Sur la base de trois études épidémiologiques publiées... près de 15 ans après le lancement de la campagne vaccinale dans les écoles (en sept. 1994), il faudrait croire que démonstration est désormais faite de la parfaite innocuité du vaccin contre l'hépatite B chez les enfants. On s'en réjouit: car on…
Catégorie : Vaccins
Hepatitis B universal vaccination: learning from the French experience
Hepatitis B vaccine This update has been written for the numerous prescribers and health professionals who are logically disturbed by a growing discrepancy between the recommendation they are receiving of protecting public heath by hepatitis B vaccination and an accumulation of alarming data on the hazards of this prophylaxis.Focused on…
A comment on Hernan et al’s study (2004)
Hepatitis B vaccine This correspondence was rejected by the journal Neurology with the following comment: "This letter was reviewed. It is too difficult to understand. I do not think that it adds sufficiently to the thoughtful and balanced editorial and the original paper." As opposed to the claim of the…
Dangereux pour les bébés
Une version de cet entretien est parue dans le quotidien "Le Progrès" du 15/11/04 Document joint Dangereux_pour_les_bebes.pdf
Report criticizes French hepatitis B vaccination campaign
Hepatitis B vaccine http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/444869 ou http://www.vaccinetruth.org/france1.htm A report ordered by Judge MO Bertella-Geffroy, currently presiding over a negligence case brought by the familes of people - some of them have died - who developed neurological problems after hepatitis B vaccination. Report Criticizes French Hepatitis VaccinationCampaign PARIS (Reuters Health) Nov 20…
Evidence-based medicine and vaccine therapy
Vaccines This paper is currently in Press in the journal Vaccine. Access is not direct. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X04005225
Conflicts of interests
Hepatitis B This paper was rejected by The Lancet in Nov 2003, on the basis that a colleague of van Damme provided to the Journal "the details of 10 papers from peer-reviewed journals in which the association between HBV and MS is refuted". In September, following the French Ministry of…
Vaccinations and multiple sclerosis
Hepatitis B This comment was rejected by the N Engl Med J in 2001. As exemplified by an accompanying editorial1, results of two studies2,3 published in a recent issue of NEJM have been overwhelmingly interpreted as demonstrating that no link exists between hepatitis B (HB) vaccine and multiple sclerosis (MS).…
Bibliography
Hepatitis B A review of references on the safety of hepatitis B vaccine In addition to the recent investigation by Hernan et al (an American study performed on a British database), the following bibliography, although not exhaustive, demonstrates that the issue of hepatitis B vaccine unusual toxicity is by no…
Vaccination: misconceptions about misconception
Hepatitis B According to a BMJ editorial (21 Aug. 2004)Bedford H. Misconceptions about the new combination vaccine. BMJ 2004;329:411., doubts about vaccination programmes cannot be based on more than “misconceptions”. Let's try to demonstrate that in this field the distribution between “myth” and “reality” is not so univocal : this…