Adjuvants
2009
National Infant Immunization Week Highlights Importance of Vaccinations; Recent Outbreaks Show Need for Education of Parents
AAFP News
April 13, 2009
"The following information was released by the American Academy of Family Physicians: National Infant Immunization Week, or NIIW, is scheduled for April 25-May 2, giving doctors and public health officials an opportunity to emphasize the importance of protecting children from 14 vaccine-preventable diseases. Immunization expert Paul Offit, M.D. A list of nationwide NIIW events and various online resources for parents and health professionals is available from the CDC. "I think it's great to have a time set aside to recognize the importance of vaccinations, but ... with the recent outbreak of Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b infection) in Minnesota and Pennsylvania and in other areas -- as well as measles outbreaks -- it seems like every week is infant immunization week," said Paul Offit, M.D., chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia..."
2008
A Shot in the Dark No More
The Economist
May 22, 2008
"Doctors often exude an air of omniscience, but in truth they are surprisingly ignorant. For example, they have spent eight decades adding alum to vaccines as what is known as an adjuvant. Somehow, it boosts the immunity-inducing effectiveness of the antigens derived from whichever bug the vaccine is designed to protect against. But no one has known how it works. Alum is used in the textile industry as a way of making dyes bind to cloth. Possibly, the original thought may have been that it would play a similar binding role in the immune system..."
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