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CU-Boulder student leaders urge use of new meningitis vaccines
2015-06-04 01:26:32| Biotech - Topix.net
University of Colorado student leaders are urging a federal immunization committee to recommend widespread use of newly approved meningitis vaccines. The CU Student Government is expected to vote on a resolution Thursday calling on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to vote at its June meeting to recommend the use of meningitis B vaccines for incoming college students.
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Merck vaccines kill two babies in Mexico, injure dozens more
2015-05-15 20:13:40| Biotech - Topix.net
At least two children are dead and several dozen others are in critical condition after terrorists wielding weapons of mass destruction violently assaulted the young innocents living in the Mexican state of Chiapas, according to reports. No, it wasn't dirty bombs planted by jihadists or airplanes hijacked by Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda operatives crashing into buildings that were responsible; the Mexican government is the terrorist in this case, and the weapons of mass destruction are routine childhood vaccines.
Big Pharma to market its vaccines with contrived emotional appeal that utterly ignores facts
2015-04-26 10:07:24| Beverages - Topix.net
At the behest of the World Health Organization , the so-called "SAGE [Strategic Advisory Group of Experts] Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy" has put together a report for the United Nations arm outlining new strategies to convince more people to get vaccinated. And in this report, recommendations are made that the vaccine industry market its vaccines in the same way that fast food corporations market junk food products to children -- by appealing to emotion, telling fairy tales and ultimately deceiving consumers.
Duke University bags $20M to advance HIV vaccines
2015-04-07 11:58:35| Biotech - Topix.net
Both grants come from the National Institutes of Health; Dr. Mary Klotman , M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine, received a five-year, $9 million grant and Dr. Sallie Permar , assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Duke, received a five-year, $11 million grant. Researchers at researchers at the UNC-Chapel Hill will work with Permar, who won a Triangle Business Journal Health Care Heroes award this year for being a top innovator .
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Two experimental Ebola vaccines pass safety test in African trial
2015-03-27 00:17:51| Biotech - Topix.net
Two experimental Ebola vaccines, one from GlaxoSmithKline PLC and the other from biotech start-up NewLink Genetics Corp, "appear to be safe" part way through a clinical trial being conducted in Liberia, the U.S. National Institutes of Health said on Thursday. The two vaccines, each given in a single injection, are being tested for safety and efficacy on more than 600 people in Liberia in a mid-stage clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a branch of NIH.
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