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Special supplemental issue of the journal Vaccine provides critical insights on rotavirus vaccine performance to help maximize their impact in developing countries Rotavirus vaccines offer the best hope for preventing severe rotavirus disease and the deadly dehydrating diarrhea that it causes, particularly in low-resource settings where treatment for rotavirus infection is limited or unavailable, according to studies published in the April 2012 special supplement to the journal Vaccine....

SAINT PAUL, Minn., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), one of the nation's premier sources of immunization information, is proud to announce that its associate director for immunization projects, Diane C. Peterson, has been selected as the Minnesota recipient of the first annual Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Childhood Immunization Champion Award. The Champion Award recognizes individuals who are working at the community level. It...

ATLANTA, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year, thousands of children become ill from diseases that could have been prevented by basic childhood immunizations. National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is April 21 - 28, 2012 and the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) urges all Georgians to protect infants from vaccine-preventable diseases by vaccinating their children. "Parents want to do what is best for their children," said Steve Mitchell, Director of the Georgia...

Critical improvements necessary to help scale up vaccine access, save children's lives A study released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has identified the most feasible and impactful solutions for Nigeria's immunization program that could offer the best hope yet for scaling up vaccine access to the nation's most rural areas and taking aim at the country's precipitous number of child deaths. While the nation...

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM), representing the 64 federally funded state, territorial and large urban area immunization programs, applauds Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health for its findings in support of collaboration between immunization and emergency preparedness programs as the key to successful pandemic influenza response. The Emory Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center...

Findings target disease-causing tau isoform and raise the possibility of an immunization strategy at early stage of disease Under normal circumstances, the tau protein is a hard-working participant in memory and normal brain functioning. But as is becoming increasingly evident, in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, tau not only ceases to play a productive role in brain health, but actually undergoes a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation to become a misshapen villain that...

SAINT PAUL, Minn., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Deborah Wexler, MD, founder and executive director of the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), was selected as recipient of the 2012 American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Immunization Champion Award - Friend of Pharmacy. Dr. Wexler will be recognized during a special awards ceremony at the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans on March 11, 2012. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120307/CG66289) APhA's Friend...

Ivanhoe Newswires)-- Immunization of pregnant women may help increase unborn babies birth weights, and give them a healthier start at life. A recent study used a randomized trial consisting of 340 healthy pregnant women in Bangladesh in their third trimester. Researchers looked at the effect of vaccinating with the influenza vaccine on babies born to vaccinated mothers. It was part of the Mother's Gift project looking at the safety and efficacy of pneumococcal and influenza vaccines in...

Researchers are continuously learning how the body’s immune system is put together, and a recent discovery has found that the circadian clock may help determine the success of healing against pathogens in the body. The study, published in the Cell Press journal Immunity, examined the function of Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), a protein in the immune system that detects the DNA of viruses and bacteria. The researchers found, according to a press release, that the circadian clock controlled...

New hope for total joint replacement patients Methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA) infections are resistant to antibiotics and can cause a myriad of problems -- bone erosion, or osteomyelitis, which shorten the effective life of an implant and greatly hinder replacement of that implant. MRSA can result in prolonged disability, amputation and even death. Although only 2 percent of the American population that undergo total joint replacement surgery will suffer an infection, half of...