A hepatitis B vaccine derived from the plasma of carriers of hepatitis B virus has recently become generally available in the United States. Its use is recommended in groups considered to be at high risk of hepatitis B because of their exposure to potentially infectious blood, saliva, or semen...
There are safe and effective vaccines that can prevent hepatitis A and B (but not cause types C, D, or E). There is also a combination vaccine that guards against A and B. Who Should Get the Hepatitis A Vaccine? The CDC recommends that all children between ages 12 months and 23 month...
hepatitis C virus vaccine Introduction No vaccine for the prevention of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is yet available. The current standards of care, based on the combination of interferon-α (IFN-α), ribavirin (RBV) and—for genotype 1 infections—NS3 protease inhibitors, still have subo...
Hepatitis B vaccines are considered safe but should not be used in people who have had an allergic reaction to a previous dose of the vaccine or any of the components of the vaccine. This includes people with a severeyeast allergy, as the vaccines are cultivated in yeast cells.6 People wit...
Research from JAMA — Inherited Breast and Ovarian Cancer — What Are the Risks? What Are the Choices? MC King - 《Jama the Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 468发表: 1993年 Meta‐analysis: the effect of age on immunological response to hepatitis B vaccine in end‐stage...
Contrary to popular perception, it is actually quite rare for a vaccine to completely prevent people from becoming infected with a disease. This holy-grail level of protection is known as “sterilizing immunity,” and has only been achieved with a handful of vaccines, suc...
“A single vaccine given to a six-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving a 180-pound adult 30 vaccinations on the same day.”Dr. Boyd Haley “I am no longer ‘trying to dig up evidence to prove’ vaccines cause autism. There is already abundant evidence…This debate is not scientific...
Objective: To identify the characteristics of mothers who prevent their newborn babies from receiving the hepatitis B vaccine.Methods: Women who gave birth and prevented the administration of routine hepatitis B vaccine to their newborn infants (study group) were compared to women who complied with...
(Some of you older Americans and those outside theU.S.may not know that the Hepatitis B vaccine is given tonewborn babies.) Megan continues, “So my child could get the simple childhood chickenpox as a child and have lifetime protection, or she could get vaccinated, get sick anyway (by...
Human illness is inevitable, but humans have evolved a rich way to prevent disease. The invention and use of vaccines is a huge human achievement in preventing disease. The eradication of smallpox and the control of polio have been linked to the role of the vaccine. ...