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Daily News 2012-10-21
Sun, 10/21/2012 - 12:00pm — admin
Meningitis Outbreak Slows, CDC Still Vigilant
The CDC is reporting only a single new case of fungal meningitis Sunday after days of double-digit increases in the nationwide outbreak. The new case is in Indiana, bringing that state's total to 38 and the total in the 16 affected states to 285 since ...
See all stories on this topic » MedPage Today Gardasil is Declared Safe!
A new study came out this month proclaiming that all of the people who have died or become very ill from Gardasil can't possibly pinpoint Gardasil as the causal factor. A new study of Merck & Co.'s Gardasil cervical-cancer vaccine showed it was ...
See all stories on this topic » Lily of the Mohawks
Her father was a Mohawk Chieftain and her mother was an Algonquin Catholic convert, initially a captive of the Mohawks, who eventually married Kateri's father. During a smallpox epidemic between 1661-1663 tragedy struck her family, with smallpox ...
See all stories on this topic » ResearchMoz.us: Global Pneumococcal Vaccine Market 2011 - 2015 - Market ...
The report covers the Americas, and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccines and Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a ...
See all stories on this topic » PCV13 Vaccine Cuts Disease, CDC Suggests
SAN DIEGO – The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine appears to have sharply reduced the incidence of disease associated with the new bacterial types it includes, a researcher said. Introduced in 2010, the so-called PCV13 vaccine added six ...
See all stories on this topic » Denton woman 1st NC bad drug meningitis death
DENTON, N.C. (AP) — A 77-year-old Denton woman is the first person to die in North Carolina from fungal meningitis likely contracted from a tainted steroid injection in her back. The Davidson County resident died Friday, state Health Director Laura ...
See all stories on this topic » Bee Healthy: Questions, answers on influenza, vaccines
You cannot get influenza from the vaccine. Some people get mild sniffles or fever with the Flumist nasal vaccine, but still cannot get influenza, just some mild symptoms. For more information on influenza and flu vaccines, see the Centers for Disease ...
See all stories on this topic » COMMUNITY COMMENT: Meningitis outbreak no cause for more pharmacy ...
As I have watched the newscasters' bloviations on the mess of the New England Compounding Center (the compounding pharmacy that "compounded" — indeed, manufactured — the contaminated steroid drug that has apparently been directly linked to the ...
See all stories on this topic » Global supply chain, regulatory gaps raise drug safety concerns
It's a system that operates largely outside of the public's consciousness, except when a breakdown puts lives at risk — such as the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid shots. The ongoing outbreak has sickened 284 people and ...
See all stories on this topic » US meningitis death toll rises to 23: health officials
Dr Carol A Rauch of the Vanderbilt Clinical Microbiology Lab for patient care shows samples of Cladosporium species, left, and Aspergillus fumigatus, two of the fungi diagnosed in the fungal meningitis outbreak sweeping the United States, in Nashville, ...
See all stories on this topic » Times LIVE Our Message Loud and Clear AGE OF AUTISM
By Cathy Jameson We lost one of our therapy providers, so I got to work searching for a replacement. I asked local moms who they liked in our area and ...
www.ageofautism.com/2012/.../our-message-loud-and-clear.ht... Meningitis outbreak: Va. health groups warn recent patients
Virginia health care systems are alerting patients who recently received treatment or surgery and are deemed at risk because they might have received medication from a Massachusetts pharmacy at the center of a national outbreak of fungal meningitis.
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis Victims Face Long, Uncertain Recovery
Vilinda York lies in her Florida hospital bed, facing a dry-erase board that lists in green marker her name, her four doctors and a smiley face. Also on the board is this: "Anticipated date of discharge: NOT YET DETERMINED." The 64-year-old contracted ...
See all stories on this topic » ABC News AnneDachel.com » Blog Archive » Age of Autism's rising star ...
WLTX-TV Columbia SC: Two Siblings Who Communicate Without Words. Watch the news report about Natalie and her adult brother Anthony, who has autism.
annedachel.com/2012/10/20/7950/ The Age of Autism Book - Age of Autism | CiRCA
The Age of Autism Book Age of Autism The morning shows were agog Friday over the duet between Katy Perry and a tween girl with autism, to be broadcast on ...
circa.educ.ubc.ca/age-autism-book-age-autism-6 Health Q&A: Study was a hoax; MMR vaccine doesn't cause autism
QUESTION: A friend advised me not to give my baby the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine because of a link between it and autism. What advice can you give me on this difficult decision? -- P.R. Huntsville, Ala. ANSWER: Rest assured that the ...
See all stories on this topic » 'Lily of the Mohawks' to be canonized first Native American saint
In the 17th century, she was known as “Lily of the Mohawks,” a Catholic convert scarred by smallpox and ostracized by her tribe but unshaken in her faith. After Sunday, she will be known as St. Catherine Tekakwitha, the first Native American to be ...
See all stories on this topic » Saudi Arabia: 1 Million Polio Vaccines Given To Haj Pilgrims
By Mohammed Rasooldeen. More than 1 million polio vaccines were given to Haj pilgrims from endemic countries, Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah announced here yesterday. Al-Rabeeah was chairing the seventh meeting of the Haj Health ...
See all stories on this topic » Taliban stops polio eradication campaign in Pakistan
This is a great setback to international efforts to eliminate polio, a disease which is endemic only in three countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. There have been 30 confirmed cases of polio in Pakistan this year, 22 of them in tribal areas ...
See all stories on this topic » John Hawkes praised for role as paralyzed poet
John Hawkes is generating a flood of praise and Oscar buzz for his performance in “The Sessions,” in which he plays the poet Mark O'Brien, who was left paralyzed from the neck down by childhood polio and spent much of his life in an iron lung. Awards ...
See all stories on this topic » Boston Globe Higher rates of invasive pneumococcal disease seen in children with asthma ...
SAN DIEGO — Asthma and diabetes are associated with increased rates of invasive pneumococcal disease and all-cause pneumonia across all age groups including older children, adolescents and young adults, according to data presented here during ...
See all stories on this topic » Know more about HPV vaccine
Recently two injectable HPV vaccines have been manufactured which are given as a series of 3 injections over 12 months. It has been shown that these vaccines can reduce the incidence of HPV infection and cervical pre-cancer in vaccinated women.
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis outbreak claims life of Denton resident
DENTON, N.C. — The State Health Director confirmed a Davidson County resident died Friday from Fungal meningitis linked to tainted steroid injections. A Denton family tells Fox 8 their 77-year-old mother is the victim. High Point Regional Hospital ...
See all stories on this topic » My Fox 8 Deadly meningitis outbreak puts researchers in new territory
The outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated steroid injections represents a forced march into unexplored medical territory. Most fungal infections occur on the skin and are easily treated. Inhaling fungus-contaminated dust sometimes causes ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis Outbreak Toll Now 23 Dead, 284 Sickened: CDC
SATURDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Twenty-three people have now died and 284 have been sickened in the nationwide meningitis outbreak apparently tied to contaminated steroid injections, U.S. health officials reported Saturday. The count stood at 21 ...
See all stories on this topic » Polio case found in Swabi
SWABI: A polio case was confirmed by the officials of the Health Department in the district on Saturday. An official said the case of 20-month old Aiman has been reported positive. When contacted, Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) in-charge Dr ...
See all stories on this topic » Polio: Children in the North still endangered
According to a current report, polio is a vaccine-preventable disease that is more than 99 per cent eliminated from the world. Today, there are very few number of polio cases few countries of the world. “In 1988, when the global fight against polio ...
See all stories on this topic » Nigerian Tribune Officials Confirm Chickenpox Outbreak
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Vigo County School Corporation Officials Confirmed Thursday an outbreak of chickenpox at one Terre Haute elementary school. "Our nursing staff confirmed five cases of chickenpox at Farrington Grove, which is the definition of ...
See all stories on this topic » Ninth vaccine being introduced under EPI
Rawalpindi. The district health department is launching pneumococcal vaccine as part of Expanded Programme on Immunisation from October 25 for infants in the district that provides major cover against pneumonia, meningitis, otitis media and septicaemia.
See all stories on this topic » Nine pertussis cases reported in Flathead County
KALISPELL- Nine new cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, have been reported in Flathead County since October 15. Flathead City-County Health Department officials say that eight of the cases are school age children attending three different ...
See all stories on this topic » dTap only immunization clinic Tuesday
The Tdap vaccine protects against three bacteria illnesses: tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) — all of which are serious, potentially deadly, diseases, officials said. No appointment is necessary. The clinic is intended for elementary ...
See all stories on this topic » Bruno: The 'Magic' of Snarlin' Arlen Specter
I worked with Sen. Mark Andrews to find federal help for America's 1.6 million polio survivors experiencing post-polio sequelae, the unexpected and often disabling symptoms — overwhelming fatigue, muscle weakness, muscle and joint pain, sleep ...
See all stories on this topic » HPV Vaccines Gives False Security to Teenagers
According to a U.S. study, girls who had been vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) weren't more likely to get other sexually transmitted infections or to become pregnant. However, the statement is opposed to the ultimately goal of preventing ...
See all stories on this topic » Empowered News Meningitis Outbreak: Docs Describe Battle
SAN DIEGO – As numbers in the meningitis outbreak continue to mount -- there are now 23 deaths -- clinicians here described how they scrambled to cope with an influx of patients in one of the harder-hit states. "The ER was inundated with patients ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis outbreak continues with death toll rises to 21
The recent scandal of steroid shots being linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak in the U.S. results in a lawsuit against owners of the issuing pharmacy. Boston area pharmacy owners are being sued in the wake of an outbreak that's caused the death of ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis outbreak starting to taper off in TN
The infection rate from tainted steroid shots may be waning in Tennessee as the number of lawsuits — and the pool of defendants — is growing nationally. State health officials said Friday they believe the number of new fungal meningitis cases has ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis outbreak toll: 23 deaths
New figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a rise in the number of deaths attributable to an outbreak of fungal meningitis. According to data released by the CDC on Saturday, 284 cases (including three joint infections) and 23 ...
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