Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine Safety
As of May 31, 2007 2227 reports of adverse events following administration of Gardasil have been submitted to the FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). This document serves as a follow-up to reports previously issued by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) on this topic...
Is Vaccination Improving the Health of Our Children?
Vaccination is more and more a pressing issue because of the proliferation and aggressive marketing of new vaccines. While homeopaths and other alternative medicine practitioners have questioned the wisdom of the vaccine for decades, we are now seeing doctors and researchers in conventional medicine beginning to question this practice as they respond to some alarming studies and statistics. This hot issue has reached mainstream media though television and various publications. One need only go online and search “vaccine” and find a daily plethora of articles on this controversial subject.
Influenza Vaccination And Guillain Barre Syndrome
Patients should make an informed consent decision on whether to take this optional vaccine based upon its safety and efficacy and physicians should vigilantly report GBS following influenza vaccination to the VAERS in the United States so that continued evaluation of the safety of influenza vaccine may be undertaken...
What Is The Flu Vaccine?
The flu vaccine is prepared from the fluids of chick embryos inoculated with a specific type(s) of influenza virus. The strains of flu virus in the vaccine are inactivated with formaldehyde and preserved with Thimerosal, which is a mercury derivative...
Flu Vaccine: Missing the Mark
What started out as a routine flu strain selection meeting ended up being part of the answer to why federal health agencies urged Americans to get vaccinated with a flu vaccine that did not protect against the most serious flu strain dominating the US flu season in 2003-2004...
