By Dena Potter, Associated Press 21 January 2011 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – The House of Delegates on Friday approved legislation to eliminate Virginia’s unique requirement that sixth-grade girls receive a vaccination against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer. On a 61-33 vote, the House favored repealing a 2007 law that requires girls […]
Some doctors, patients fight against anti-vaccine movement
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. […]
Let’s Not Pay Twice For Government-Led Drug Discovery
By GoozNews 23 January 2011 One of the more intriguing historical anecdotes included in “The $800 Million Pill,” my history of government-led drug discovery, involved the government’s long-running effort to screen natural products for their cancer-fighting potential. The National Cancer Institute ran the program between 1958 and 1982. Agency-funded scientists, both in-house and at universities […]
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