KYM'S CRAFTY CARDS (Free subscription) | yesterday
A fellow crafter, Jak Heath, lost her great nephew to meningitis recently. Two images were made, one by Jim Harker and one from Mo Manning. These are being sold at the cost of £4.00 for the pair to raise funds for Meningitis Search 4 a Vaccine Campaign. I didn't think twice in purchasing these and helping this worthy cause. Click here if you want to go and look at the images. Jak would also like...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The introduction of the Group C meningococcal vaccine to the childhood immunisation programme has proved to be one of the most effective health protection measures of recent years, saving hundreds of lives said Health Protection Agency (HPA) immunisation expert Dr Mary Ramsay. Prior to the vaccine's introduction in November 1999 around 1000 cases of Group C meningitis and septicaemia were recorded...
Aunty Carol's Publications (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
As you know from a previous post Jaks sadly lost her 19mth old great nephew to meningitis and has been raising money for the Meningitis search 4 a Vaccine Campaign by selling 2 specially designed digi stamps. Here are the cards I've made from the stamps the 1st is called Out there by Mo Manning. and the second is the Little Soldier which was designed by Jim Harker. To make the cards I used: Whispers...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Experts say a new vaccine for children against pneumococcal meningitis will offer better protection than the current jab.
dBTechno (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Boston (DbTechNo) - An advisory panel to the FDA have given their vote of confidence to a newer version of Prevnar, a Pfizer vaccine to combat diseases caused by pneumococcus bacteria. This vaccine is very important as it protects children against pneumonia and meningitis, 2 very serious health conditions that can result in death. The vaccine protects [...]
Poppy Dog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Hello! It's lovely to be back in the land of blogging! I've done plenty of visiting and commenting and even crafting but just not actually managed to finish and photo anything until today. Steve's arm is healing nicely but -and Im sure this could only happen in this household! - he put his back out as he woke yesterday. I have never seen anyone in so much pain before and trying to get him to the loo...
My Little Craft Haven (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Sadly Jak , a fantastic crafter and fellow 'Mo' team member, lost a family child of just 16 months, to the awful disease meningococcal septicaemia a few weeks ago. Jak is trying to raise funds and awareness to this horrific disease, and has a couple of really fabulous digi stamps made especially in Memory of Layton. One has been designed by Jim Harker and the other by Mo Manning ...both are available...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Some 100 babies in the Bristol area take part in clinical trials to test out a vaccine against meningitis.
PeeJay's Crafty Bits (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... by 2 extremely talented artists - in aid of the Meningitis Search 4 a Vaccine Campaign - in memory of little Layton John Cleaver who was taken from this world by this awful disease, at the age of 16 months. Please take a hop over to Jak's Crafter's Kitchen and make a purchase to aid this truly worthwhile research. UPDATE: Here's a sample of an image coloured very basically in PSP - never done it...
xymphora (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
As Canada becomes more and more fascist, Remembrance Day becomes a bigger and bigger event. I think we should bulldoze the corpses of 'the fallen' into mass graves and erect monuments to stupidity over the top. The fascination with controlled demolition reflects the American culture of the veneration of stupidity (if we built monuments to stupidity Americans would worship there). The school system...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Phoni Pharm Inc., the Anglo-US pharmaceutical company that carried out a disastrous clinical trial of its antibiotic Unprovan on a number of children suffering from meningitis in Rumbabwe’s Nokando State during 1996, has demanded a DNA report from anyone who believes that they are entitled to compensation, a retired justice of the Rumbabwe Supreme Court, Justice Bankdi Baksheesh, has said. Hundreds...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
READ THE NEWS ON ONE CLICKhttp://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk1. Pfizer Meningitis Vaccine Killer Demands DNA Tests For Beneficiaries Pfizer International, the US pharmaceutical company that carried out a meningitis trovan test in 1996 on a number of children in Kano State, has demanded a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) report as a pre-condition for beneficiaries to draw down on
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
$75m: Pfizer Demands DNA Report from Beneficiaries From Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano, 11.01.2009 Add To Favorites Print This Article Post Comment Pfizer International, the US pharmaceutical company that carried out a meningitis trovan test in 1996 on a number of children in Kano State, has demanded a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) report as a pre-condition for beneficiaries to draw down on the $75 million...
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...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have completed a Phase II clinical study that indicates a vaccine to prevent Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infection is possible. GBS is the most common cause of sepsis and meningitis in newborns in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
The last article published by a user on Meningitis :
aarkstore | 09/30/2009
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), six infectious diseases—pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, measles and HIV/AIDS—account for half of all premature deaths worldwide, killing mostly children and young adults. What’s more, threatening pandemics such as swine flu (H1N1 influenza A virus) are adding significant pressure to already strained healthcare budgets of governments...
Videos