By Amrita Tripathi, CNN-IBN New Delhi: As the five-in-one or pentavalent vaccine is set to roll out in Kerala and Tamil Nadu – chosen because these states have the best immunisation programs in place – CNN-IBN finds another vaccine controversy is brewing. There are several points of criticism – one, that this vaccine isn’t cost-effective. Two, that it’s […]
Doctor Alleges Monopoly on Vaccine
By Cheryl Armstrong, Courthouse News Service NEWARK (CN) – In an antitrust class action, a doctor says Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest producer of vaccines, uses its monopoly on meningococcal vaccines in the United States to raise prices and crush competition. Sanofi has “an overwhelming 93 percent market share” of the meningococcal vaccine market in […]
Vaccine-Produced Immune Cells May Be Associated with Leukeumia
From Gaia Health New research shows how vaccines cause immune system blood cells to divide into non-identical daughter cells. The researchers suspect that this may explain how blood cells can become cancerous, causing leukemia. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine have found how B lymphocytes produce non-identical daughter cells as part […]
Gardasil Vaccine In The UK Is A Big Mistake
From The Healthier Life Last week it transpired that the UK government now plans to switch from using Cervarix to Gardasil from September 2012. Gardasil (manufactured by Merck) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in 2006, and has since been used as a vaccine against the sexually transmitted Human papillomavirus (HPV), […]
Action ordered against families resisting drive
Excerpt from The Nation (a print publication from Pakistan) MULTAN – The district administration has decided to launch police action against those families that resist vaccination of their children against polio. According to detail, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Zahid Akhtar Zaman has directed the Health Department to lodge report against such families with the police […]
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