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By VT / May 5, 2010

Michael King 11Alive.com 05/04/2010 WASHINGTON — Despite a surplus of 71 million doses of unused swine flu vaccine, the federal said Monday that it is not time to discard them. Federal Health and Human Services Department officials said providers should continue to make the vaccine available to people until companies begin distributing seasonal flu vaccines […]

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By VT / May 5, 2010

Tan Ee Lyn Reuters 05/04/2010 HONG KONG (Reuters) – Childhood vaccines may trigger early onset of a severe form of infant epilepsy, but researchers say the disorder is ultimately caused by defective genes and lifesaving vaccines should not be withheld from these children. The researchers said they feared the study published in the Lancet medical […]

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By Christina England, BA Hons / May 4, 2010

Associated Press 05/03/2010 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque woman has filed a lawsuit over a vaccine intended to protect women from cervical cancer, alleging it caused physical and behavioral problems in her teenage daughter. The lawsuit filed by Tracy Wolf said her now-16-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a seizure disorder, encephalitis and other health problems […]

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By VT / May 4, 2010

China CSR 04/26/2010 According to Beijing Youth Daily, five officials from China’s State Food and Drug Administration have been arrested for allegedly accepting bribes. The report said that the five people are Wei Liang, an investigator from SFDA; Kong Fanzhong, an official from the Drug Certification Center of SFDA; and Qi Zibai, Bai Jianshi, and […]

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By VT / May 4, 2010

Emily Ramshaw The Texas Tribune 05/03/2010 The Texas Medical Association‘s leadership body voted this weekend to support vaccinating not just young girls but young boys for the human papillomavirus. But organization officials were quick to note that the vote did not include making such vaccines mandatory, which Gov. Rick Perry tried to do for Texas […]

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By VT / May 3, 2010

Michael Dickison NZHerald 05/03/2010 A cancer vaccine has been approved in the United States, boosting New Zealand trials already underway for the “holy grail” of treatments. The US Food and Drug Administration last week approved Provenge – the world’s first approved therapeutic cancer vaccine – which is given to prostate cancer patients after their tumours […]

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By VT / May 3, 2010

IndiaOne 05/02/2010 Surat, May 2: Parents of a two-month old baby said that their daughter died after 48 hours of being given polio vaccine on by local civic authorities in Surat. “After giving drops, health workers gave us tablets and asked us to give it to Khusbhu if she catches fever. We gave her the […]

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By VT / May 3, 2010

Jesse Mckinley NYTimes 05/02/2010 SAN FRANCISCO — It is an image both shocking and strangely serene: 10 beauty queens, each with a broad smile, sparkling earrings and a beautiful gown. And written across the bottom of the photograph is a simple, stark question. “Which one,” it reads, “deserves to die?” The image is part of […]

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By VT / May 1, 2010

UN News Centre 04/30/2010 Nearly 1.1 million young children in Tajikistan will start receiving vaccines next week against polio, the sometimes deadly disease which has returned to the Central Asian country where it was thought to have been eradicated 13 years ago, United Nations agencies reported today. At least 32 wild poliovirus cases in Tajikistan […]

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By VT / May 1, 2010

Kounteya Sinha The Times of India 05/01/2010 NEW DELHI: India has exported a polio virus to Tajikistan, re-infecting the region for the first time since it was certified polio-free in 2002. In what is the first outbreak of the crippling disease in a Central Asian country, the virus till April 22 had caused acute flaccid […]

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By Christina England, BA Hons / April 30, 2010

Christina England Vactruth.com 04/30/2010 A staggering 1,992 Indian doctors were found guilty this week of yet again profiting from the pharmaceutical industries. The Medical Council of India have found that doctors have been violating professional ethics, by excepting gifts, hospitality and financial gains. In the article Nearly 2000 doctors named for taking pharma firms’ gifts-Politics […]

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By VT / April 30, 2010

Vera Hassner Sharav AHRP 04/29/2010 The $$$ amounts–one might call them, “fees for services rendered”–reveal the truth about who wields the greatest influence on NAMI policies–and whose interests are being served by NAMI. For years NAMI (the National Alliance of Mental Illness) refused to dislcose it sources of income. But thanks to Senator Charles Grassley’s […]

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By VT / April 29, 2010

New Delhi: The Union Health ZeeNews.com 04/29/2010 Ministry has admitted that proper guidelines were not adhered to while carrying out trials of HPV vaccine among young girls in Andhra Pradesh. The admission was made by the Secretary Department of Health Research V M Katoch to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on health, headed by Amar Singh. […]

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By VT / April 29, 2010

Jeanne Whalen Wall Street Journal 04/49/2010 Sales of the H1N1 swine-flu vaccine continued to buoy GlaxoSmithKline PLC’s earnings in the first quarter, helping to boost net profit by 19%, though Chief Executive Andrew Witty said a milder-than-expected pandemic has prompted some countries to try to reduce orders. He said Glaxo is trying to be as […]

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By VT / April 29, 2010

Emma Vandore Associated Press 04/29/2010 PARIS — Sanofi-Aventis reported Thursday an 8.6 percent increase in first quarter net profit thanks to its swine flu vaccine and strong sales of diabetes treatment Lantus. France’s largest drug maker said net profit in the three-month period rose to euro1.71 billion ($2.26 billion) from euro1.58 billion a year earlier. […]