Lee and Harmer’s editorial marking 10 years of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI)1 was published before discussion of a controversial press release issued by the World Health Organization jointly with GAVI and others in 2007 after the Bangladesh study on Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) vaccination.2 3 4 The press release suggested that […]
SaneVax urges FDA and NCI to establish a reliable HPV genotyping test for virology-based cervical cancer prevention in patient care
By: Norma Erickson 06 November 2010 Last Tuesday, the SaneVax team sent a letter to Dr. Margaret Hamburg, FDA Commissioner, and Dr. Harold E. Varmus, Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), requesting the establishment of a reliable human papillomavirus (HPV) genotyping test to support the national virology-based cervical cancer prevention program for patient care. […]
Conflicts of Interest in the Losing Cancer War
Posted by Norma Erickson, SaneVax 15 September 2010 This article was written by Samuel S. Epstein, MD, Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, and Quentin D. Young, MD, Chairman of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. Although it was originally published on 4 March 2004, the information contained within is still timely. It […]
Pediatricians Want Kids to Get Rotavirus Vaccine
By: Sharon Kirkley, PostMedia News 04 October 2010 Pediatricians want to add another shot to the panoply of vaccines Canadian children receive, urging that every baby in the country be vaccinated against a virus that sends thousands of children to hospital each year. Rotavirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach […]
Region: Two-thirds of local pertussis cases were vaccinated, data show
By: Joanne Faryon, KPBS, and Kevin Crowe, Watchdog Institute 15 December 2010 As California experiences its worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 60 years, health officials across the country trumpet vaccinations to protect against the disease. The number of cases of the disease in San Diego County this year has reached a record 1,046 […]
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