1. Body mass index : Information
A good way to determine if your weight is healthy for your height is to calculate your body mass index (BMI). Being overweight puts strain on your heart and can lead to serious health problems. These problems include:
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2. Immune Globulin
Immune globulin (also called gamma globulin or immunoglobulin) is a substance made from human blood plasma. The plasma, processed from donated human blood, contains antibodies that protect the body against diseases....
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3. Immune Globulin Intravenous Injection: MedlinePlus Drug Information
Immune globulin intravenous (IGIV) may cause kidney failure. Tell your doctor if you are over 65 years old or if you have or have ever had kidney disease, diabetes, sepsis, plasma cell disease, or volume depletion. Tell your doctor if you are taki...
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4. CDC Smallpox | Investigational Vaccinia Immune Globulin (VIG) Information
The smallpox vaccine is made from a live virus related to smallpox called vaccinia, not smallpox virus (variola). The vaccine stimulates the immune system to react against the vaccinia virus, and develop immunity to it. Immunity to vaccinia also p...
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5. Smallpox Vaccination Vaccine Immune Globulin (VIG): Current Information
A new intravenous formulation of VIG (IV-VIG) is being produced to support the treatment of adverse events that may result from smallpox vaccination. There is currently sufficient IV-VIG available through CDC to treat the expected number of advers...
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6. ACIP: Use of Vaccines and Immune Globulins
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP): Use of Vaccines and Immune Globulins in Persons with Altered Immunocompetence
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7. Smallpox Vaccination - Vaccine Immune Globulin (VIG)
Studies in the 1950's and 1960's indicated that complications of vaccination appeared to occur soon after vaccination and before significant antibody could be detected in the blood. As a result, C. Henry Kempe and others developed the concept of p...
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8. CDC - Medical Care: Human Rabies Immune Globulin - Rabies
Human rabies immune globulin (HRIG) is administered only once, at the beginning of anti-rabies prophylaxis, to previously unvaccinated persons. This will provide immediate antibodies until the body can respond to the vaccine by actively producing ...
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9. AIDSinfo - HIV/AIDS Drug Information - Immune globulin
Intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) preparations consist of concentrated immunoglobulins (Ig), principally immunoglobulin G (IgG), with a subclass distribution that largely reflects that of IgG in normal human serum. Pooled serum is...
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10. AIDSinfo - HIV/AIDS Drug Information - Immune globulin
Intravenous immune globulin, also known as IVIG, is a preparation of antibodies collected from human blood donors. These antibodies (immune globulins) can be delivered into the body to help fight certain infections and to help treat...
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