Word: vaccinees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That's why there was so much interest last week in a New England Journal of Medicine report on an experimental vaccine that cuts the risk of shingles--and its painful side effects--by more than half. Like the chicken pox inoculation that is given to children, the new vaccine...
The new vaccine, which was tested in an unusually large study--sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs--of 38,500 adults 60 and older, still needs to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Even if it is approved, if you've already had shingles, the vaccine probably...
In the meantime, there are antiviral medicines for treatment of the symptoms, provided the condition is caught early enough. Pain often precedes the rash by a couple of days and can be mistaken for a heart attack or gallstone problem. Unfortunately, nerve pain is difficult to treat and can lead...
“Although the United States now has enough smallpox vaccine for the entire population, it has neither the means of distribution nor the immunized personnel to administer it in a generalized outbreak,” Frist said.
The U.S. only holds sufficient quantities of the vaccine Tamiflu to inoculate about one percent of the population, Frist warned. “To acquire more anti-viral agent, we would need to get in line behind Britain and France and Canada and others who have tens of millions of...