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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
A bold Chinese editor has been removed from his post after his newspaper exposed how shoddy handling of health vaccines may have led to the deaths and serious illnesses of children in Shanxi province.
Rita Uplend Vaccine News Daily 05/11/2010 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced backing for 78 science projects on Tuesday, including a vaccine triggered by human sweat and a laser vaccine. The $34 billion Bill & Melinda Gates fund invests in scientific projects that are aimed at improving global health. Each of the 78 projects […]
Hildegarde Staninger, Ph.D., © Sept. 9, 2009 Presented at the NREP 2009 Virtual Conference, Des Plaines, IL Oct. 5 & 6, 2009 ABSTRACT: The use of adenoviral protein envelopes as specific immunization and nano gene delivery systems has been observed in an individual, who was never vaccinated for polio or had parents who were vaccinated. […]
AN eight-month-old girl’s death, which occurred a matter of hours after she received a polio vaccine injection, has resulted in an inquiry being ordered.
Rotavirus vaccine makers say they believe a contaminant of the pig enzyme trypsin, used in the vaccine’s manufacture, is responsible for the pig virus detected in both GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix and Merck’s RotaTeq.
Even when financial and healthcare barriers are removed, some parents remain hesitant to have their daughters receive the HPV vaccine.
