A new preliminary study suggests that giving Hepatitis B vaccine to newborn baby boys triples the associated risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder. The study is reportedin the newsletter The Age of Autism. The study is reported in the September, 2009 issue of the journal Annals of Epidemiology.
According to researchers, [...]

The Canadian Globe and Mail reported Monday on a new study from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Laval University, according to the Globe the study, “… confounded infectious-disease experts in suggesting that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to catch swine flu.”
The study is “under review ” and researchers [...]

The effectiveness of the flu vaccine is gamble. Months before the flu season, officials at the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services take a guess as to what flu virus strain will hit in the coming winter. Even if they quess right, the effectiveness of the vaccine has been [...]

The consumer member of the FDA Vaccine safety review committee gave a thumbs down on approval of the new rotavirus vaccine (Rotarix) for infants. The vaccine is for diarrhea caused by the rotavirus.
Vicky Debold as registered nurse and Ph. D was not convinced that the clinical trials of the new infant vaccine showed it was [...]

A new study published in The Lancet medical journal finds a simple and cheap cervical cancer test.
The test uses common household items: vinegar, cotton gauze and a halogen light. The simple test can be preformed by a nurse or a trained practitioner. And it can save millions of women, particularly in the poor countries where [...]

The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) today released a new analysis of the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports of serious health problems following HPV vaccination (Merck’s GARDASIL) during the last six months of 2006.
The report follows the recent FDA warning on February 13 of potentially serious bowel blockage (intussusception) in babies following [...]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is notifying health care providers and consumers about 28 post-marketing reports of intussusception following administration of Rotavirus, Live, Oral, Pentavalent vaccine (trade name RotaTeq), manufactured by Merck and Co., Inc.
Parents should contact their child’s doctor immediately if the child has stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, blood in their stool or [...]

The epidemic of autism in California continues to worsen, according to analysis at the M.I.N.D. Institute of the University of California Davis.
According to a released by the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) , analysis by Rick Rollins co-founder of the Institute found that California added 3,385 new cases of professionally diagnosed, full syndrome autism to [...]

FDA and CDC updated an October 2005 alert to consumers and health care providers regarding reports of Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) following administration of Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine A, C, Y, and W135, manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur.GBS is a serious, rare neurological disorder that can occur, often in healthy individuals, either spontaneously or after certain infections. [...]