Combining the annual flu shot with other vaccines — particularly the pneumococcal PCV13 vaccine — may increase a child’s risk of a seizure associated with high fever. It’s a small risk of a scary but not very dangerous...
Read more A childhood vaccine against pneumonia-causing bacteria introduced in 2000 hasn’t made a visible dent in the disease, U.S. researchers said Monday. In the first study to provide national estimates of childhood pneumonia, they found rates of...
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In France, despite a high rate of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine coverage, the number of cases of pneumococcal meningitis in children did not decline significantly between 2001–2002 (n = 264) and 2007–2008 (n = 244). A decline was observed among...
Read more Abstract CONTEXT: The rapid increase in multiresistant serotype 19A as a cause of invasive and respiratory pneumococcal disease has been associated in time with the widespread implementation of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7)...
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OBJECTIVE: To determine if the incidence of empyema among children in the United States has changed since the introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in 2000. METHODS: We used the nationally representative Kids’ Inpatient...
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The Dutch health institute RIVM has stopped the distribution of a batch of Pfizer’s Prevnar childhood vaccine following the death of three babies shortly after being vaccinated. The vaccine has been labeled ‘do not use’ and and...
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Recall: Prevnar Pneumococcal 7-valent Conjugate Vaccine, Wyeth DATE RECALL INITIATED: July 10, 2009 PRODUCT / LOT NUMBER / EXPIRATION DATE: Prevnar pneumococcal 7-valent Conjugate Vaccine (Diptheria CRM197Protein) 0.5 mL single dose pre-filled...
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Sales of anti-depressant Effexor tumbled 20 percent to $819 million as the drug began facing generic competition in Europe. It was also hurt by lingering concerns that such medicines increase the risk of suicidal thoughts. The magnitude of the...
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At the same time we were heralding the benefits of PCV7, we were alert to the unintended consequence of serotype replacement. This phenomenon, demonstrated convincingly in randomized, controlled trials [11], occurs when serotypes not included in...
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A pneumonia vaccine reduces the incidence of acute otitis media (AOM, acute ear infection) caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae by 34 percent and reduces the overall incidence of AOM by 6 to 8 percent. However, a new study found that...
Read more The Rotavirus vaccine – an American vaccine against childhood diarrhea and dehydration – has been found to cause pneumonia! It has already been withdrawn once for causing intersuption of the bowel (where the bowel sticks together...
Read more Prevnar vaccine is having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections. On Monday, doctors reported discovering the first such germ that is resistant to all drugs approved to treat childhood ear infections. Nine...
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