Vaccine Safety

09 Sep: Vaccines And Autism: What Can Parents Do During This Controversy?

original link: www.huffingtonpost.com By Dr. Bob Sears, author of The Vaccine Book The debate over vaccine safety rages on, with no clear end in sight. On the one side is a medical establishment made up of hundreds of thousands of doctors, researchers, infectious disease specialists, vaccine manufacturers, the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and our government, who…

07 Sep: Merck’s HPV Gardasil Vaccine: Risks, Benefits, Marketing – JAMA

original link: www.ahrp.org What possible risk/ benefit standard can justify giving an inadequately studied vaccine whose risks include serious, permanent adverse effects–including death– to millions of girls and women–who will likely never get cervical cancer? Two reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) [1][2] and an editorial written by Dr. Charlotte Haug, the editor-in-chief of the Journal…

04 Sep: Australia’s Swine-Flu Plan In Disarray As Insurance Companies Balk

The Australian Government’s plan to immunize the population against swine flu is in chaos because insurers may not cover doctors who administer the jab. Inadequate testing and the possibility of spreading other infections means there is too high a risk patients will sue, say the insurers. Despite weeks of crisis talks, the government has refused to underwrite doctors’ liability for…

24 Aug: Swine Flu Campaign Waits on Vaccine

By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 23, 2009 Only Third of Supply Is Expected for First Round of Vast Effort Government health officials are mobilizing to launch a massive swine flu vaccination campaign this fall that is unprecedented in its scope — and in the potential for complications. The campaign aims to vaccinate at least half the…