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Hepatitis A Vaccine

By Sam

A team of researchers from upstate New York reported that a single dose of a formalin inactivated hepatitis A vaccine (Vaqta, Merck Sharp & Dohme) is well tolerated and highly protective against the disease. Investigators from the Kiryas Joel Institute of Medicine studied 1,037 uninfected children aged 2 to 16 in a Hasidic community that... »

Baby Cribs

By Sam

Infants less than a year old who sleep in adult beds or in unsafe baby cribs are at risk of accidental death, revealed a study in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. Small changes in a baby’s sleeping environment could prevent these deaths, advised the researcher from the Kentucky Medical Examiner’s Program in... »

Diabetes Mellitus

By Sam

A Finnish-Canadian study provided evidence supporting the long-held suspicion that a protein in cow’s milk may trigger the onset of insulin­ dependent diabetes mellitus in genetically susceptible individuals. Of 142 children with recently diagnosed IDDM, all had highly elevated serum concentrations of anti­ bodies against bovine serum albumin, the collaborators reported in The New... »

Adenovirus

By Sam

Canadian researchers waned that exposure to adenovirus during childhood may increase the risk of developing lung disease from smoking. Polymers chain reaction testing of lung-tissue samples from 40 smokers showed that nearly all the subjects had been exposed to the virus, which commonly affects people in childhood, according to the study in the American... »

Death Syndrome

By Sam

The Centers for Disease Control reported that the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome is declining in the United States, particularly among African-American babies. Between 1980 and 1988, SIDS rates dropped by about 19% among African-American infants and by 3.5% among white babies. The CDC re­ searchers said that they did not know the... »