By: Emily Tarsell 09 October 2010 Imagine how you would feel if you were in a serious accident caused by faulty breaks in your new car, but there was a law prohibiting you from suing the manufacturer for the defective car. Well there is a law which prohibits vaccine manufacturers from being sued for vaccine […]
NIH Funding Bioterror Vaccines
Posted in ‘Drug Discovery & Development 08 October 2010 The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced three new contracts to fund research on vaccines to protect against emerging infectious diseases and biological threats that could be used in a terror attack. Each project focuses on […]
Children remain underrepresented in clinical trials
Posted on the Pediatric Supersite 06 October 2010 SAN FRANCISCO – To receive medical care that is tailored to their unique needs, children’s participation in clinical trials is essential, according to a speaker here at the 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition. Gail Pearson, MD, of the Children’s National Medical Center in […]
Hope on the Horizon
By: Catherine Frompovich 05 October 2010 “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) If ever there […]
Should I Vaccinate My Child?
By: Jini Patel Thompson Posted 07 October 2010 An unpublished study by the World Health Organisation WHO) on a “measles susceptible” (malnourished) group of children showed that the group who hadn’t been vaccinated contracted measles at the normal contract rate of 2.4%. Of the group who had received the measles vaccine (MMR), 33.5% […]
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