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1  Pregnancy Tests -- CVS
Fri Sep 19, 12:54:05 pm
Views: 210 Whether you're actively trying to conceive or simply want to understand your body better, there's a lot of misinformation about how you get pregnant. Glam sat down wtih Pregnancy Expert, Dr. Howard Mandel to set the record straight. This is one of ge...
2  Pregnancy Tests -- The Quad Screen
Fri Sep 19, 12:52:36 pm
Views: 206 Whether you're actively trying to conceive or simply want to understand your body better, there's a lot of misinformation about how you get pregnant. Glam sat down wtih Pregnancy Expert, Dr. Howard Mandel to set the record straight. This is one of ge...
3  Pregnancy Tests -- The Nuchal Fold Translucency
Fri Sep 19, 12:52:14 pm
Views: 93 Whether you're actively trying to conceive or simply want to understand your body better, there's a lot of misinformation about how you get pregnant. Glam sat down wtih Pregnancy Expert, Dr. Howard Mandel to set the record straight. This is one of ge...
4  Pregnancy Tests -- The Nuchal Fold Translucency
Fri Sep 19, 12:47:01 pm
Views: 103 The Nuchal Fold Translucency, which is looking at the thickness of the baby’s neck [through ultrasound], around 11 ½ weeks from the last menstrual period and it also measures a fingerstick of some blood in the mom’s circulation and...
5  Flu Vaccine
Fri Sep 12, 04:47:44 pm
Views: 266 Serious flu-related illnesses like pneumonia keep this vaccination in particularly high demand for those in the vulnerable 1-5 year age bracket. More than 20,000 children this age are hospitalized due to flu annually. The Centers for Disease Control ...
6  Varicella (Chicken Pox)
Fri Sep 12, 04:45:52 pm
Views: 271 Think chicken pox should be experienced naturally? The tide has shifted when it comes to this school of thought. Chicken pox isn’t just a scarring threat. It can be deadly, and the vaccination, even if not completely successful, can greatly red...
7  MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
Fri Sep 12, 04:44:12 pm
Views: 269 The relentlessly-contagious measles, mumps, and rubella (which is the German measles) are targeted on by the famous MMR vaccine. Measles was once incredibly widespread amongst children and carried severe complication risks that included death and bra...
8  Hepatitis A
Fri Sep 12, 04:42:17 pm
Views: 264 Although not as serious as Hepatitis B and C, this contagious virus causes liver disease and is potentially deadly. It’s also the most common form and is extremely easily spread in environments like schools, daycare centers, and public play spa...
9  IPV (Inactivated Polio Vaccine)
Fri Sep 12, 04:40:34 pm
Views: 271 In the 1950s, parents were traumatized by the devastating illness that was paralyzing thousands of children. It steals movement from one in 200 of its victims. More than 20,000 annual cases resulted in 1,000 deaths before the vaccine’s introduc...
10  Rotavirus
Fri Sep 12, 04:38:18 pm
Views: 254 This live vaccine given by mouth helps ensure your infant won’t get rotavirus gastroenteritis, a viral infection of the stomach and intestines that causes severe diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. These symptoms can easily cause severe dehydration ...
11  DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis)
Fri Sep 12, 04:36:22 pm
Views: 231 Never heard of Diphtheria? Up until the 1920s, it was one of the most notorious and feared childhood diseases in the U.S., claiming more than 10, 000 every year. After vaccinations began in the ’30s, the deaths began to diminish, the disease di...
12  PCV (Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine)
Fri Sep 12, 04:31:39 pm
Views: 254 The word meningitis can still fill a parent with fear, even years after the development of a preventative treatment. Blood infections and certain ear infections in infants and toddlers are also the targets of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Prevn...
13  HIB (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B)
Fri Sep 12, 04:26:29 pm
Views: 260 This vaccine sticks it to Hib disease, which can cause meningitis as well as pneumonia, severe throat swelling, and infections of the blood, bones, joints, and covering of the heart. Hib was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in the U.S. befor...
14  Hepatitis B Vaccine
Fri Sep 12, 04:23:59 pm
Views: 204 This is the first vaccination your child receives–and for good reason. This vaccine protects against the liver damage, liver cancer, and death caused by the incredibly contagious Hepatitis B virus which mothers can pass along to their babies. I...

15  What Shots Does My Child Need?
Fri Sep 12, 04:21:48 pm
Views: 191
History has ravaged us with a multitude of deadly viral diseases – diseases that used to take a toll on one of our most precious resources -- children. Thanks to the development and widespread use of vaccinations, much of the infectious diseas...
  



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