Click here for a text only version. Researchers concluded that children who receive Hib or hepatitis B vaccine are at no increased risk of developing Type 1 diabetes and that the measles vaccine doesn't increase risk for, or trigger the onset of inflammatory bowel disease. Click here for excerpts from the Dear Colleague letter. SVCI is a program offered by Senior Citizens Services of Greater Tarrant County Inc. that supports the education of new mothers on the importance of childhood immunizations. The program tracks a newborn's immunization records through the first year of life.
Older adults volunteer to prepare and deliver child immunization information packets to new mothers.
Sign up here. On the Hill Members of Congress returned to Washington in early September to complete work for the final weeks of the second session of the 106th. The anticipated adjournment date is October 6. Topping the agenda are discussions on tax cuts, prescription drug coverage for Medicare patients, raising the minimum wage, permanent normalized trade relations with China and funding government programs and operations for fiscal year 2001, which begins on October 1, 2000. The grants are a major part of the National Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease Control, authorized under Section 317 of the Public Health Services Act.