By Mark Roth, Pittsburg Post-Gazette 23 January 2011 In the face of increasing evidence that families who oppose vaccination are endangering their own children and public health, some doctors and patients are starting to fight back. One new study says that a fifth of all families are now delaying recommended vaccinations for their children, and […]
Local woman dies despite 2007 vaccination
By Lora Hines, The Press-Enterprise 22 January 2011 The federal public health agency that investigates, diagnoses and prevents disease spread could change its childhood immunization schedule and adopt a recommendation this week for teenagers to get vaccine boosters for the bacteria that causes meningitis. The anticipated change by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
January 13, 2011 FDA Approval Letter – Cervarix
Our STN: BL 125259/112 GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals Attention: Matthew Whitman 2301 Renaissance Boulevard P.O. Box 61540 King of Prussia, PA 19406-2772 Dear Mr. Whitman: We have approved your request to supplement your biologics license application for Human Papillomavirus Bivalent (Types 16 and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant, to include a Patient Package Insert to the full prescribing information. […]
Women urged to protect themselves against Cervical Cancer
By Tessa Hawley 23 January 2011 WOMEN in the Isle of Man are being urged to take the preventative measures available to them in order to prevent cervical cancer. Today marks the beginning of Cervical Cancer Prevention Awareness Week – a campaign which takes place throughout Europe between Sunday, January 23 and Sunday, January 29. […]
Tennessee Legislators Propose to Take Vaccination Power from Commissioner of Health
24 January 2011 A bill introduced into the Tennessee State Legislature (HB1580/SB1958) and discussed this week would take away the power of the Commissioner of Health to require vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases and give that power to the General Assembly. The existing code (49-6-5001(a)) reads: The commissioner of health is authorized, subject to the […]
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