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Immunizations – general overview
Alternative Names Vaccinations; Immunizations – safety; How immunizations work Definition of Immunizations – general overview Immunization (vaccination) is a way to trigger your immune system and prevent serious, life-threateni...
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If It Were My Child: No Tylenol before Shots
...shed their findings in The Lancet. They wanted to evaluate a baby’s immune response after the standard 2 month-old immunizations. Researchers sorted babies into two groups, one in which the babies received the 2 month shots, and anoth...
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Babies and shots
Alternative Names Shots and babies; Children and immunizations Definition of Babies and shots Immunizations are important to keep your child healthy. This article discusses how to ease the pain of shots for babies. Review Neil K. Kaneshiro...
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Health Revolution in Mexico
...Rica) continue to have measles epidemics. Mexican resolve has resulted in similar dramatic success with other important immunizations. I’m all for yearly re-evaluation of whether or not the benefits of each vaccine outweigh the curre...
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Health Related Apps for Parents
...han one child, it can be difficult, for even the most diligent of moms, to keep track of each child’s detailed record of immunizations, allergies, etc. How many times have you looked at a bottle of acetaminophen and tried to remember if you...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
...wn or in a prone position. The rate of SIDS is also higher in those babies who do not receive timely well-child care and immunizations. Events that occur even before the baby is born affect the risk of SIDS. Anything that causes less oxygen...
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Minimizing the risk of SIDS
…wn or in a prone position. The rate of SIDS is also higher in those babies who do not receive timely well-child care and immunizations. Putting children to sleep on their backs lowers the risk of SIDS by about…
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Hidden Ingredients in Vaccines
…sons of cost and storage capacity. Vaccines in multi-dose vials are more likely to contain thimerosal as a preservative. Immunizations save lives Immunizations remain one of the greatest discoveries in human history, having saved innumerabl…
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A War For Children’s Health
...by 2005. So far, they have been 99% successful (only 2881 new cases in 2000). But enormous challenges remain in bringing immunizations to 16 million children in war-torn Central and Western Africa. Reuters Health has reported on events as...
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Chicken Pox Vaccine
...ates for both the disease and the vaccine are probably under-estimated. On the other hand, many children receive several immunizations at the same time, and thus many reactions listed as possibly coming from the chicken pox vaccine have no...
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