Toronto health authorities go after Jenny McCarthy on social media calling her anti-vaccine views ‘misinformation’
Got to the Toronto Public Health Facebook page and you’ll find the following post yesterday: “Jenny McCarthy’s anti-vaccine views = misinformation. Please visit The View TV Facebook page and ask More...
Saint Louis University looking for volunteers for plague vaccine
On average, in the United States, there are about seven cases of plague annually, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, in other words, it’s pretty rare. The rare cases of More...
Sabin to launch vaccine discovery program for parasitic worms
In a press release Monday, The Sabin Vaccine Institute Product Development Partnership (Sabin PDP) announced the launch of a soil-transmitted helminth (STH) vaccine discovery program. Two Ascaris lumbricoides nematodes, More...
England to offer rotavirus vaccine, one of several vaccination programs beginning in 2013
On Monday, Public Health England (PHE) announced that nearly 700,000 children annually will now be offered vaccination against the most common cause of gastroenteritis in young children, rotavirus. RotavirusImage/CDC/Bryon More...
ACIP recommends FluBlok for 2013-2014 flu season for adults with egg allergies
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously in favor(13-0) of recommending FluBlok during the 2013-2014 influenza season for vaccination of persons 18 through 49 years of age with egg More...
HPV prevalence in female teens drop 56% since HPV vaccine introduced
CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden opened up his statements during a CDC telebriefing today (audio) with positive news saying, “Today we have really good news. The types of HPV, human papillomavirus, that More...
Yellow fever ‘booster’ shot not necessary: WHO
A single dose of yellow fever vaccination is sufficient to confer life-long immunity against yellow fever disease, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts More...
Lyme disease vaccine produces substantial immune response in clinical trials
An investigational Lyme disease vaccine co-developed by researchers at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at Baxter International Inc. has shown promising safety and efficacy in phase 1/2 More...
Lenny Kravitz teams up with UNICEF to do PSA on vaccine-preventable diseases
Multiple Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and guitarist, Lenny Kravitz, has partnered with UNICEF to create a new series of Public Service Announcements (PSA) to to urge people to join UNICEF to bring about More...
Greffex scientists create first H7N9 avian influenza vaccine
In about one month after the H7N9 avian influenza virus was characterized, Aurora, Colorado vaccine manufacturer, Greffex has created a H7N9 avian influenza vaccine using its proprietary GREVAXTM technology, More...
Tetanus vaccination campaign kicks off in Haiti
In an effort to protect 1.2 million women of childbearing age and more than 240,000 babies born each year from tetanus and neonatal tetanus, respectively, Haiti today kicked off a new campaign to vaccinate women More...
CDC reports on rabies vaccine availability; doxycycline, tetracycline shortages
In a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bulletin Thursday, officials report that restrictions on the use of Sanofi Pasteur’s IMOVAX rabies vaccine are still in effect. Photo/CDC/ Debora Cartagena IMOVAX More...
Inviragen’s DENVax, dengue vaccine, enters second stage of an ongoing Phase 2 study
Fort Collins, Colorado vaccine company, Inviragen, announced this week that it is advancing it’s investigational dengue vaccine, DENVax into the second stage of the ongoing Phase 2 clinical study, according More...
African Lab Rats, exploring the victims of the Bill Gates backed Meningitis Vaccine
While people talk of the tragedy of 20 elementary school children being shot down in Newtown, CT, perhaps we ought to also consider the tragedy of the other kind of “shots” … shots made by pharmaceutical More...
Bexsero, first Meningitis B vaccine, receives European Commission approval
Photo/CDC/ Debora Cartagena Switzerland-based pharmaceutical and health care company, Novartis announced this week that it’s Meningitis B vaccine, Bexsero, has received approval from the European Commission More...
Inviragen CEO, Dr. Dan Stinchcomb gives an update on the DENVax dengue fever vaccine
Photo/CDC/ Debora Cartagena It’s in the news on a regular basis these days, a dengue fever outbreak here, an epidemic there, even Europe experienced their first sustained transmission of dengue since the 1920′s More...
Obama Administration Seeking To Test Anthrax Vaccines On Children
CDC/ Debora Cartagena Just came across this little piece of news… and it kind of reminded me of when Hitler used children in gruesome experiments… A public meeting of the Presidential Commission for More...
Iowa health officials report an 350% increase in whooping cough cases in 2012
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported Friday that the state has seen 485 pertussis cases so far in 2012. This is up dramatically from the five-year average of 108 cases for the same time frame. Photo More...
