Booster vaccine: one jab too many? - The US drugs regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has approved a new booster shot of the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus) vaccine...

The 3 most dangerous drugs: They cause a third of all adverse reactions in the elderly - Just three drugs are responsible for a third of all serious adverse reactions among the elderly. The drugs – warfarin, insulin and digoxin – were 35...

Vaccine news: mmr and dtp - Incidents of meningitis linked to the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine in Japan are far higher than first thought, affecting around one in 1044 v...

A deadly case of mumps - As most of our British readers have no doubt heard, last month the UK Department of Health announced the hasty withdrawal of two brands of the comb...

Adverse Reactions: 700,000 people need emergency hospital care every year - Statistic of the week: Every year 700,000 people in the USA need emergency out-patient hospital care following an adverse reaction to a prescription...

Measles vaccine - Knee-jerk and jab-happy - Over 30 years of use, the measles vaccine has never adequately protected children. In fact, it has only made measles a more dangerous disease. ...

MMR: Major mumps outbreak proves the vaccine doesn’t work - At a time when health officials are quietly admitting that there could be a link between the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine and autism, a new stu...

Adverse drug reactions need to be taken seriously - I regularly hear from patients and parents that reporting adverse drug reactions to doctors frequently leads to denial of the association This short...