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Vaccinations (Cancer Prevention)
Ms Harman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research his Department has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the relationship between vaccination and cancer prevention. [19222]
Mr. Horam: The Department of Health has not commissioned from central funds research into the relationship between vaccines and cancer prevention.
However, the Department of Health, Medical Research Centre, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and Glaxo/Wellcome--a leading pharmaceutical company--have jointly set up the Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, with Professor Peter Beverley as its first scientific head.
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The overall research strategy of the institute will be
Ms Harman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many new diagnoses of chronic liver disease there have been in each of the last five years. [19223]
Mr. Horam:
This information is not available.
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Ms Harman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were prescribed and how many and what percentage of doctors prescribed methadone in each region, district, family health services authority area and nationally in each of the last five years. [19227]
Mr. Malone:
Information is not available in the form requested.
"to improve understanding of the immune response and apply that knowledge to the development of new vaccines to prevent diseases resulting from infections and malignancies (cancers)."