Tag: vaccines
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Vaccines: Parents should decide on their own. [not Science!] (obvious?!?)
Whooping cough has turned up in North America after decades of near absence. Caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacterium, whooping cough is emerging from the shadows in response to a fateful switch of vaccines embraced in the 1990s, just when it seemed the disease was licked. The vaccine used today (acellular pertussis vaccine) has proved…
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Vaccination, over-simplification and the need to have Marketing separate from Medicine...
Vaccination does help. (1) But to what extent? It seems that after vaccines started spreading, diseases started declining too. (2) But what a minute! See how the decline in diseases started even before the vaccines started? (the graph is small if you do not pay for the article, but again it shows) At the same…
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Medicine - Not working for everyone...
In a cancer vaccine setback, the drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced yesterday that an immunotherapy it had been testing in a phase III trial had flopped. The company is holding out hope, however, that some patients with a certain genetic signature will still be helped, and the trial is continuing. (1) So I suppose when…
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Flu, failed vaccines, modern medicine not working...
Some antibodies to flu viruses may actually make patients sicker, a new study of pigs suggests. The finding, published August 28 in Science Translational Medicine, may point to problems with catchall influenza vaccines. (1) Todays medicine unilaterally treats symptoms only. But the real disease remains deep inside. Medicine must target humans as a whole and…
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G20, sewage system, vaccines...
In the United States, rotavirus is a public health nuisance, resulting in tens of thousands of hospitalizations for severe diarrhea in infants and young children each a year, but few deaths. In India, the virus is a public health menace: It claims more than 100,000 lives a year. [1] A new vaccine could sharply reduce…
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