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Vaccinating our kids shouldn’t be this hard
3 August 2019 - It cost about $600, a frustrating 30 or so phone calls to pharmacies and several trips ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
Vas Narasimhan of Novartis: ‘we are not at all prepared for a pandemic’
1 August 2019 - The son of Indian immigrants read Greek philosophy and worked at McKinsey before joining a giant drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
Governments refuse to fund meningococcal B vaccine
4 August 2019 - Federal and state governments are refusing to fund the meningococcal B vaccine while the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
‘A life is more important than money’: grieving parents’ plea for funded vaccination
4 August 2019 - Little Donald Peach was fully vaccinated — or so his parents thought after following the government’s official ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2019
MPs told meningitis vaccines were always available
1 August 2019 - Pfizer officials appearing before the Health Select Committee yesterday revealed that 30,000 Meningitis vaccines were available ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jul 2019
Meningococcal disease: mother wants vaccine to be free for all
30 July 2019 - A mother whose baby could have died from meningococcal W is disappointed the vaccine to stop ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jul 2019
Changes to funded vaccines in the National Immunisation Schedule
30 July 2019 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce decisions related to the National Immunisation Schedule that will take effect ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jul 2019
Children in the UK are having their lives saved by a new Meningococcal B vaccine our government won’t fund
27 July 2019 - There is a vaccine for the Meningococcal B disease that’s killed two Australians this month and left ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2019
Meningococcal B vaccine must be urgently added to the National Immunisation Program
19 July 2019 - It is particularly cruel that the people with the most life to live are the prime ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jul 2019
Toddler died of only meningococcal strain not on vaccine program
18 July 2019 - A toddler has died after contracting meningococcal B, the only strain of the potentially deadly disease with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jul 2019
Trump to order drive for improved flu vaccine
16 July 2019 - President Donald Trump is readying an executive order that would direct HHS to overhaul the development ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Vaccine crisis leaves Australia’s immunisation record in tatters
9 July 2019 - Thousands of Australians are dying from the flu and meningococcal because lifesaving vaccines are not being approved, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2019
Pharma giant wants vaccination reform
9 July 2019 - Pharmaceutical giant GSK is calling for Australia to update its review of subsidised immunisation programs and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Jul 2019
Thousands more doses of the flu jab are on the way
7 July 2019 - The Ministry of Health has announced this morning 55,000 more doses of flu vaccine will arrive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jun 2019
‘This is not the Trump hearing’ – PHARMAC deny accusations by National MP of tampering with Northland vaccine order
19 June 2019 - Tensions rose in a Parliament committee between Whangāreu MP Dr Shane Reti and PHARMAC. ...