Success of hib vaccine hyped by poor reporting of disease - Consumers may have been misled about the effectiveness of routine immunisation with the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine. ...

Hib vaccine linked to diabetes - The Hib vaccine, the vaccine against Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis, may be linked to juvenile diabetes, according to new American research....

Loss of speech after hib vaccine - In 1992, immediately following a then new vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) infection, my two year old granddaughter became unre...

Hib vaccine may cause juvenile diabetes - Children who receive multiple doses of the Haemophilus influenzae b (Hib) vaccine are at increased risk of developing type I juvenile-onset diabetes,...

Organ transplant: 6 per cent end in TB - Up to 6 per cent of all patients who have an organ transplants will develop TB – and it’s usually from the donor. In most cases the surgery itself ac...

Meningitis : creche-land - The most likely place for your child to catch Haemophilus influenzae disease, the target of a new vaccine to be introduced this year, is in nursery sc...

Vaccine update: hib, hep, mmr - The Hepatitis B vaccine has been linked with the kidney disease glomerulonephritis. The Lancet (23 January 1993) reports the case of a 21 year old man...

Meningitis is now an adult disease - Five years after the Haemophilus influenzae type b (or Hib) jab was introduced as routine for US children, researchers are finding that, while the inc...