By YLE News Minister of Health and Social Services Maria Guzenina-Richardson says that the state will, if necessary, supply additional funds to compensate those who became ill with narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine. Insurance companies are ready to pay a maximum of 30 million euros. The European Medicines Agency will give its judgement […]
Flu vaccine given to millions of Britons ‘increases risk of narcolepsy in children’
By Daniel Martin A flu vaccine given to millions of Britons as recently as a few months ago will no longer be used after watchdogs found it increased the risk of children developing a serious sleeping disorder. Pandemrix has been deemed unsuitable for anyone under the age of 20 after studies showed it could trigger […]
A flu jab too close for comfort
By Natasha Bita, Consumer Editor JUST hours after a doctor jabbed Sharron Coppin’s children with a world-first flu vaccine, her three-year-old daughter Alivia turned purple. As Coppin raced the shivering Alivia to a Perth hospital emergency ward, her husband called an ambulance for their one-year-old twins, Byron and Lateesha, who had begun convulsing and vomiting […]
Narcolepsy cases rising after swine flu vaccine
Ninety-three people in Sweden, most of them children, have been diagnosed with narcolepsy since taking the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix last winter, according to figures from the Swedish Medical Products Agency (Läkemedelsverket). In 88 of the 93 cases, the agency has identified a direct correlation between the vaccine and the onset of narcolepsy, a sleep […]
Pfizer Pneumonia Shot Shown Effective in Ages 50 and Older
By Tom Randall Pfizer Inc. (PFE)’s pneumonia vaccine, the company’s fastest-growing drug by sales, was found effective in two studies of adults over the age of 50, supporting the company’s regulatory application to expand the product’s use. The vaccine, Prevnar 13, produced a stronger immune response against pneumococcal bacteria than an older vaccine from Merck […]
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