The 21st Century Cures Act | Barbara Loe Fisher
NVIC: 21st Century Cures Act Will Lower FDA Drug Licensing Standards
The non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) says the proposed 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6) will endanger the public health by lowering scientific and informed consent standards used by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to license experimental biological products (vaccines), drugs and medical devices in order to expedite delivery to the U.S. market.
Sanofi Nears Launch of World’s First Dengue Vaccine
After 20 years of research and development on a vaccine against the mosquito-borne viral disease known as dengue, pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur SA of France has now produced a vaccine it believes will be both effective and extremely profitable, according to The Financial Times. In a recent article, the newspaper quoted Sanofi Pasteur’s chief executive, Olivier Charmeil, as saying, “The dengue vaccine will be in the high end of profitability among our vaccines.”
DDT and the Rise and Fall of Polio
I love watching old black and white newsreels from the first half of the 20th century. It’s a fascinating period of history, and it’s one of the few in which we can go back and revisit almost as if we were there. There was a span of years immediately after World War II, however, that is particularly interesting, because it doesn’t normally get a lot of attention, compared to the war years and the “the fabulous ’50s.”
HPV Progression | Dr. Diane Harper
Pfizer Vaccines: From Cradle to Grave
The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Pfizer, Inc. of New York has been significantly expanding its vaccines product line. In a press briefing on July 21, 2015, Pfizer officials expressed their company’s plans to have vaccines to help protect people “from cradle to grave, from shots for pregnant women to protect their babies from the moment of birth to vaccines…