By: Victoria Fletcher 05 November 2010 A CANCER vaccine has come a step nearer thanks to scientists who have identified a type of cell that helps tumours to thrive. Despite repeated attempts to create a cancer vaccine, none has proved fully effective. Now scientists at Cambridge University have discovered why. A successful vaccine works by […]
40 Deaths linked to childhood vaccines over 7 years
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Editor, Published in the Sunday Times, London 24 October 2010 George Fisher who died shortly after receiving the MMR vaccine (Adrian Sherratt) George Fisher, who died shortly after receiving the MMR vaccine (Adrian Sherratt) Forty children are suspected to have died as a result of receiving routine vaccines Forty children are suspected […]
NHS Grampian developing territorial HPV TV campaign
Posted in ‘The DRUM’ 21 October 2010 NHS Grampian is currently working with STV Creative on a TV campaign to highlight to recent female school leavers that they are still eligible to receive a vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV.) The campaign is one of several being created exclusively by regions of NHS Scotland […]
Cervarix License Extended
Posted in MIMS/UK 01 October 2010 The marketing authorisation for Cervarix has been updated to show that it offers broader protection against human papillomavirus (HPV) than first thought. Cervarix was originally indicated to protect against only the two HPV types it contains—16 and 18—which are collectively responsible for around 70 per cent of all cervical […]
Girls who leave school early risk missing out on vital cancer jab
By: Adam Morris, Health Reporter 2 October 2010 HUNDREDS of teenage girls in the Lothians who left school early are missing out on a potentially live-saving jab.While the uptake of the HPV vaccine – which guards against the main causes of cervical cancer – in schools is good, for those who have left at 16 […]
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