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Molecular pumps could make vaccines stronger

By VT / June 4, 2010

VaccineNewsDaily.com 06/01/2010 Scientists at the University of California – Berkeley have found that molecular pumps in Listeria bacteria that expel antibiotics, which make the bug harder to kill with standard drugs, also expel small signaling molecules that stimulate a strong immune response in cells that they infect. The discovery was reported in the May 28 […]

Mouse vaccine raises prospect of cancer prevention

By VT / June 4, 2010

New Scientist 06/02/2010 PREVENTION is the goal of most vaccines. Not so vaccines against cancer, which rally the immune system to fight an existing disease. That approach might change now that a protein has been found that stops mice developing breast cancer. Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and colleagues took a protein […]

CDC: GBS risk similar for H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines

By VT / June 4, 2010

Lisa Schnirring CIDRAP 06/02/2010 The risk for the paralytic condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) in people who received pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine was about the same as the risk among those who receive seasonal flu shots, according to preliminary findings released today by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). GBS is a […]

Letter from a mother with a vaccine injured child

By VT / June 3, 2010

Posted on Neil Miller’s Think Twice Facebook Page. Dear Thinktwice (http://thinktwice.com/), Reading through some of the posts on the site, many parents (such as myself) are questioning their intuition — that gut feeling that “something is wrong” as their child seems different now since the shot, or that their baby is behaving differently (crying, sleeping, […]

New quandary for parents: Do boys need the HPV vaccine?

By VT / June 3, 2010

Letitia Stein St. Petersburg Times 06/01/2010 On their next visit to the pediatrician, parents of adolescent boys may be asked if they want their sons to get an expensive vaccine they’ve never before considered — the HPV shot. Recently approved for boys, the three-dose immunization has been given to girls to prevent cervical cancer, often […]

Educated mothers “free-riding” on vaccine herd immunity

By VT / June 2, 2010

Kent Atkinson NZPA 06/02/2010 Concerns educated parents in New Zealand were developing a form of “white flight” over immunisation of children against disease were aired at a Parliamentary select committee today. “There is growing evidence that children of educated parents are…becoming a significant ‘hard to reach’ population,” the Prime Minister’s chief science adviser, Sir Peter […]