Daily News 2012-10-17

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The flu vaccine is ineffective, causes neurological adverse reactions, was CDC-recommended without evidence and people don’t want it by The Refusers

Kanawha judge dismisses W.Va. school vaccination lawsuit

Chapter Nineteen A LICENSE TO KILL? Mark Blaxill, MBA and Dan Olmsted (pdf) VACCINE EPIDEMIC Edited byLouise Kuo Habakus, MA and Mary Holland, JD with Kim Mack Rosenberg, JD Skyhorse Publishing How Corporate Greed, Biased Science, and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health, and Our Children

Over 2 mln vaccine doses halted in Italy for health concerns - 'No affected vaccine distributed' says health minister

Epidemic Answers Author Beth Lambert On Kids' Health - "Tex" interviews Beth Lambert, author of Epidemic Answers about the current state of pediatric health in America. Hint - it's not great, but you knew that.

Parents told not to worry after infant vaccine is recalled

NIH study shows drug fails to prevent preterm birth in high risk group - No benefit seen for progesterone drug for first-time mothers with a short cervix

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: Dispelling fear of vaccinations

Study claims low immunization rate for Houston adults

Louisville's polio battle joined 50 years ago - Sabin oral vaccine was given to 1.4 million across Jefferson

Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Announces Results of NicVAX(R) Phase II Study in Combination With Varenicline

Should You Go to the Drugstore for Your Flu Shots? - Yes, and for shingles and whooping cough, too.

Idaho State University College of Pharmacy to provide free flu vaccines to first 50 guests at Oct. 18 open house

Vaccine that prevents cervical cancer given at a young age

A Daily 40-Minute Junk Food Vaccine

Video contest held for immunization - Local doc wants teens to teach each other about vaccinations

Hry introduces pentavalent vaccine

Doctors: Vaccines a sure shot - Health officials say some diseases are re-emerging

EPI: Inclusion of vaccine against diarrhoea virus in jeopardy

Whooping cough reported in District 833 - District 833 has seen an increase in whooping cough, as it is commonly known,since last spring. A case was confirmed last week at Lake Middle School.

Why the Taliban hates polio vaccines

Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pakistan's Baluchistan province

Flu vaccine efficacy and use policy questioned in new report

Needle-Free Anthrax Vaccine Wins NIAID Contract

Chinese Markets for Vaccines

2 More Drugs May Be Linked To Meningitis Outbreak, FDA Says

Staphylococcus aureus Vaccines Session: Symposium: Vaccine-Preventable Healthcare-Associated Infections - Friday, October 19, 2012: 2:00 PM

GSK's Synflorix picked for mass vaccination in Pakistan

Vaccine Waivers, Informed Consent and Public Health

Shingles vaccine prevents painful disease in older adults

Global pork shortage will impact heparin supplies, says Rx360 - Heparin could be in short supply next year with higher feed prices and welfare costs forcing pig farmers to reduce the size of their herds.

We lost our kids for 5 years after wrongful ‘shaken baby’ conviction - Dread for dad jailed after saving daughter's life

NEWS SCAN: West Nile cases rebound, coronavirus case detailed, preventing bloodstream infections, polio worker killed, patient infection-control education

Fungal meningitis toll rises as feds raid pharmacy

Drug-resistant TB’s prevalence a growing concern

Abbott Suspends Gift-Giving To Docs In India by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot

Coca-Cola, Sanofi team for new line of "Beautific" drinks

EU health chief resigns in corruption scandal

TB fight making progress, but more funds needed: WHO

... of the WHO Stop TB Department emphasized at a press conference in Washington as the WHO released its annual report. The choice, said Kenneth Castro, of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at the same press conference, is to "pay now ...
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Study claims low immunization rate for Houston adults

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that the whooping cough is on the rise with the worst outbreak in 50 years. Half of the deaths reported nationally ... For 60 year olds a shingles vaccine is recommended. Baker said the chance for ...
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One million Pakistani children miss polio vaccination

Last year, a Pakistani doctor was jailed for helping the CIA track down al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden using a fake hepatitis vaccination programme, leading the Taliban to ban immunisation in some areas. WHO Senior Coordinator for Polio Vaccination Dr.
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One million Pakistani children miss polio vaccination

Almost one million Pakistani children were left out of a polio vaccination drive which ended Wednesday, officials said, as unrest and flooding limited access and some parents viewed the campaign as a Western "conspiracy". Data obtained by AFP showed ...
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Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pakistan's Baluchistan province

Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. Unidentified gunmen killed a polio vaccinator in Killi Jeo area of Quetta in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. The Taliban have banned immunizations in some areas, condemning the campaign ...
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Lawsuit challenging W.Va. vaccine rule dismissed

(AP) A judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that challenged new vaccine requirements for schoolchildren, ruling that the Department of Health and Human ...

Vaccine Waivers, Informed Consent and Public Health

By signing AB 2109 into law last month, Brown strengthened one of the nation's most permissive school immunization requirements. Under existing law, California parents could choose which vaccinations to reject simply by signing a form saying “all or ...
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Columbus continues to offer health services

Public Health offers immunizations the second and fourth Tuesday of the month from 1 to 4 pm. These are walk-in clinics with no appointment necessary. Parents or guardians should call to verify a child's eligibility for the clinics. WIC clinics are ...
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The HPV vaccine isn't a “license for teen sex”

Now, a new study from the Kaiser Permanent Center for Health Research-Southeast says girls who receive the HPV vaccine aren't more sexually active -- at least in the first three years after their shots. Researchers tracked 1,398 girls for 3 years ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Is the HPV vaccine safe?

Researchers looked at the records of 200,000 girls and young women who received Gardisil, the HPV vaccine, and found that the vaccine was safe. "HPV is protective and is generally a good thing to do and a safe thing to do for your children," Dr ...
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Cruise Ship Crewmember Dies from Meningitis Infection

Meningococcal meningitis, which attacks the lining of the brain and the spinal cord, is passed by close contact with respiratory secretions or saliva, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The U.S. Customer Care team for MSC has posted on ...
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7th fungal meningitis case confirmed in Minnesota

One day after an investigation began into two more drugs from the pharmacy linked to a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak, health officials in Minnesota are urging 129 clinics in the state to contact patients who received any injection made by the New ...
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Meningitis number rises locally

MARION - Four Marion County residents who received potentially contaminated pain injections in two Marion clinics show symptoms of fungal meningitis, a Marion Public Health spokeswoman said. "We have confirmed we do have four patients that have met ...
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The Morning Leverage: Meningitis Outbreak Puts a Deal on Hold

The planned acquisition of private equity-backed drug-compounding company Pharmedium Healthcare Corp. by Baxter International is on hold until there's more clarity on the possible regulatory outfall from a meningitis outbreak tied to New England ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)

Meningitis cases reach 16 in Maryland

Another fungal meningitis case has been reported in Maryland, bringing the total number of infections tied to tainted steroids in the state to 16. The tally has doubled over the past week, and it has nearly doubled nationwide as well, according to the CDC.
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What contaminated the steroid injections involved in US meningitis outbreak?

Or did the contamination of steroid injections tied to a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak ride in on one of the ingredients? There are lots of ways fungus could have gotten inside the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose injections has been ...
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Roundup: HPV Vaccine Doesn't Lead to Promiscuity; Condom Use Low Among ...

The HPV vaccines that are currently available—Gardasil and Cervarix—protect young women (and men) from initial infection with certain strains of human papillomavirus. Both Gardasil and Cervarix are approved for the prevention of infections with HPV ...
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RH Reality Check (blog)

HPV vaccine proven not to increase sexual activity in girls

Advertisement. The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine known as Gardasil was shown to have little if no affect on the sexual activity of teen aged girls in a study published online on October 15, 2012, in the journal Pediatrics. The Centers for Disease ...
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Study: HPV vaccine does not lead to increased sexual activity

In 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all girls ages 11 to 12 receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. The American Academy of Pediatrics also recommends the HPV vaccine for ...
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Whooping cough reported in District 833

However, a new illness has found its way into the community – pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough. A case of whooping cough was confirmed last week at Lake Middle School. The symptoms. Since January of last year a total of 160 whooping ...
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Kanawha judge dismissed lawsuit that claimed DHHR's new vaccine ...

A Kanawha County judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed new vaccination requirements for schoolchildren are illegal. Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman says in a ...

Rotary Fight Polio With $75m

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL plans to contribute $75 million over three years to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The move forms part of a worldwide effort to close a $945 million funding gap that threatens to derail the 24 year-old global health ...
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Daily Guide

Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions

Oscar-worthy: Actor John Hawkes Searches for Love in The Sessions. After his first Oscar nomination in 2011, Hawkes skipped the fortune and used his new fame to make a low budget movie about a polio survivor who hires a sex surrogate to deflower him.
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TIME

Why the Taliban hates polio vaccines

A polio vaccinator was gunned down in Pakistan's Baluchistan province Tuesday, highlighting tensions between local health officials' push to stem the region's polio epidemic and the attempts by Pakistani Taliban commanders to ban vaccinations. A team ...
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Shingles vaccine prevents painful disease in older adults

The shingles virus remains dormant in the nervous system of anyone who had chickenpox. Later in life, when the immune system is more compromised, the virus may reappear in the form of shingles, a painful inflammation of sensory nerves. The vaccine is ...
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The HPV vaccine and teen sex

October 15, 2012|Steve Chapman. A new study of 2,000 girls, half of whom got the HPV vaccine and half of whom didn't, should dispel the fear that getting the vaccine will encourage teenage girls to have sex. (Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel, McClatchy-Tribune) ...
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Meningitis Outbreak: 2 More Drugs Probed

Two other drugs made by the New England Compounding Center (NECC) appear to be involved in the fatal meningitis outbreak that has now claimed the lives of 15 people in as many states, the FDA announced Monday. The FDA said today it is investigating ...
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ABC News

Free Download - Gardasil: A License to Kill

According to the publishers: "Gardasil is the newest childhood vaccine to be licensed by the FDA and recommended for universal use by the CDC. Judge for yourself whether this 'public-private partnership' prioritizes the best interests of our children ...
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Does study prove HPV vaccine doesn't increase sexual activity in girls?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics, recommend HPV shots for girls and boys at age 11 or 12, before they ever have sex. Some opponents of the vaccine have said they think it will encourage ...
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Palm Beach Post (blog)

Over 400 children vaccinated against measles in Cuangar

Menongue – Over 400 children were vaccinated against measles in Cuangar Municipality, south-eastern Kuando Kubango Province, throughout the current month, in the ambit of the Broad Vaccination Programme (PAV). Speaking Wednesday to ANGOP, the ...
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As flu season approaches, officials urge vaccinations

Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported only minimal flu activity across the country during its first week of tracking numbers, local officials say it is important to get that vaccine as soon as possible. "It's the single ...
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Chattanooga Times Free Press

Infanrix Hexa Vaccination Recalled by GSK; Bacteria Found In It

Infanrix hexa vaccine is commonly given to babies as part of the federal government's National Immunisation Program, within six months of their birth for preventing diseases as whooping cough, diphtheria, hepatitis B, haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib ...
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TopNews Arab Emirates

Childhood Immunizations: A Call to Public Health to Pump up Parent ...

What will it take to convince parents wary of vaccine safety that the public health community's efforts (and the public health laws and recommendations) are for ...
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Parents told not to worry after infant vaccine is recalled

He said there was no need for parents to worry because the vaccines had been subjected to stringent testing which found no trace of the bacteria. Furthermore, there had been no change in adverse reactions in babies linked to the vaccine. ''This is ...
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Brisbane Times

Polio immunization efforts must center on Pakistan, Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, more than three times as many polio cases occurred in 2011 as in 2010; in Pakistan, wild poliovirus (WPV) cases increased by 37% in 2011 compared with 2010, the CDC reported. However, health officials have seen some progress in 2012 in ...
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Pakistan polio worker shot dead in Quetta

Gunmen have killed a member of a polio vaccination team in the western Pakistani city of Quetta. The team were administering polio drops to under-fives on the city outskirts when attackers on a motorcycle opened fire. One worker was fatally injured and ...
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BBC News

New Study Shows HPV Shot Doesn't Encourage Sexual Activity in Girls

Preteen girls who received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine were no more likely than unvaccinated girls to get pregnant, develop sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), or seek birth-control counseling. These were the findings of a new study, ...
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Study: HPV vaccine does not lead to sexual promiscuity

Here at The Public's Health last week, Nan Feyler discussed the underused human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and asked whether we should, like many other vaccines, mandate it for school entry. Some critics of the vaccine have expressed concern that its ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)

Local patients face heightened meningitis alert

Those facilities received medication from a supplier whose products are implicated in a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis – brain inflammation – and now could be tied to other types of infections. At first, concerns were limited to people who ...
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Meningitis outbreak: 129 Minnesota clinics used drugs from firm tied to ...

Laboratory technician Ruth Rutledge packages cerebrospinal fluid of three confirmed meningitis cases in Minnesota to send to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further testing. Officials have tied the outbreak of rare fungal ...
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Lawmakers call for probe of meningitis-linked firm

BOSTON Two members of Congress have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether a specialty pharmacy linked to a nationwide meningitis outbreak violated any federal laws or regulations. The number of illnesses associated with ...
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Does the HPV Vaccine Promote Promiscuous Behavior in Teenage Girls?

Gardasil vaccination has been promoted by health authorities and the CDC for the past six years as prophylactic protection against infection by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) that can lead to cervical cancer, abnormal pap smears and genital warts in ...
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eMaxHealth

Why?, Mumps, Etc.

Dropping dark limericks is a staple in Why?'s music. But the Ohio band's 2012 full-length, Mumps, Etc., trades guitar riffs for hand clapping and punchy percussion. Yet no matter how peppy the 13-track album's instrumentation may sound, it's not a ...
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Boise Weekly

Progressive Commentary Hour – 10/15/12 | Progressive Radio ...

Interview with Andrew Wakefield about the MMR vaccine. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (13.4MB) | Embed · Print Friendly Print Get a PDF version of ...
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Shingles Vaccine Prevents Painful Disease in Older Adults

Shingles, which originates from the same virus as the childhood disease chickenpox, can severely impact quality of life for weeks or months. Lead study author, Anna Gagliardi, Ph.D., professor of geriatrics and gerontology at Federal University in Sao ...
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Health Behavior News Service

Study On Pneumonia Vaccines To Be Conducted At Higher Dosage

Scientists recently revealed that they plan to study the pneumococcal vaccines in older adults to determine if there's a strong immune response due to a higher dosage of the vaccine. The study, funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) as well ...
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RedOrbit

Pneumococcal vaccine to be tested in older adults

Pneumococcal vaccine to be tested in older adults. A new study funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) in the US is set to look into whether or not a higher dose of a pneumococcal vaccine will create a stronger immune response in older adults.
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New recommendations out for pneumococcal vaccine in high-risk adults

ATLANTA — The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has updated its recommendations for pneumococcal vaccine in high-risk adults. ACIP now recommends the use of 13-valent pneumococcal ...
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US meningitis outbreak claims another life with death in Virginia

(Reuters) - The U.S. meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections has claimed another life with the death of a patient in Virginia, bringing the death toll to 16, the Virginia Department of Health said in a statement on Tuesday. A ...
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Tests show husband of Howell meningitis victim doesn't have disease

George Cary, 65, of Howell, who, along with his wife, Lilian Cary, received steroid injections for pain on different dates at the same clinic, said the results of a spinal tap showed he does not have meningitis. "Though I'm hopeful they reported me in ...
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Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Reaches 233 Cases, US CDC Says

The fungal meningitis outbreak triggered by a contaminated medication for back pain has been linked to 16 deaths in the U.S. after Virginia authorities said today that a second patient had died in the state. Earlier today, 233 illnesses has been ...
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Study: HPV vaccine doesn't make girls more sexually active

According to researchers at Emory University and Kaiser Permanente, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil does not increase sexual activity in young girls. The results of the independent research project were published online today in the ...
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The Bell Jar

Intermediate School Warns of Possible Whooping Cough Case

"This afternoon, our School District received notification that there is one possible case of Pertussis, or whooping cough, at the Intermediate School. The School District immediately contacted the Cape May County Health Department and was informed ...
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Over 18000 kids miss anti-polio drops in Orakzai

However, the upper parts of the tribal region, including Mamozai, Arghanjo, Buttakhel, Jandari Killay, Mirqalamkhel, Naeka Ziarat Killay, Audokhel, Jabba and Zafar Garhi, remained inaccessible for polio teams due to violence.They added the polio teams ...
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'Anti-polio volunteer shot dead in Quetta'

A 19-year old anti-polio campaign volunteer was reported to have been shot dead in Balochistan because of the provincial government's failure to provide security to such teams. Business Recorder learnt that 19-year-old Imran was working as a volunteer ...
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Polio vaccination campaign: Teams call off boycott after colleague's son ...

The prospects for the three-day polio campaign in Gulberg town looked dim just a day before it was set to begin. Asifa Asad, a vaccinator who is in-charge of the campaign for UC-8, created a ruckus on Saturday at the campaign's inauguration, at which ...
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The Express Tribune

HPV Vaccine Does Not Increase Sex | BlackDoctor

Adolescent girls who get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine are no more likely to show signs they may be engaging in sexual activity than girls who do not get the vaccine, according to a new study that challenges a widely held belief.
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HPV vaccine gets behaviour tick

A study showing that vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is not linked with increased sexual activity amongst teenage girls…
Family Edge

HPV Vaccines, Promiscuous Sex & Young Girls // Pharmalot

“If HPV vaccination was 'a license for sex,' we would have expected to see more adverse outcomes shortly after vaccination, when the girls were more aware of their recent vaccination status,” the authors write. They noted, though, that “most ...
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Study: HPV vaccine doesn't encourage teen sex - AMERICAblog

The HPV vaccine does not send teenage girls out seeking sex, contrary to the protests of some parents who worried about immunizing young girls against a sexually transmitted virus, researchers reported Monday.While several surveys of ...
AMERICAblog

Breaking news: HPV vaccine does NOT make you more “promiscuous”

Why would anyone oppose a vaccine that could protect people from the human papillomavirus and, ultimately cervical cancer? Well, there's intellectual heavy weight and amateur scientist Michele Bachmann, who claims the vaccine causes ...
Feministing

ESPN child-death threat suspect pleads not guilty to weapon charge

Yee's attorney, David Wallin, said he wore it because he has chickenpox. Yee was arrested in September at his Valencia home for allegedly writing in an ESPN blog post that he was "watching kids and did not mind murdering them." Detectives said the man ...
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abc7.com

HPV vaccine not tied to increased promiscuity for girls

2012 - Preteen girls who received the HPV vaccine were no more likely than unvaccinated girls to get pregnant, develop sexually transmitted infections, or seek birth-control counseling, finds the latest study to discount concerns that vaccination ...
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Meningitis: What You Need to Know

MASON, Ohio — The following is an opinion editorial by Dr. Barry Malinowski, Medical Director, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio: By now you've likely heard or read headlines about the latest outbreak of meningitis that has led to, at latest ...
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Column: Don't panic about Meningitis

People watching the frightening news about meningitis on TV need to understand that though it can take weeks to develop symptoms, they can not get sick unless they have received an injection of methylprednisolone (a steroid) or another medication (two ...
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WSU student with meningitis upgraded to stable condition

A Washington State University student hospitalized with what health officials say is bacterial meningitis is in stable condition, college officials said this morning. The 19-year-old Seattle native is a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. “He's still ...
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19 more meningitis cases linked to steroid injections

7:32PM EDT October 16. 2012 - Nineteen more cases of fungal meningitis infections related to contaminated steroid injections were reported Tuesday, bringing the national total to 233 in 15 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
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Feds raid Massachusetts lab tied to meningitis outbreak

BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal agents on Tuesday raided the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 15 people and sickened more than 200 others, federal prosecutors said. Agents from the U.S. Food and Drug ...
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HPV vaccination not associated with increased sexual activity among girls

ATLANTA, October 15, 2012 – The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine known as Gardasil is not associated with an increase in pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, or contraceptive counseling, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published ...
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The HPV vaccine won't turn your daughters into tramps

Six years after its approval, the vaccination rate for Gardasil is still very low – around 34 percent — thanks in large part to the drug's public image problem. A Yale study, for instance, found the concern over “promiscuity risk” was the single ...
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Time to arm ourselves for flu season

And there is plenty of vaccine to go around. ... In its vaccination recommendations published last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics urged physicians to vaccinate such close contacts, including parents and day care center workers. “You're ...
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Conservatives' HPV vaccine dilemma: are they anti-cancer, or just anti-sex?

Various political organizations have advocated against the tetanus vaccine, arguing that tetanus shots send the message that recreation is acceptable, and that if children know they're protected from lockjaw, they will be less vigilant about avoiding ...
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The Guardian

Abnormal Pap Smear - After Gardasil Shots

So I recently had the results bad of my first pap smear, im only 20, and have a few abnormalities. I have had my three gardasil shots about three or.
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Mercury rising again

The law bans the use of vaccines formulated with more than 1.25 micrograms of the preservative thimerosal, which contains small amounts of mercury, ...

Parents told not to worry after infant vaccine is recalled

... about this issue should talk to their immunisation provider or other health professional.'' Any adverse events following immunisation should be reported to the GlaxoSmithKline Medical Information department on 1800 033 109 and state health departments.
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Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Quetta

QUETTA: Unknown gunmen on Tuesday killed a polio vaccinator in Quetta, highlighting resistance to the country's immunisation campaign, officials said. The shooting happened in the Killi Jeo area of the provincial capital a day after a three-day ...
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The Express Tribune

chicken pox

Now we are holding off while the babies are babies. I question how much immunity a BF infant will develop on their own if they're also getting some of mom's immunity through milk. Anyone know? I do know a kid who caught chicken pox at 9 months from a ...
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Health Officials Recommend Shots Before Flu Season Arrives

A CDC map doesn't show the seasonal flu taking hold in Vermont quite yet, but Vermont's Immunization Program Director Christine Finley says it's not too early to guard against it. "You never know when it's going to hit and so as we begin to see an ...
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HPV Vaccine Not Linked to Promiscuity in Girls

Genital HPV, or human papillomavirus, is a sexually transmitted infection. Gardasil, an HPV vaccine approved in 2006, and Cervarix, a second HPV vaccine approved in 2009, target the two types of the virus that cause about 70% of cervical cancers ...
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Experts say the story behind meningitis outbreak may be one of dirty shoes or ...

There are lots of ways fungus could have gotten inside the Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose steroid medication has been linked to a lethal outbreak of a rare fungal form of meningitis. The outbreak has killed at least 15 people and sickened ...
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New Evidence Demolishes Claims of Safety and Effectiveness of HPV Vaccine

The first, Gardasil, was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006. It is now recommended as a routine vaccination for girls and women between the ages of 9-26 in the US. On October 25, 2011, the CDC's Advisory Committee on ...
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Study: HPV Vaccine Not Linked to Increased Promiscuity

The HPV vaccine is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics for all children at age 11 or 12. The vaccination is generally delivered in three shots over six months and is intended to be ...
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Slate Magazine (blog)

Surprise -- HPV vaccine doesn't make good girls go bad

The CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend the HPV vaccine for girls and boys as young as age 11. When California in 2007 debated a bill requiring girls to get the vaccine, Republican state Sen. George Runner argued that the money ...
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Free Flu Shots Offered Nov. 7 at Southampton Hospital

She also recommends asking about the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination, because a pertussis infection coupled with the flu can cause more severe diseases, especially in young children. People with severe chicken egg allergies, a history of ...
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Doctors say whooping cough outbreak serious, vaccine important

The newer vaccine, Tdap ---- for tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis -- is available for adolescents and adults as a booster to the primary childhood series and costs between $50-80. Torres and Letson recommend adults over the age of 65 and ...
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Travelers to Sydney urged to be immunized against measles

Australian health authorities recently issued a warning that people wishing to visit the state of New South Wales, and the Sydney area in particular, should be properly vaccinated against measles. The Australian Center for Disease Control said that ...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)

Flu shots safe for kids with egg allergies

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reviewed studies of the use of trivalent inactivated vaccine (TIV) for persons with egg allergy and examined Vaccine Adverse Event ...
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Flu shot clinic set for Oct. 24 in Berryville

While there is very little flu activity thus far in this part of the state, the Centers for Disease Control recommends that everyone age 6 months or older receive a flu shot. Flu activity is ... There are very few medical reasons to avoid the flu ...
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