For at least several decades, telling the elderly to get an annual flu shot seemed like a no brainer. After all, seniors are often in more fragile health, and a bout of influenza can be debilitating. Moreover, it can lead to pneumonia and other serious conditions.
But new data suggests that the flu shot doesn’t actually […]
Just a quick, “food for thought” post this morning that will hopefully spark some conversation. This week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes two articles that address the fact that we have two widely used HPV vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix), but still little evidence about their long-term safety, effectiveness, and ability to […]
Reports coming out of Poland have potentially linked a trial of a new bird flu vaccine to the deaths of 21 homeless people:
Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus.
The medical staff, from the northern […]
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