Category: Vaccines

Former Fat Guy dot Com wrote:
A new study has found that there is no link between the measles vaccine and Autism.
Lipkin and colleagues searched for traces of genetic material linked to the virus in intestinal tissue taken from 25 children with autism and gastrointestinal problems. They compared the samples to those from 13 children […]

Former Fat Guy dot Com wrote:
The BBC reports that German researchers have found that tattooing may be a better delivery mechanism for vaccines than injections. Studies with mice found that mice had a bigger immune response with tattoos than with needle-based injections.
Now researchers in Germany say that the rapidly vibrating tattoo needle could be […]

healthinsurance wrote:
Monday’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) ran a column by Nick Timiraos about the “big obstacles” facing application of the advance market commitment (AMC) - a novel approach in which donors promise in advance to buy a not-yet-licensed product for the developing world, if and when one is created that meets pre-established specifications. […]

jpickett@cgdev.org (Jessica Pickett) wrote:
In the “olden days” before the turn of the 21st century, immunization was not exactly headline-grabbing. Fascinating science, yes. One of the fundamental ways to keep children healthy, yes. But the object of intense business strategy-making, a key part of the fight against sexually-transmitted disease, and the focus of glamorous gatherings […]

mover@cgdev.org (Mead Over) wrote:
“Disappointing” is the only word to describe the news that sponsors of the STEP study, testing Merck’s AIDS vaccine candidate, have discontinued the Phase IIb trial. Interim analyses showed that the product doesn’t prevent infection or reduce the presence of HIV in the blood once someone is infected, calling a […]

healthinsurance wrote:
My colleague Ruth Levine has recently posted on a new study by Stephen Lim and colleagues at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation of the discrepancies between vaccination rates from two sources: those obtained officially from governments and those estimated directly and unofficially from household surveys from the same countries.
I’m glad Ruth […]