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| Brain Fitness: At Any Age |
02-27-2008 |
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Brain Drain Two lucky patients can hold their heads high (and one can even fly!) thanks to advances in treating hydrocephalus |
08-22-2007 |
| Teen Stress 101 | 11-29-2006 |
| The Pork Taco, The Tapeworm and The Brain | 10-25-2006 |
| Short Cut: Through the Nose When it comes to removing some skull-base tumors, the shortest distance between two points beats the old-fashioned way...by a nose. |
06-21-2006 |
| The Pass Out Game A ‘choking game’ gains popularity among US children and teens |
05-11-2006 |
| Crash | 04-27-2006 |
| Memory Even memory experts confess they misplace words and car keys and... what were we talking about?... |
04-14-2006 |
| 'He had a little pumkin head' Though safer from SIDS, 1 out of 300 babies will develop plagiocephaly—misshapen heads—from always sleeping on their backs. Special helmets to the rescue. |
10-25-2005 |
| More than a Headache | 08-29-2005 |
| Down For the Count How to Fight Hormonal Migraines |
07-15-2005 |
| Multiple
Sclerosis: On the Road Again |
04-12-2005 |
| NPH:
The Great Pretender It looks like Parkinson’s, acts like Alzheimer’s, seems like dementia. The difference? It’s treatable. |
03-11-2005 |
| Snapshots
of Dyslexia When a picture is worth a thousand unreadable words |
03-08-2005 |
| Trigeminal Neuralgia | 12-06-2004 |
| Beat Headaches (By a Nose) | 12-02-2004 |
| Color My World: Studying Synesthesia |
10-04-2004 |
| Seeing is Believing Contact lenses for migraine pain |
07-06-2004 |
| Can Migraine Really Cause Stroke? The Debate Begins |
04-12-2004 |
| Pumped Up Stroke patients gain mobility, calm spasms with new device |
01-15-2004 |
| Am I Losing My Mind? Or just my car keys? |
11-13-2003 |
| T.I.A. (mini-strokes): The Wake-Up Call for Your Brain |
07-24-2003 |
| Constraint Leads to Freedom Increasing Mobility for Stroke Patients |
05-19-2003 |
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Special Instructions for Children Being Vaccinated Against Flu for the First Time:
Children 6 months up to 9 years of age getting a flu vaccine for the first time will need two doses of vaccine the first year they are vaccinated. If possible, the first dose should be given in September or as soon as vaccine becomes available. The second dose should be given 28 or more days after the first dose. The first dose "primes" the immune system; the second dose provides immune protection. Children who only get one dose but who need two doses can have reduced or no protection from a single dose of flu vaccine. Two doses are necessary to protect these children. If your child needs two doses, begin the process early, so that children are protected before influenza starts circulating in your community. Be sure to follow up to get your child a second dose if they need one. It usually takes about two weeks after the second dose for protection to begin.
Because flu viruses change every year, the vaccine is updated annually. So even if you or your children got a flu vaccine last year, you both still need to get a flu vaccine this season to remain protected. If October and November slip by, and you haven’t gotten your children or yourself vaccinated, get vaccinated in December or later.
