For example, some pediatricians offer immunizations to parents to protect their children.
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Mr. Danforth said he arrived with no detailed peace plan, but he called for an end to the bombing of civilians, a halt in abductions and slavery and an agreement to allow immunizations to go forward.
Facing huge deficits, New York City hospital officials have sought the state's permission to shut down more than two dozen school-based and neighborhood health clinics where poor children get basic medical care, from immunizations to treatment for asthma.
Hundreds of thousands of volunteers will begin going from house to house next week to give polio immunizations to 63 million children in 10 countries in the World Health Organization's latest effort to eliminate the disease.
Kennedy is neither a physician nor a scientist; he has been at the forefront of pushing bogus assertions that vaccines cause autism — they do not — and he has compared the side effects of immunizations to a holocaust.
Rabbi David Niderman, executive director and president of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, expressed anger about the pamphlets spreading fear by putting out false information linking immunizations to autism and illnesses.
But on Facebook, in public pages and private groups with tens of thousands of members, false information about vaccines — largely stemming from a debunked 1998 study that tied immunizations to autism — is rampant and tough to pin down.
As Montgomery County grapples with a whooping cough outbreak, health officials are offering free immunizations to seventh grade students this week, part of a continuing effort to get students in line with new state requirements.
But even its critics have found it hard to argue with its success in areas such as childhood vaccines — an effort that has managed to bring immunizations to even the most remote parts of the world, saving millions of lives.
The improved wounded-to-killed ratio grows from four factors: improvements in preventive care, from immunizations to field sanitation; better battlefield medicine; the use of more effective personal protective equipment (PPE); and modern evacuation technologies.
