Getting The Point: 60 Minutes on the impact of antivaccination lobbying

Monday, July 25th, 2011 No Comments »

12 June 2011 - 60 Minutes look into the human cost of the effects of the antivaccination lobby. AVN president Meryl Dorey was advised not to appear. One can see why. Her heroine Viera Schiebner does not come across as particularly well grounded. Amidst the tragedy wrought by vaccine preventable dis...
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Flu is on the rise, Australia … and that’s not to be sniffed at

Monday, July 25th, 2011 No Comments »

20 July 2011 - The number of people suffering from influenza in Australia this year has soared compared to recorded numbers from previous years, with nearly 8,000 cases so far compared to about 2,000 last year. Read More...

CSL gets warning shot from US drug regulator

Monday, July 25th, 2011 No Comments »

23 June 2011 - The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has just issued a warning letter about the safety of CSL’s influenza vaccine, Fluvax. The letter follows FDA’s latest annual inspection of CSL laboratories and lays out five "objectionable conditions" in which the company has failed t...
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Social media: how it can help researchers and public debate

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 No Comments »

6 June 2011 - As Don Perlgut’s previous post on the digital divide illustrates, there are many barriers to realising the full potential of the digital revolution, including lack of capacity amongst those groups with potentially the most to gain. Other barriers include professional and organisatio...
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How vaccination policies could be improved

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 No Comments »

26 May 2011 - An investigation into the management of adverse effects associated with influenza vaccinination of children (with the Panvax and Fluvax products) was released yesterday. The report, by the Australian Government’s former chief medical officer, Professor John Horvath, Read More...