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Acute Upper Respiratory Infection (URI) Learning Center
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It might seem overwhelming to try to prevent colds, but you can do it. Children average three to eight colds per year.
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Immunization (vaccination) is a way to trigger your immune system and prevent serious, life-threatening diseases. See also: Babies and shots
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Vaccine administered, usually to a baby or child, to prevent infection with a specific serious illness. People are given immunizations to protect them from serious illnesses. The vaccines used in immunization are actually weakened doses of the org...
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There are a lot of ways to quit smoking and many resources to help you. Family members, friends, and coworkers may be supportive or encouraging, but the desire and commitment to quit must be your own. Most people who have been able to successfully...
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Smoking prevalence has been declining in countries such as the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, but these declines are matched by increasing rates in most other countries. The Healthy People 2010 goal in the United States ...
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Smoking cessation is the medical term for quitting smoking. It is a vital part of cancer prevention because smoking is the single most preventable cause of death from cancer. As early as 1982, the Surgeon General reported that tobacco causes more ...
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Smoking cessation means "to quit smoking," or "withdrawal from nicotine." Because smoking is highly addictive, quitting the habit often involves irritability, headache, mood swings, and cravings associated with the sudden cessation or reduction of...
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About one month after your baby is born he or she is given the first of three hepatitis B (hepB) vaccinations. Then comes the diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine; haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine (Hib); pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV); inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV); measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and so on..
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Vaccination introduces a vaccine into the body to produce immunity and prevent specific diseases.
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Vaccination is the use of vaccines to prevent specific diseases.
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Vaccination is the use of vaccines to produce immunity to specific diseases.
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