FDA: Rotavirus Vaccines Safe Despite Pig Virus

By VT / May 15, 2010

Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health News 05/14/2010 Both rotavirus vaccines given to U.S. infants carry tiny amounts of pig virus or pig virus DNA — but due to the vaccines’ strong safety record, the FDA says doctors should resume their use. Last March, the FDA suspended use of GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix when newly available techniques detected […]

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Whom Do We Serve? The Medical Doctor’s Conundrum

By VT / May 15, 2010

Suzanne Humphries, MD International Medical Council on Vaccination 05/15/2010 Do doctors swear an oath to the CDC? The FDA? The AMA? Just who are doctors responsible to anyway? Most doctors do swear an oath upon leaving medical school and it is named after an ancient physician named Hippocrates, who practiced medicine around 400 BCE. The […]

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Vaccine-derived polioviruses found in immunodeficient Iranian children

By VT / May 14, 2010

Pediatric Supersite 05/13/2010 Vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 was detected in five of six documented cases of immunodeficiency-associated vaccine-derived polioviruses in Iran from 1995 to 2008 — indicating a global need to change to an inactivated polio vaccine schedule. Researchers from several institutions in Iran reviewed these cases to define the prevalence of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis. […]

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Something sick in the system

By VT / May 14, 2010

JOHN GARNAUT TheAge.com.au 05/14/2010 ON MARCH 19, Shandong farmer Li Baoxiang consented to his only son being vaccinated for swine flu. That night, eight-year-old Li Zhikang said he felt sick. By the morning his body was trembling all over. Yesterday the father stood with tears streaming down his face at Beijing Children’s Hospital as his […]

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Pregnant women trial ear disease vaccine

By VT / May 14, 2010

Kristy O’Brien ABC News 05/13/2010 A world-first vaccine trial that could prevent Aboriginal children from suffering chronic ear disease is being assessed by Northern Territory researchers. Two out of every three Aboriginal children are currently suffering ear infections that lead to impaired hearing or deafness. The Menzies School of Health Research is testing a pneumococcal […]

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Experts highlight dangers posed by hepatitis B, C

By VT / May 13, 2010

Khetam Malkawi Zawya.com 05/09/2010 Hepatitis B and C are the leading causes for cirrhosis of the liver in Jordan and the Middle East, health experts said on Saturday. Doctors affiliated with Jordan’s Friends of Liver Patients Society said alcohol consumption is not the main cause of cirrhosis in the Middle East as in Europe, but […]

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A spoonful of sugar ‘helps the vaccination go down’

By VT / May 13, 2010

Kate Devlin Telegraph 05/13/2010 Doctors found that giving children a small amount of sugar before an injection made them much less likely to cry. They suggest that the sweet substance should be used before children are given vaccinations, many of which they receive while they are still infants. Previous studies have suggested that sugary solutions […]

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Judi Roberts, Wife of Polk GOP Chairman, Dies

By VT / May 13, 2010

By Bill Rufty The Ledger 05/11/2010 Judi Roberts, wife of Polk Republican Party Chairman Gene Roberts and a survivor of Guillain-Barre syndrome contracted from a swine flu vaccination in 1976, died early today following an 11-year bout with cancer. She was 70. Forced to wear braces since the vaccination, she educated people on the little-known […]

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Baby dies after receiving Hep B vaccination

By VT / May 12, 2010

New Straights Times 05/11/2010 QUANZHOU: China’s Health Ministry is investigating on how a baby boy died after receiving a hepatitis B vaccination in east China’s Fujian Province on Saturday, Xinhua reports today, citing Deputy Chief of Nan City’s Health Bureau Xie Zhiping, as saying. The one-month old baby was given the shot at 9:30 a.m. […]

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