Diphtheria

Adult non-flu vaccination levels 'unacceptably low,' CDC says

2013-01-29 15:47:00

Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said Tuesday that vaccination coverage levels in U.S. adults were “unacceptably low,” and that public health workers need to do more to make sure adults got immunizations to protect them from...

Free shots of required whooping cough vaccine available next week

2012-08-03 08:12:27

Healthcare history: How the patchwork coverage came to be

2012-02-27 00:00:00

Workers swarmed through Henry J. Kaiser's Richmond, Calif., shipyard in World War II, building 747 ships for the Navy. The war "had siphoned off the most hardy specimens," a newspaper reported, so Kaiser was left with many workers too young, old or infirm...

Review: 'A Disposition to Be Rich' relates a Wall Street con

2012-05-20 00:00:00

A Disposition to Be Rich How a Small-Town Pastor's Son Ruined an American President, Brought on a Wall Street Crash, and Made Himself the Best-Hated Man in the United States Geoffrey C. Ward Alfred A. Knopf: 415 pp., $28.95. In 1863, the young...

That bad attitude? Blame the birth month

2012-01-30 00:00:00

If you don't believe in horoscopes, you're in step with science. But that's not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, have suggested that the month a person is born...

Imperial Valley doctor celebrates 50 years of practicing medicine

2013-05-18 01:43:00

Dr. Benjamin Lehr remembers a time when El Centro stopped at Adams Avenue and the Imperial Valley convalescent home was at the end of the farmland. That is how long Lehr has practiced medicine in the Valley, for 50 years. On average Lehr said he sees...

Bahrain to attain key health goals

2013-05-17 00:00:00

BAHRAIN is on track to achieve most of its key health targets related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report. They include reducing child mortality rates, improving maternal health and combating...

Preteens require proper immunizations

2013-05-09 05:14:02

As children get older and more active, the need for immunizations becomes just as important as when they were infants. Many of the old vaccines given before they started school have begun to diminish and new vaccines have been introduced to teens and...

Whooping cough death reinforces need for vaccines, officials say

2013-05-03 15:51:08

An Orlando infant's death from whooping cough last month is underscoring the county health department's push to get children and adults alike vaccinated and keep vaccines up to date. The six-week-old baby boy was too young to have gotten his first...

Vaccination rules change for upcoming school year

2013-04-29 08:24:03

The Illinois Department of Public Health has tightened the enforcement of the vaccine requirements for middle and high school students for the next academic year. All students entering, advancing or transferring into sixth through 12th grades in the...

Haiti launches vaccination campaign against fatal childhood diseases

2013-04-27 10:04:02

A year after Haiti launched an ambitious vaccination campaign against several childhood diseases including measles and polio, the country announced Saturday a similar effort against tetanus, and a virus that causes severe, fatal diarrhea in children under...

Importance of immunizations stressed

2013-04-24 10:24:03

National Infant Immunization Week is April 20-27, and serves to put a spotlight on the importance of protecting infants from diseases and illnesses for which there are vaccines. Vaccines are a cost-effective and highly successful tool in the public...

A medical worker administers a Tdap (Tetanus-Diphtheria-Pertussis) vaccine.

2012-10-24 12:44:18

Tdap is a combination vaccine with diphtheria and tetanus.

2012-08-15 00:00:00

Medical assistant Bronte Brown administers a TDAP (combined Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis) shot to Joshua Hubbard, 11 of Carney.

2012-08-14 00:00:00