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Needle-Free Shots Make Vaccines Less Scary
Sept. 20, 2011 (Chicago) -- If you or your child gets worked up just thinking about getting a flu shot, take note: Needle-free vaccines may soon be coming to your neighborhood -- if they’re not already there. Needle-free vaccines are generally safer, simple, and more convenient to use, says Bruce We
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Whooping Cough Vaccine May Not Give Long-Term Protection
Sept. 20, 2011 (Chicago) -- The protection provided by the vaccine against whooping cough may wane after only about three years, a preliminary study suggests. The findings come from a survey of about 15,000 children in Marin County, Calif., where an outbreak of the highly contagious bacterial diseas
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Obesity Puts Young Kids at Risk of Social Isolation
Sept. 19, 2011 -- Obesity increases the risk that young children will become socially isolated by their grade-school years, a new study shows. The study tracked more than 3,300 children in Australia for four years as they advanced from preschool through the early grades. Families were recruited into
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Fast-Paced Cartoons May Hurt Kids' Attention, Memory
Sept. 12, 2011 -- Children who watched just nine minutes of a fast-paced, high-action cartoon performed worse on routine tests of attention and other skills compared to children who drew pictures or watched slower-paced educational cartoons, according to new research. The 4-year-olds who viewed the
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CDC: Adolescent Vaccine Rates Rising
Sept. 6, 2011 -- More 11- and-12-year-olds are getting their recommended vaccines, but there's room for improvement, a CDC study shows. The study compared immunization rates for 13- to 17-year-olds born from 1991 to 1996. It shows that nearly 55% of kids had made vaccination visits to doctors at age
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Most Kids Adjust to Sudden Death of a Parent
Sept. 6, 2011 -- Losing a parent can be difficult at any age. Researchers in a new study in the Archives of General Psychiatry seek to better understand how loss, including the sudden death of a parent, affects children and teens. More than half of children and teens will adjust to the sudden loss o
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CDC: Vaccination Rates for Toddlers Rising
Sept. 1, 2011 -- After dipping in 2009, national vaccination rates for toddlers increased slightly or held steady at high levels last year, according to a new report from the CDC. Results of the 2010 National Immunization Survey for children aged 19-35 months are published in Morbidity and Mortality
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Study: Kids Are Getting Too Many Antibiotics
Sept. 1, 2011 -- Too many kids are still getting antibiotic prescriptions for colds, viral sore throats, and other illnesses that don't require or respond to antibiotics, a study suggests. The study is published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Antibiotics are some of the most pow
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Report: Vaccines Generally Safe, Cause Few Health Problems
Aug. 25, 2011 -- Nearly two decades of research on vaccine safety has found that serious side effects are rare and that vaccines do not cause autism, diabetes, asthma, or Bell’s palsy. Although fears about vaccine safety are common, the new study from the nonprofit Institute of Medicine finds that v
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Vaccines for Teens: Still Room for Improvement
Aug. 25, 2011 -- More teens are getting their recommended vaccines, but there is still room for improvement. The numbers are especially low for human papillomavirus (HPV) or cervical cancer vaccines among U.S. girls, the CDC reports. The recommended vaccines for all teens include: Two doses of menin
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