Media Dismisses Legitimate Concerns About Vaccines
Opinion | I am sorry to say I found the recent Orlando Sentinel editorial “Florida should end religious exemptions to measles vaccine”1 to be really crass and heartless in tone. Tired points were once again trotted out (movement stems from “false” study in The Lancet, no link between autism and vaccines, Jenny McCarthy’s “propaganda,” anti-vaxxers […]
FDA Licenses Dengvaxia Vaccine After Students Die in Philippines
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on May 1, 2019 its licensing approval of Sanofi Pasteur’s Dengvaxia vaccine, which was designed to prevent a mosquito borne viral infection known as dengue fever.1 Symptoms of dengue range from mild (or none at all) to high fever along with headache, body pain, nausea, vomiting and […]
Dentists in Oregon Are Vaccinators Now
Governor Kate Brown of Oregon signed a bill on May 6, 2019 that will allow dentists in that state to administer vaccinations. House Bill 2220, which passed Oregon’s House of Representatives on Mar. 28, 2019 and Senate on Apr. 25, will make it possible for dentists to give vaccines, including MMR, HPV and annual flu […]
Hundreds of Children in Pakistan Hospitalized After Getting Oral Polio Vaccine
Hundreds of children in Peshawar, Pakistan were taken to hospitals suffering from nausea and vomiting after receiving the live attenuated oral polio vaccine (OPV) on Apr. 22, 2019. The vaccinations were part of a nationwide anti-polio campaign. The incident sparked an attack against a local health facility in Peshawar by angry parents. It also led […]
Influencing the Medical Establishment | Dr. Peter Rost
Everybody that I’ve encountered in my former career as a pharmaceutical executive are out there with their hands out. Everybody’s begging for money. Nobody has any money. The government doesn’t have any money. Universities don’t have money. The only ones that have money are these big multinational corporations. And they have lots of money. And […]
Effectiveness of Measles Vaccine Questioned in South Sudan
Story Highlights Children who have received MMR vaccinations are contracting measles, and parents and health care workers in South Sudan have raised questions regarding the effectiveness of the measles vaccine since vaccinated children are contracting the disease. Severe acute malnourishment (SAM) is common among children in war-torn South Sudan, which compromises their immune systems. Although […]