[ August 28, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Organizers will giveaway free backpacks to the first 200 students to participate in the clinic.
Children who have not been fully immunized have fallen ill in recent whooping cough and chickenpox outbreaks in the state.
More of Washington teens are up-to-date on their shots, but the state still has a way to go before it achieves recommended 90 percent target immunization rate.
Washington state health officials are urging parents to use the next few weeks to make sure their children had all the immunizations they need to attend school.
Vaccinations: not just for kids any more.
A public-private initiative has restored full funding to a Washington state program that has for years purchased vaccine for the state’s children.
Distribution of the vaccines should begin within the next four weeks, the FDA says.
In its “Parent’s Guide to Kids’ Vaccines” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration addresses many questions parents have about the vaccines that are recommended for their children and provides a list of these vaccines, their purpose and common side effects.
Continuous chemotherapy for some cancers?
New York Times reporter Andrew Pollack writes that some doctors and pharmaceutical companies are advocating treating patients with cancer continuously.
“That would be a departure from the common practice of stopping treatment when the cancer is under control and resuming it only if the cancer worsens,” Pollack writes.
Some doctors say such ”maintenance [...]
It’s time to stop spending money looking for a link between vaccines and autism, says a co-founder of a new autism advocacy group called the Autism Science Foundation.
Many parents remain unnecessarily concerned that vaccines cause autism despite the results of a large number of studies that have found no evidence of such a link, said [...]
Each year 50,000 Americans die from a vaccine-preventable infections, and almost all of them—95%—are adults.
Influenza, for example, causes an average of 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. every year, but less than half of the adults for whom the vaccine is recommended get the shot.
Pneunococcal infections, when can cause lung, blood stream and [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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