GOVERNMENT will add three more new vaccines if the ongoing vaccination programme to wipe out two main child killer diseases under the immunisation month is successful, a health official has revealed. Government is targeting to eradicate measles and polio as well as reducing child deaths from vaccines-preventable diseases under the ongoing programme. In an interview […]
Children told to be tested for HIV after flu vaccines reused
By Christina Dickenson FORT COLLINS – A clinic in Northern Colorado is advising parents of children who received a pediatric flu shot from their offices to get tested for some blood-borne diseases including HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C after their vaccine syringes were shared between patients. Med Peds Clinic of Fort Collins sent out […]
Alternative Gardasil dosing schedules effective
By Nicole Blazek Patients that were administered the three-dose quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil, Merck) with longer intervals between each dose had similar immune responses to those administered the vaccine on a standard dosing schedule, new data indicate. “Clinicians can be reassured that if delays occur in administering the second and third doses of this […]
Intercell, Merck Told to Enroll No More Patients in Vaccine Clinical Test
By Paul Serafino and Allison Connolly Merck & Co. and Intercell AG (ICLL) said a safety panel advised halting patient enrollment in a test of an experimental vaccine against a deadly hospital infection. Intercell slid 28 percent. The vaccine, known as V710, aims to prevent infection caused by the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. The independent data […]
Jury convicts Mass. mom who withheld cancer meds
By Denise Lavoie LAWRENCE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who withheld at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday by jurors who dismissed her claim that she thought the side effects of the treatment could kill him. Kristen LaBrie also was found guilty of child endangerment and assault […]
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