VACCINES MANY VACCINES AT ONCE OK FOR KIDS' BRAINS: STUDY NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents can rest assured that getting kids their vaccine shots on time will not hurt their mental skills later on, doctors said on Monday. Source: Health - 24/05/2010 Category: Reuters FDA: GLAXO, MERCK VACCINES OK DESPITE PIG VIRUS WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rotavirus vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Merck & Co Inc are safe to use despite being contaminated with a pig virus, U.S. health regulators ruled on Friday. Source: Health - 16/05/2010 Category: Reuters BENEFITS TRUMP RISKS OF ROTAVIRUS VACCINE: PANEL GAITHERSBURG, Maryland (Reuters) - Benefits from rotavirus vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Merck & Co Inc outweigh any risk from recently discovered contamination with a pig virus, members of a U.S. advisory panel said on Friday. Source: Health - 08/05/2010 Category: Reuters VACCINE MAY TRIGGER EARLY START OF INFANT EPILEPSY HONG KONG (Reuters) - Childhood vaccines may trigger early onset of a severe form of infant epilepsy, but researchers say the disorder is ultimately caused by defective genes and lifesaving vaccines should not be withheld from these children. Source: Health - 05/05/2010 Category: Reuters MOST PARENTS BACK VACCINES, THOUGH MANY BELIEVE AUTISM LINK CHICAGO -- One in four U.S. parents believes that some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about risks think their children should be immunized. Source: Health - 03/05/2010 Category: Washington Post JOURNAL RETRACTS 1998 PAPER LINKING AUTISM TO VACCINES The paper in The Lancet, which was retracted after years of reassessment, caused a sharp decline in vaccinations in Britain after its publication. Source: New York Times - 03/02/2010 Category: World GATES FOUNDATION PLEDGES $10 BILLION TO VACCINE RESEARCH DAVOS, SWITZERLAND -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research vaccines and make them available to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday. Source: Washington Post - 31/01/2010 Category: Health PHARMACISTS DISPENSE PILLS, COUNSEL PATIENTS, SCREEN FOR ILLNESS, GIVE VACCINES When Charley John tells people he's a pharmacist, he knows what many of them think: that he spends his workdays sequestered behind a counter doling out pills, dropping them into little plastic vials and handing them to customers. Source: Washington Post - 12/01/2010 Category: Health SWINE FLU VACCINE COULD TAKE MONTHS, EXPERTS SAY A major obstacle to production in the United States is a reliance on half-century-old technology to make the flu vaccines. Source: New York Times - 29/04/2009 Category: World

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