News tagged with immunization doses


New immunization strategy could halve the doses for stopping computer virus spreading

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (23) | comments 3

Researchers have developed a new immunization strategy that requires up to 50% fewer immunization doses compared with the current most efficient strategy. The new strategy could be used to prevent the spread of human epidemics ...





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A Better Shot at Immunization

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

A new immunization strategy could reduce the vaccine doses needed to protect a population from disease (and reduce the antivirus updates required to protect a network of computers) by as much as 50%.


As swine flu intensifies, US rolls out first vaccine doses

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US health authorities are hoping to contain what they say is an intensifying swine flu pandemic with a massive A(H1N1) vaccination campaign that begins this Tuesday.


CDC: 25 cities and states order swine flu vaccine

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Twenty-five cities and states have ordered swine flu vaccine, and the first doses should be administered Tuesday, officials said Thursday.


Half-dose flu shot appears to produce immune response in young, healthy adults

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 08, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Individuals younger than 50 who have been previously vaccinated do not appear to have a substantially different immune response to a half-dose of influenza vaccine than to a full dose, according to a report in the December ...


Nasal swine flu vaccine recalled over potency

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Drugmaker Medimmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of swine flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time.


Study examines adverse events associated with human papillomavirus vaccine

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An analysis of the adverse events reported following distribution of quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine since 2006 indicates that adverse event rates were consistent with pre-licensing data and expected ...


Minor shift in vaccine schedule has potential to reduce infant illness, death

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University suggests that protecting infants from a common, highly contagious and even deadly disease may be as easy as administering a ...


Catch-up Vaccination Scheduler

Tool creates personalized catch-up immunization schedules for missed childhood vaccinations

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 20, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new downloadable software tool will help pediatricians, parents and other health care professionals determine how to adjust complex childhood immunization schedules when one or more vaccine doses aren’t ...


One dose of H1N1 vaccine may provide sufficient protection for infants and children

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

One dose of vaccine may be effective to protect infants and children and reduce transmission of the H1N1 virus, according to a study in JAMA, published online today because of its public health implications. The study will a ...


Govt says swine flu vaccine catching up to demand

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A senior adviser to President Barack Obama says the government will catch up to the demand for swine flu vaccine within a week.



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