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According to the preliminary results of a new US study, the vaccine for whooping cough commonly administered to young children loses its effectiveness after three years.

The results come from a survey of 15,000 children in Marin County, California, where an outbreak of the bacterial disease killed 11 infants and infected more than 8,000 people in 2010.

From news.yahoo.com:

“When we first started having a pertussis outbreak, we assumed that this would be primarily in the unvaccinated population,” Dr David Witt, of Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in San Rafael, California told a conference in Chicago, using the scientific name for the once-common childhood disease.

“What we pretty quickly identify is that the bulk of the outbreak was in fully vaccinated children” in the 8-12 age group, he said.

“Older kids and younger kids seemed to be pretty well protected but the age of eight to 12 was the vast bulk of the cases. And when we examined that, it was correlated to being more than three years from the last vaccine booster dose.”

The preliminary results were presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) organized by the American Society of Microbiology.

An increase in incidents of child abuse, mostly in infants, is associated with the recent recession according to a new research that raises fresh concerns about the impact of the economic woes of the nation.

Results confirm anecdotal report from many pediatricians who’ve seen increasing numbers of shaken baby cases and other forms of brain-injuring abuse, said lead author Dr. Rachel Berger of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

From news.yahoo.com:

Berger decided to study this type of injury, known as abusive head trauma, after noticing an increase at her own hospital from late 2007 through June 2009. Her hospital averaged 30 cases per year during those recession years versus 17 yearly before 2007.

Though this abuse is still uncommon, the number of cases in the counties studied increased sharply, rising from about 9 cases per 100,000 children in pre-recession years, to almost 15 per 100,000 kids during the recession — a 65 percent increase.

By contrast, juvenile diabetes — a better-known condition — affects about 19 per 100,000 children younger than age 10.

Children studied were younger than 5, and most were infants. Most suffered brain damage and 69 died, though the death rate didn’t rise during the recession.

Unemployment rates in the 74 counties rose during the five-year study. The proportion of children on Medicaid in those counties also increased, from 77 percent before the recession to 83 percent. However, insurance and family employment information were not reported for the abused children in the study.

Mark Rank, a social welfare professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said the study shows that “as poverty goes up and economic stagnation continues…there are really human costs involved.”

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You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. – William Hazlitt

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. – John Naisbitt

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

It’s through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we’ve always mapped our path at Dell. There’s always an opportunity to make a difference. – Michael Dell

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. – Denis Waitley

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. – Le Iacocca

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question. – Peter Drucker

Why did I want to win? Because I didn’t want to lose! – Max Schmelling

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Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg

There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it. For if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard. – C.J. Walker

Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized. – Albert Einstein

We are currently not planning on conquering the world. – Sergey Brin

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. – Bill Rancic

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by — Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Ren Mulford Jr.

For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy. – Bill O’ Reilly

A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton

If you have been looking for wisdom quotations, these inspiring quotations will surely be of interest to you.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. – Henry David Thoreau

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. – George Santayana

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. – Phil Jackson

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. – Ben Hogan

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. – Baltasar Gracian

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. – Nelson Mandela

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. – Herb Caen

A mistake is simply another way of doing things. – Katharine Graham

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. – Robert Frost

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. – Moliere

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cleverness is not wisdom. – Euripides

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. – John Muir

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Tuesday, Brent crude rose for a sixth straight session and was boosted by concerns about gasoline supplies, optimism about fresh economic stimulus, and the threat of fresh storms.

“The market is getting a little perturbed that refiners are not coming back quickly,” said Stephen Schork, editor of The Schork Report in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

From in.finance.yahoo.com:

Further support for prices came after Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans said he favored strong central bank accommodation for a substantial period of time, as the U.S. economy looks to be moving “sideways.”

Traders have been closely watching for any signs of more stimulus for the economy, which would spur investors into oil.

Crude got an additional boost following the release of notes from the Aug. 9 policy meeting showed the Fed considered a range of actions, including the unprecedented step of tying interest rate policy outlook to a specific unemployment level.

“The Fed minutes revealed they were inclined to do QE3 (quantitative easing) and this could be bullish for oil and commodities going forward,” said Richard Ilczyszyn, senior market strategist, at MF Global in Chicago.

Brent crude traded up $2.14 to settle at a four-week high of $114.02 a barrel while U.S. crude settled up $1.63 at a three-week high of $88.90 a barrel.