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Vaccine response research is now taking a look at dose related differences between men and women. Vaccine dose based on biological differences, could be a significant predictor of both reaction, and response.

Vaccines Capabilities  

Vaccines capabilities are limited by many things. Vaccines don’t have  go-anywhere do- anything versatility and quality. The devil is in the details. Vaccines haven’t progressed to the point where they do anything more than bombard a person with a standard dosage. They are not precision dosages that depend on the size, sex, and condition of the recipient.

Should you care? Absolutely, we depend on both the reliability and the safety of the dosage. Technicalities matter from your view point. You don’t want to be flying  blindly, you can’t retract a shot, once it is given.

Vaccine Gender Problems

If you don’t see the problem, that’s a problem in itself. According to research at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health responses to vaccines vary according to sex.

“Sex can affect the frequency and severity of adverse effects of vaccination including fever, pain and inflammation,” said Sabra Klein PhD, lead author of the review and an assistant professor at the Bloomberg School’s W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. This is likely due to fact that women typically mount stronger immune responses to vaccinations compared to men. In some cases, women need substantially less of a vaccine to mount the same response as men. Pregnancy is also a factor that can alter immune responses to vaccines.”

Biological differences between the sexes could be a significant predictor of responses to vaccines, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined published data from numerous adult and child vaccine trials and found that sex is a fundamental, but often overlooked predictor of vaccine response. The review is featured in the May 2010 issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Vaccine Age Related Issues

Vaccine age related issues are usually not understood by seniors. Studies have shown that flu shots are usually ineffective for the elderly population. Vaccines are introduced with all sorts of claims and no real studies to back them up.

In a review article in Lancet Infectious Diseases, research by Dr. Lisa Jackson, a senior investigator at the Group Health Center for Health Studies, says evidence that all older people should get flu vaccines in weak.

If the flu shot doesn’t boosts immunity in the elderly it isn’t a solution, or a breakthrough in flu protection.The shots are not free of preservatives, solvents and reflect a challenge to an impaired immune system.

Experts

If the experts you depend on don’t have a clue, the ultimate choice to get vaccinated or not is yours. There are many reasons for questioning vaccines efficiency and safety record. Mass media campaigns may not tell the whole story. The claims are many times outright false.

The breast cancer and stress reduction studies are busting the myth that only the medical system can actually halt breast cancer. We are learning that you can unleash your natural defenses.

Internal Defenses

It was found that having sessions with a psychologist to learn how to reduce stress helped women with recurrent breast cancer live longer. They also had a better quality of life, according to new research. In a previous study where they followed women with breast cancer for 11 years, it was fount that those who receive psychological support had a 45 per cent lower risk of their breast cancer recurring.

You can read about the study, by Dr. Barbara L. Andersen, a professor in the department of psychology at the Ohio State University Columbus, and colleagues, in the June Online First Issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

The researchers studied women with newly diagnosed Stage II or III breast cancer who were put into one of two groups: intervention and assessment-only. In addition to normal assessments, the women in the intervention group had sessions with a psychologist where they learned more about the causes of cancer and how to reduce stress, and the other group just had the assessments.

Anderson, who is also a researcher at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, told the press that:

 ”Patients in the intervention arm evidenced significant emotional improvement and more favorable immune responses in the year following recurrence diagnosis.”

“In contrast, stress remained unabated and immunity significantly declined in the assessment-only group,” she added.

Plus she stated that “Survival advantages occurred above and beyond the improvements from state-of-the-science oncology treatments received at NCI-designed comprehensive cancer center.”

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