Vaccinationnews The Difference Bruesewitz v Berkovitz 22 years Different Decisions Different US Supreme Courts Different Press and Public Opinions The United States Supreme Court recent decision in Bruesewitz V. Wyeth did not only affect a family. It affected thousands, who after unsuccessfully pursuing a claim through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, will no longer […]
Pneumonia Vaccine Approved as Deaths Mount During Trial
Gaia Health The vaccine trial is ongoing in Argentina. Parents agreed under threats of losing their children and without informed consent. GSK says it’s not the vaccine—but where’s the proof? by Heidi Stevenson 6 March 2011 As deaths were mounting from GlaxoSmithKline’s ongoing vaccine study in Argentina, the European Union’s Medicine Agency, EMEA, approved it […]
Gov't suspends administration of 2 vaccines after 4 children die
Published in ‘Japan Today’ TOKYO — The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided Friday to suspend administering two types of publicly subsidized vaccines as four children recently died after receiving them, notifying municipal governments of the decision, ministry sources said. The two types are the Hib vaccine to prevent bacterial meningitis and a vaccine […]
Small Seizure Risk With Flu, Pneumococcal Vaccines
By Daniel J. DeNoon Feb. 23, 2011 — Combining the annual flu shot with other vaccines — particularly the pneumococcal PCV13 vaccine — may increase a child’s risk of a seizure associated with high fever. It’s a small risk of a scary but not very dangerous seizure. About one in 25 kids under age 5 […]
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 […]
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