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Vaccines are credited with having saved more lives than any medical treatment ever developed. Their continued success depends on the thoughtful consideration of the many ethical questions related to their development, regulation, and use

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Ethics Chapter Published in 5th Edition of "Vaccines"
VaccineEthics.org staff from the Penn Center for Bioethics have contributed a chapter titled "Ethics" in the newly released 5th edition of Vaccines (Plotkin, Orenstein, and Offit, eds.), the internationally-respected reference text. The chapter on ethics - new to the 5th edition - examines the spectrum of ethical issues throughout the vaccine life-cycle and issues unique to vaccination in select populations or for specific disease targets.

VaccineEthics.org Staff on HPV Vaccine State Requirements
The December issue of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics includes a paper by researchers from the Penn Center for Bioethics and Johns Hopkins University titled "Lessons from the Failure of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine State Requirements." The paper reviews the controversy caused by state proposals to require HPV vaccination among students and considers the impact of this debate on long-term HPV vaccination efforts. More information on the paper is available here.

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	Latest news from blog.vaccineethics.org Updates: HIV vaccine reassessment; 2nd rotavirus vaccine approved; Avian flu ... Here are a few updates on topics we've been covering over the past several months: HIV vaccine research -- Several months after the failure of what was billed as the 'most promising' HIV vaccine candidate, NIAID organized a meeting late last month to reassess the state of HIV vaccine research and plans for the future. The "Summit on HIV Vaccine Research and Development" garnered significant media attentio... [More] Journal roundup: Racial disparities and school requirements, Parental compreh... As we do periodically, here are some papers of note published recently in the medical literature. (Most require a subscription in order to view the full text.) "Effect of a School-Entry Vaccination Requirement on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hepatitis B Immunization Coverage Levels Among Public School Students" (Pediatrics, Vol. 121, No. 3); Included in an issue with several papers on vaccination, thi... [More]