It is interesting and noteworthy that the impetus for concern over vaccine safety in the medical community arises from parents' refusal to accept the recommendations for standard vaccinations, rather than from the compelling scientific evidence of...
In America and elsewhere, governments are considering whether to replace the current polio vaccine, which is causing the only new cases of polio. ... ...
Even though there was a mass measles and rubella vaccination campaign in 1994 in the UK, the number of cases of rubella (German measles) in Scotland is standing at a 13 year high. ...
More on the vaccine front. The Department of Health is applying more pressure in its campaign to have immunization start and finish earlier, so that babies are to first get jabbed at two months ...
US doctors investigating reports of hair loss in children after immunisation have found it is a common complaint unacknowledged by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) . ...
America's top health officials have delayed the introduction of the inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) even though they know that the live version is causing up to 10 cases of paralytic polio ev ...
The BCG vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) isn't working. The disease is rampant in tropical countries where vaccination programmes have been intensive, making the World Health Organization's ambition ...
The spin doctors at the the British Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) and the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS), the folks responsible for vaccine policy in Britain, have been busier th ...
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 recent issue of GP (22 May) exhorted all doctors to go get their hep B shots. In a perfect example of the old adage that doctors make the most timid of patients the editorial even assured its p ...
