PRNewswire.com 05/19/2010 The Coalition for Vaccine Safety (CVS) calls for independent vaccine safety agency and Congressional hearings on government’s lax record on safety issues WASHINGTON, May 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A three-part investigative series on Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil®, highlights serious conflicts of interest across agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) […]

Continue reading >

Dara Rees ABC 24 News 05/19/2010 Who says vaccinations are only for children? Doctors recommend a variety for adults, too! The Pennsylvania Department of Health has launched a new campaign to save lives. Roberto Morales tells his friends and family to keep up to date on their vaccines, and with a chicken pox vaccine Wednesday […]

Continue reading >

News24.com 05/20/2010 Cape Town – The department of agriculture is planning to build a vaccine bank after being caught off-guard by a recent outbreak of the mosquito-spread Rift Valley Fever. Peter Thabethe, the acting director general of the department of agriculture, forestry and fisheries told MPs on Wednesday that it took about eight weeks to […]

Continue reading >

Armarillo.com 05/19/2010 The city of Amarillo’s Department of Public Health and the Caring for Children Foundation of Texas will offer free vaccinations for children from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at McDonald’s restaurant, 1815 S. Grand St. The vaccinations will include meningococcal vaccine, which is required for seventh- and eighth-graders and for college students […]

Continue reading >

Jinal Shah Indian Express 05/19/2010 On Day One of the swine flu vaccination drive for healthcare professionals, the BMC found the vaccine had no takers. Over 2,000 city-based professionals, who had worked in isolation wards and screening centres when the virus had first struck, had consented to taking the vaccine, but none turned up. The […]

Continue reading >

Alan Mozes Bloomberg Businessweek 05/17/2010 Gender can trigger different immune responses and different side effects to particular vaccines, a new analysis suggests. The finding, reported in the May issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, stems from a review of prior research concerning vaccines that target a range of diseases including yellow fever, influenza, measles, mumps […]

Continue reading >

Canadianbusiness.com 05/17/2010 Simcere Pharmaceutical Group said Monday it is being fined 25.6 million yuan ($3.7 million) by Chinese authorities due to the production of substandard rabies vaccines. The company, based in China, said Changzhou Food and Drug Administration imposed the fine on its Jiangsu Yanshen Biological Technology Stock Co. Ltd. unit. Jiangsu Yanshen also will […]

Continue reading >

One India 05/12/2010 In yet another case of Chinese authorities muzzling the media, an intrepid Chinese editor has been sacked after his paper ran a story exposing the careless handling of health vaccines that may have caused the deaths and serious illnesses of children in Shanxi Province. Bao Yuehang, the chief-editor of the China Economic […]

Continue reading >

BBC Health 05/17/2010 The worldwide eradication of smallpox may, inadvertently, have helped spread HIV infection, scientists believe. Experts say the vaccine used to wipe out smallpox offered some protection against the Aids virus and, now it is no longer used, HIV has flourished. The US investigators said trials indicated the smallpox jab interferes with how […]

Continue reading >

Norma Erickson Examiner 05/15/2010 There were 1,606 cases of polio caused by wild poliovirus in 2009, according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued yesterday by the CDC. This number is down from the 1988 estimate of 350,000 polio cases. This reduction is indeed a remarkable accomplishment in the global health arena. According to the […]

Continue reading >

Tom Phillips guardian.co.uk 05/16/2010 Police in Sao Paulo were today investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed one of the world’s largest collection of dead snakes. The 85,000-strong snake collection, used by scientists to develop vaccines and medicines, was destroyed with an estimated 450,000 spider and scorpion specimens when fire swept through the Butantan […]

Continue reading >

Press Release 05/17/2010 North Hollywood, California, May 17, 2010 — North Hollywood, CA. Rosemary Mathis, co-founder of TruthAboutGardasil.org was interviewed for an expose, Mom Blames Teen’s Illness on HPV Vaccine on NBC affiliate WXII12 – http://www.wxii12.com/news/23519907/detail.html in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Tuesday, May 11.  The interview garnered national and international attention and has been posted […]

Continue reading >

Chinese authorities have fined two drug companies, including one authorised to make swine flu vaccines, for producing substandard rabies shots, state media said Monday.

Continue reading >

The first of the vaccine court autism cases has been denied by the United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Continue reading >

The Hindu 05/15/2010 Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, on Friday denied knowledge of the controversy over alleged violations of ethics during clinical trials of HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine conducted by a U.S.-based non-governmental organisation for a pharmaceutical company. Bill and Melinda Gates had funded PATH, that conducted the ‘trial […]

Continue reading >