May 18, 2011 We write to express our concerns about governance of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other public health bodies, as regards the management of conflicts of interest. WHO and other public health institutions have complex relations with commercial entities that supply health care products and services. In some cases the commercial entities […]
UPDATE 1-FDA accepts Novartis broader Menveo use application
* Menveo protects against a cause of meningitis * Novartis seeking approval in infants and toddlers * Menveo already approved for people 2-55 years ZURICH, June 16 (Reuters) – U.S. authorities have accepted Novartis’s application to broaden use of its meningitis vaccine Menveo, the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday, giving its Vaccines and Diagnostics unit […]
Fatal Polio Reported 12 Years After Exposure to Vaccine
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 15, 2011 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner In an unusual case of vaccine-derived polio, an immunodeficient woman receiving regular intravenous immune globulin treatment became paralyzed and died […]
CDC considering meningitis vaccine for infants
By Holly Ramer CONCORD, N.H.—Federal health officials, trying to determine whether to recommend that young children be vaccinated for the rare but often deadly bacterial meningitis, heard Wednesday from parents both for and against the vaccine. The public meeting in New Hampshire was the first of four the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is […]
Should we be rethinking the HPV vaccination strategy?
SciBlogs Infectious Thoughts Siouxsie Wiles Jun 22 A study just published in the Lancet suggests that Australia’s cervical cancer vaccination programme is already showing signs of success, with a decrease in the number of high-grade cervical abnormalities in vaccinated girls under 18. To quickly recap, the human papilloma virus (HPV) is a sexually transmitted infection […]
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