Investigation Questions Gardasil Clinical Trial Safety Data
While Merck & Co. and many health authorities share the view that the benefits of the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), Gardasil, outweigh the risks, an eight-month investigation by medical journalist Frederick Joelving, which was published by the online magazine Slate, confirms…
New Typhoid Fever Vaccine Prequalified by WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified the first conjugate vaccine for typhoid fever. The new typhoid fever vaccine, Typbar-TCV, is produced by Bharat Biotech International of Hyderabad, India. Prequalification means that the vaccine meets the WHO’s “acceptable standards of quality, safety and efficacy” and will now be available to be purchased by…
New Human Fetal Cell Line Available for Vaccine Production
Since the 1960s, a number of vaccines have been manufactured using “human-diploid fibroblast cell cultures”—cells from tissue of aborted human fetuses.1 2 3 4 5 They include the following 11 vaccines listed on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary table: Adenovirus; DTaP-IPV/Hib (Pentacel); DTaP-IPV (Quadracel); Hep A…
Safety of Childhood Vaccination Schedule Still Unproven
Recently, an article by Joanna Nix was published in Mother Jones magazine titled “There is a Whole Cottage Industry of Doctors Helping Parents Skip Their Kids’ Vaccines”. The aim of the piece appears to be to attack and try to discredit physicians who exercise professional judgment and provide medical vaccine exemptions for children they conclude may be at increased risk for harm…
Why is Informed Consent to Vaccination a Human Right?
Civil liberties. They include the legal right to exercise freedom of thought, speech, conscience, and religious belief. Autonomy. Protection of autonomy and bodily integrity includes the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk taking. What is informed consent? Informed consent means you have the legal right to be fully and accurately informed about […]
Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness a ‘Dismal 10 Percent’
On Feb. 26, 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated the effectiveness of the vaccine against the predominant influenza A H3N2 viruses for the 2014-2015 season at 18 percent—a level reportedly described by CDC researchers as having “little to no efficacy.”
