Showing posts with label BMJ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BMJ. Show all posts
Friday, April 24, 2015

BMJ Open: Protectiveness (Or Lack, Thereof) Of Reusable Cloth Medical Masks

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Cloth Masks used during the 1918 Pandemic   # 9973   Over the years we’ve looked repeatedly at the relative protectiveness of PPE...
Wednesday, July 09, 2014

BMJ: The `Hawthorne Effect’ On Hospital Hand Hygiene Compliance

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Credit WHO     # 8816   One hundred and sixty-six years ago, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis published a controver...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Revisiting Tamiflu Efficacy (Again)

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      # 8455   Just over two years ago in The Tamiflu Controversy Continues , we looked at the ongoing debate over the effective...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

BMJ: Risk Factors For Children With Pandemic Flu

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  The chart above (Aug 2012) illustrates the sharp rise in pediatric deaths from flu-related complications during the 2009-2010 H1N1 pan...
Tuesday, August 06, 2013

BMJ: `Probable Person-to-Person Transmission’ Of H7N9

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    # 7544   A press release today from the British Medical Journa l highlights research, scheduled to be published today, that f...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Delving Into The Oseltamivir Dosage Study

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  Photo Credit – Wikipedia   # 7344   One of the concerns during a severe pandemic is our finite supply of antiviral medications...
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

HPA: Pandemrix Vaccine Linked To Childhood Narcolepsy In England

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  # 6971   Pandemrix was the adjuvanted pandemic H1N1 flu shot developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and distributed to more than ...
Wednesday, May 02, 2012

BMJ: H1N1 Vaccination & Fetal Death Rates

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Photo Credit – CDC   # 6311     One of the persistent myths on the internet is that the 2009 H1N1 vaccine was responsible for `...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

BMJ: Another Pandemrix Study To Ponder

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    Photo Credit CDC     # 5897   Whenever there is a hint or a suggestion that a vaccine might have caused some sort of seriou...