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Concern over vaccine safety is one of the primary factors preventing parents from having their asthmatic children vaccinated for influenza, or flu, according to Michigan researchers. Parents who do not vaccinate their children are also less likely to view flu as a “trigger” for their child’s asthma, the researchers noted. The study will be presented at the ATS 2011 International Conference in Denver.
Vanderbilt investigators have found that childhood vaccinations do not harm children with a certain type of inborn errors of metabolism (IEM) called urea cycle disorders. “Our study is one of the first to take a group that everyone would agree is going to be medically fragile and look at vaccines in this sub-group,” said Thomas Morgan, M.D., a clinical geneticist and assistant professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt.
A dendritic cell vaccine personalized for each individual based on the patient’s own tumor may increase median survival time in those with a deadly form of brain cancer called glioblastoma, an early phase study at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found. The results are published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Cancer Research.
Concerns over vaccination seems to have permeated society, and parents have many questions about the safety of vaccines. One important question is whether vaccinations strain or weaken children’s immune systems and are therefore harmful to them. Roma Schmitz and her colleagues from the Robert Koch Institute investigated this research question in the current issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International. The original full-text study is available for free for an undetermined amount of time; check the end of this report for a download link.
A recent investigation published by the British Medical Journal BMJ concluded that Dr. Andrew Wakefield misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of a 1998 study linking Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to childhood vaccines. Regardless of the cause, in the past decade there has been a huge increase in the incidence of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD).
In the late 1990′s, a journal article was published in BMJ (British Medical Journal) that linked autism to childhood vaccination. This understandably created parental fear related to vaccinating their children. The article was eventually retracted because of irregularities in the study. Now CNN News reports that lead author Dr. Andrew Wakefield “misrepresented or altered the medical histories of all 12 of the patients whose cases formed the basis of the 1998 study – and that there was “no doubt” Wakefield was responsible.” Included in this report is a video of a CNN segment that explains these developments.
After recovering from a cold or other infection, your body’s immune system is primed to react quickly if the same agent tries to infect you. White blood cells called memory T cells specifically remember the virus or bacterium and patrol the body looking for it. Vaccines work on the same principle: Harmless fragments of a virus or bacterium provoke the immune system to generate memory T cells that can attack the real thing later on.
Increasing the amount that physicians are reimbursed by Medicaid for administering influenza shots may raise vaccination rates among poor children. That is the conclusion of a study published online today in the journal Pediatrics. The study, conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), analyzes state-by-state vaccination data over three flu seasons and contends that the number of poor children receiving the annual flu shot could be increased by up to one percentage point for every additional dollar provided to doctors to administer the vaccine.
Deadly diseases are making a comeback. Pertussis, or whooping cough, has killed nine infants this year in California, and outbreaks of measles and Hib meningitis have struck U.S. communities in the past three years. At the heart of all these outbreaks: Parents who have chosen not to vaccinate their children.
“Whooping cough, diphtheria and diseases that some of us don’t even recognize anymore are not gone forever. They are widespread in developing countries and do also arise here in the US,” said Palacios. “It is important that vaccine-preventable diseases are kept under control no matter where they crop up, whether it be in Texas or in Kenya. Diseases don’t recognize borders.”
