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 […]
4 October – 9 October: International Vaccine Victims Week
By: Norma Erickson, SaneVax 15 September 2010 Every year people around Europe gather to honor and pay tribute to vaccine victims around the world. Although, people suffering injuries from vaccines are purported to be a “small percentage” of those actually vaccinated, many groups around the world want people to understand that those who are injured, […]
Vaccine promotion – the medium matters too
Posted by Grant Jacobs on Sciblogs 28 October 2010 While some of the writers here are gearing up for Vaccine Awareness Week, Esther Taunton from Taranaki Daily News reports that the low up-take of the government-funded human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme is being laid at the feet of lack of engagement with social media […]
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