Reports
The following list of reports reflects the latest in findings and outcomes in medical research as presented at major medical meetings and published peer-reviewed medical journals. In this section you can view reports from important congresses as well as summaries of some recently published journal articles. Please let us know if you have a particular area of interest you would like to see covered.
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VACCINE
Winter 2006
Hambidge et al. Safety of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in children 6 to 23 months old. JAMA 2006;296(16):1990-7. Very few medically attended events, none of them serious, were observed following administration of the trivalent...
7th Canadian Immunization Conference
Update on Vaccines: Reducing Morbidity and Mortality Across the Spectrum of Diseases
Winnipeg, Manitoba / December 3-6, 2006
Winnipeg - The new 2006 guidelines from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) are in the final stages of preparation and are expected to be available early in 2007. NACI is also preparing statements on the newest of...
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VACCINE
Autumn 2006
All doses of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine safe and effective in HPV-naive and previously infected women
44th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Vaccine Protection Against Human Papillomavirus: Extending the Experience
Toronto, Ontario / October 12-15, 2006
Toronto - While many sexually transmitted infections are declining worldwide, the exception is sexually transmitted viral infections. Now that there is a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), there is hope for greater control of HPV...
44th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Increasing Awareness of Vaccine-preventable Diseases
Toronto, Ontario / October 12-15, 2006
Toronto - The successful eradication of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) in children has not been duplicated in adults and each year in the US, over 70,000 adults die of VPDs. Increasing rates of vaccination among adults starts with...
PRIORITY PRESS - XIX World Congress of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Targeting Cervical Cancer Worldwide
Cape Town, South Africa / October 4-9, 2009
Cape Town - Natural infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) evades the body’s protective immune response against future infection, thereby supporting the need for more potent immune priming with HPV vaccines. Findings from a recent...
12th International Congress on Infectious Diseases
Herpes Zoster and Pneumococcal Disease Vaccination: Improving Quality of Life of the Elderly
Lisbon, Portugal / June 15-18, 2006
Lisbon - Vaccination programs in adults, and particularly in older individuals, can be beneficial. It is estimated that 99% of the adult population has had varicella and older individuals in particular are susceptible to reactivation of the...
83rd Canadian Paediatric Society Annual Conference
Reducing Disease Transmission and the Burden of Illness of Rotavirus and Human Papillomavirus
St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador / June 13-17, 2006
St. John’s - According to investigators, rotavirus is the most important cause of diarrhea in children in all regions of the world and across all socio-economic classes. Strict hygiene control, including fastidious hand washing, can help...
24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Pediatric Vaccination: Taking Childhood Viral Diseases More Seriously
Basel, Switzerland / May 3-5, 2006
Basel - Despite clinical evidence of significant morbidity from rotavirus disease among children, awareness of the burden and economic consequences of infections attributable to that virus is surprisingly low in Canada. Because rotavirus...