Polio vaccine
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Model railroad club's final departure?...railroad club's final departure? In 1953, Dwight Eisenhower was sworn in as president, the Korean War ended, Jonas Salk announced a polio vaccine, the first Chevy Corvette rolled off the assembly line, and color TVs went on sale. For... In this article: Legal age, Coal, Polio vaccine, and Chevy Corvette |
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ResourceShelf | 2 days ago
Now available JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) & Archives Backfiles Collection
...of additional online research tools. Pivotal articles, such as the original Blalock-Taussig operation and Sabin's and Salk's polio vaccine, as well as thousands of archival images and even advertisements, are a few clicks away. [Snip]
In this article: Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA & Archives, Archives of Internal Medicine, Blalock-Taussig, and American Medical Association
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Chicago Tribune | 3 days ago
Culinary oasis slated for 51st Street
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Guardian | 3 days ago
Polio: India's final push to end the disease
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Medical News Today | 4 days ago
Feeding The Clock
...recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, M.D., the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural...
In this article: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Amplitude, Alzheimer's, Metabolic syndrome, Sugar, Medical advice, and Oxygen
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Courier-Journal | 5 days ago
Plans announced for school H1N1 vaccinations
...170 public, parochial and private schools against swine flu. It is the most ambitious school immunization effort since the Salk polio vaccine trial of the 1950s, Dr. Adewale Troutman, director of the Louisville Metro Department of Public...
In this article: Louisville and Jefferson County
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America.gov | 5 days ago
Fact Sheet on U.S.-India Cooperation to Protect Health
...Centers include Kenya, Thailand, Guatemala, Egypt, China, and Kazakhstan. • Polio Eradication: India recently developed a bivalent polio vaccine which has potential application in all polio-infected countries. The United States...
In this article: India, United States, U.S. Agency for International Development, Manmohan Singh, Barack Obama, and Biotechnology Industry Organization
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New York Times | 5 days ago
Expert Answers on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
...fortunate enough to have long remissions. I was diagnosed with C.F.S. in Los Angeles in the '80s. However, in 1995, I was given the newest polio vaccine to go to Turkey, and within six weeks was deathly ill. I had lost my cognitive skills...
In this article: Chronic fatigue syndrome, Retrovirus, Cancer, Fatigue, and Conversion disorder
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Boing Boing | 6 days ago
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea: Life's behind-the-scenes gallery
Interesting magazine cover: a full spread devoted to a Disney movie with a small insert for a story on the discovery of the polio vaccine. Plus ca change... That's mostly because Life was not a news magazine. It focused on...
In this article: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Economics, Disney, London, Nautilus, X-wing, Trademark, and Creative Commons License
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San Diego Union-Tribune | November 22, 2009
Questions - and shots - at vaccination clinics
...Sanchez is familiar with immunization lines. Back in the 1960s, she stood in one at her Arizona elementary school when doses of polio vaccine were being given out on sugar cubes. Yesterday at Valley Elementary in Poway, Sanchez was...
In this article: Maxim Healthcare, H1N1, Allergy, and Sugar
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St. Petersburg Times | November 20, 2009
With success, All Children's challenge grows
...we get better at saving kids, we're going to create other problems in their lives that we're going to have to manage." After polio vaccine, expanded care A bronze marker in the hospital that All Children's soon will leave for its new...
In this article: Cancer, Surgery, All Children's Hospital, Tampa, Florida, and Physical therapy
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Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat poliomyelitis (or polio). The first was developed by Jonas Salk and first tested in 1952. It was announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955. It consists of an injected dose of inactivated (dead) poliovirus. The second was an oral vaccine developed by Albert Sabin using attenuated poliovirus that he had received from Hilary Koprowski. Human trials of Sabin's vaccine began in 1957 and it was licensed in 1962. Because there is no long term carrier state for poliovirus in immunocompetent individuals, polioviruses have no non-primate reservoir in nature, and survival of the virus in the environment for an extended period of time appears to be remote, interruption of person-to person transmission of the virus by vaccination is the critical step in global polio eradication. The two vaccines have eradicated polio from most countries in the world and reduced the worldwide incidence from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to just over 1000 cases in 2007.
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