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In New York, You Get the Shot Or Walk the Plank
As Art Caplan's most recent MSNBC column explains, New York is taking a hard line on health care workers getting their flu vaccinations this year. It's quite simple: get the shot or lose your job. Health care workers rallied in Albany, NY yesterday protesting that their rights were being violated... (read the rest)
Stay Up-to-Date about H1N1 at pandemic.bioethics.net
WIth the launch this week of the national vaccination program for swine flu, debate is raging over whether children should be vaccinated, who should be first in line to receive the vaccine, and whether the program in general will be effective. Is America ready for a nationwide flu vaccine drive?... (read the rest)
Flu Vaccines: Who, Where, and How Much?
In the Globe and Mail, Francoise Baylis asks the tough questions about how much swine flu vaccine to produce and who should receive it. In the US, our government has just decided that pregnant women should be among those to be included in the H1N1 flu vaccine trials (presumably because... (read the rest)
How Free Riding Can Get Your Child a Free Ride To the Emergency Room
These days parents are often more afraid of the immunizations that their children are asked to take than of the diseases they are intended to prevent. These parents believe that their children will be protected from diseases like pertussis, measles or the mumps because of something called "herd immunity"--put simply,... (read the rest)
The Wakefield Scandal Thickens...
When I wrote a week ago about Andrew Wakefield, I approached it from a research ethics perspective: about data falsification, the retraction of an article, the colleagues who didn't stand by him on his Lancet paper, etc etc....but as the world continues to talk about this researcher who, amazingly, continues... (read the rest)
Is being infected with malaria worth $2000?
If it is, and you live in the Seattle area, there was some very exciting news last week. The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute would like to trade that two grand for the time and inconvenience of having malaria-carrying mosquitos held up to your arm until they bite you. Here's... (read the rest)
One more bit of info to drop in your online dating profile
From a New York Times piece on the reasons the HPV vaccine would -- or would not -- be given to boys: Baruch Fischhoff, a professor of decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon, thinks that older boys may see a mix of benefits in Gardasil. “Being able to say to a... (read the rest)
Men and HPV
A study published late last week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reported that the human papillomavirus (HPV) -- which causes cervical cancer in women -- is becoming a leading cause of oral cancer in men. According to one of the study's authors, during the next 10 years HPV will... (read the rest)
The cocaine vaccine
You might have seen the stories floating around recently about the development of vaccine that can blunt or eliminate the high from cocaine. Researchers at Baylor are now looking to get approval to start Phase III trials of the vaccine sometime during the next year. From a Houston Chronicle article:... (read the rest)
A religious objection? Um, sure.
Via the ever vigilant Jim Fossett comes an AP story reporting that the number of children being exempted from vaccination requirements for religious reasons has doubled -- or even tripled -- during the last four years in many of the states that allow such exemptions. From the article: Sabrina Rahim... (read the rest)
Following up: vCJD and donated sperm, HPV vaccine
Here are a few updates and extensions to recent posts on blog.bioethics.net: Imported sperm shortage After everyone seemed to have a good laugh about the ban on imports of donated Scandinavian sperm, Slate's Explainer took up the question of whether donated sperm could transmit vCJD. The Explainer's conclusion: probably not.... (read the rest)
Art Caplan at MSNBC: Students' meningitis shots should be required
Art writes that Americans hate being told what to do, but we hate losing our kids more: Which is scarier to you - coming down with deadly bacterial meningitis or being required to get a vaccination against it? The disease itself should scare the living daylights out of you, especially... (read the rest)
New paper on homeschooled kids and vaccinations
Art Caplan and Donya Khalili -- a student at UPenn School of Law -- write in the latest issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics about strengthening the systems set up to ensure homeschooled kids get their shots. Here's the abstract: To protect public health, states require that... (read the rest)
Glenn McGee in The Scientist: How Much Should Gardasil Cost?
Glenn's August column for The Scientist looks at the HPV vaccine: A sneaky virus has infected 20 million Americans. For most, it's just an inconvenience, causing unattractive lesions. But for some, the infection leads to cancer, killing 250,000 people worldwide and costing billions in medical expenses every year. The vast... (read the rest)
HPV Fights - Once Again, the States Decide!
It ain’t over, said Yogi Berra, until it’s over, and the debate over what to do about Gardasil, the vaccine developed by Merck against the strands of the human papilloma virus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer. is still raging hot and heavy in many states. While the vaccine has been... (read the rest)
More State Bioethics: HPV Vaccine Proposals Snowball
Kaiser Network really lays it out: states matter at least as much as what feds do—even in red states…and the HPV situation proves it. - Jim FossettLabels: hpv vaccine, state bioethics, women and bioethics... (read the rest)
Caplan on Vaccines and Autism
Art, who runs a vaccines and ethics project at Penn, is really going after the continuing claims that vaccines are linked to autism in any scientifically validated way. In the Philadelphia Inquirer he argues as much: What must it be like to spend a huge amount of time every waking... (read the rest)
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