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More and more pediatricians consider it appropriate to apply it over 5 years . Since last winter the American Pediatric Society broadened its criteria regarding the use of influenza in children, the recommendation of this vaccine has become more encompassing than ever. As previously indicated it almost exclusively to those who had six months to five years or some underlying disease, today more and more pediatricians in our country should consider its application also in healthy children up to 18 years of age.

La Sociedad Argentina de Pediatrics and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of La Plata, among other references that support this trend, argue that the new recommendations are fully justified in demonstrating vaccine effectiveness, new modes of life and current epidemiological situation. Read the rest of this entry »

In the event that the vaccine successfully respond to the tests being carried out, would prove that it can function as a therapeutic immunization, delaying the progress of the condition.

Each year in the country are nearly 10,000 cases of lung cancer, the most common worldwide. Indeed, if the evidence in progress and will soon start a laboratory in Brazil show good results, physicians may have a new weapon against this disease, one of the most aggressive tumors and lower survival after diagnosis, because it is usually detected when and metastases.

Although up to now has results in few patients, it is expected that these studies in Brazil, plus others in Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba, India, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea to 1082 included patients, a statistically significant number. Read the rest of this entry »

Rare cancer of the ovary is one of the most serious gynecological cancer. Nearly 3 in 4 women treated have their cancer recur … Faced with this terrible cancer, a new hope appeared: a vaccine to prevent recurrence and thus to better combat this evil woman.

Although rare, ovarian cancer tends to recur and to be in this case very difficult to handle.Faced with this evil woman, therapeutic vaccination is a groundbreaking approach brings high hopes.

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