By: Rebecca Smith, Telegraph 30 September 2010 All pregnant women are to be offered the seasonal flu vaccine for the first time this winter as they were one of the groups hardest hit by the swine flu pandemic. The H1N1 swine flu strain is expected to be the predominant strain of flu circulating this year […]
Health Bosses Under Fire Over Jabs: Lack of Publicity About Side-Effects of Cervical Cancer Vaccine Branded 'Unacceptable'
By: Gillian Duncan 27 September 2010 Health chiefs have been accused of failing to properly publicise the side-effects of the cervical cancer vaccine. More than 400 pupils have suffered adverse reactions to the Cervarix jabs since the programme began in Scotland two years ago. About a fifth of the reactions were deemed “serious” – but […]
Is the UK's HPV Vaccination Programme Unethical and/or Unlawful?
By: Charles Foster, Oxford 12 September 2010 A colleague recently emailed me. Her daughter, just turned 12, had come back from school bearing an information leaflet about HPV vaccination with the Glaxo Cervarix vaccine, and a consent form for the parent to sign. The consent form nodded inelegantly to Gillick, asserting that ‘[t]he decision to […]
UK Mother Expresses Concern Over HPV Vaccinations and Age of Consent
By: Norma Erickson 10 September 2010 Amidst all of the controversy over HPV vaccinations worldwide, mothers in the United Kingdom have yet another concern. It seems that according to a little known law, children as young as 12 are able to give consent for medical procedures, including HPV vaccinations, without parental consent, as long as […]
MMR campaigner from Warrington wins 90,000 pound payment
BBC News 29 August 2010 The mother of a Cheshire teenager who was left severely brain damaged by the MMR vaccine has won a compensation award from the government. Robert Fletcher, 18, from Warrington, suffered a fit 10 days after he had the vaccination when he was 13 months old. His mother Jackie received the […]
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