Hepatitis B vaccination: the benefit of late catching up
Only one in two French people is vaccinated correctly against hepatitis B. However, a study shows that updating their vaccination, ...
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Chlorella increases the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine
July 28, 2003 - Green algae Chlorella pyrenoidosa, or chlorella, would markedly increase the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine, but ...
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Vaccinations: caregivers do not lead by example
The French are not sufficiently vaccinated, notes the Invs which draws up the first exhaustive inventory. And often parents and ...
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Flu: heart patients called for vaccination
While only 50% of people at risk were vaccinated in 2011, experts recall the urgency of remobilizing chronic patients to ...
Read moreNovartis flu vaccine suspended as a precaution
The European Medicines Agency points out that the withdrawal of batches of influenza vaccines, produced by Novartis, was decided as ...
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Cervical cancer: the vaccine advanced to 11 years
© Fotolia11-year-old girls can now be vaccinated against the papillomavirus (HPV), the virus responsible for the majority cervical cancer. While ...
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Meningitis: WHO authorizes Sanofi vaccine
© Wavebreak Media The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the pharmaceutical company Sanofi, ...
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Influenza A vaccine: the centers open on Sundays?
Several hundred medical interns, occupational physicians and army health service physicians should be assigned to these vaccination centers from December ...
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Cervical cancer: 1 dose of vaccine may be enough
While in France, 3 doses of vaccine are recommended for young people, a study reveals that a single injection would ...
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Flu: promising results from a vaccine for people over 65
© Lifesize This vaccine belongs to the family of influenza vaccines Fluzone and is proposed for the prevention of influenza ...
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Cervical cancer: Gardasil implicated by a complaint
A first complaint is filed against Sanofi Pasteur, manufacturer of the vaccine against the papillomavirus Gardasil. The vaccine is accused ...
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Vaccine: soon patches instead of syringes to administer them?
© iStockphoto Good news for syringe phobics, it could be that within five years you will be offered another method ...
Read moreA first success against dengue
It affects 500,000 people each year and claims 10,000 victims. Transmitted by mosquitoes, dengue is one of the tropical diseases ...
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The advantages of the new anti-tobacco vaccine
Barrier to the pleasure of smoking is the way forward in the fight against smoking. A team of American researchers ...
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Flu: why our neighbors say no to the vaccine
This is news that will not reassure people who are still reluctant to get the flu shot ! Indeed, after ...
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The French shunned the flu vaccination
While people at risk are more and more reluctant to be vaccinated against the flu, doctors have just recalled the ...
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Flu: soon a universal vaccine?
In France, each year, between 1,500 and 2,000 people die of the flu and 250,000 and 500,000 worldwide. A team ...
Read moreStabilized measles
France has just counted its measles cases And good surprise! The disease has not progressed since last year, while the ...
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Lung cancer: soon a vaccine?
Pr Laurence Zitvogel, oncologist and researcher in immunology at the Gustave Roussy Institute (IGR, Villejuif) and his colleagues, have opened ...
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Papillomavirus: vaccine also reduces risk of throat cancer
The vaccine against the human papillomavirus, used to protect young girls from cancer of the cervix of the uterus, would ...
Read moreUpdate your vaccinations
Like every year, the High Council of Public Health publishes the vaccination schedule, these are the official recommendations in terms ...
Read moreThe polio vaccine contaminated with the SV40 virus in the 1950s and 1960s could cause certain cancers
August 20, 2001 - Last April, more than 60 scientists gathered in Chicago challenged their common enemy: a monkey virus ...
Read moreA vaccine against ear infections: mixed efficacy
March 9, 2001 - According to a study of 1,662 children who received a hepatitis B vaccine or a pneumococcal-CRM197 ...
Read moreHuman experimentation with a vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease
January 12, 2001 - According to research on transgenic mice that develop Alzheimer's disease, a vaccine may decrease the formation ...
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The epidemic is flu
If the flu is still long overdue, specialists recommend vigilance and, for people at risk, to be vaccinated.There are dates ...
Read moreTeflon disrupts our immunity
A study has just shown the influence of certain components of our environment on the organism and in particular on ...
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Seasonal flu: the vaccine shunned?
While the vaccination campaign against seasonal flu launched since September 25, it seems that it does not achieve the same ...
Read morePossible relationship between regressive autism and MMR vaccine?
August 29, 2000 - “Many professionals are increasingly questioning the possible link between the recent increase in the number of ...
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Seasonal flu: vaccine available
Those who wish to be vaccinated against the seasonal flu will be able to obtain the vaccine as of Saturday, ...
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Cervical cancer: specialists want to vaccinate from 11 years old
While current recommendations advise to vaccinate adolescent girls from the age of 14, some pediatricians and infectious disease specialists are ...
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