Posted by admin on Savarth 21 October 2010 Deaths related to drug testing in humans are going exponentially high in India as the country is becoming a choice destination for pharmaceutical giants to conducts clinical studies of experimental drugs on real-time patients. The number of deaths during clinical studies has been steadily increasing and as […]
Whooping cough concerns: Are your kids vaccinated?
By: Megan Coleman 21 October 2010 We’re seeing more cases of whooping cough across New York and state health officials are urging parents to get their children vaccinated. It was too late for yet another infant in California, who recently died from the infection, also known as pertussis. That brings the total number of deaths […]
Flu vaccine only effective for select groups
By: Mark Lemstra 10 November 2010 This is the first in a four-column series on influenza. The first will discuss the ineffectiveness of immunization for the flu in most populations. The second column will discuss the great influenza epidemic of 1918 and the lessons we still have not learned. The third column will discuss last […]
Swine flu down, but not out
By: Stephen Turner, Peter C. Doherty, and Cal Thomas Originally published 11 October 2010 The World Health Organization has announced the end of the (H1N1) influenza A (H1N1) pandemic – what does this mean? In 2009, the new H1N1 pandemic virus exhibited several features that distinguished it from seasonal influenza: it caused major outbreaks […]
New Study Re-examines Bacterial Vaccine Studies Conducted During 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Press Release from NIH (National Institutes of Health) 02 November 2010 WHAT: Secondary infections with bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, were a major cause of death during the 1918 flu pandemic and may be important in modern pandemics as well, according to a new article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases co-authored […]
