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41. No Ill Effects When Kids Get Vaccines on Time
    

    May 24, 2010 -- Children should be vaccinated on time because this results in better outcomes than delaying immunization, a study shows. The research also shows that children who are vaccinated on time have no adverse effects on neuropsychological evaluation seven to 10 years later. The study is pub

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42. FDA: Rotavirus Vaccines Safe Despite Pig Virus
    

    May 14, 2010 - Both rotavirus vaccines given to U.S. infants carry tiny amounts of pig virus or pig virus DNA -- but due to the vaccines' strong safety record, the FDA says doctors should resume their use. Last March, the FDA suspended use of GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix when newly available techniques

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43. More Parents Refuse, Delay Child's Vaccinations
    

    May 5, 2010 -- In 2008, 39% of parents refused or delayed giving at least one routine vaccine to their children, up from 22% just five years earlier, the CDC reports. Despite the delays, which widen the critical period in which kids are most vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases, the percentage

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44. Refusing to Vaccinate Affects Other Kids, Too
    

    March 22, 2010 -- A CDC investigation shows a measles outbreak in San Diego was fueled by kids whose parents refused to vaccinate them, thus endangering children too young to be vaccinated. Measles is one of the world's most highly contagious viral diseases. Thanks to high vaccination rates, the dan

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45. Pig Virus DNA Found in Rotavirus Vaccine
    

    March 22, 2010 -- GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix rotavirus vaccine contains DNA from an apparently harmless pig virus, the company and the FDA today announced. The FDA estimates that 1 million U.S. kids have received the Rotarix vaccine. The contamination was discovered by researchers developing a new te

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46. Survey Shows Parents Worry About Vaccines
    

    March 1, 2010 -- Most parents believe vaccination is a good way to protect their children from potentially deadly diseases, but a new survey shows more than half still worry about the possibility of vaccine side effects. The study shows 88% of parents follow the child immunization schedule recommend

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47. Study Linking Autism to Vaccine Retracted
    

    Editor’s note: On Jan. 5, 2011, an editorial in the BMJ called the research retracted from the Lancet “an elaborate fraud,” based on a seven-year investigation by journalist Brian Deer. Andrew Wakefield, MD,  still stands by his discredited research. Feb. 2, 2010 -- The venerable British medical jou

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48. Kids' Chest Infections Up Since Vaccine
    

    Jan. 19, 2010 - Childhood pneumococcal vaccination may be linked to an increase in a serious complication of pneumonia, a new study suggests. The proven benefit of the vaccine -- which since its introduction in 2000 has slashed rates of pneumonia, bacterial meningitis, and blood infections in childr

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49. New Schedule for Childhood Vaccines
    

    Jan. 6, 2010 - H1N1 swine flu shots, a meningitis booster, and a genital warts vaccine for boys are the big changes to the 2010 childhood vaccination schedule. The changes were recommended by a CDC advisory panel last October. Now approval of the changes by the American Academy of Pediatrics makes t

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50. Vaccine Refusal Raises Chickenpox Risk
    

    Jan. 4, 2010 -- Chickenpox cases have dropped by about 80% in the U.S. since a vaccine to prevent the disease became available almost 15 years ago, but many parents still reject immunization because of concerns about vaccine safety. Now new research confirms what public health officials have long kn

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