FDA explains that aluminum salts are added to vaccines such as DTaP, pneumococcal conjugate and hepatitis B as adjuvants to strengthen the immune response, citing six decades of use with only uncommon severe local reactions. Cervarix uses a different adjuvant, AS04.
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FDA approves Peramivir for 2009 H1N1 flu
At CDC's request, FDA issued an emergency use authorization for intravenous peramivir in hospitalized adults and children with confirmed or suspected 2009 H1N1 flu whose oral or inhaled therapy is failing or impractical. No IV influenza antiviral is FDA-approved.
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Mammogram screening does not cut risk of breast cancer death
Laura Esserman of UCSF and colleagues argue in JAMA that mammography mainly finds early-stage and indolent tumors, which raises survival rates without lowering deaths from aggressive breast cancer. They call for new tools to tell dangerous tumors from harmless ones.
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New Study Demonstrates Significant Harm From Just ONE Mercury-Containing Vaccine
Mercola reports on a study in which primates given a single thimerosal-containing vaccine showed significant neurological impairment compared with those given saline or nothing, and notes thimerosal remains in most flu vaccines and in shots used in developing countries.
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Serious Vaccine Reactions to Now Be Called 'Coincidence'?
Dr. Mercola argues swine flu is mild for most people, that H1N1 vaccines were tested on only a few thousand healthy adults, and that Congress shielded manufacturers from liability. He urges parents not to accept 'coincidence' as an explanation for post-vaccination symptoms.
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FDA Okays new treatment for advanced kidney cancer
FDA approved pazopanib (Votrient), GlaxoSmithKline's oral angiogenesis inhibitor, for advanced renal cell carcinoma. In a 435-patient trial, progression-free survival ran 9.2 months versus 4.2 without it. The drug can cause severe and fatal liver toxicity, so liver function needs monitoring.
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HPV vaccine approved for boys and men
The FDA approved Gardasil for boys and men to prevent genital warts, which HPV types 6 and 11 cause in 90 percent of cases. The writer questions the payoff, noting no more than 1 percent of sexually active US males get warts, and that a CDC panel has yet to weigh in.
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2009 H1N1 flu vaccine: what you need to know
A primer on 2009 H1N1 flu and its vaccine: how the virus spreads, what symptoms to expect, and how it differs from seasonal flu by hitting younger people harder. FDA approved four vaccines, three injectable ones containing no active virus and a nasal spray using live attenuated virus.
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Tylenol may raise infection risk in babies after vaccination
A Czech trial reported in the Lancet found infants given acetaminophen to head off fever around their vaccinations were 42 percent less likely to run a temperature, but mounted a weaker immune response after both the initial shots and the boosters. Further work must show whether it matters.
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People Who Get a Seasonal Flu Shot Are Twice as Likely to Catch Swine Flu
Unpublished Canadian data, still in peer review, suggests people who got last year's seasonal flu shot were about twice as likely to catch swine flu. The post also lists the five companies awarded U.S. contracts for more than 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine.
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Hormone therapy raises breast cancer risk with a sign
In Women's Health Initiative data on more than 16,000 women, those who developed new breast tenderness a year after starting estrogen-plus-progestin therapy were significantly more likely to develop breast cancer than others on the same therapy. Researchers say they do not know why.
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Some H1N1 Strains Showing Tamiflu Resistance
WHO reports 31 strains of H1N1 resistant to Tamiflu, though they still respond to Relenza. Pharmacies are also running short, partly because patients with flu-like symptoms are routinely given Tamiflu without confirmation that they have influenza.
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Relenza use cautions by GlaxoSmithKline and FDA
After a pregnant woman died when Relenza powder was dissolved and nebulized through a ventilator, GlaxoSmithKline and the FDA warned clinicians the inhalation powder must not be reconstituted or nebulized. The FDA approved the drug in 1999 despite its advisory committee's 13-4 vote to reject it.
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Gardasil for Boys Deemed Fiscally Imprudent
FDA analysis so far suggests vaccinating boys against HPV would not be cost-effective, since girls are already urged to be immunized. The researchers assumed 75 percent of young women will eventually be vaccinated; a lower figure would prompt a re-evaluation.
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Microchips to Make Breast Cancer Screenings Less Invasive
University of Toronto researchers describe a lab-on-a-chip that uses digital microfluidics to measure hormones in tiny samples of blood, serum and breast tissue, avoiding large biopsies. They say it may someday allow routine estrogen screening in high-risk women.
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Hepatitis B Vaccine Triples the Risk of Autism in Infant Boys
A study using National Health Interview Survey data from 1997 to 2002 concluded that US male newborns vaccinated against hepatitis B had a threefold greater risk of an autism spectrum disorder. Mercola argues the vaccine should never have entered the newborn schedule.
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Mild H1N1 flu and over-hyped vaccine
The piece argues H1N1 is likely no more harmful than seasonal flu and that coverage is overheated. It notes polls showing fewer than half of Americans would take the vaccine, a New York rule requiring nurses to be vaccinated or fired, and Mercola's complaint about limited testing.
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Cocaine vaccine shows moderate efficacy
In a 150-person randomized trial led from Yale, five injections of a cocaine vaccine raised anticocaine antibodies above 43 micrograms per mL in only 38% of subjects, and those who reached that level had more cocaine-free urine samples. Protection lasted about two months; side effects were local.
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