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Hepatitis A Vaccine
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
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
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
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
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... »