Avian flu (H5N1) is predicted to be the next pandemic, claiming up to 7.4 million lives, according to the World Health Organization. The virus was discovered around 50 years ago - but scientists reckon that it will cross over into humans within the...
Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) has all but been eliminated in the UK so who or what should take the credit? ...
The most likely place for your child to catch Haemophilus influenzae disease, the target of a new vaccine to be introduced this year, is in nursery school or the local creche with liberal policies ...
The Hepatitis B vaccine has been linked with the kidney disease glomerulonephritis. The Lancet (23 January 1993) reports the case of a 21 year old man who developed the condition after a third boo ...
Influenza may not be the great wintertime killer of the elderly as always believed. Instead, they are as likely to die from acute respiratory disease than the feared flu virus. ...
A major study examining two versions of the new haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccine, introduced this month in Britain, shows that they don't work as well as they should. ...
A Finnish hospital has come up with a new approach to the prevention of acute otitis media in children between one and three years the flu vaccine! The study showed that incidence of acute otitis ...
In 1992, immediately following a then new vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection, my two year old granddaughter became unresponsive and regressed until she lost all unde ...
It's one thing to get a drug approved for use it's quite another for the National Health Service to agree to adopt it. ... ...
The Hib vaccine, the vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis, may be linked to juvenile diabetes, according to new American research. ...
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