Pediatric News By: MARY ELLEN SCHNEIDER, Pediatric News Digital Network November 21, 2011 While public health experts agree that combination vaccines are an important tool for getting more children immunized against preventable diseases, physicians who administer those combination products are likely to be paid less, according to a study published online on November 21 and in […]
Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal
By David Willman, Los Angeles Times A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist. Reporting from Washington— Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether […]
“Designer” Cells as Substrates for the Manufacture of Viral Vaccines
The second biological activity of DNA that should be considered is its potential infectivity. If a genome of a DNA virus or the provirus of a retrovirus is present in the cell substrate used for vaccine manufacture, then the residual DNA has the potential, upon inoculation into the vaccine recipient, to produce infectious virus from […]
Prognosis: No Competition Yet Between HPV Types
New York Times Vital Signs By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Published: November 14, 2011 The two vaccines against human papillomavirus together target the four types of HPV that cause a large majority of cervical and anal cancers. But there are more than a dozen other cancer-causing HPV types, and scientists have been concerned that as more people […]
ADHD Drugs and Serious Cardiovascular Events in Children and Young Adults
New England Journal of Medicine William O. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., Laurel A. Habel, Ph.D., Colin M. Sox, M.D., K. Arnold Chan, M.D., Sc.D., Patrick G. Arbogast, Ph.D., T. Craig Cheetham, Pharm.D., Katherine T. Murray, M.D., Virginia P. Quinn, Ph.D., M.P.H., C. Michael Stein, M.B., Ch.B., S. Todd Callahan, M.D., M.P.H., Bruce H. Fireman, M.A., Frank […]
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