Results 1-9 of 9 for narcolepsy speaker:Marc MacSharry

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: The one I am interested in asking about is Pandemrix and narcolepsy. I want to put a couple of things on record to give context. On 19 May 2009, Dr. Brendan Corcoran, on behalf of the State, signed a contract for the provision of Pandemrix. In October or November 2009, the State distributed leaflets to patients and a different one to health professionals which claimed that Pandemrix was as...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...understanding the association [the established association, as found by Dr. Darina O'Flanagan, the then director of the Health Protection Surveillance Agency, now retired] between the vaccine and narcolepsy. However, our main focus is on the people affected and their families. What he should have added, Mr. Breen is telling me, is "provided they can prove their case".

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: What if there is a link between narcolepsy and the vaccine, as Dr. Darina O'Flanagan, not I, says? It seems to accord with Swedish and Finnish reports because that is where the same vaccine was used. We know it was not clinically tested and that it was not the same as the regular flu vaccine, even though it was stated otherwise in a leaflet. The State also indemnified the company so it had...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...who ran their car into the back of another who is looking for €2,000 or €3,000. It is about whether somebody will have the mental age of a 15 year old when they reach 25 because they had narcolepsy, the supports were not in place for them, and nobody linked that to the reason they got it, which was a vaccine that GSK was advising, from November 2010, under European...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I am sorry. I am quoting the then director of the health protection surveillance centre, Dr. Darina O'Flanagan, who stated there was a 13-fold higher risk of narcolepsy in the vaccinated compared with the unvaccinated. We all know pharmaceutical companies around the world have a great deal of money. I have a British Medical Journal article in front of me on the futility of pharma vigilance...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...outcomes? Where are we now? In 2012, Dr. Darina O'Flanagan on behalf of the State, along with others in Norway and Sweden where the same vaccine had been administered, reported a proven link between narcolepsy and the Pandemrix vaccination. This is now established. A number of children and young adults have experienced life altering illnesses. Some have taken cases to the courts and...

Topical Issue Debate: Vaccine Damage Compensation Scheme (11 Jul 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...steering group on vaccines which had gone back over several years. That is over a year ago: what has happened? It is six years since our own Dr. Darina O'Flanagan established and proved the link with narcolepsy which concurs with the Swedes and Norwegians who also used the same one, and yet we have done nothing. I accept there is discretion in medical cards and there are a few bits and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Court Orders (7 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...are suffering as a result of alleged mistreatment by way of the administration of the pandemrix vaccine without full information being made available to them at the time and who now suffer from narcolepsy and are waiting for the full discovery of information as ordered by the High Court in November 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45723/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 639. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 230 of 12 October 2016 and 372 of 17 October 2017, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons suffering from narcolepsy alleged to be caused by the pandemrix vaccine are not assured of access to rapid diagnosis treatment, multidisciplinary assessments led by clinical experts and have access only to a...