Annual Flu Season is Coming – Get Your Flu Shot
• Flu • Sep 16 11
Influenza vaccine is starting to arrive at local health departments, pharmacies and health care facilities around the state. The Illinois Department of Public Health,…
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…
Serotonin levels affect the brain’s response to anger
• Brain • Sep 16 11
Fluctuations of serotonin levels in the brain, which often occur when someone hasn’t eaten or is stressed, affects brain regions that enable people to…
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…
For kids with ADHD, regular ‘green time’ is linked to milder symptoms
• Children's Health • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 15 11
A study of more than 400 children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has found a link between the children’s routine play settings and…
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…
Study finds healthy hearts in fat bodies
• Fat, Dietary • • Heart • Sep 14 11
Carrying extra pounds doesn’t necessarily mean your heart is ailing, according to Greek researchers.
They found less than 10 percent of healthy obese people…
Counseling may not help pregnant smokers kick habit
• Pregnancy • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Sep 14 11
Counseling alone does not seem to help pregnant women quit smoking, according to a review of previous studies that concludes more research on the…
Michigan to track childhood obesity as part of health push
• Children's Health • • Obesity • Sep 14 11
Michigan’s Republican governor said on Wednesday he will ask doctors in the state to begin reporting information on their young patients’ body fat levels…
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…
Strong leadership necessary to provide more sophisticated care for aging population, study finds
• Aging and Gerontology • Sep 14 11
Strong leadership, communication and teamwork are essential to successful organizations, especially health care facilities. However, how those organizations achieve improvement is not clearly understood,…
Motor memory: The long and short of it
• Brain • • Neurology • Sep 14 11
For the first time, scientists at USC have unlocked a mechanism behind the way short- and long-term motor memory work together and compete against…
Milk-drinking teens reap health benefits through adulthood
• Dieting • • Food & Nutrition • Sep 14 11
Developing healthy habits like drinking milk as a teen could have a long-term effect on a woman’s risk for type 2 diabetes, according to…
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…
Aerobic Exercise May Reduce the Risk of Dementia, Researchers Say
• Brain • • Neurology • • Psychiatry / Psychology • Sep 13 11
Any exercise that gets the heart pumping may reduce the risk of dementia and slow the condition’s progression once it starts, reported a Mayo…