By Ronald Bailey Government expands on failure. All too often, government failure is treated as evidence that we need more government. Instead, government failure indicates that we should look for alternative results in the competitive marketplace. Unfortunately, the creation of the new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) is a near perfect example of […]
EpiVax receives $458,000 NIH grant to develop universal influenza vaccine
By PBN staff PROVIDENCE – EpiVax Inc. said Tuesday it has received a $458,000, two-year grant to develop a universal influenza vaccine. “There is an urgent, unmet need for an influenza vaccine with greater potency and wider application to diverse flu viruses that can also be developed more rapidly than conventional influenza vaccines,” said Dr. […]
NIH should not be a pharmaceutical company
By Tevi Troy The National Institutes of Health recently announced that it would be engaging in a billion-dollar effort to encourage the development of new pharmaceutical therapies. The New York Times headline for this story sounded innocuous: “Federal Research Center Will Help Develop Medicines.” But not everyone is so sanguine about this effort. Fox News, […]
Feds Check Post-Vaccine Seizures In Young Kids
USDA: Seizures Occurred 1 Day After Getting Shot By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer ATLANTA — Government officials are investigating an apparent increase in fever-related seizures in young children after they got a flu shot. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said there have been 36 confirmed reports of seizures this flu season […]
HSE changes flu policy for pregnant women
By Muris Houston, The Irish Times 19 January 2011 IN A SIGNIFICANT change to national influenza vaccine policy, family doctors have been asked to recall pregnant women who have been given the swine flu vaccine so that they can also be immunised with the seasonal flu vaccine. Following a meeting of the National Immunisation Advisory […]
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