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BLFisher Note: The key question here is whether the study
is metholodogically sound; what criteria will be used for dismissing the deaths
that do occur following vaccination as “coincidental;” who are the principal
investigators and who do they work for; whether the study or its investigators
will have any association with government or industry during the funding,
planning, implementation, review or publishing stages; and whether study data
and results will be open to public
oversight and review.
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Thursday May 24 05:56 PM EDT
Healthcast: Study To Monitor Vaccinations
A lot has been said about childhood vaccinations over the
years, and some of it has not been good news, WTAE-TV medical editor Marilyn
Brooks reports.
A multi-center national study is trying to determine
whether those vaccines might be a cause for worry when given to premature
infants.
The study might reveal the first conclusive evidence of
whether premature babies who receive the DPT vaccine are more at risk for
breathing and heart problems.
American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that the DPT and
HIB vaccine be given to all 2-month-old babies.
So far, doctors have found that the premature babies are
tolerating the vaccine very well.
In the past, several physicians have reported severe
breathing problems, low heart rates and low oxygen levels in preterm infants
who have received immunizations. That makes some pediatricians nervous about
giving the shots to tiny babies.
When these pre-term babies are vaccinated, they’re not
just watched by the nurses, they are monitored by a memory monitoring machine.
It records all the breathing, oxygen and heart-rate events before and after the
immunization. That information is then passed onto the American SIDS Institute
in Atlanta for analysis.
Researchers will study 200 premature infants at six
designated centers.
It will take a year to reach a final conclusion, but early
results suggest that the vaccines are safe for the majority of babies.
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