One of the public health successes of recent years, has been the vaccination campaign for meningitis C. Here is a graph of laboratory confirmed cases of serogroup C disease for England and Wales between 1998-99 to 2007-08.
Last April I noted here that there are around 500 people alive now, who would not have been if [...]
Here’s the motion:
That this House expresses its support for the use of the combined MMR vaccine; notes with concern the re-emergence of measles and the loss of life and long-term health problems which will afflict children as a result of the decline in the vaccination rate which followed Dr Andrew Wakefield’s now discredited research paper [...]
In another sign of the reactionary nature of the UK’s anti-vaccine movement, it appears that they are not beyond making snide comments about people’s sexuality. After the revelations by Brian Deer that Wakefield changed and misreported results in his research and the damning judgments of the quack science the anti-vaccine is based upon in the [...]
The hypothesis that vaccines are causally linked to autism was dealt another blow today in the US today. After the channeling of millions of dollars through lawyers, three judges have handed down their verdicts in three separate cases. The verdicts are here.
Arthur Allen writes about the cases and notes the judges devastating verdict on the [...]
In response to the comment by John Stone, here is a comment left at Left Brain Right Brain by Brian Deer:
There’s so much in what’s going on at the moment to disturb right-thinking people.
(1) It has become clear in recent days that networks of anti-MMR “campaigners” now quote each other’s website falsehoods, so as to [...]
This is a regrettable error, that should not have occurred.
Vanessa Hart had taken five-year-old daughter Ellie to Hollybrook Medical Centre for two jabs ahead of a holiday to the Dominican Republic.
The youngster had been due to be given injections against hepatitis A and typhoid during the appointment at the surgery last Thursday.
But when a nurse [...]
An important study in the UK looks at the occurance of adverse drug reactions in hospital in-inpatients. It’s a six month study of in-patients at a Liverpool hospital, and can be considered a follow-up on the study on ADRs seen at admission in the BMJ.
Over six months, there were a total of 3695 patient episodes [...]
Brian Deer has been investigating Andrew Wakefield, again.
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
Confidential medical documents and interviews with witnesses have established that Andrew Wakefield [...]