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Why your child’s meningitis jab may NOT offer protection after all

By VT / June 22, 2010

Rachel Ellis Daily Mail 06/22/2010 Parents have their children vaccinated in the belief it offers vital protection against serious infections. But now there are concerns that the meningitis C vaccine may not be effective during key times in their child’s life. New research has revealed that within seven years of receiving the jab, three quarters […]

‘One size fits all’ allergy jab for hay fever, asthma and eczema on the way

By VT / June 22, 2010

By Andrew Hough Telegraph.co.uk 06/22/2010 Swiss researchers claimed allergies that blight the lives of 10 million British sufferers could be largely eradicated with a single vaccine. An allergy conference in London heard the “one size fits all” injection that wards off asthma, eczema, hay fever and even peanut allergies could be on the shelves within […]

Europe’s drugmakers beat U.S. on access for poor

By VT / June 21, 2010

Kate Kelland Reuters 06/20/2010 The Access to Medicines Index (AMI) — released this week for the second time since its launch in 2008 — is produced by a Dutch-based foundation and backed by 22 institutional investors and fund managers, who together manage $3.1 trillion in assets. It put Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline at the top of its […]

PCBs May Weaken Kids’ Vaccination Response

By VT / June 21, 2010

Robert Preidt Bloomberg Businessweek 06/20/2010 Children exposed early in life to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) may have a reduced immune response to tetanus and diphtheria vaccines, a new study indicates. The findings suggest that exposure to the environmental pollutants in the first years of life (a critical time in immune system development) could undermine the effectiveness […]

FDA Gardasil Decision Delayed

By VT / June 21, 2010

NewsInferno 06/17/2010 The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has put off a decision on whether or not it should approve the expanded use of the Gardasil vaccine to older women, ages 27 to 45. The FDA’s decision, which was expected sometime next week, will not come until later this year. Approved in 2006, Gardasil prevents […]

Immediate Action to Prevent Cervical Cancer Deaths Key to Achieving Women’s Health Goals Trial and Error: Ethical Violations of HPV Vaccination Trials in India

By VT / June 21, 2010

SEO Press Releases 06/21/2010 Within the last month reports from two women’s organizations focused global attention on the silent epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s) and their plans to provide accessibility to care. On June 8, health leaders at the WOMEN DELIVER conference in Washington D.C. called on the international community to commit resources to […]

Study Criticizes Swine-Flu Follow-Up

By VT / June 20, 2010

Donald G. McNeil, Jr. The New York Times 06/17/2010 There is too little genetic surveillance of last year’s human pandemic flu, which has gone on to infect pigs in China and is readily mixing with other flus there, according to a study released Thursday by researchers in Hong Kong. No dangerous new strain has emerged, […]

Addition of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency as a Contraindication for Administration of Rotavirus Vaccine

By VT / June 20, 2010

CDC 06/11/2010 In response to reported cases of vaccine-acquired rotavirus infection in infants with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) following rotavirus vaccine administration, both Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals have revised the prescribing information and patient labeling for their respective rotavirus vaccine products, pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5) and monovalent rotavirus vaccine (RV1), with approval from […]

Rabies vaccine being sprayed from the sky

By VT / June 17, 2010

Air drops of rabies vaccines begin today DAILY SUN STAFF azdailysun.com 06/15/2010 Get ready for “ketchup packets” falling from the sky. Today, an aircraft will begin dropping edible rabies vaccines aimed at gray foxes in a 1,433-square-mile area that includes forests and less populated areas outside Flagstaff, Parks, Williams, Mountainaire, Kachina Village and Winona. A […]

But I told you so

By VT / June 17, 2010

Courtenay Bartholomew Trinidad and Tobago Express 06/16/10 Close to over two centuries ago, the poet Lord Byron wrote: ‘Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe/ Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast/ Is that portentous phrase ‘I told you so.” Look, to misquote the great bards is anathema to me and so, I had […]

Spain Weighs In on HPV Vaccines

By VT / June 15, 2010

SEO Press Releases 06/14/2010 AAVP (Association of Affected Young Women by HPV Vaccine) was created to support and assist young women adversely affected by HPV vaccines in response to lack of honest answers from Spanish Health Authorities and members of parliament who tried to convince families that HPV vaccines did not cause side effects. AAVP […]

New vaccination requirements

By VT / June 15, 2010

Traci Capellman Fox28.com 06/14/2010 If you have a student entering 6th through 12th grade, they will need some need new vaccines this year. Indiana is now requiring a Tdap, Menactra, and a second Varicella (or chickenpox) vaccine before school this year. To try to help get people in, the St. Joseph County Health Department has […]

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