Polio vaccine may cause rise in cancer risk - A new report by the Institute of Medicine’s Immunisation Safety Review Committee has reviewed studies into the carcinogenic potential of SV40-contamin...

Cancer linked to contaminated polio vaccine - The sudden rise in the number of deaths from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma may be linked to the polio vaccine given to children in the USA until 1963.

Polio vaccine strikes two - A second case of a relative contracting polio from a recently vaccinated child has followed within two month of the first. ...

Me could be a reaction to the polio vaccine - Re your article on ME (vol 14 no 12), I contracted the illness after an afternoon spent with two children who had just had their polio vaccine. Others...

Asthma and autism linked to gi symptoms - New research from Italy suggests that asthma may share a fundamental link with gastrointestinal symptoms (Arch Dis Child, 2000; 82: 131-5). ...

Dangers of donor blood - Blood used for transfusions may have too high potassium concentrations due to routine radiation treatment, which could be hazardous to babies, pregna...

Vaccine update: hiv, polio, flu - Three vaccines against HIV infection are to be tested on children in the US. Ninety healthy HIV infected children aged between 1 month and 12 years a...

Cjd can be easily spread by surgery, researchers find - Any surgical procedure is a major, and unrecognised, source for the spread of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or mad cow disease, researchers have discover...