Hepatitis jab reaction was all in children’s minds

By VT / April 26, 2010

(Xinhua) ChinaDaily.com.cn 04/24/2010 GUANGZHOU – A mass psychogenic reaction was to blame for the hospitalization of 46 children after receiving Hepatitis B vaccinations Thursday in south China’s Guangdong Province, local authorities said Friday. The children, among 84 who received the shots at a primary school in Huilai County in Jieyang City, claimed that they had […]

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Allergan Seeks $460K From A Defeated Plaintiff

By VT / April 26, 2010

Ed Silverman Pharmalot 04/23/2010 And what a plaintiff. The drugmaker wants to recover $460,000 in legal costs from Dee Spears, who unsuccessfully sued Allergan over the death of her 7-year-old daughter, Kristen, after she was administered a series of therapeutic Botox shots. She sued the drugmaker for $60 million, accusing it of concealing info about […]

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WHO ”wasted millions” over swine flu

By VT / April 26, 2010

PublicService.co.uk Thursday, April 22, 2010 The World Health Organisation (WHO) overreacted to the swine flu crisis which led to hundreds of millions of pounds being spent unnecessarily on vaccines that, in some countries, were hardly used, according to Paul Flynn, head of a Council of Europe inquiry. In England the NHS spent around £155m on […]

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44 pupils sick after hepatitis B vaccination

By VT / April 26, 2010

Zhang Jiawei ChinaDaily.com.cn 04/23/2010 A total of 44 pupils became sick and was taken to the hospital after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine at school on Thursday in Huilai county, in Jieyang of Guangdong province, the Guangzhou Daily reported Friday. On Thursday morning, 84 pupils got the injection, and some felt ill half an hour […]

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Sheryl Wolfe, beauty queen, dies of massive stroke

By VT / April 24, 2010

Mary MacIntyre Albuquerque Alternative Medicine Examiner 04/22/2010 Any parent can imagine the devastation when their teen suddenly dies from a stroke. More questions than answers will arise surrounding such a tragedy. According to the aol news story most of the obvious possibilities were ruled out.  I have another longer list that may be considered, however […]

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Vaccine Now Misses Many Pneumococcal Infections in Kids

By VT / April 24, 2010

Robert Preidt HealthDay News 04/21/2010 The advent in 2000 of the PCV7 vaccine to battle bacteria that causes pneumonia, meningitis and sepsis (blood infection) in children has caused notable changes in strains that cause these illnesses, researchers report. Most worrisome is the recent spread of strains not covered by the vaccine, the team aid. Immunizations […]

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Flu Vaccine Program Suspended

By VT / April 23, 2010

Flu vaccination ban goes national after fever, convulsions in children Chris Tomson WAToday 04/23/2010 WA’s chief public health officer Tarun Weeramanthri has defended the response time in closing down the state’s juvenile flu vaccine program amid revelations that children were presenting with convulsions more than two weeks ago. More than 60 children around the state […]

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HPV Vaccine Kills 16-Year-Old Girl Lawsuit Alleges

By VT / April 23, 2010

PharmaLive 04/21/2010 (PRWEB) April 21, 2010 — A lawsuit filed in the U.S. Federal Court of Claims this week alleges that the HPV vaccine Gardasil caused the death of a 16-year-old Missouri girl. Gardasil is a vaccine used to prevent the transmission of a sexually transmitted disease called human papillomavirus (HPV). Controversy regarding the safety […]

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Sanofi Pasteur Uses Navy as Guinea Pigs

By VT / April 23, 2010

Sanofi-Aventis, Navy to test traveler’s diarrhea vaccine Paul Tinder VaccineNewsDaily.com 04/16/2010 NEW YORK — French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis said April 12 that it will work with the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center to develop and test a vaccine for traveler’s diarrhea, The Associated Press reported. The Navy licensed a potential vaccine to the Sanofi Pasteur division. […]

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Oral vaccine not enough to stop polio, finds study

By VT / April 23, 2010

Maulshree Seth Indian Express 04/16/2010 In a significant study which may force India and a few other countries to change polio eradication strategy, experts from Britain, India and the WHO have found that even vaccinated children in India play a role in transmitting wild polio virus. So far, health agencies — including Global polio eradication […]

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Fungi, caterpillars, plants, bacteria: New frontiers in vaccine production

By VT / April 23, 2010

Liz Jones Fierce Vaccines 04/22/2010 CHANTILLY, VA – A popular topic at the World Vaccines Congress was cell-based alternatives to egg-based technologies, which was called the next frontier by Dr. Richard Schwartz of NIAID. In recent years, a number of research projects have revolved around producing vaccines in animals and plants. Arizona State researchers produced […]

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