By Natasha Bita, Consumer Editor JUST hours after a doctor jabbed Sharron Coppin’s children with a world-first flu vaccine, her three-year-old daughter Alivia turned purple. As Coppin raced the shivering Alivia to a Perth hospital emergency ward, her husband called an ambulance for their one-year-old twins, Byron and Lateesha, who had begun convulsing and vomiting […]
HPV Vaccine Safety and Efficacy: Answers Needed from Government Health Ministers
By Judy Wilyman MSc The One Click Group June 4, 2011 In Australia, as in some other countries, the HPV vaccine – Gardasil® – is being promoted to adolescents, woman and now boys, as a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. Government health departments are not addressing the concerns of parents. There are many scientific and […]
The Jabs That Really Sting
[Note from SaneVax: Naomi Snell was forced to postpone her post-graduate studies due to a severe adverse reaction after taking the series of three Gardasil injections. It has taken her two long and difficult years to recover enough to resume pursuit of her dreams – writing and a Masters in journalism. Everyone at SaneVax would like to personally congratulate […]
Flu Vaccine Seizures Dealt With Properly: Report
By Lucy Rickard The federal government’s response to a large number of adverse reactions to the flu vaccine last year has been deemed appropriate by an independent auditor. An unusually high number of children under five years of age experienced fevers, vomiting and seizures after having the flu shot in March and April last year, […]
Champagne, Anyone? Pharma Freebies Down Under
By Ed Silverman Health Department workers in West Australia have received $745,000 worth of gifts, business class flights and hotel accommodations from drug and device makers, many of which sell meds and equipment to area hospitals, The West Australian reports. According to documents revealed in Parliament, between last July and April 6, there 259 instances […]
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