Articles tagged as 'vaccines'

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Current safety concerns with HPV vaccination
Using adverse event cluster analysis UMC and the Danish pharmacovigilance centre have researched the extent of safety concerns associated with HPV vaccinations.

The case for vaccine surveillance systems – new podcast episode
Ever wondered how safety surveillance differs between vaccines and drugs? Find out in the latest episode of the Drug Safety Matters podcast.

Optimising COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance in the Netherlands
By utilising automated web reporting and a triage sorting system, the pharmacovigilance centre Lareb enabled near real-time processing of over 200 000 COVID-19 vaccine AEFI reports

Pharmacovigilance in the time of a COVID-19 pandemic
The rapid creation and deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine was met head on with equally rapid improvements to medicine safety surveillance systems to effectively monitor them.

New podcast – More on vaccine equity and S/F vaccines in the Americas
Our latest podcast episode features the audio version of our article on vaccine equity in the Americas, followed by an interview with the author, Danini Marin.

COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring: How Saudi Arabia rose to the occasion
The challenges of the global COVID-19 immunisation effort had the pharmacovigilance team in Saudi Arabia develop some innovative tactics to ensure vaccine safety for its citizens.

Building a global network of credible vaccine safety information websites
With the misinformation pandemic still rife on the internet, finding websites with scientifically accurate vaccine information is quite the task. The VSN aims to change that.

Safety experts discuss how to talk about safety
Anthony Cox from University of Birmingham and Daniel Salmon from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Vaccine Safety join the podcast to discuss vaccine safety communication.

Countering narratives of distrust key to convincing the vaccine hesitant
Understanding the difference between anti-vaccination belief and vaccine hesitancy is key to setting public health communication strategies, and the stakes have never been higher.

Reflecting on the lessons of a past pandemic – A career comes full circle
At the end of an eventful career, UMC’s retiring chief medical officer, reflects on how the lessons of the H1N1 pandemic helped prepare the pharmacovigilance world for COVID-19.