Reuters By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO | Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:31pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – An independent U.S. advisory panel is amending its recommendations for booster vaccines to prevent whooping cough and expand protection from the disease that has made a comeback in several U.S. states. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted on Wednesday […]
Teens need 2nd meningitis shot as 1st doesn’t last long enough: CDC panel
The Canadian Press By Mike Stobbe (CP) – 1 day ago ATLANTA — Teens should get a booster dose of the vaccine for bacterial meningitis because a single shot doesn’t work as long as expected, a U.S. federal advisory panel said Wednesday. The vaccine was initially aimed at high school and college students because the […]
Experts wrestle with vaccinating boys for HPV
Reuters By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO | Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:21pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. vaccine advisers are weighing whether boys and young men should be vaccinated against the human wart virus that causes a number of cancers, but some worry the vaccine is too costly to justify its use. Merck & Co’s Gardasil […]
Two thousand schoolgirls suffer suspected ill-effects from cervical cancer vaccine
Thousands of schoolgirls have suffered suspected adverse reactions to a controversial cervical cancer vaccine introduced by the Government. Telegraph.co.uk By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent Published: 9:00PM BST 12 Sep 2009 Doctors’ reports show that girls of 12 and 13 have experienced convulsions, fever and paralysis after being given the vaccine, which is now administered in […]
Facebook blamed for vaccine woes
stuff.co.nz October 28, 2010 ESTHER TAUNTON – Taranaki Daily News Social networking websites could be putting teenage girls at risk of contracting a deadly disease. New Plymouth GP Peter Catt says girls are choosing to believe what they read on the internet instead of the advice of medical practitioners when it comes to the Government-funded […]
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