Tag: vaccinactions
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August is National Immunization Awareness Month; as students head back to school, make sure their vaccines are up to date
August is National Immunization Awareness Month, which is meant to highlight the importance of vaccination for people of all ages, but is especially relevant to students as they head back...
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There’s a vaccine for young people that prevents cancer, but most of them don’t get it because most doctors fail to recommend it
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The human papilloma virus vaccination is proven to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts, but many pediatricians and family doctors still don’t strongly recommend...
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87 cases of whooping cough reported in Kentucky during the last five months of 2015; best prevention is vaccination
Health officials are reminding people to get vaccinated for whooping cough, formally called pertussis, noting that there were 87 cases reported in Kentucky between August and December last year, The Courier-Journal reports....
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New combination vaccine for children, researched at U of L, could reduce number of children’s shots if approved by FDA
A new combination vaccine, awaiting its approval by the federal Food and Drug Administration, may reduce the number injections a child in the U.S. must get in order to be...
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State says many screenings of Medicaid patients more than doubled after program was expanded under Obamacare
Countering assertions that Kentucky’s Medicaid expansion doesn’t guarantee health care, state officials have presented data showing that “Kentuckians on Medicaid were far more likely to get cancer screenings, physicals and...