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Drug-eluting stents may have beneficial downstream effects

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drug eluting stents (DES) apparently deliver drug to downstream coronary vessels and reduce the rate new lesion formation therein, a Cleveland Clinic team reports in the October issue of the American Heart Journal. “Our findings should encourage a clinical trial with advanced...

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AAP restates need for polio vaccination in US, lifts Tdap cautions

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In two Policy Statements published in the October issue of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics reiterates the need for all children in the US to be fully immunized against poliovirus, and amends cautions regarding Tdap vaccination. The AAP Committee on Infectious...

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Some young children may need only one flu shot this year

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children aged 6 months to 8 years usually require two doses of influenza vaccine, but if they were vaccinated last season they only require one dose this upcoming season — because the composition of the 2011-2012 vaccine is unchanged from the 2010-2011 season. That has...

Avian flu vaccine in children

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