Anaemia during pregnancy continues to constitute significant challenge to maternal health in Nigeria and contributes substantially to the worsening maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Nigeria despite a global reduction in MMR in response to effort to improve safe motherhood. The incidence of anaemia during...
“You don’t call someone who advocates for safe automobiles anti-car. Similarly it’s ridiculous to call somebody who advocates for safer vaccines, more effective vaccines and to protect children, to ever call them anti-vaccine.” I am not an “antivaxer”, but I find it difficult to un...
How Can Measles Be Prevented? Vaccination is safe and highly protective against measles. The CDC recommends that all children receive 2 doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine: the first dose at 12 to 15 months and the second at 4 to 6 years. The measles, mumps, rubella, and ...
How long do you take Lupkynis for? Talk with your healthcare provider if you have been taking Lupkynis for close to one year, as it is not known if it’s safe or effective beyond a year. If you have not had any therapeutic benefit by 24 weeks, your doctor may decide to stop ...
In cases of vascular EDS, the LNG-IUD is potentially a safe and effective approach to menstrual care.LNG-IUDs represent a potentially safe and effective approach to menstrual regulation in vascular EDS patients.In women, ovarian function is essential for maintaining fertility and hormonal balance, ...
3 It is safe to give inactivated vaccines, although humoral responses may be impaired, as in any immunocompromised patient. Pediatric CML may require a different approach to TKI treatment The goals of CML therapy are the same for adults and children: disease remission, reduced risk of progression...
10-year booster vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis Chickenpox vaccine (should no immunity be identified upon screening) MMR vaccine for those over the age of 40 Hepatitis A vaccine (should no immunity be identified upon screening) Shingles vaccine 70 (in those aged between 50-59...
Last year, the institute won a $500,500 two-year grant from the MJ Murdock Charitable Trust, based in Vancouver, Wash- ington, to study whether residual human DNA in the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine might trigger autism. Stanley Plotkin, emeri- tus professor at the Wistar ...
This post is extremely hard for me. I was that mom who put my beautiful 3-year-old baby boy in one of these devices. The packaging told me it would help him stay safe. Other moms told me it would help him stay safe. All I wanted to do was to keep him safe. That’s it. That...
MMR vaccine provides long-lasting protection against all strains of measles. Your child needs two doses for best protection. The first dose should be givenbetween 12 to 15 months of age and the second between 4 and 6 years old. If your family is traveling overseas, the recommendation is ...