Family Health Insurance Vaccinations are a childhood ritual and provide vital protection against diseases like measles, mumps, rubella and polio, which can be extremely dangerous for young children. But a report, issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Preve ntion, found an alarming 28 percent of toddlers have not been vaccinated according to [...]

Robert Koch who detected the tuberculosis causative agent in March 1882 described the contemporary situation: %26quot;Statistics tells us that one in seven of all humans dies of tuberculosis%26hellip;%26quot; Even today, ten million people suffer from the disease yearly, and every day, Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes the death of about 4000 patients. Medical treatment is lengthy and [...]

In the animal studies, a commonly used vaccine that provides protection against tuberculosis, called Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) was used effectively to deplete the abnormal immune cells that attack and destroy the insulin producing cells of the pancreas. The first step in the human study, which is currently enrolling volunteers, is to determine whether the same [...]

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Some doctors said the numbers might be a reflection of both abstinence-only sex education and teens’ own sense of invulnerability. Because some sexually transmitted infections can cause infertility and cancer, U.S. health officials called for better screening, vaccination and prevention.
Only about half of the girls in the study acknowledged having sex. Some [...]

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It seems that every few weeks, there is a new vaccine being started or an older one being reformulated or combined. Things are not as simple, but they are better.
How it worksFor those who do not know how this works, immunization is like giving the person a little disease. You get a [...]

Smallpox did not die out because everyone got a smallpox shot, but because a critical mass of people did, and the disease could not spread.
Second, you probably do know someone who had whooping cough (also called pertussis).
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 11,000 cases in the United States per year since [...]

Now, approaching dusk on Jeanna’s second day in the hospital, she lay in the intensive care unit, a breathing tube threaded through her nose to prevent her from choking on saliva. She was unresponsive.
The Gieses told Jeanna they loved her. They prayed. They told her to pray, too.
Mystified by their daughter’s illness, John, 44, and [...]