By Mary Elizabeth Williams It was a minor slip-up. But it changed her life in an instant. We’d left the pediatrician’s office a mere two hours before the call came. On a recent sunny, summer afternoon, I’d brought my two daughters in for their annual physicals. They’d been weighed and measured and prodded and had […]
Nurse’s bid to get back job fails
From the Otago Daily Times A Northland nurse has lost her bid to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) to get her job back after she failed to have an emergency crash kit on site while giving school students HPV vaccines. Natalie Lewers was a senior public health nurse employed by the Northland District Health Board (NDHB) to […]
FDA Unveils Flu Vaccines for 2011-12 Season
From US News, Health Day MONDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) — Influenza may be far from most Americans’ thoughts as much of the nation wilts under oppressive heat, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday that it’s already preparing for the 2011-12 flu season. The FDA said it has approved the vaccine formulation […]
A Vaccine May Shield Boys Too
By Roni Caryn Rabin Snapshots of two clean-cut teenagers, a boy and a girl, stare out from a newspaper advertisement for the vaccine Gardasil. “Boys can be affected by HPV disease too,” says the bold headline. The ad urges parents to protect “both your son and daughter.” Until recently, Gardasil was a girls-only proposition. Approved […]
Gardasil Ads in Your Newspapers?
By Camille Giglio Sunday, July 10, 2011. Did your newspaper carry a full page ad for Gardasil today? Mine did and I’m so annoyed. (Contra Costa Times, member, Bay Area News Group) Please send me back an email and tell me if you saw an ad, any size ad, in your paper promoting Gardasil for […]
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