The Center for Biologics
Evaluation & Research intramural research programs in vaccines will
be the subject of a Nov. 18 meeting of FDAs Vaccines & Related
Biological Products Advisory Committee.
The committee will hear about research programs in the Office of
Vaccines Research & Reviews Laboratory of Enteric and Sexually
Transmitted Diseases.
The meeting will be held as a teleconference conference call from
1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The public may listen to the call in Building
29B Conference Room C on the National Institutes of Healths main
campus in Bethesda, Md.
The meeting will be closed from 3-3:30 p.m. to permit discussion
where disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of
privacy.
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MATERIAL CONTAINED, PRESENTED, OR PROVIDED HERE IS FOR GENERAL INFORMATION
PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS REFLECTING THE KNOWLEDGE OR OPINIONS
OF THE PUBLISHER, AND IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED OR INTENDED AS PROVIDING MEDICAL OR
LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION WHETHER OR NOT TO VACCINATE IS AN IMPORTANT AND
COMPLEX ISSUE AND SHOULD BE MADE BY YOU, AND YOU ALONE, IN CONSULTATION WITH
YOUR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.
"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth."
-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
"Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?"