By Norma Erickson The press has recently been covering the public disgrace of Dr. Andrew Wakefield in regard to a research paper he published in The Lancet in 1998. This paper was recently withdrawn from publication under allegations of misconduct on the part of Dr. Wakefield. Just last month, Dr. Scott Reuben was accused of fraud […]
Call for jabs to protect against STI
Your Canterbury
February 27, 2011
Sexual health doctors have urged the Government to vaccinate against genital warts as part of the school-based jabs programme.
Cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) have soared, with an increase of 33 per cent across the South East since 2000.
More than 400 new cases per 100,000 of the population were diagnosed in Kent in 2009.
Medway had the highest rate of the infection at 167 in 2009. Recent figures from Medway’s GUM (genitor-urinary medicine) clinic show cases of genital warts rose 36 per cent from 302 to 412 between 2004 and 2010.
Vaccinated Sibling Transmits Rotavirus to Unvaccinated Brother, Gets Rotavirus Gastroenteritis
Vaccine Truth By Jeffry John Aufderheide | February 3rd, 2011 Vaccines are safe and effective with a one-in-a-million-chance for an adverse reaction. At least that is what parents are told repeatedly by mainstream media doctors and scientists. In January of 2010, Payne et al. describes an orally administered, live, attenuated, pentavalent human-bovine RotaTeq vaccine given […]
Virus-mimic 'paves way for vaccine'
From The Press Association Artificial particles which resemble virus material could form the basis of super-efficient vaccines, new research has suggested. The nanoparticles have already been used to protect mice and monkeys against flu. Scientists now hope to develop hybrid natural-synthetic vaccines that can prevent serious infections for a lifetime. The experimental vaccine consists of […]
Extending vaccine benefits to developing world will require innovation
Pediatric SuperSite
May 4, 2010
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Creative vaccine distribution strategies, improved vaccine technologies and more rapid manufacturing timetables were among ideas speakers at the 2010 Pediatric Academic Societies proposed during a symposium on vaccine-preventable diseases in the developing world.
Kathleen M. Neuzil, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at the University of Washington, senior advisor for immunizations at PATH, both in Seattle, and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices member said that the lessons learned during this past season’s influenza A (H1N1) pandemic can be applied to distributing vaccines to people in low-resource settings.
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