The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The anti-immunisation movement has been peddling fear since the 1800s, but we must ignore its misinformation on H1N1 Many people are facing the question of whether to vaccinate themselves and their children against pandemic influenza H1N1 (so-called swine flu) – a vaccine that will provide safe and effective protection against a debilitating and potentially fatal illness. But the question comes...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The "co-ordinated buying policy" of the GAVI Alliance has driven down "[t]he price of a vaccine that helps babies fight off killer diseases," according to data released by the group, Reuters reports. In 2010, the price of pentavalent vaccine, which protects against Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b), diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and hepatitis B, will fall "below $3.0...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 10 to 1 that the data presented support the safety and effectiveness of its 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate candidate vaccine, Prevnar 13™ (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]),...
The WyBlog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
If it wasn't for our government engaging in junk science precipitated by anti-vaccine fear-mongering activist groups we'd have plenty of swine flu vaccine. The shortage of swine-flu vaccine results not from drug-company greed or outsize demand but almost entirely from the government's decision to pander to unfounded and unscientific fear. As The Wall Street Journal reported last week, the US government...
The Muqata (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Special Guest Topic from Mrs. Jameela @ The Muqata Conventional Wisdom states to give babies Tylenol/acetaminophen after vaccinations to reduce side effects and lower a resulting fever. Yet a new study reported states that giving Tylenol to reduce the side effects after a vaccination lowers the effectiveness of the vaccination itself. "Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Children who get Tylenol and other...
Live from Waterloo (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I won’t say anything new if I tell you that there’s a lot of concern about the H1N1 and its possibilities of turning into a pandemic here in Canada. H1N1 vaccines have finally arrived, and the first clinics are being held right now, with elderly people, children and healthcare workers among the first groups to receive it. Since your health is normally one of those few things that cannot...
Mystical Paths (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths A little technical due to necessary background. I get to the point in the bottom third. We are commanded to believe in Hashem and have faith, yet also required to actively protect our health (as well as avoid taking risks with our lives). While in the last 15 years a few drugs have been developed that do treat viruses, most viral infections cannot be treated. The only...
decorabilia (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Regarding the November / December LD immunization resolution , a reader writes , I'm having some trouble thinking of argumentation lines for the affirmative, insofar as a minority refusing a vaccine shouldn't affect the majority, because the majority has been vaccinated and is (of course, to a limited extent) immune. This is frustrating every brainstorm I have on affirmative argumentation lines. Some...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Equatorial Guinean Health and Welfare ministry has launched a vaccination campaign against diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, measles and poliomyelitis. The three-day operation targets children aged 0 to 5 years and pregnant women. It aims to achieve over 80% immunization coverage in order to secure and reduce maternal and infant mortality. The vaccination campaign is [...]
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Note: In 1901, the first Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Emil von Behring for "his work on serum therapy against diphtheria". Diphtheria is a rare disease now because diphtheria vaccination is available to almost every child born today. But over a century ago, thousands of children died of diphtheria. Von Behring and his associates were responsible for the cease of...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
According to her death certificate, my mother’s half-sister Bonnie died of diphtheria — “the deadly scourge of childhood” — at five years old, in a town not too far from Dallas. An aggressive vaccination campaign began in the region around the same time, but perhaps it took a while for word to reach the provinces, [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
We now know that the cervical cancer jab did not directly cause the death of the schoolgirl Natalie Morton. But parents will still worry Natalie Morton, the 14-year-old from Coventry who died in hospital after having the cervical cancer vaccination, was not killed by the jab. Public health doctors breathed again when the preliminary result of her postmortem was released on Tuesday night. She had a...
FRESH MEAT (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Welcome to the Vaccine Education Center : Vaccine Education Center - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ... Our resources explain how vaccines work, how they are made, who recommends vaccines, when they should be given, if they are still necessary, and, most importantly, if they are safe. Vaccines changed medicine Vaccines have literally transformed the landscape of medicine over the course of the...
Rightthinker (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The History of Vaccinations-Part 1 -from their inception to 1979 The history of vaccinations is quite interesting. I've included a basic published CDC time-line for the development of vaccines and some of the other vaccine related issues, such as the creation of The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and The Vaccine Adverse Reporting System. Following that time-line, is a much more exhaustive time-line....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Extra money is intended to fund vaccines for children in developing countries and improve healthcare systems Gordon Brown will this week announce an extra $1bn to pay for more vaccines and immunisation for children in the developing world and boost healthcare systems. The money – nearly half of which will come from the UK – will be channelled through the Global Alliance for Vaccines and...
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