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MMR vaccination take-up rises
By Laura Lee Davies on 29/09/2006 01:15:59
The Government says more parents are having their children vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella again.
The Government's Information Centre have reported a slight rise in the number of children receiving the MMR vaccine. It is seen as a sign that public confidence is returning for the controversial jab given when a baby is one year old.Since one
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Travel vaccinations for babies
By Sarah Lawson on 21/08/2009 01:24:52
Travel to many countries may involve getting vaccination protection against diseases common to the local area
Travelling abroad can require the right vaccinations for more countries that you'd think.Vaccines for babiesMany medicines for babies are not tested on infants but are reduced dosages from the adult medicines. Discuss vaccines with your doctor
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Know-how: MMR vaccine
By Laura Lee Davies on 01/10/2007 01:59:32
Although the MMR jab has courted some controversy, experts are convinced of its safety and its importance
taking their children to have the jab (at 12 months and a booster at four years). Since then the work which questioned the vaccine's safety has been discredited because one of the areas of study was being paid for in a manner which constituted 'a conflict
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Doctors call for higher MMR take-up
By Laura Lee Davies on 27/06/2006 12:49:48
Vaccine experts and pediatricians call for parents to take up the MMR vaccine to guard against growing measels outbreaks.
A conference by the British Medical Association this week includes the release of an open letter from 30 pediatricians and vaccine experts, calling on the media and other health professionals to stop casting doubt over the safety of the MMR vaccine
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What is the 5-in-One Vaccine?
By Laura Lee Davies on 07/01/2009 10:56:05
At two, three and four months, your baby will be called to have the 5-in-0ne or DTaP/IPV/Hib vaccine, but what is it for and why does your baby need it?
side effects from them.The 5-in-one (DTaP/IPV/Hib) vaccine PLUS the PCV vaccineThe 5-in-one vaccine was introduced in the UK in 2004, but has been used in Canada since 1997. The single injection is given to babies at 2, 3 and 4 months and then repeated
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What is the Pneumococcal vaccine?
By Laura Lee Davies on 06/10/2006 02:18:42
The NHS have introduced a new vaccine for babies called PCV or the Pneumococcal vaccine. What is it and who should have the jab?
From September 2006, a new vaccine has been introduced into the childhood vaccine problem in the UK.It is called the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, or PCV for short, and it is being given to babies at two, four and 13 months.Why do babies need
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