vaccine for children
11vaccine — Originally, the live v. (vaccinia, cowpox) virus inoculated in the skin as prophylaxis against smallpox and obtained from the skin of calves inoculated with seed virus. Usage has extended the meaning to include essentially any preparation… …
12Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute — (CHORI) is a biomedical research institute affiliated with California’s pediatric medical center, Children s Hospital Research Center Oakland. CHORI is based in Oakland, California operating a 100,000 square foot (9,300 m2) biomedical… …
13Vaccine controversy — A vaccine controversy is a dispute over the morality, ethics, effectiveness, or safety of vaccination. Medical opinion is that the benefits of preventing suffering and death from infectious diseases greatly outweigh the risks of adverse effects… …
14DPT vaccine — For other uses, see DTP (disambiguation). DPT vaccine Combination of Diphtheria vaccine Vaccine Pertussis vaccine Vaccine Tetanus vaccine Vaccine Clinical data Pregnancy cat.  ? …
15Salk Vaccine — For many years the scourge of human existence was a disease called poliomyelitis, or polio. It is caused by a virus that destroys the nervous tissue in the spinal cord, resulting in paralysis. Quite often children seemed to develop this virus… …
16Vaccine Safety Datalink — The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the adverse side effects of vaccines.Four large health maintenance organizations, including Kaiser… …
17vaccine — /vak seen / or, esp. Brit., /vak seen, sin/, n. 1. any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses …
18Vaccine, flu — The flu (influenza) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza infection, including: Everyone age 65 or more; People with chronic diseases of the heart; People with chronic diseases of the lung;… …
19Vaccine, influenza — The influenza (flu) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza virus infection, including: Everyone age 65 or more; People with chronic diseases of the heart; People with chronic diseases of the lung; …
20Influenza vaccine — A vaccine is an inoculation designed to increase immunity against a specific disease. The influenza vaccine is an annual vaccine to protect against the highly variable influenza virus. Purpose and benefits of annual flu vaccination Influenza… …
