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RCPCH offers free membership to medical students.

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) is responsible for the training and examination of paediatricians in the UK and most paediatricians in the UK are members of the college. The RCPCH is now offering free affiliate membership to medical students.
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Pneumococcal Vaccine Saves Lives

Evidence from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) shows that the number of cases of invasive pneumococcal disease is falling since the introduction of the pneumococcal vaccine. In a release by the Department of Health news that in the short period since the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine was introduced into the UK immunisation schedule in the second half of 2006 there has been a significant reduction in the number of cases of invasive pneumococcal disease such as meningitis, septicaemia and severe pneumonia. The results of the vaccine are shown in a dramatic fashion in a graph produced by the HPA.

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