Dr. Roger Baxter, co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, said the current whooping cough epidemic -- on the heels of the 2010 epidemic that killed 10 infants -- is a call for the pharmaceutical industry to come up with a better vaccine.
Two decades later, however, it's clear that the chickenpox shot has actually protected people of all ages, says Roger Baxter, the study's lead author and co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, Calif. Chickenpox infections fell 90% to 95% for children ages 5 to 19.
But in part because the government moved so swiftly to remove the preservative from most vaccines, along with sensationalist media coverage and claims of vaccines being linked to autism now disproved the publics distrust of thimerosal grew in some circles, says Roger Baxter, co-director of the
did not find any association between influenza vaccine or any other vaccine and development of GBS within six weeks following vaccination," Dr. Roger Baxter, co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center and his co-authors concluded in Monday's online issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Date: Jun 24, 2013
Category: Health
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Vaccines Not to Blame for Onset of Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A Study
"If there is a risk of Guillain-Barr syndrome following any vaccine, including influenza vaccines, it is extremely low," said Dr. Roger Baxter, co-director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center and lead author of the study.
Date: Jun 24, 2013
Category: Health
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Varicella Vaccine Is Effective, Lasting Over 14-Year Period
Roger Baxter, M.D., of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, Calif., and colleagues followed a cohort of 7,585 children vaccinated with varicella vaccine in their second year of life (1995) through 2009 for breakthrough varicella and herpes zoster. Of the children, 2,826 received a
Varicella vaccine effectiveness remained at 90% at 14 years among a cohort followed from vaccination at age 2, reported Roger Baxter, MD, of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, Calif., and colleagues.
Obviously South Africas reputation as a stable investment destination is one that is being looked at, because do you have stability, do you have peace for the companies to get on with their business? says Roger Baxter, a senior executive at the Chamber of Mines.