Boosting Newborns' Immune Responses
Newborn babies have immature immune systems, making them highly vulnerable to severe infections and unable to mount an effective immune response to most vaccines, thereby frustrating efforts to protect them. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 2 million newborns and infants less than 6 months of age die each year due to infection. Researchers at Children"s Hospital Boston believe they have found a way to enhance the immune system at birth and boost newborns" vaccine responses, making infections like respiratory syncytial virus, pneumococcus and rotavirus much less of a threat.
Oncology
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Blogs Comment On Need For Abortion Providers, Antiabortion-Rights Protests, Other Topics
and Planned Parenthood chapters this weekend for the second annual "Protest the Pill Day."" ALL "blames birth control -- all birth control, conflating the pill with less time-tested contraceptives -- for abortions and a wide variety of deadly health problems," and ALL"s Web site also "helpfully provides a nationwide map to facilities and protests," Muskus says. In addition, "More ominously in the wake of George Tiller"s murder," the site "includes some ambiguous language about who should use it," he continues. Muskus writes that the site says, ""As the national group focused on grassroots efforts to defeat Planned Parenthood, American Life League hopes the information presented will be helpful to all in this battle."" Muskus reports that Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, said that ALL and similar groups are lobbying state and local governments to cut women"s access to birth control and emergency contraception and support "fetal personhood" laws. Gandy said, ""It"s sad to say, they are targeting young women who, after eight years of "abstinence-only" sex mis-education, are particularly vulnerable to their propaganda. We know that the greatest danger to women"s lives comes from a lack of access to good reproductive health care, including birth control and abortion -- and scientifically accurate information"" (Muskus, Huffington Post, 6/5). Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You can view the entire Daily Women"s Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery here. The Daily Women"s Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company. © 2009 The Advisory Board Company. All rights reserved.Pages: 1 [2]