Results 1-2 of 2 for narcolepsy segment:5067167
- Seanad: Medicinal Products (27 Mar 2012)
Thomas Byrne: Tá mé an-bhuÃoch don Leas-Chathaoirleach as ucht an dÃospóireacht seo a roghnú ar an Athló, dÃospóireacht a bhfuil an-thábhachtach, i mo thuairimse. I raise the specific issue of narcolepsy which has been diagnosed recently in at least 32 children in Ireland who received the Pandemrix vaccine at the time of the swine flu epidemic. Narcolepsy is a malfunction of the sleep-wake...
- Seanad: Medicinal Products (27 Mar 2012)
Dinny McGinley: ...in 2009. As part of the response, two pandemic vaccines were provided in Ireland, Pandemrix and Celvapan. Subsequently, the Irish Medicines Board, IMB, reported two confirmed cases of narcolepsy in people who had been vaccinated, and it was agreed the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, would work with the IMB and clinical experts in narcolepsy to examine the Irish data. The...