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Vaccines can cause certain side effects but serious ones appear very rare - and there's no link with autism and Type 1 diabetes, the Institute of Medicine says in the first comprehensive safety review in 17 years....

Giving alternative treatments such as homeopathic remedies instead of conventional medicines to children may have deadly side effects in rare ...

Two pivotal trials of a Johnson & Johnson experimental HIV drug found it worked as well as an existing drug, with fewer side effects but also with nearly twice as many patients failing to respond to treatment.

The government is starting an unprecedented system to track possible side effects as mass flu vaccinations begin next month.