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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Department of Health expected to extend innoculation programme to include children aged six months to five years Healthy children aged between six months and five years are likely to be included in the government's swine flu innoculation programme. The Department of Health is expected to confirm shortly that it will offer free vaccination protection to young children. The Conservative party has been...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Inovio Biomedical Corporation (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, announced that the company's SynCon™ Chikungunya virus DNA vaccine induced protective neutralizing antibody responses in a preclinical non-human primate model. Dr. David B.
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
GENEVA (Reuters) - About 40 people have died after being inoculated against H1N1 pandemic flu, but investigations so far show the fatalities were not caused by the vaccine, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | yesterday
Local colleges and universities have been on the front lines of the fight against H1N1 — with some offering immunization clinics as soon as the vaccine was first available in the area last month. Yet campuses have not remained healthy.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As flu season got underway this fall, Dr. Catherine Monteleone, an allergist, noticed that her office started to receive an unusually high number of calls from people with egg allergy. They previously had avoided flu vaccines because of their sensitivity to eggs. This year, with all the attention being paid to the novel H1N1 influenza, those patients want to be protected against flu, and they contacted...
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KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Portage County Health Department will offer free H1N1 vaccines to priority groups tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Kent State Field House.
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Pat Sullivan Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dr. Russell Blaylock, a retired neurosurgeon and writer of the Blaylock Wellness Report does not like the Swine Flu Vaccine. I had the good pleasure a few years ago, to have dinner with Dr. Blaylock. A very reasonable and very smart guy. He said the following in his most recent Newsletter: "No one should take the swine flu vaccine – it is one of the most dangerous vaccines ever devised....
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Canadian Online Health News (Free subscription) | yesterday
HANOI, Vietnam - Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty. Starting next year an extra 6.
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
# 4046 While it sounds like something out of a science-fiction novel, researchers have spent years working on a new way to manufacture influenza vaccines by inserting genetically engineered pieces of the influenza virus into caterpillar cells. The promise of this cell-based manufacturing technique is that it can produce vaccine in 1/3rd the time of the traditional egg-based technology; in as little...
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MedBlog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Six Houston ISD schools will offer H1N1 vaccines on Saturday. Here are the details from the HISD press office: November 19, 2009 - This morning the HISD Board of Education unanimously approved a plan, in partnership with the City of...
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Frugal Café Blog Zone (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Another monstrosity of a government-run health bill… this one is the long-awaited one from the Senate. From Politico: Senate bill weighs in at 2,074 pages: In the Battle of the Health Bills, the Senate wins out, bulk-wise – weighing in at 2,074 pages. The House health reform bill was a mere 1,990 pages when introduced. That means the Senate [...]
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Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
# 4044 Vaccine safety has been a big issue, and continues to hyped by the anti-vaccine crowd. Many of them have claimed that the vaccine is more dangerous than the virus. The actual numbers, however, say otherwise. While there have been a small number of severe adverse effects reported since the pandemic vaccine was rolled out, the overall incidence has been low. Many of these ` adverse affects’...
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KEYT - News - Local (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Even though 50,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine were sent to are Santa Barbara County to battle the swine flu, a big request for local students has not been filled.
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The Selma Times-Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Area schools most likely will get nasal mist beginning Nov. 30.
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Allergy Notes (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From MedPage Today : Many people -- even some healthcare providers -- incorrectly think such reactions preclude a future vaccination. John Kelso, MD, of the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, briefly reviews the topic. References: ACAAI: Most Can Take Vaccines Even after Reactions . Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today. Posted at Allergy Notes . Stay updated and subscribe , or follow...
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