By Rupali Mukherjee MUMBAI: Vaccines are back in favour. After being junked by pharma biggies some years back, now almost every drug major is investing in vaccines by acquiring or building on fresh capacities (organic or inorganic route). The evidence lies in pharma biggie Pfizer acquiring Wyeth and domestic major Shantha Biotech being snapped up […]
Is It Ethical to Kill Children to Save Children?
PR NewsWire NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Should the government promote a medical intervention that undeniably causes death and serious injury to a minority in order to save the lives of the majority? Vaccines are credited with saving the lives of millions of people from many diseases, but they have also taken lives. […]
No drop in U.S. kids' pneumonia rate after vaccine
Yahoo Health February 16, 2011 A childhood vaccine against pneumonia-causing bacteria introduced in 2000 hasn’t made a visible dent in the disease, U.S. researchers said Monday. In the first study to provide national estimates of childhood pneumonia, they found rates of the lung infection had stayed more or less constant between 1994 and 2007. At […]
Doctors wouldn't use NHS jab on family
hc2d.co.uk 16th February 2011 According to a survey carried out by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BAASH), the majority of specialists would not use the health service to give their daughters the Cervarix vaccine. According to a survey carried out by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BAASH), the majority […]
Sexual health clinicians call for dual vaccine against cervical cancer and genital warts
Children & Young People Now Sexual health clinicians are lobbying the government to fund a vaccine that protects against both genital warts and cervical cancer. By Janaki Mahadevan Children & Young People Now 16 February 2011 Currently, the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine that is administered to girls aged 12 to 14 only protects against […]
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