What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe old combined A and C meningitis vaccine was a "polysaccharide", made of a bit of the coat that forms the bacterial wall of Neisseria meningitidis strain C. Like the old Hib meningitis polysac ...
I was glad to see you write about some of the benefits of high-dose vitamin C (WDDTY vol 16 no 11). It’s very sad that drug-company propaganda has made people more afraid of natural remedies than drugs, which can kill and incapacitate millions. As a...
A patient who was given Zantac (ranitidine) went on to develop aseptic meningitis, two French doctors have observed. They suspect that drug induced meningitis may be related to the immune system b ...
A recent case report suggests that the meningitis bacteria can change serotypes, mutating, for example, from type C to type B or vice versa. ...
Five years after the Haemophilus influenzae type b (or Hib) jab was introduced as routine for US children, researchers are finding that, while the incidence of bacterial meningitis is declining am ...
New evidence from the Czech Republic confirms what older British and the US studies have suggested: that meningococcal meningitis in children is likely to be linked to parents' smoking habits. ...
Many in the scientific community wonder whether this vaccine will increase other forms of meningitis. A a great deal of evidence shows that vaccines do cause viral or bacterial populations to shif ...
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 ...
Meningitis is the main cause of malpractice suits against pediatricians, especially in the US, with average payouts reaching $400,000. Most are due to a failure to diagnose the condition promptly, ...
Incidents of meningitis linked to the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine in Japan are far higher than first thought, affecting around one in 1044 vaccinations. The Japanese Ministry of Health w ...
