Sanofi-Aventis has pulled four lots of infant swine flu vaccine, about 800,000 doses because of a potency problem. The vaccine should still work, the CDC says.
Thousands of parents of autistic children received news today that a special vaccine court denied three families seeking compensation. The court ruled the families did not convince the court the measles, mumps and rubella vaccines caused their children's autism.
Due to a continuing vaccine shortage, expected to continue until 2009, the CDC is urging doctors and state agencies to be more careful in suspected cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type B (HiB) in children younger than 5 years of age.
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) said on Wednesday that it has discontinued a controversial study intended to assess the effectiveness of chelation (kee-LAY'-shun) as a potential autism treatment.
The family of an 11-year-old boy with autism tried to sue three drug makers of vaccines, but a Philadelphia judge has ruled that the companies are shielded from the product liability lawsuit under federal pre-emption because the vaccines were FDA - approved.
The national vaccine court, a no-fault payout system that protects manufacturers, will consider the test case of two 10-year old boys with autism to see if their conditions merit compensation under the fund.
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