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Main Menu Home MCQ EMQ Cases Books News News Feeds Guidelines What is Paediatrics? Links Search Contact Us About News from JuniorDr.com Think you have the flu? Time to ask Google Medical Report - James Bond 007 The Killer Net - pro-suicide websites Conscientious objection should be right, say med students Repatriation medicine The Business of Surgery GP consultations increasingly more intense and complex Doctor migration to developed nations costs sub-Saharan Africa billions of dollars GMC cuts fees for all doctors BMA: UKFPO must ?get a grip? on jobs for newly qualified doctors Newsflash Complementary and alternative medicines: adverse events. Complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) and therapies are often regarded as "natural" and, therefore, harmless. However, for the the vast majority of CAMs no formal testing or adverse event reporting mechanisms are in place. A study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood studied adverse effects associated with CAMs. Read more...   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.   < Prev [ Back ]

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