IAP immunization timetable 2012: Some issues

Immunization Theory Issues

Vaccination is the injection of antigenic material, such as pathogen derived foreign proteins and toxic adjuvants into the body, to initiate a “learned” immune system response in order to prevent particular diseases. Memory T cells (cell-mediated immunity) and Memory B cells (humoralmediated immunity) learn to respond more quickly and strongly to specific infectious agents. B lymphocyte cell re...

Timetable Information Updating in Case of Delays : Modeling Issues ?

Adult immunization 2012: politics, process, and progress.

ECONOMICS AND THE POLITICS OF VACCINATION POLICY Recommendations by the committee do not become policy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) until they are signed by the CDC Director and accepted by the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This allows for discretionary oversight (3). These recommendations are considered provisional until published in ...

Timetable

Secondary Prevention in Coronary Artery Disease in 2012: Analysis of Some Issues beyond Drug Prescription

By standards of secondary prevention in coronary heart disease, we mean those therapeutic, pharmacological measures or otherwise that are implemented in patients who have undergone coronary syndrome, with the aim of reducing the incidence of death and new events in its monitoring. The main scientific societies of the world have published consensus and secondary prevention guidelines. We can men...