By Holly Ramer CONCORD, N.H.—Federal health officials, trying to determine whether to recommend that young children be vaccinated for the rare but often deadly bacterial meningitis, heard Wednesday from parents both for and against the vaccine. The public meeting in New Hampshire was the first of four the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is […]
Study to Assess Vaccine Safety During Pregnancy
By Iain Woessner TUCSON, Ariz. — The Arizona Pregnancy Riskline, a statewide nonprofit organization, announced a new national study to assess the safety of receiving the meningitis vaccine during pregnancy. The APR, based out of the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, said in a news release that the launch of the study coincides with […]
Gov't suspends administration of 2 vaccines after 4 children die
Published in ‘Japan Today’ TOKYO — The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided Friday to suspend administering two types of publicly subsidized vaccines as four children recently died after receiving them, notifying municipal governments of the decision, ministry sources said. The two types are the Hib vaccine to prevent bacterial meningitis and a vaccine […]
UPDATE 1-U.S. FDA blocks Novartis's Menveo for infants
By Katie Reid ZURICH, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Novartis AG’s (NOVN.VX) vaccine against meningococcal disease, a cause of potentially deadly meningitis, failed to get U.S. backing for use in infants between two months and 12 months of age, the Swiss drugmaker said. The news comes as a setback for Novartis’s meningitis franchise as its Vaccines […]
CDC panel votes to add meningitis booster dose
By: Julie Steenhuysen 27 October 2010 (Reuters) – A panel of federal vaccine experts narrowly voted to add a booster dose of a meningitis vaccine to teens at age 16.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 6-5 on Wednesday to add a booster dose of the vaccine at age 16 to address waning immunity […]
