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Our exploratory analysis of audio-recordings suggest that engaging parents who express HPV vaccine hesitancy and addressing concerns may result in high rates of same-day vaccination.

While bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics, viral infections were left to just run their course. However, there are prescription drugs that can be used as treatment for the influenza, or flu virus. These drugs are an important tool against the flu, especially for those who are at higher risk of developing severe illnesses due to the flu. A Production of the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

The Human Papilloma Virus, so-called HPV, is one of the most widespread sexually transmitted diseases. It is estimated that at least 50 percent of all sexually active people will be infected during their lifetimes. And while it may cause no symptoms in most cases, two strains of HPV cause some 70 percent of all cervical cancer. So it was with great fanfare that an HPV vaccine was announced in 2006--but controversy surrounds the vaccine, which is being...

Chronicles the rabies outbreak in South Texas, the politics of the response to it, and the 1995-96 USDA program for dropping an experimental vaccine over nearly fifteen thousand square miles of brushland.

Malaria kills over 1 million people each year globally. Recent attempts at a new vaccine, including Bill Gates and GlaxoSmithKline's malaria vaccine trial, have proven unsuccessful. However, a new vaccine developed in Ireland is now undergoing clinical trials. In this Science Squad episode, we meet researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and in Oxford testing whether the vaccine produces an immunological response to malaria in the...

This film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf. Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.

"Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year--more now than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across much of the globe. In this interdisciplinary study of global efforts to control TB, Christian McMillen examines the disease's remarkable staying power by offering a probing look at key locations, developments,...

Hollywood actor Ewan McGregor travels to the ends of the Earth on his mission to immunise some of the hardest-to-reach children in the world. The routes vaccines travel are known as cold chains, and a vast network of them exists across the globe. The fragile nature of the vaccines means they must be kept constantly cold as they are passed along the supply chain, from freezer to freezer - wherever that may be. Ewan follows three of the world's toughest...

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, that has led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical...