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A measles vaccine given to a child born by caesarean section is likely to be 2.6 times completely ineffective than a normal delivery, a study by the University of Cambridge found.
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Birth by C-section may double the chance of measles vaccine failure

HQ Team May 17, 2024: A measles vaccine given to a child born by caesarean section is likely to be 2.6 times completely.

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Chickenpox is an acutely contagious disease caused by the VZV. If one person has chicken pox, up to 90% of those close to that person, who are not immune, will also become infected. 
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Opinion: Better surveillance, vaccination, key to curb chickenpox

Chickenpox is an acutely contagious disease caused by the VZV. If one person has chicken pox, up to 90% of those close to.

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The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Orchard Therapeutics’s gene therapy to treat a disease affecting the brain and nervous system in children — the regulator’s first ever for the disorder.
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FDA green lights first-ever therapy for rare genetic disease in kids

HQ Team March 19, 2023: The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Orchard Therapeutics’s gene therapy to treat a disease affecting the.

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The entire population in the Gaza Strip, 2.23 million, is facing food insecurity and by mid-July half of the residents may experience catastrophic hunger, according to a report.
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Gaza Strip hurtling toward imminent famine, a global alliance says

HQ Team March 19, 2024: The entire population in the Gaza Strip, 2.23 million, is facing food insecurity and by mid-July half of.

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About 16% of children or one in six children under two years of age in the Northern Gaza Strip, which has been cut off from aid for weeks, are “acutely malnourished,” according to a WHO report based on data collected in January.
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Hunger, diseases grip undernourished children, women in Gaza: WHO report

HQ Team February 20, 2024: About 16% of children or one in six children under two years of age in the Northern Gaza.

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FDA approves Genetech’s Xolair injection for severe food allergies

HQ Team February 19, 2024: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Genetech’s Xolair (omalizumab) injection for severe food allergies in certain adults.

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Global deaths due to COVID-19 have fallen by 95% since January, and nations need to take steps to manage virus variants alongside other infectious diseases, the WHO director-general said.
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New research points at higher incidence of long COVID in children

HQ Team February 9, 2024: The coronavirus may have lost its virulence with time but its long-term effects are still being revealed among.

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A child’s brain gets excessively or abnormally active when they are not treated for anxiety disorders, according to a study by the US National Institutes of Health.
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CBT treatment may aid anxiety disorders in children: NIH study

HQ Team February 3, 2024: A child’s brain gets excessively or abnormally active when they are not treated for anxiety disorders, according to.

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‘100,000 Afghani kids face a bleak future amidst strife and temblors’

HQ Team January 16, 2024: Over 96,000 children in Afghanistan are in dire need of support almost 100 days after earthquakes devastated the.

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Pneumonia is a form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lungs and kills more children than any other infectious disease. Every day at least one child dies from pneumonia every 43 seconds, according to UNICEF.
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Opinion: Steps for prevention, spread, and monitoring pneumonia

By K. Leelamoni November 5, 2023: Outbreaks of pneumonia affecting children in parts of northern China, the US,  the Netherlands, and Denmark are higher than.

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