Countries Lost Sight of Need to Keep Vaccination Rates High?

Students shoot to vaccinate homeless

Reportlinker Adds US Vaccines Market

Yet to stick: Weld residents slow to get flu vaccine despite recommendations

Summit Medical Group study demonstrates H1N1 vaccine can be given safely to those with egg allergies

OC Moms Talk Back: Do you vaccinate?

New York City schools won't be offering flu vaccines this year: officials

New routine vaccines to boost adult and adolescent segment

Tuesday's with Tammy: The Flu Season from Apples to Vaccines

More hospitals require flu shot for workers

Vaccine shortage expected for today only

Giant Food to Offer Seasonal Flu Shots

More than 70 get flu shots on county's first day

More Seniors Get Flu Shot After Personalized Reminders, Provider Urging

Practice Fusion Provides EMR Response to Whooping Cough Outbreak

WHO chief urges southern Asia to develop vaccines

Over 0.5m anthrax vaccines on way to six affected cities

Research! America releases vaccines fact sheet

East County forum on childhood vaccines set

Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination and Nasopharyngeal Acquisition of Pneumococcal Serotype 19A Strains

Guidelines Updated for Use of 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine in Adults

Addition of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency as a Contraindication for Administration of Rotavirus Vaccine

Greater Accra Region administers more than 300,000 H1N1 vaccines

AVAC Calls for AIDS Vaccine Field to Implement New Scientific Strategic Plan Released by Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

In a time of Cholera, a vaccine is delayed over red tape

Notes From the Field: Pertussis—California, January–June 2010

Talarico: Too Late To Prevent Their Deaths

Whooping cough gets worse on Peninsula

The impact of an immunization programme administered through the Growth Monitoring Programme Plus as an alternative way of implementing Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses in urban-slum areas of Lusaka, Zambia

Clinical Characteristics and 30-Day Outcomes for Influenza A 2009 (H1N1), 2008-2009 (H1N1), and 2007-2008 (H3N2) Infections

Marion County Health Department Offers HPV Vaccine For Boys

Emergent BioSolutions Announces Commencement of Phase I Clinical Trial for Monoclonal Antibody to Treat Inhalational Anthrax

Gastrointestinal Anthrax After an Animal-Hide Drumming Event—New Hampshire and Massachusetts, 2009

Bacillus anthracis and anthrax

WHO wants faster, more flu vaccine production

Swine Flu Found No More Severe Than Seasonal Virus

Fight Against Swine Flu Gets More Intense

Can an employee exposed to pandemic flu take FMLA leave?

UA researchers predict second wave of swine flu; kids need to be ready (includes video)

Swine influenza widespread in England

Trip to the beach, then a flu shot

Visiting Nurses Association: Flu Shots

She'll be happy when everyone has flu shot

Cuban Vaccines Cross Borders, but Barriers Remain

Rumors cause pain and suffering in health sector

Coriolis PharmaService Chooses NanoSight to Study the Aggregation of Protein Drugs and Vaccines

Why should you get vaccinated?

Fighting African ticks with ATAQ protein vaccine

Anti-rabies vaccine contract bites a chunk off rules

Research and Markets: Breast Cancer: Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies - Findings on More than 30 Candidate Therapies, Including 22 Vaccines and 11 Antibodies

After a Swine Flu Death, Bucks Family Finds a Cause

CellDex Therapeutics Gets Hammered After Divorce With Pfizer, Time to Buy?

GeoVax Labs to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw 12th Annual Healthcare Conference

New Target Clinic Locations Open Today in Chicago and the Palm Beach Area

Measles Outbreak Linked to Youth Soccer Event

Paraguay vaccinating against FMD; fears about Bolivia’s cattle sanitary condition

Dog Flu Shots Needed?

Merial highlights impact of swine flu in England

Eradicating Polio: Let's Finish the Job

Kicking polio (includes video)

FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approval of Forest Laboratories' Ceftaroline Fosamil for the Treatment of Community Acquired Bacterial Pneumonia and Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections

A Clinical Picture of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in Children in the United States

Relapsing Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in Children: Further Evaluation of the Diagnosis

Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy of Childhood With Spinal Cord Involvement: A Case Report

Mother turned shoplifter after meningitis cost job

Gates Foundation acknowledges flaws in report

Marital Status and the Epidemiology and Outcomes of Sepsis

Using Germicides for Pathogen Eradication

The CDC to list new superbug NDM-1 as communicable disease

Cockroaches May Help Protect Against 'Superbugs'

Trial initiation in S Korea rose by 150% from 2006-09

Wyeth paid writers to promote hormone therapy: study

Boo! Wyeth And Its Ghostwriting Practices

Appeals Court Upholds Pay-To-Delay Deals, Again

U.S. court orders Teva to pay $365m to Hepatitis C-infected man

Snake In The Grass: J&J Can Recoup Tylenol Losses

J&J Wants Remicade Damages From Merck

Inmate claims forced TB testing is unconstitutional

VIGOR, an annotation program for small viral genomes

Hospitals unprepared for superbug infections / Few facilities have thorough countermeasures in place; 'Infection control doctors' often barely qualified

Drs. Erik De Clercq and Anthony S. Fauci Win 2010 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research

Ohio Wesleyan Alumnus to Discuss Infectious Disease Impact on U.S.

Local physician loses in bid for president of American Academy of Pediatrics

Epidemiological study of phylogenetic transmission clusters in a local HIV-1 epidemic reveals distinct differences between subtype B and non-B infections

Young gay men fuelling HIV epidemic, study warns

Boosting FDA’s Budget

Wait times get bill of health

A Theme Issue on Infectious Disease and Immunology—Call for Papers

Do IRBs Protect Human Research Participants?

Rare Pediatric Diseases

World of medicine divided by 'wonder drug' (includes video)

Dr. Gott: Medical woes plague young reader

NIH ramps up Human Microbiome Project

Malnutrition responsible for death in children, says UNICEF

Pulmonary Manifestations of Pediatric Diseases

Ancient Japanese doctor's notes for measles, syphilis and ... handwriting?

Diphtheria cases more acute in urban Gujarat

AIDS Experts in D.C. Evaluate Effectiveness of 2010 Vienna AIDS Conference

UN: Targeting most disadvantaged children can save more lives

Mayo Clinic Hep C Letter Worries Patient (includes video)

Sinovac Participates in Three Investor Conferences in September 2010

From Research to Health Care Practice

When the Doctor Becomes a Patient

Montco health officials predict ample vaccine for flu season

Exclusion of Genetic Information From the Medical Record

Cerebrospinal Fluid Enterovirus Testing in Infants 56 Days or Younger

Relationship Between Patient Panel Characteristics and Primary Care Physician Clinical Performance Rankings

Parental Hopeful Patterns of Thinking, Emotions, and Pediatric Palliative Care Decision Making

'Maternal health key to fighting poverty'

Johnson & Johnson being sued for drug conspiracy

Public Reporting of Hospital Hand Hygiene Compliance—Helpful or Harmful?

Freedom for family wellness conference ICPA Family Wellness First Summit (October 21-24, 2010)

What’s Your Elevator Pitch? It’s imperative to communicate your science, but not as PR machines

Japan to hold nationwide survey of infections with superbug

AVI BioPharma Issued U.S. Patent Providing Key Coverage of RNA-Based Therapeutics as Antibacterial Agents

Allergan sued over Botox off-label marketing

Move beyond food allergy `fear`

Tackling food allergies in public

Texas egg industry important to state agriculture

Asthma Symptoms, Causes, Treatment And Home Remedies To Treating Asthma

A targeted cancer therapy?

J&J Wants Remicade Damages From Merck

Adolescent Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adolescence

Biochemical and Vascular Aspects of Pediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Postinfectious Fatigue in Adolescents and Physical Activity

Timing of infection and development of wheeze, eczema, and atopic sensitization during the first 2 yr of life: The KOALA Birth Cohort Study

When Is a Review Article Not a Review Article?

When Is a Review Article Not a Review Article?—Reply

Your dentist may be poisoning your children

GM fish are safe to eat, says FDA prior to public meeting

Beware of the Senate Bill 510, the Food Seizure and Big Agra Act

Organic Labels: Know the Meaning of the Different Kinds

Non-stick cookware chemical PFOA linked to high cholesterol in children

Gender bender chemical atrazine widely contaminates U.S. public water supply

Understanding Naturopathy for Healthy Living

How to Deal with the Physician Shortage

Reportlinker Adds Neuroprotection - Drugs, Markets and Companies

Multivitamin use doesn't impact colon cancer outcomes

NIEHS Workshop on Autism and the Environment: New Ideas for Advancing the Science

The Nightmare and the Dream: A Review of "The Age of Autism"

The AAIDD Definition of Intellectual Disability is Cited in SSA's Proposed Revision of Medical Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders

Mapping a Brain Atlas

Motor proficiency of 6- to 9-year-old children with speech and language problems

Researchers at King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry publish new data on autism

Autism Treatment -- Treatment of Low Blood Sugar for Autism

Tips for Choosing the Best School for an Autistic Child

We want an autism centre too

New private school open for children with autism
(includes video)

Teacher who kicked 5 year old autistic out of class now refused to wear mike for deaf child

"Swring" Making Impact On Kids With Autism (includes video)

iPad App aimed at changing autistic children's lives
(includes video)

Autism Support Network and Autism Hangout to Share Content

Kinesiologists Design Tiny Treadmill To Help Balance Baby Steps In Down Syndrome Infants (includes video)

CSU prof Temple Grandin, subject of HBO movie, to keynote Denver’s BioWest

'Magic mushrooms' can improve the lives of cancer patients

Paying for reform

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