By Daniel Berman, of Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) who worked in the drug industry. It is amazing the GAVI conference has been a success. The number of kids being vaccinated will dramatically increase. And it is equally amazing that in the current climate the UK Government made this commitment. But I’m worried […]
Virus in the system
By Natasha Bita KIRSTEN and Mick Button were looking forward to a family holiday in Bali when the letter landed in their mailbox. From the West Australian Health Department, it urged them to vaccinate their children against the flu. A killer new strain of influenza, a mutant mix of human, avian and swine influenza viruses, […]
Beware the ghost(writer)s of medical research
By Dr. Marc-André Gagnon and Dr. Sergio Sismondo, Expert Advisors – EvidenceNetwork.ca OTTAWA, and KINGSTON, ON, June 16, 2011/ Troy Media/ – The medical research world has been concerned about the problem of ghostwriting for more than a decade. The issue has been repeatedly raised in the mainstream media over the past few years, with […]
Fatal Polio Reported 12 Years After Exposure to Vaccine
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 15, 2011 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner In an unusual case of vaccine-derived polio, an immunodeficient woman receiving regular intravenous immune globulin treatment became paralyzed and died […]
CDC considering meningitis vaccine for infants
By Holly Ramer CONCORD, N.H.—Federal health officials, trying to determine whether to recommend that young children be vaccinated for the rare but often deadly bacterial meningitis, heard Wednesday from parents both for and against the vaccine. The public meeting in New Hampshire was the first of four the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is […]
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