By: Norma Erickson 06 November 2010 Last Tuesday, the SaneVax team sent a letter to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner, and Dr. Harold E. Varmus, Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), requesting the establishment of a reliable human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping test to support the national virology-based cervical cancer prevention program for patient care. […]
Conflicts of Interest in the Losing Cancer War
Posted by Norma Erickson, SaneVax 15 September 2010 This article was written by Samuel S. Epstein, MD, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, and Quentin D. Young, MD, Chairman of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. Although it was originally published on 4 March 2004, the information contained within is still timely. It […]
Region: Two-thirds of local pertussis cases were vaccinated, data show
By: Joanne Faryon, KPBS, and Kevin Crowe, Watchdog Institute 15 December 2010 As California experiences its worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 60 years, health officials across the country trumpet vaccinations to protect against the disease. The number of cases of the disease in San Diego County this year has reached a record 1,046 […]
Even those fully vaccinated can still get whooping cough
By: Sue Loughlin, The Tribune-Star 04 December 2010 TERRE HAUTE — Those fully vaccinated for whooping cough can still get the disease, says an epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health. “We do see cases of kids appropriately vaccinated who still get the disease,” said Angie Cierzniewski, a state vaccine preventable disease epidemiologist. […]
Adults may not be spreading whooping cough: study
By: Julie Steenhuysen 11 November 2010 (Reuters)Children largely spread whooping cough among themselves, so blanket vaccination campaigns targeting teens and adults may be a waste of time, according to a study that looks at how social patterns affect disease transmission. The findings, published on Thursday in the journal Science, contradict the notion that infected […]
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