Meningitis: Vaccine causes severe neurological disorder - Medicine is all about risks and benefits, and this comes into stark focus with the news that the vaccine designed to protect teenagers against meningi...

Vaccinations: - It's not so simple - Vaccination is based on the tried and trusted scientific principle of cause and effect: the vaccine (the cause) offers protection (the effect). It's...

News meningitis - Vaccine linked to life-threatening reaction - Menactra, one of the two meningitis vaccines available in the US, may cause Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a serious neurological disorder.

Vaccinations: proof of damage - The second National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine report on vaccines again has concluded that virtually all the vaccines given children hav...

Vaccinations for foreign travel - what are the risks? - Q:With interest I read the What Doctors Don't Tell You about hepatitis B (Vol 3 No 4.). However what to do if one goes to a foreign country? In Dece...

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...

Steroids fail to help children with meningitis - Bacterial meningitis is a terrible disease that usually ends in death, especially among children in developing countries. Up to half of all patients i...

Fda drug alerts - Crestor (rosuvastatin): The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Public Health Advisory notifying healthcare professionals that 22 membe...