The Italian Medicines Agency has published the ninth Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 September 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]

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(by John Blackeye) It is the last Saturday of September of this 2021 that is flying away with a thousand problems. Some of the problems we have suddenly found ourselves facing, others instead are creating them for us. The Sun seems to be that of August. The temperature is around thirty degrees. On the lawns of Piazza San Giovanni [...]

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By September 15, all American military personnel will have to be vaccinated against Covid. The Pentagon decided it. "I will ask President Biden for approval to make the vaccine mandatory for all military personnel by mid-September," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memorandum. This is what the Minister of Defense, Lloyd Austin, is preparing to order [...]

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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the seventh Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 Vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 July 2021 for the four vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]

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Italy has become all white, even the Aosta Valley joins the other regions. There will no longer be the obligation to wear the mask outdoors if, however, at a safe distance. What is worrying is the Delta variant which has seen cases quadruple compared to last May. To launch an appeal, today, [...]

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The CIA used the Jab vaccination program to track down Bin Laden in his hideout in Pakistan. The vaccination program, the Taliban mullahs said, was part of a secret CIA plot. This was the narrative used, at the time, with the followers to discredit the American health activity, the Taliban argued that [...]

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The Italian Medicines Agency has published the third Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 vaccines. The data collected and analyzed concern the reports of suspected adverse reactions registered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network between 27 December 2020 and 26 March 2021 for the three vaccines in use in the current vaccination campaign. In the period […]

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According to an ongoing study, vaccines using AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson viral vector technology could be associated with rare thrombosis events worldwide. In viral vector vaccines, pharmacologist Antonio Clavenna of the Public Health Department of the Mario Negri Institute in Milan explains to ANSA, "[...]

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The correspondent for La Stampa in New York, Paolo Mastrolilli interviewed the US Secretary of State, Tony Blinken on Italy-US relations, with a particular focus on China. The Secretary of State on the Silk Road did not mince words: "We and Italy now remain united even if China wants us divided, we will have to work [...]

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The fear of the AstraZeneca vaccine has apparently not caught on. Vaccinations resumed on Friday afternoon in all Italian regions. The extraordinary emergency commissioner Francesco Paolo Figliuolo and the head of civil protection Fabrizio Curcio received the first dose of the Anglo-Swedish vaccine yesterday. The two showed up at the point [...]

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There are 243 admissions to intensive care for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The daily balance between entries and exits is 100 more patients, bringing the total to exceed 3 again. They are exactly 3.082. The peak of hospitalizations in [...]

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The first agreement in Europe has been signed between the Russian government fund and the ADIENNE Pharma&Biotech company for the production of the Sputnik V vaccine in Italy. This was announced by the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce in a note published on its website: "In the past few hours the managing director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, confirmed [...]

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Yesterday Mario Draghi spoke to the Italians with 7 minutes of video: “I do not want to promise anything that is not really achievable, in these days we are facing a new worsening of the health emergency. Our task is to safeguard the lives of Italians by every means and allow a return as soon as possible [...]

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(by Mauro Nicastri, president of AIDR) In these days the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, is working intensely on the launch of the new plan for the administration of vaccines, with the goal of 19 million injections per month. To date, 4,2 million doses have been administered in Italy and almost 1,4 million Italians with two [...]

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Vaccination: The Draghi Plan is ready for 600 doses per day

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The suspected adverse reactions reported are in line with the information already present in the summary of the product characteristics of the vaccines and the analyzes conducted on the data acquired up to now confirm their safety profile The Italian Medicines Agency has published the first Pharmacovigilance Report on COVID-19 vaccines, which will take place monthly. I [...]

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The delays in the delivery of vaccines continue to create problems for the government which will be forced to review the national vaccination plan. According to projections, at the end of March 7 and a half million Italians will be vaccinated, all doctors and social and health personnel, guests and operators of RSA and the over 80 and [...]

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A record-breaking vaccination campaign is underway in Israel, with a tenth of the population already receiving the first dose. This is not the case, however, for the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian Authority has not asked the Israelis for help. If the vaccination of the Israeli population continues at this rate it could reach [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) With the start of vaccination campaigns around the world, the military sector is in a hurry to make its men immune from the virus. The US, Russia and China have already started mass vaccination of their military before other categories of the population to show that the priority is to maintain [...]

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The Scientific Committee for post-marketing surveillance of Covid19 vaccines (CSV-Covid19), established on 14 December 2020 by the Italian Medicines Agency in agreement with the Ministry of Health and the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid-19 emergency, will meet today, 15 December 2020, for the start of the works. The CSV-Covid19, which belongs to the AIFA General Management, will remain in office [...]

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The Italian company Advent Irbm of Pomezia and the Jenner Institute of Oxford University - explains the Ministry of Health on the official website - have, in fact, announced that accelerated tests of the anti-Covid-19 vaccine prototype will begin in England at the end of April. 550 healthy volunteers. Normally the average times to get to enter a [...]

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(by Nicola Simonetti) A person of 50 years, healthy and without comorbidities (other diseases) presented, in late September (27). a severe form of flu. The flu surge this year looks aggressive and complications threaten even healthy people. The Italian Society of Infectious Therapy reiterates the importance of universal influenza vaccination. Infectious disease specialists denounce [...]

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The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) today published the 2018 Vaccines Report on the institutional portal, which summarizes the post-marketing surveillance activities on vaccines conducted in Italy in 2018. Compared to previous reports, this year it was possible use, for the calculation of the reporting rates (ratio between the number of reports and the data of [...]

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The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) has published the 2017 Vaccines Report on the institutional portal, which describes all the suspected adverse reactions included in the National Pharmacovigilance Network (RNF) in 2017, including those arising in previous years. "With the publication of the 2017 Report, AIFA continues the transparency operation already started by providing rigorous data and analysis from [...]

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On the occasion of the Immunization Week, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) makes available on the institutional portal the list of monocomponent and multicomponent (or partially combined) vaccines authorized and available in Italy for the vaccinations provided for in Law 119/2017 and the list of vaccines authorized and on the market in Italy for vaccinations not included in Law 119/2017. I [...]

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The president of the PNA, the National Association of Deans, Antonello Giannelli, after the Miur-Salute circular which set yesterday, March 10, the deadline for the presentation of documents, reported in a press release that tomorrow there could be problems at nursery and elementary schools to allow children without documentation proving the history [...]

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Matteo Renzi takes sides against antivaccinists, and he does so by sharing a post by Roberto Burioni, a doctor now famous on the net for his crusade against "keyboard doctors", on his Facebook page. The message of the Pd secretary is very clear and only underlines the position of the Democratic Party on the issue [...]

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The Italian Medicines Agency has published today on the institutional portal the Report on the Postmarketing Surveillance of Vaccines in Italy 2016, which describes the overall results of the analyzes conducted by type of vaccine on the reports entered in the National Pharmacovigilance Network during 2016. "Also from the 2016 Report - says the General Manager, Mario Melazzini [...]

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The Mothers Association of Colleferro has not stopped fighting and demonstrating against the Lorenzin decree which imposes vaccines on children and young people who attend compulsory schools. The Association has always opposed this provision and is always present in all national events where it is necessary to make its voice heard. On 16 September 2017, [...]

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The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health have issued a joint circular with operational indications, relating to the 2017/2018 school year, for the implementation of the law on vaccination prevention. The circular aims to facilitate families in fulfilling their vaccination obligations, which are at the heart of the new legislation approved to protect public health, [...]

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The requirements for enrolling in school will change from the next school year, due to the effect of the decree on compulsory vaccination. Here is how: - SCHOOL MANAGERS: upon enrollment they are obliged to request, alternatively, the documentation proving: the vaccinations carried out, the omission or postponement of the administration of the vaccine, the exemption for immunization due to natural illness, copy of the appointment booking at [...]

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“Satisfied because we have kept together the decree from the point of view of prevention”. Thus the Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin on the sidelines of the presentation of the 2016 Annual Health and Scientific Report of the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, regarding the changes made to the vaccines decree in its passage to the Hygiene and Health Commission of [...]

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On the amendment to the decree on vaccines which would reduce the mandatory vaccines from 12 to 10 “the Minister of Health, Beatrice Lorenzin, recently asked the Istituto Superiore di Sanita 'and the Higher Health Council for an opinion on the matter. We will provide it to the minister by today ”. This was announced by Walter Ricciardi, president of the Higher Institute of Health, on the sidelines of [...]

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Lorenzin, Gelli, Burioni and others politically exploited the death of a child and falsely criminalized a family to campaign in favor of their decree and to support the herd immunity thesis as if it were scientific evidence. They tried to make believe that the cause of death was [...]

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The decree law wanted by Minister Lorenzin, which concerns the compulsory vaccination for children and young people, is not a little agitating associations all over Italy. In Veneto some parents are thinking of enrolling their children in school across the border. Others have decided not to respect the legislative dictate and go up to the front [...]

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What happened is a very serious fact and also difficult to comment on but we must realize that when we say that vaccinations save life, it really is, they save it to individuals and to the community. Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin reiterated this, referring to the story of the Monza child, in Casamassima near [...]

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The German government wants to insert in the vaccine law the obligation for nursery schools to report to the municipal authorities those parents who refuse advice on the matter. Those who do not accept the advice may therefore be exposed to fines of up to 2500 euros. The issue will be discussed in parliament next Tuesday and could come into effect already [...]

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The German government wants to insert in the vaccine law the obligation for nursery schools to report to the municipal authorities those parents who refuse advice on the matter. Those who do not accept the advice may therefore be exposed to fines of up to 2500 euros. The issue will be discussed in parliament next Tuesday and could come into effect already [...]

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