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An Overview of Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Safety: 2006 to 2015
Conclusions: These results, along with the safety data from the prelicensure clinical trials, confirm that the HPV4 vaccine has a favorable safety profile. Key policy, medical and regulatory organizations around the world have independently reviewed these data and continue to recommend routine HPV vaccination.
Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal - August 14, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Vaccine Reports Source Type: research

Evaluating Social Media Networks in Medicines Safety Surveillance: Two Case Studies
Conclusions Publicly available data from the considered social media networks were sparse and largely untrackable for the purpose of providing early clues of safety concerns regarding the prespecified case studies. Further research investigating other case studies and exploring other social media platforms are necessary to further characterise the usefulness of social media for safety surveillance.
Source: Drug Safety - August 5, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

Gardasil HPV Vaccine Safety Assessed In Most Comprehensive Study To Date
The largest review of the available evidence on the quadrivalent, or four-strain, HPV vaccine Gardasil, has found no evidence of any serious short-term or long-term safety issues. Bringing together the findings from clinical trials, post-licensure studies and data presented at scientific meetings but not yet published, the researchers focused particularly on autoimmune diseases, nervous system disorders, anaphylaxis, blood clots and stroke – but none of them is caused by the vaccine, they found.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - July 15, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tara Haelle Source Type: news

CDC National Health Report: Leading Causes of Morbidity and Mortality and Associated Behavioral Risk and Protective Factors-United States, 2005-2013.
This report reviews population health in the United States and provides an assessment of recent progress in meeting high-priority health objectives. The health status indicators described in this report were selected because of their direct relation to the leading causes of death and other substantial sources of morbidity and mortality and should be the focus of prevention efforts. REPORTING PERIOD COVERED: Data are reported starting in 2005 (or the earliest available year since 2005) through the current data year. Because data sources and specific indicators vary regarding when data are available, the most recent yea...
Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - October 31, 2014 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Johnson NB, Hayes LD, Brown K, Hoo EC, Ethier KA Tags: MMWR Surveill Summ Source Type: research

What a jerk: perils in the assessment of psychogenic movement disorders
In 2012, the upstate New York town of LeRoy became something of a neuropsychiatric battleground when it witnessed an outbreak of cases of sudden-onset tic-like behaviour in high-school age girls, many from a single school.1 The ‘Tourette's epidemic’, as it was dubbed by a fascinated world media, attracted different explanations: for every claim that this was ‘mass hysteria’ (ie, conversion disorder), there was an outraged counter-claim to the effect that such a diagnosis was missing a real organic cause of these tics and jerks, variously thought to be PANDAS (a rare and still controversial apparent ...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - July 8, 2013 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Pollak, T. A. Tags: Genetics, Immunology (including allergy), Epilepsy and seizures, Movement disorders (other than Parkinsons), Neurological injury, Pain (neurology), Stroke, Trauma CNS / PNS, Child and adolescent psychiatry, Memory disorders (psychiatry), Somatoform disord Source Type: research