This information comes from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency of the UK Government. Suspected Adverse Reaction Analysis CERVARIX Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine 04 December 2008 This report summarises the adverse...
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Mass vaccination with Cervarix vaccine has been delayed in Scotland. Dr. Diane Harper, director of the Gynaecological Cancer Research Group at Dartmouth Medical Center in the US, who in fact was paid by GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer’s...
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About Cervarix More than 1 in 10 doses may cause pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, headache, aching muscles and muscle weakness, and tiredness. More than 1 in 100 doses may cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain...
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She loved SpaghettiO’s, pepperoni, lilies, listening to her iPod and making her pals laugh. In her senior yearbook, she wrote, “The best things in life aren’t things, they’re friends.” Now that’s the quote...
Read more Further Update – 13 June 2008 Gardasil is only licensed for use in females aged between 9 and 26 years old. Yet 14 of the VAERS reports were for children younger than 9 and there were 73 adverse event reports for those older than 26. These...
Read moreThis week sees the publication of the updated Cochrane systematic review on the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir and zanamivir.1 Through their exhaustive scrutiny of the data contained in clinical study reports (the lengthy documents held by...
Read moreA teenage girl left disabled by the swine flu treatment Tamiflu did not even have the virus, it was revealed today. Samantha Millard, 19, became critically ill after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the tablets, which she took on the...
Read moreA teenager is critically ill after taking the swine flu treatment Tamiflu prescribed by the Government’s controversial helpline. Samantha Millard, 18, was told she had the virus after describing her symptoms to staff with no medical...
Read moreIt’s ridiculous. In a five hour shift I answered the phone four times. Altogether there are about 400 of us in this newly organised centre – we’re all being paid £6 an hour, and we’re practically doing nothing. We sit around reading...
Read moreMore than half of children taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares, research suggests. An estimated 150,000 people with flu symptoms were prescribed the drug through a new hotline and website last...
Read moreTAMIFLU, one of the two drugs being used to combat swine flu, has been linked to suicidal behaviour in young people and has been ineffective at treating the current strain of human flu in the United States. In Japan — the world’s biggest...
Read moreAfter treating 41 victims of H5N1, the deadly form of the bird flu virus, a Vietnamese doctor has concluded Tamiflu, the drug most widely stockpiled around the world to combat a feared pandemic, is “useless.” Dr. Nguyen Tuong Van, who...
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