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Flu Vaccine Providing Less Protection
Getting a flu shot may not provide as much protection as you think this season. The Centers for Disease Control has reported a rise in resistance to oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Of the 350 influenza isolates...
View ArticleVaccine Antibody Shows Promise for Ovarian Cancer and Melanoma
In a recent study, researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that giving patients with advanced melanoma or ovarian cancer that have been immunized with a GVAX vaccine, periodic infusions...
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WA Student Dies From MRSA
Chris Feden, a 20-year-old student from Tenino, Washington, has died from complications of pneumonia caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus commonly referred to as MRSA. Feden, a student...
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Changes to Next Season’s Flu Vaccine
To keep up with the latest influenza outbreaks caused by strains that are not included in the current vaccine, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recommended that producers...
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Flu Shots for All Children Recommended
The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently voted to extend its recommendations for annual flu shots for children. Current recommendations cover children aged 6 months to 5 years...
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Vaccine – Autism Link, Afterall?
Officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have agreed that vaccines administered to a 9-year old girl contributed to her condition. Hannah Poling of Athens, GA, and her family may...
View Article$2,000 For Exposure to Malaria
Seattle volunteers will be paid an estimated $2,000 or more to hold a paper cup containing mosquitoes infected with malaria against their arm, waiting for the insects to bite to test the effectiveness...
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Women Given GARDASIL Have Fewer Abnormal Pap Smears
A new study shows that the HPV vaccine, GARDASIL, reduced abnormal Pap test results by 43 percent compared to women not given the vaccine. GARDASIL is FDA approved against the human papilloma virus...
View ArticleOne Step Closer to the Cause of Autism
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center are one step closer to understanding the cause of Autism. Approximately 1 in every 150 children is diagnosed with Autism in the United States. Autism is a...
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Merck Seeks GARDASIL Approval for Older Women
Merck & Co., Inc., has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted and designated as priority a review of GARDASIL, a vaccine against types 6, 11, 16, and 18 of the human...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Vaccine Reduces Mortality
Researchers at Brooke Army Medical Center reported yesterday at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research that clinical trials are indicating their HER2 peptide E75...
View ArticleMore Than 20 Percent Of U.S. Children Aren’t Properly Immunized
Parents, caregivers and healthcare providers have spent the past week learning more about the benefits of infant immunization through an awareness program launched by the U.S. Department of Health and...
View ArticleOver 60? New Shingles Vaccine Highly Recommended
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly recommend a new vaccine, Zostavax, for anyone age 60 or older. The vaccine reduces the incidence of painful shingles, also known as herpes...
View ArticleUnder-vaccinating your child by choice?
The Centers for Disease Control issued a statement that indicated 20 percent of our 2-year-olds are under-vaccinated. ABC News and others reported on the announcement, saying that kids are missing...
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Montezuma’s Revenge No Threat to New Vaccine
Travelers to Mexico and many other locations around the world are warned to beware of Montezuma’s revenge and don’t drink the water. Doctors refer to Montezuma’s revenge as travelers’ diarrhea and it...
View ArticleNew Vaccine May Be Keeping Childhood Rotavirus at Bay
Rotavirus causes vomiting and diarrhea in the youngest children and can often be severe enough to warrant hospitalization. It can be even worse. Each day, 1,600 children around the world under the...
View ArticleDid Gardasil Cause Jenny’s Paralysis?
Jenny was a healthy, happy 13-year-old from Northern California until about 15 months ago when signs of muscle deterioration began appearing. At that time, she’d also completed the third and final...
View ArticleHIV Vaccine Study Halted as Too Logistically Complex
A vaccine that will prevent infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is thought to be the best hope for ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic sweeping the globe and the Vaccine Research Center (VRC)...
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Flu Vaccine Seems Less Effective for Elderly
The final results of a study involving thousands of male and female pneumonia patients, aged from 65 to 94, has revealed a questionable degree of benefit of annual influenza vaccinations in the elderly...
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FDA Announces Selection of This Season’s Flu Vaccine
The typical vaccination for influenza contains three strains of the influenza virus, carefully chosen to bring the greatest relief to the largest audience. One or two of those virus strains changes...
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Gardasil Administration Best to Focus on Young Women
During 2007, more than 11,000 women in the United States were diagnosed with cervical cancer. Another 3,600 women died from it. The recently introduced Gardasil vaccine is expected to reduce the...
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More Measles in 2008 Than Previous Decade
Between January and July of this year, 131 cases of measles have been reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One single outbreak in Illinois affected 30 individuals but...
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Bird Flu Vaccine Ready to License
The biotechnology research firm, Novavax, announced impressive results in a human trial of the vaccine it is developing for the H5N1, or Indonesian, strain of bird flu discovered in 2005. This...
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Vaccine Allergies No Reason to Shun Childhood Inoculation
Measles, mumps, and whooping cough outbreaks have been reported in the United States in recent months. In other countries, children have become ill with the measles and polio. All these diseases,...
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Measles Vaccine Cleared of Autism Charges
With the hope of putting to rest the question, posed in 1998, that the widely used childhood measles vaccine is linked to gastrointestinal (GI) illness that heralds the onset of autism, researchers at...
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Flu Vaccination Does Not Prevent Death in Elderly?
Many people think getting a flu vaccination will protect them from getting the flu and, by extension, reduce the number of deaths attributed to an influenza outbreak. New research, however, reveals...
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FDA Expands Gardasil’s Cancer-Preventing Uses
In 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the vaccine, Gardasil, for girls and women between the ages of 9 and 26 as a means of preventing cervical cancer caused by the human...
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CDC Says One in Four Girls Now Vaccinated Against Cancer
In the first government-backed survey conducted since Gardasil, the vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV), made its market debut in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
View ArticleNew Vaccine May Speed Eradication of Malaria
Oh, mosquitoes! Everybody hates them. They buzz, they bite, they itch, and they’ve ruined as many picnics as those pesky ants have. Mosquitoes are much worse than a mere nuisance, however. They...
View ArticleUniversal Flu Vaccine Breakthrough
Producing a vaccine for influenza is a tricky business. Global trends must be analyzed, three separate strains of the flu virus must be chosen, and enough vaccine prepared months in advance of flu...
View ArticleCourt: Vaccination Does Not Cause Autism
After more than a year of emotionally charged testimonies, the US Court of Federal Claims has determined that routine childhood vaccination does not cause autism. The ruling is the result of three...
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Iowa Autism Activists Continue Seeking Ban on Mercury in Vaccines
A suspected link between childhood vaccines and autism was thought by many to be dispelled by a federal court ruling last week that declared no link between the two. Autism activists in Iowa aren’t...
View ArticleEgg Allergies Make Flu Vaccines Risky
This year’s influenza (flu) season is off to a late but vigorous start, with some areas being so hard hit that medical experts are reminding people that it’s still not too late to get a flu shot....
View ArticleColon Cancer Vaccine in Human Trials Stage
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have enlisted at least a dozen people to take part in the study of a vaccine against colon cancer. Still in the experimental stage of development, the...
View ArticleUnvaccinated Students Putting Others at Risk
(MedHeadlines) – Parents nervous about the safety of vaccinations for their children may be causing a new problem: the comeback of their grandparents’ childhood diseases, reports a new study from the...
View ArticleNearly half of children under 2 years of age receive some vaccinations late
(MedHeadlines) - In a new study published today in JAMA Pediatrics (formerly Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine), Kaiser Permanente researchers found that 49 percent of children ages 2-24...
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