Published: February 21, 2009
The Rockingham County Department of Public Health will offer free flu vaccinations through the end of the month. The vaccinations are being offered in response to the recent widespread flu activity throughout the state.
“Normally, flu does peak during the month of February,“ said Glenn Martin, director of the Rockingham County Department of Public Health. “It’s been relatively mild until we Read the rest of this entry »

By CARLA K. JOHNSON –
CHICAGO (AP) — A new study from Italy adds to a mountain of evidence that a mercury-based preservative once used in many vaccines doesn’t hurt children, offering more reassurance to parents.
In the early 1990s, thousands of healthy Italian babies in a study of whooping cough vaccines got two different amounts of the preservative thimerosal (pronounced thih-MEHR’-uh-sawl) from all their routine shots.
Ten Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Government medical advisers on Wednesday issued their recommendations for next season’s flu vaccine, the front line defense against a disease that kills an estimated 36,000 people a year.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended only a slight change for the 2009-2010 season from the current vaccine, which protects against infection by three kinds of flu viruses.
For Type A flu_the most serious kind_the Read the rest of this entry »

Dec 22, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new version of BioThrax—the nation’s only licensed anthrax vaccine—that requires fewer doses and changes the injection route.
Emergent BioSolutions, maker of BioThrax, said in a Dec 19 press release that the FDA’s approval of the company’s supplemental biologics license application for its anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) allows a new schedule Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) Vaccinations are modern medicine’s most-favored form of quackery. Even while the bulk of the evidence shows vaccines and flu shots ultimately harm more people than they help, they continue to be pushed by doctors, drug companies and state health authorities. Now you can add pediatricians to that list.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, a group of drug-pushing doctors that claim to care for children, is now demanding that parents get Read the rest of this entry »

January was cervical cancer prevention month, and those working to strengthen women’s health were rightfully concerned when South Dakota’s human papillomavirus vaccine program was slashed by half (“HPV shots a victim of cuts” Argus Leader, Jan. 26) as part of Gov. Mike Rounds’ proposed budget cuts.
The HPV vaccine represents a major breakthrough for women’s health, offering protection against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes virtually Read the rest of this entry »

Unknown to many immigrant and health advocates, a 1996 immigration law directs the Citizenship and Immigration Services to require that new immigrants receive inoculations that the CDC’s immunization committee recommends for U.S. residents.
“It’s not really a decision of ours,” said immigration service spokeswoman Sharon Rummery. “We can’t cherry-pick the recommendations of the committee.”
To help protect the health of U.S. residents, foreigners Read the rest of this entry »

Doctor’s offices and family health clinics on Prince Edward Island have received their first shipment of influenza vaccine for this season.
As in past years, the Department of Health will provide the vaccine to doctors’ offices and family health clinics free of charge, with a fee to cover the cost of administering the vaccine.
It is recommended that those at highest risk of serious illness from influenza receive the vaccine. High risk Read the rest of this entry »

It seems that you can’t turn a corner these days without seeing an ad for Gardasil. Persistent reminders to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine have spread across a seemingly endless number of public and private spaces.
Television ads challenge young women to be “one less” cancer statistic, and to “be smart” by getting the vaccine. Floor-to-ceiling print ads conspicuously wallpaper university corridors and call young women to learn and do Read the rest of this entry »

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U.S. health regulators asked for additional information on its
experimental hepatitis B vaccine, Heplisav, and maintained a
clinical hold on the drug.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which placed a
clinical hold on the drug in March, asked for additional
clinical and safety information to help with risk assessment.
Heplisav was placed on hold — an FDA order to delay or
halt trials — after a patient receiving the vaccine Read the rest of this entry »