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Tag: flu vaccine Should it be mandatory for health care workers to receive the flu vaccine? Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadMadely Health Headlines Commentary for December 21, 2012
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Study suggests flu shots keep kids out of hospital
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Madely Health Headlines Commentary for July 11, 2011
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Discovery of Natural Antibody Brings a Universal Flu Vaccine a Step Closer
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A Highly Conserved Neutralizing Epitope on Group 2 Influenza A Viruses
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General public's risk perception true to form vis a vis influenza and the vaccine Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSource:
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Flu vaccine season begins: if not for you then to protect others Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSource:
Just 1 flu shot needed this year
Two Vaccines Equal Lower Risk of Death, Disease
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Source: Cost of vaccinating the nation hits $1.5-billion and climbing
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 11, 2009
Afternoon Edition – H1N1 Special
Rob Snow and Dr Barry Dworkin host a four hour special on H1N1 answering your questions about the virus and the vaccine to protect against it.
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Public Health Agency of Canada – National Advisory Committee On Immunization: Influenza Vaccine
Thimerosal in Vaccines
Thimerosal and Vaccine Safety
Squalene information from FDA site
Information on opposing voices and the methodology employed
An Epidemic of fear
The Cochrane Influenza Resources
Cochrane review of vaccines and autism claim
With the H1N1 flu season upon us, the need to provide credible evidenced-based information to the public is an essential in order to answer questions and concerns. Dr. Isra Levy, the City of Ottawa’s Chief Medical Offer of Health and Dr. Nadine Sicard, Associate Medical Offer of Health and member of the National Advisory Committee [...]
This article, written by Dr. Noni MacDonald and Dr. Francoise Baylis , answers many of the question you may have about the vaccine. I believe that credible evidenced-based information provided to the public respects what I have witnessed and experienced on my radio show; that no topic is difficult to understand if it is explained cogently and rationally. It also counters fear-mongering and misrepresentation of facts for personal gain.
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 21, 2009
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for October 14, 2009
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Ottawa’s plan to shelve flu vaccines breeds dissent in health ranks
Although the media have not paid much attention to avian flu recently, research into an H5N1 avian flu vaccine continues. Results of a phase I and phase II trial on a new human vaccine against H5N1 bird flu virus made from cell culture instead of embryonated eggs show that it is safe and effective against [...]
Come the end of October and early November, flu vaccination programs will be in full swing. Although for most healthy adults and children the disease can be weathered with good outcomes, those with chronic disease, the very young and the elderly may not do so well. A new study, Trends in influenza vaccination in Canada, [...]
With the beginning of flu shot season there are questions being asked about the effectiveness of universal vaccination programs. Is there evidence to support the widespread use of the vaccine as part of public health policy? In the October 28, 2006 edition of the British Medical Journal, Dr. Tom Jefferson, co-ordinator of the Cochrane Vaccines [...]
Every year, usually during the flu shot season, questions arise about the need for vaccination especially of healthy young people. People question whether it reduces the risk of infection and its complications. What seems to be lost in the discussion is the health effects of the flu on specific age groups, in particular young children.
A study, entitled “The Underrecognized Burden of Influenza in Young Children.” Published in the July 6, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine looked at this very issue and presented compelling data. To discuss influenza virus and the results of the study I pleased to introduce
- Dr. Katherine Poehling, M.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Division of General Pediatrics Pediatric Acute Care Clinic (PACC) at Monroe Carrell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Original broadcast date: August 28, 2005 In a June Rolling Stone article, and in subsequent appearances on Imus in the Morning, ABC News, and The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Bobby Kennedy Jr accuses US government vaccine scientists and their academic advisers of covering up what for him is an uncontestable fact: the causal link [...]
Originally published in The Ottawa Citizen October 18, 2004 Original Title: The HN factor New information and reports of bird flu have shifted attention to the possibility of a new flu pandemic. The most lethal pandemic in our history occurred from 1917 to 1919 killing an estimated 20 million to 50 million people.
