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Getting a flu shot is an annual rite of passage - or at least, according to U.S. health officials, it should be. For the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends this year that all children aged six months through 18 years receive the flu vaccine; previous...
Yet a new study published Oct. 6 in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine suggests otherwise - that the flu shot in children doesn't necessarily protect them from illness. Led by Dr. Peter Szilagyi, researchers at University of Rochester studied 414 children aged 5 and younger, who came down with...
There are currently 20 million Americans infected with the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). A sexually transmitted disease, HPV is not particularly serious in and of itself. Its danger comes from the cervical cancer it can cause in women, which has led to the introduction of a vaccine—Gardasil?...
The discovery was instrumental in the development of vaccines for polio, a viral infectious disease eliminated from the Americas in 1994, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 16,000 cases of paralytic polio were recorded every year in the U.S. before a vaccine was first...
But it's not just physicists whose work provokes strong and often irrational fear, according to Robin Williams, director of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation at the University of Edinburgh. He points out that the millennial anxiety about scientific and technological breakthroughs predates particle physics...