Comments on: Tom Nolan on the swine flu vaccine http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/tom-nolan-on-the-swine-flu-vaccine/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anandan http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/tom-nolan-on-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comment-4964 Anandan Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:17:03 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=854#comment-4964 Did you find any use with methylprednisolone in H1N1 pneumonia? Some recommend it and they say the earlier the better.

]]> By: Tom Nolan http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/tom-nolan-on-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comment-4948 Tom Nolan Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:02:16 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=854#comment-4948 Seshubabu: i’m not aware of any other marker or more readily available test than (RT)PCR from a swab or other sample (see http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/1178/summary/overview.html). It would be interesting to look more closely at relative lymphopenia.

A good place for sharing provisional findings quickly without peer review is PLOS Currents (discussed on a previous blog), but it’s not collaborative, more a means to publish results quickly. If anyone has read any other interesting research on swine flu please let me know any it can be featured on this blog too.

GH Hall: The JCVI who announced that the vaccine could be given at the same time as other childhood vaccines because it is not a live vaccine according to the Mail. The minutes from their previous meeting are not available online yet (http://www.dh.gov.uk/ab/jcvi/index.htm) but if i can find more details about their reasoning I’ll let you know. However, isn’t it standard practise that this type of vaccine can be given with other non-live vaccines?

]]> By: Mark Struthers http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/tom-nolan-on-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comment-4944 Mark Struthers Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:06:49 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=854#comment-4944 I thoroughly recommend Richard Halvorsen’s book ‘The Truth about Vaccines’. It’s eye opening stuff and especially recommended for complacent doctors with their eyes wide shut.

]]> By: seshubabu http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/tom-nolan-on-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comment-4940 seshubabu Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:05:21 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=854#comment-4940 Apart from lymphopenia, have you come across any other marker in lieu of virological testing to diagnose h1n1? There must be some clinical evidence which has not been recognised so far by clinicians treating h1n1 cases. I think clinicians right now are busy treating than documenting and planning to publish at a later date. By the time the epidemic declines, such data would n’t be of any use to the current episode. Through your blog columns you can motivate teams engaged in managing h1n1 cases to broadcast any shred of information as soon as possible, like the reported lymphopenia for the common good of all clinicians.

]]> By: GH Hall http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2009/10/21/tom-nolan-on-the-swine-flu-vaccine/#comment-4937 GH Hall Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:11:37 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/?p=854#comment-4937 How about answering Dr Halvorsen’s point about the absence of evidence on combining vaccines rather than making comments on side issues?

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