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Click on the link: Peter Hotez appears on Charlie Rose
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Pneumococcal disease is little known, but deadly to more young children worldwide, than AIDS, malaria and measles.
Orin Levine from the Bloomberg School of Public Health says the bacterial infection is a neglected and preventable child killer.
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A vaccine that fights pneumonia and other diseases could save the lives of thousands of children each year in Latin America, but high costs have kept it from those who need it, a researcher told a congress of health professionals Thursday.
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NEW CANAAN, CT, January 30, 2006—The Board of Trustees of the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) announced personnel changes made to strengthen the Institute’s efforts in the area of cancer vaccines. At a January 12 meeting in New York, the Board elected Axel Hoos, MD, PhD, as a trustee and approved the appointment of Robert Allen, MD, as vice president for cancer programs.
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NEW CANAAN, CT, January 17, 2006—The Board of Trustees of the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) announced the appointment of Ciro de Quadros, MD, MPH as interim president and CEO of the Washington, DC- based non-profit organization. For the past three years, de Quadros served as director of international programs for the Sabin, leading initiatives to improve children’s health through rotavirus and rubella immunization in Latin America.
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NEW YORK, November 4, 2005—Many of the world’s leading experts on the varicella-zoster virus (VZV)—which causes chickenpox (varicella), shingles (herpes zoster) and postherpetic neuralgia (PHN)—will convene in New York on November 7 to discuss global VZV issues, including: the impact of the vaccine in disease reduction; the FDA’s recent approval of MMRV; the effectiveness of an experimental shingles vaccine in reducing the incidence of shingles; and the poten
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New Canaan, CT -- The publication of A Crack in the Shield: Our Unvaccinated Children
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WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 7, 2005 – The Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin), a leader in promoting the development and use of safe and effective vaccines to prevent disease, announced receipt of a grant of $150,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the sponsorship of a vaccine policy colloquium to be held at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, October 19-21, 2005.
