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View Post: Speaker Pelosi Says Hepatitis B Prevention at Core of Healthcare ...
4 Nov 2009 by Connie Zheng  
“We are so fortunate in spite of the extraordinary infection rates that there is a hepatitis B vaccine that the World Health Organization has called the world's first anti-cancer vaccine,” said Senator Mark Leno. ...
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View Post: Intramuscular or Intradermal Hepatitis B Vaccine Administration in ...
23 Oct 2009 by Regina H. Medeiros, Ana E. Figueiredo,...  
Intradermal Versus Intramuscular Hepatitis B Vaccination in Hemodialysis Patients: A Prospective Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial in Nonresponders to Primary Vaccination , 01 June 2009. Katherine A. Barraclough, Kathryn J. Wiggins ...
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View Post: How long does hepatitis B vaccine protection last?
3 Nov 2009
The hepatitis B vaccine - given to protect against infection by a virus that can cause severe liver damage and cancer - may protect for more than two decades, according to a new study. In 1981, Dr. Brian J. McMahon, from the Alaska ...
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View Post: How long does hepatitis B vaccine protection last?
3 Nov 2009 by Loulith Galenzoga  
McMahon, from the Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, and his colleagues gave more than 1500 Alaska Native adults and children over age 6 months three doses of hepatitis B vaccine. Before the hepatitis B vaccine was licensed for US ...
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View Post: Protection from hepatitis B vaccine lasts decades following ...
2 Nov 2009
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a follow-up study of Alaska Natives who received plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine when they were more than 6 months old, a large majority were still protected 22 years later, investigators report. ...
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