| | |

Safety and Effectiveness of the MMR vaccine

Safety and Effectiveness Information from CDC and DHHS I’ve been asked to contrast the risk from tIhe disease measles with the risk from the measles vaccine, usually the MMR. MMR stands for Measles, Mumps, Rubella (rubella is german measles) and so the MMR vaccine contains 3 live, attenuated (weakened) viruses…

bioethics_commission.jpg

Behind the Smokescreen: Conditional Approval for Anthrax Vaccine Trial in Children

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released its “[ ] Pediatric Research on Medical Countermeasures” Report and recommendations, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The Report and the Commission Chair, Dr. Amy Gutmann, who presided over a press teleconference took great pains to convey the impression that above…

meryl_nass.jpg
| | | |

Anthrax Vaccine: history, excessive stockpile & the human and Financial Costs

Anthrax Vaccine:  Its checkered history, excessive stockpile and the human and financial costs By Meryl Nass, MD* The current vaccine (Biothrax, manufactured by Emergent Biosolutions or EBS) has never been proved effective in humans. One human trial took place in the 1950s using a different, Merck-manufactured anthrax vaccine.  Efficacy studies…