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02.06.10
HPV vaccination programs may reduce genital diseases

High-coverage human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations among adolescents and young women may result in a rapid reduction of genital warts, cervical cell abnormalities, and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, researchers report in a new study published online February 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Some of these genital abnormalities are precursors of cervical, vulvar, and vaginal cancers.

11.24.09
Also In Global Health News: Vaccination Campaign In Liberia; Cell Phones For Family Planning Services; Global Fund In Myanmar

Liberia Aims To Reach 3M With Yellow Fever Vaccine Liberia's Daily Observer reports on a yellow fever vaccination campaign to begin this week that will aim to inoculate 3 million Liberians.

10.13.09
National Vaccine Information Center to launch a research fundraising campaign

At the Oct. 2-4, 2009 Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination sponsored by the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center in Reston, VA, 700 citizens from 44 states and 11 nations raised more than $100,000 to launch an international scientific research fundraising campaign to investigate health differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated children and identify those at risk for suffering vaccine injury.

10.09.09
Research rules out link between MMR vaccines and autism

A new article recently published in the Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing explored vaccination history, vaccine safety monitoring systems in the U.S., and the two most publicized theoretical vaccine-related exposures associated with autism - the vaccine preservative thimerosal and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

10.02.09
Vets Welcome Step Towards Badger Cull In Wales

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has welcomed the TB Eradication (Wales) Order 2009, laid today, which will give the Welsh Assembly Government the legal powers to use culling and vaccination of badgers as part of the tuberculosis eradication programme in Wales. The move comes after a 14-week public consultation carried out by the Welsh Assembly Government.

02.17.09
One in four California adolescent girls has had HPV vaccine

divLess than two years after the#160;HPV#160;vaccine was approved as a routine vaccination for girls aged 11#160;and older, one-quarter of California adolescent girls have started the series of shots that protect against human papillomavirus, which is strongly linked to cervical cancer./div div#160;/div divAdditionally, a majority of teen girls, parents and young women in California say they would like to have the vaccine, according to a new policy brief released today by the a...