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                                                         Vaccination News    

* ►November 21, 2008 - Implementation of Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccination --- Worldwide, 2006 - MMWR/CDC

* ►November 21, 2008 - Continued Shortage of Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib) Conjugate Vaccines and Potential Implications for Hib Surveillance --- United States, 2008 - MMWR/CDC

* ►November 21, 2008 - New strain of Ebola virus - Straits Times - "Scientists said on Friday an outbreak of Ebola that killed 37 people in Uganda last year was sparked by a hitherto unknown species of one of the world's most notorious viruses."

* ►November 21, 2008 - Md. lawmakers consider anthrax investigation commission - Baltimore Examiner

* ►November 20, 2008 - Vaccine Injury Compensation: A Failed Experiment in Tort Reform? by Barbara Loe Fisher - Vaccine Awakening

* ►November 20, 2008 - NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter

Vaccine Injury Compensation: A Failed Experiment in Tort Reform? by Barbara Loe Fisher

On Nov. 14, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 into law, instituting first-time vaccine safety reforms in the U.S. vaccination system and creating the first no-fault federal vaccine injury compensation program alternative to a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers and pediatricians. Twenty-two years later, on Nov. 18, 2008, I made a statement to the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) and questioned whether the compensation program is fatally flawed and so broken that it should be repealed. Many parents are wondering whether it would be better to return to civil court without restrictions to sue vaccine manufacturers and doctors for injuries and deaths their children suffered after receiving federally recommended vaccines.

During its two-decade history, two out of three individuals applying for federal vaccine injury compensation have been turned away empty-handed even though to date $1.8B has been awarded to more than 2,200 plaintiff's out of some 12,000 who have applied. Today, nearly 5,000 vaccine injury claims are sitting in limbo because they represent children, who suffered brain and immune system dysfunction after vaccination but have been diagnosed with regressive autism, which is not recognized by the program as a compensable event. There is $2.7B sitting in the Trust Fund which could have been awarded to vaccine victims.

At the time of the law's creation in 1986, Congress said they were committed to setting up a fair, expedited, non-adversarial, less traumatic, less expensive no-fault compensation mechanism alternative to civil litigation. But Congress also acknowledged that any legislation providing liability protection must also be equally committed to preventing vaccine harm. The Act contains strong safety provisions, including first-time mandates for doctors to record and report serious health problems, hospitalizations, injuries and deaths after vaccination and give parents written benefit and risk information before a child is vaccinated.

But few of the safety provisions have been enforced and, as I testified in Congress in 1999 and again at the Nov. 18 ACCV meeting, there has been a betrayal of the promise that was made to parents about how the compensation program would be implemented. Obtaining compensation has become a highly adversarial, time-consuming, traumatic and expensive process for families of vaccine injured children and far too many vaccine victims have been denied compensation while vaccine makers and doctors have enjoyed liability protection and dozens of doses of nine new vaccines have been added to the childhood vaccine schedule.

I pointed out that federal court judges are beginning to look back at the legislative history of the Act, which so clearly affirms the intent of Congress when creating it. In recent court decisions, judges have agreed with parents and their attorneys that the compensation program has become far too difficult for plaintiffs. A recent state Supreme Court ruling also reiterated that Congress never intended to shield vaccine manufacturers from ALL liability for vaccine injuries and deaths when it could be demonstrated that a safer product could have been marketed.

In a Supreme Court of Georgia ruling on October 6, 2008 in American Home Products v. Ferrari, the justices unanimously held that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act does not give a vaccine manufacturer blanket immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits if it can be proven that the company could have made a safer vaccine. Georgia Supreme Court Justice George Carley wrote that the 1986 law and "the congressional intent behind it shows that the Vaccine Act does not pre-empt all design defect claims." He added that Congress did not "use language which indicates that use of the compensation system is mandatory" but only "an appealing alternative" to the courts.

Justice Carley wrote that there is no evidence that "FDA approval alone renders a vaccine unavoidably safe" and said "We hesitate to hold that a manufacturer is excused from making changes it knows will improve its product merely because an older, more dangerous version received FDA approval," adding that to do so would have "the perverse effect" of granting complete immunity from liability to an entire industry and he concluded that "in the absence of any clear and manifest congressional purpose to achieve that result, we must reject such a far-reaching interpretation."

During the ACCV meeting, longtime plaintiff's attorney Sherry Drew gave a moving description of the suffering that families with vaccine injured children endure and, during public comment at the end of the meeting, Jim Moody, of SafeMinds, and Vicky Debold, RN, PhD joined me in urging the Committee to recommend to the new Secretary of DHHS that more vaccine injured children be compensated. This was echoed by outgoing parent ACCV member Tawny Buck, of Alaska, who has a DPT vaccine injured daughter and new ACCV parent member Sarah Hoiberg, of Florida, who has a DTaP vaccine injured daughter.

In the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act, the Institute of Medicine was directed to review the medical literature for scientific evidence that vaccines can cause injury and death, which resulted in landmark reports to Congress in 1991 and 1994 providing that evidence. IOM announced at the ACCV meeting that it has recently been contracted by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) to assemble a Committee of scientific experts to review of the medical literature for evidence regarding the biological mechanisms for injury and death in association with varicella zoster (chicken pox), hepatitis B, meningococcal and HPV vaccine. There will be several public workshops during the Committee's two- year study.

NVIC has been calling for basic science research into the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death for more than two decades. Without understanding how and why vaccines can cause brain and immune system dysfunction, there will be no way to develop pathological profiles to help scientifically confirm whether or not an individual has been injured or died from vaccination.

The truth about vaccine risks lies in the science, properly designed and conducted. The upcoming IOM review may be hampered by a lack of biological mechanism studies published in the medical literature but the review is also an opportunity to point the way to fill in those gaps in knowledge and the need for additional research that could become part of a national vaccine safety research agenda.

In the absence of scientific certainty, all children who regress into poor health after vaccination should be given a fair hearing in the federal vaccine injury compensation program and generously compensated when no other plausible cause can be found for what happened to them after vaccination. Congress intended the vaccine injury compensation program to be non-adversarial, fair, generous and humane. If it cannot function the way it was intended to function, then parents have every right to call for its repeal and a return to unrestricted lawsuits.

Click here to read my entire ACCV statement with live links to the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act, U.S. Court of Appeals decisions, congressional testimony and other original sources.

Click here for ACCV meeting minutes and dates for upcoming meetings, which can be accessed via tele-conference call by the public who cannot attend the Rockville, Maryland meetings in person.

* ►November 20, 2008 - Costly program with a shady past - Baltimore Examiner

* ►November 20, 2008 - The Pentagon responds to anthrax articles - Baltimore Examiner

* ►November 20, 2008 - Sickening results - Baltimore Examiner - "Eddie Norman is only 43 years old, but he gets confused when he tries to remember important dates. The Fort Meade veteran walks with an old man’s shuffle and has twice experienced kidney failure. To combat this misery, he takes 13 pills a day. ... Norman is not a victim of the anthrax letter attacks of 2001. He is a casualty of the Army’s Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, instituted in 1998 to protect American troops from the threat of biological warfare. About 2.1 million troops have received the vaccine."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Gulf War illness is real, the government says - Triage Blog via Chicago Tribune

* ►November 20, 2008 - Father claims vaccines based more on faith - letter - Straight.com - "As the father of a vaccine-damage child, I take exception to health experts like Monika Naus, director of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control's immunization program, who respond to criticisms of vaccines as "really dumb" ["It's in your back yard, so get tetanus savvy", October 30–November 6]. Having a child with an uncontrolled-seizure disorder, neurological damage, and diminished cognitive functioning as a result of a vaccine is evidence enough for me that vaccines are not as safe and effective as claimed. I spent 10 years researching vaccine damage after my son was damaged and discovered that the amount of vaccine damage is substantial."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Coroner rules babies deaths accidental - HOI-29 Hoinews.com - "Coroner's juries have ruled the deaths of two local babies accidents. Both babies, 5-month-old Jaylin Maxison, and 2-month old Kendrick Franklin Jr. were co-sleeping with adult caregivers on adult beds. The infants were two of five that have died in similar ways in the past few weeks."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Listen Live Friday to the Federal Plan for Autism Research - Age of Autism - "Perhaps the most important meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee HERE will take place in Washington on Friday, November 21 from 9am - 4pm."

* ►November 20, 2008 - On Autism, Somalis Feel the Chill in Minnesota By Anne Dachel - Age of Autism

* ►November 20, 2008 - A Political Trial in London By John Stone - Age of Autism - "By now everyone has forgotten what it is all about: all they need to know is that Andrew Wakefield ... has been 'discredited', that there is no link between MMR and autism, and he is appearing before the General Medical Council with his colleagues Professors John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch in a protracted hearing, which may lead to them being barred from medical practice in the United Kingdom."

* ►November 20, 2008 - First Senate bill on autism - AP via KTEN.com - "A bill to require insurance companies to cover diagnosis and treatment of autism in children is the first bill filed in the state Senate for the 2009 legislative session. Senate Bill 1 is entitled 'Nick's Law' and is named for 11-year-old Nick Rhode of Edmond, who suffers from autism. Wayne Rhode - Nick's father - lobbied without success last year to get the measure out of a House committee."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Autism bill goes to Gov. - Chicago Breaking News - "Insurance companies would be required to cover autism diagnosis and treatment up to  $36,000 a year under legislation sent to Gov. Rod Blagojevich today."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Allergies, Asthma and Autism: How Did Our Children Get So Sick? - Mom and AllergyKids Founder Robyn O'Brien Fights for Awareness - Daily Green

* ►November 20, 2008 - An Unofficial Vote of No Confidence in Pediatricians from the Autism Community - Autism Blog via http://autism.about.com

* ►November 20, 2008 - Spain to test vaccine to treat cocaine addiction - AFP via Google

* ►November 20, 2008 - CDC Monitors Shortage of Hib Vaccine - The shot protects against infection that can cause meningitis, pneumonia in young children - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report - "Merck spokeswoman Amy Rose said that problems with the vaccine's sterilization process necessitated recalling the vaccine and then stopping production. The vaccines are marketed as PedvaxHIB and Comvax."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Rat Poison Chemical Found in Ingredient List For HPV Vaccine - NaturalNews.com - "What do rat poison and the HPV vaccine have in common? The answer is a hazardous chemical known as sodium borate. Savvy readers may wonder what a toxin that is commonly used to kill rats is doing in the ingredient list for the HPV vaccine that is currently being pushed on girls as young as nine and is even being considered for men and boys."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Cervarix, GSK’s cervical cancer vaccine, wins tender for Dutch national immunisation programme - GSK via WebWire

* ►November 20, 2008 - Dutch pick Glaxo's Cervarix for vaccine programme - Reuters

* ►November 20, 2008 - Ontario School Board Flip Flops on HPV Vaccine Decision - LifeSiteNews.com - "Yesterday the board voted 5-4 to reverse the previous decision after trustee Laurie Aceti, who last year voted against the vaccine, moved to hold another vote on the issue, based on a survey which purported to show that a majority of parents wanted their daughters inoculated with the vaccine in school. ... Trustee Kathleen Rosilius, who has resolutely opposed the vaccine, said she was disappointed in the vote, but had expected the reversal of last year's decision. Rosilius told the Sault Star that she opposes the vaccine on moral grounds, questions the vaccine's safety, and believes too much money - $300 million from the federal government and $117 million from the province - is being spent on the inoculation program."

* ►November 20, 2008 - In Young Men, HPV Vaccine Prevents Conditions That Lead to Cancer - UCSF Today

* ►November 20, 2008 - Wyeth vaccine plant cuts 124: Few options exist for those laid off - The News & Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX via Trading Markets - "The Sanford plant, which primarily produces the childhood vaccine Prevnar, is one of Wyeth's largest plants. After the layoffs it will employ nearly 1,000 people."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Important Message for 2008 Universal Children's Day - "Unacceptable and Inexcusable" - 25,000 young children will die today for lack of basic survival needs - UNICEF USA Appeals for Public Involvement, Presidential Initiative to Save 9.2 Million Children Annually - press release - US Fund for UNICEF via PRNewswire

* ►November 20, 2008 - Malaria one-two could stop bird flu - Irish Times

* ►November 20, 2008 - Health Department Uses Flu Clinic as Drill - New Canaan News Review

* ►November 20, 2008 - There's another side of flu shots - letter - Caledon Citizen - "Today, with unlimited amounts of money and mass communications, the spin doctors, with the help of health care professionals, are once again at work promoting a questionable product. Forty years from now, history may once again prove that those who chose not to be vaccinated were not the ignorant ones, but were the people who did their homework and fought to protect themselves and their loved ones. There is also the legal aspect of this controversy. A person in Canada is protected by the Charter of Rights to be free of discrimination based on religion or belief. The Canadian Medical Law and Informed Consent Act defines vaccinations as an invasive medical procedure which carries the risk of injury and death, and as such, is subject to legal principle under Canadian medical law, that grants every individual the right to information on material risks and the fundamental right of persons to be free from unwanted physical interference."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Vaccination did not save youth - Canterbury University student Bowen Holgate, 19, of Timaru, woke up with a severe headache on Sunday. Two days later meningococcal disease claimed his life. - The Timaru Herald via Stuff.co.nz - "A Timaru family are grieving the loss of a son and brother who died from a disease that he was immunised against a few years ago."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Midshipman who died of meningitis fourth to die this year - Baltimore Examiner - "Bacterial meningitis led to the death of a fourth U.S. Naval Academy midshipman this year despite the 20-year-old having been vaccinated against the infectious and contagious disease. Fourth-class or freshman Midshipman Frederick Henry Eissler, 20, of West Chester, Pa., died Monday at the University of Maryland Medical Center from complications caused by meningitis..."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Parents urged to look out for meningitis symptoms as child dies in Burley-in-Wharfedale - Wharfedale & Airedale Observer, UK

* ►November 20, 2008 - UNICEF: Measles Initiative Supports Disease Prevention for Children in China's Earthquake Zone - MaximsNews Network

* ►November 20, 2008 -  Whooping cough increases in Lake County - Vernon Hills Review via Pioneerlocal.com - "'I'd say it's a dramatic increase,' said Victor Plotkin, an epidemiologist for the Lake County Health Department....He said the most recent outbreak is a bit more puzzling because many of the children who are becoming ill are younger children who were recently vaccinated. 'Unfortunately, during this outbreak, even people that have been recently vaccinated are becoming sick anyway,' he said. 'Their symptoms are milder, but they still can pass the bacteria along to others and make others sick.'"
 
* ►November 20, 2008 - St. Louis County reports rise in pertussis - AP via Belleville News Democrat - "'The cases we've seen (are children who) have been immunized,' said Cindy Butler, a state Department of Health epidemiologist for eastern Missouri. 'The problem is waning immunity, meaning their immunity level fades over time. We may need to evaluate the immunization schedule as a nation.'"

* ►November 20, 2008 - Physicians Reluctant to Follow CDC Call for Routine HIV Testing - MedPage Today

* ►November 20, 2008 - WRHA says 17 people exposed to HIV, hepatitis risk - Doctors say chance of disease very low - Winnipeg Sun - "The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is trying to contact 17 people who may have been exposed to infections because of a nurse's improper use of a blood-sampling device at a St. Boniface clinic. The exposure risk of infections possibly including hepatitis B and C occurred between May 2007 and last month during the nurse's work with a finger-stick blood-sampling tool, in which the employee cleaned its cap with alcohol between every use rather than changing the cap as required."
 
* ►November 20, 2008 - 25,000 Americans don't know they have HIV - United Press International

* ►November 20, 2008 - Anthrax case lacks 'simple' cause - A medical expert has told a fatal accident inquiry there was no "simple answer" why only one man had contracted anthrax from infected drums. - BBC - "'One of the parts of this inquiry is to establish why Pascal Norris suffered from anthrax when so many other people who were exposed to this did not,' said Mr Macari. 'Obviously one major health factor was that he had leukaemia and was in remission. 'Would that explain why he alone was affected?'"

* ►November 20, 2008 - Report: Deadly Mercury Pollution Up at Most of Top 50 Worst U.S. - Coal-Fired Power Plants, Underscoring Need to Fix Lax Bush EPA Handling of Problem - press release - Environmental Integrity Project via PRNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

* ►November 20, 2008 - Lilly Chair: Pharma's future is personalized meds - FiercePharma

* ►November 20, 2008 - Boy, 12, collapsed and died after 'using too much Lynx deodorant' - Daily Mail, UK

* ►November 19, 2008 - GM Maize Disturbs Immune System of Young and Old Mice - New research add to the weight of damning evidence against the safety of GM food - Dr. Mae-Wan Ho - Institute of Science in Society

* ►November 19, 2008 - Local Autism Study Focuses On Environment - News10.net - "UC Davis researcher Irva Hertz-Picciotto is leading the study called 'MARBLES,' which stands for Markers of Autism Risk in Babies - Learning Early Signs. 'Autism is very clearly not a single cause type of condition. It's got to be multiple factors,' said Hertz-Picciotto, who hopes her study will reveal environmental factors that combined with genetics can trigger autism."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Just don't shoot me - Democrat Herald - "Second, while I’ve been blessed with outstanding health, I have a history of reacting poorly to vaccinations. Mainly they just tend to make me feel ill, but one of the reactions was fairly dramatic: It’s speculated that the violent illness caused by a measles vaccine when I was 4 is what cost me my sense of smell."

* ►November 19, 2008 - State, UAlbany partner for infant screening program - Daily Gazette - "With the high cost of health care, there may be a less expensive way to screen infants for risk factors for developmental disorders like autism - a new screening program unveiled this morning by state Health Department and University at Albany officials."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Drawing the Line on Drug Testing (requires registration) - The New York Times - "The proposed random drug testing plan for Ridge High is similar to ones already in place at the 27 other New Jersey school districts. Any students wanting to play a sport, join a club or get a parking permit — about 80 percent of Ridge High’s 1,600 kids — would have to consent to random testing or would not be able to participate. About seven kids a week would be selected by computer and called to the nurse’s office to urinate in a cup."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Statement of the National Vaccine Information Center - Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-founder & President - Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines - November 18, 2008 - The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Failed Experiment in Tort Reform? - www.nvic.org

* ►November 18, 2008 - Link Between Nicotine Addiction And Autism - Ohio State University via Medical News Today

* ►November 14, 2008 - Science Reporting by Press Release - An old problem grows worse in the digital age - Columbia Journalism Review

* ►November 10, 2008 - Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans than Illegal Drugs - http://rinf.com

* ►October 30, 2008 - Doctors want to encourage facility staffers to get flu shots - Caledon Citizen - "The number of people working at Peel Region's long-term care centres who don't get flu shots is 'unconscionable,' according to the medical director of the Davis Centre in Bolton."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Govt seeks to buy bird flu vaccine - Qatar intends to purchase avian influenza vaccine and update its antiviral drug stocks as part of the ongoing preparedness against the disease which may become a pandemic. - Gulf Times

* ►November 20, 2008 - Pharmacists set for conference on drugs and their side effects - Daily Monitor, Uganda

* ►November 20, 2008 - Malaria Prevention in Short-Term Travelers (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►November 20, 2008 - GM canarypox vaccine gets green light - New Zealand Herald - "A live, genetically modified, canarypox virus vaccine has been given the green light to protect horses in New Zealand if there is a outbreak of equine influenza. If used, it will be the first time a genetically modified organism has been released into the environment."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Parents fight for vaccination choice - Conscientious objection option sought in New Jersey - Independent.gmnews.com

* ►November 20, 2008 - Vaccine hope in MS link to virus - Sydney Morning Herald - "Researchers from the University of Queensland yesterday confirmed a link between the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes glandular fever and is carried by more than 90 per cent of the world's population, and multiple sclerosis, saying the vaccine, developed to combat glandular fever, could save thousands of lives."

* ►November 20, 2008 - Researchers discover viral link to MS - transcript - AM via www.abc.net.au - "JOHN POLLARD: The evidence about Epstein-Barr virus is still circumstantial, as I say, it is not proven. So yes it is too far to go to say that anti-virals will cure MS or that vaccines will cure it. One can only go that far when this proposition is proven and it is by no means that at the moment."

* ►November 19, 2008 - First Report Linking Vaccine Aluminium With ME/CFS - Medical Hypothesis via The One Click Group

* ►November 19, 2008 - Vaccine Related Chronic Fatigue Syndrome In An Individual Demonstrating Aluminium Overload - Keele University via Medical News Today - "The result was a severe and ongoing immune response to elevated body stores of aluminium, which was initiated by a course of five aluminium adjuvant-based vaccinations within a short period of time. There are strong precedents for delayed hypersensitivity to aluminium in children receiving vaccinations which include aluminium-based adjuvants, with as many as 1% of recipients showing such a response."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Daschle Tapped for HHS Secretary - From Access to Health Care to Questions of Bioethics, Slew of Challenges Await  (includes video) - ABC News

* ►November 19, 2008 - David Kirby: Tom Daschle: Friend to Many Autism Families - The Huffington Post - "By nominating Tom Daschle to head up the agency, President Elect Obama has selected a man who has demonstrated an unflinching willingness to question vaccine safety, and to fight for the rights of those people who believe they have been, or may be, seriously injured by certain vaccinations."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Our Kids Somali or American - Age of Autism

* ►November 19, 2008 - An Open Letter to the Somali Parents of Minnesota By J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

* ►November 19, 2008 - All grown up — now where to go? - Autistic kids are quickly turning into autistic adults, and the growing population is straining social services and posing new challenges for parents who have to arrange care for them 24/7. - EastBayRI.com - "The Randall family’s journey into the world of autism began about two decades ago. Ms. Randall said things seemed normal when Andrew was an infant. He had met all his early milestones, such as taking a bottle, walking and talking. By the time he was 20 months old, however, his parents noticed that many of his skills were regressing. The doctors 'pooh-poohed' their concerns, according to Ms. Randall, and Andrew didn’t receive an official diagnosis of autism until age 4. 'He missed out on a lot of early therapy which could have really benefited him,' Ms. Randall said, who believes an earlier MMR vaccine — an immunization against measles, mumps and rubella — was the cause of Andrew’s condition."

* ►November 19, 2008 - The Only Thimerosal Free Vaccination Schedule By Julie Obradovic - Age of Autism

* ►November 19, 2008 - We Are All Somali! - Adventures in Autism

* ►November 19, 2008 - Autism needs more study - letter - Youngstown Vindicator

* ►November 19, 2008 - GWS Report: Funny How the Vaccine Message Changed - Anthrax Vaccine -- posts by Meryl Nass, M.D.

* ►November 19, 2008 - Refusing to Vaccinate - video - MyFox Boston

* ►November 19, 2008 - ME/CFS Charities Parliamentary Stitch Up Rolled Out - Campaigning for Research into Myalgic Encephalomyelitis via The One Click Group

* ►November 19, 2008 - Are Vaccinations Causing Early Alzheimer's? By Byron J. Richards, CCN - www.newswithviews.com - "This past week the Wall Street Journal ran an article on a man getting Alzheimer’s in his 40s, one of 500,000 Americans with early onset. The notion that this problem is striking ever earlier sent shock waves through the country and left people wondering why this is happening. Clearly, there are many inflammatory factors in one’s life and gene-related weaknesses involved. However, theoretical data on the inflammatory nature of vaccines, especially in the large numbers given to children at an early age while their nerves are developing response patterns for future life, means that they cannot be ruled out as one main factor that primes the Alzheimer’s pump."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Wyeth claims no GCP lapse as India suspends vaccine trial (requires subscription for full article) - Scrip World Pharmaceutical News - "Wyeth says that there were no GCP (good clinical practice) lapses in its now-suspended Indian pneumococcal conjugate vaccine trial. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) halted the trial following the death of an infant, alleging that the company had flouted the inclusion-exclusion criteria for the study."

* ►November 19, 2008 - GM Maize Reduces Fertility & Deregulates Genes in Mice - Comprehensive long term studies commissioned by the Austrian government reveal that mice fed GM maize produced fewer and smaller litters with many genes affected compared to controls. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho - Institute of Science in Society

* ►November 19, 2008 - Glaxo rejected Maryland doctor's Avandia warning: report - MarketWatch - "GlaxoSmithKline ... rejected a warning from a Maryland doctor in 2000 that its Avandia drug was linked to congestive heart failure, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing the internist involved. The report also said the Food and Drug Administration was 'unresponsive.' A Glaxo spokeswoman told the paper the doctor's claim was unsubstantiated and acknowledged the firm asked the doctor's hospital not to publicize their view."

* ►November 19, 2008 - FDA: J&J’s Risperdal and Lilly’s Zyprexa Are Over-Used in Kids - BNET

* ►November 19, 2008 - Barton Asks GAO To Review FDA's Handling Of Heparin Scandal - Dow Jones via CNNMoney - "Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, on Thursday raised questions about the adequacy of the Food and Drug Administration's handling of a scandal involving a contaminated blood thinner amid concerns the agency misreported deaths tied to the product and didn't thoroughly investigate the problem."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Pro-vaccine columnist won't give her kids flu shots - The Douglass Report - "Kotz also points out that 'several of the children who died from the flu last year had been vaccinated against it.' It's hard to make the pro-vaccine argument with that little nugget of truth, right? And I'd find it difficult to be properly motivated to expose my children to the risks of flu shots when, as Kotz writes, "The vaccine is 75 percent effective at preventing flu." So for all that exposure to anaphylactic shock and paralysis, there's still a one in four chance that you'll still get the flu. And it could still kill you. Makes you want to keep your kids' sleeves rolled down, doesn't it?"

* ►November 19, 2008 - Shots All Around! - The case for immunizing everyone against the flu. - Slate Magazine

* ►November 19, 2008 - Experts weigh advisability of school-based flu shots - CIDRAP News

* ►November 19, 2008 - Egg Free Flu Vaccine (includes video) - KDRV.com - "A few flu seasons ago, Dr. Christine Hay's work followed her home when her young daughter got sick. 'And then the rest of us started getting sick one after another, all again with the flu, all of us having been vaccinated,' says Hay. Incredibly, the family's flu experience repeated itself the following year, when the shot didn't match the circulating strains, victims of the educated guessing that goes into the annual vaccine."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Merck's 2008: The Year That Wasn't - RTT News - "With regulatory setbacks and patent expiration of one of its blockbuster drugs, it cannot be disputed that Merck suffered some of the biggest blows in 2008. To top it all, the demise of potential blockbusters like Taranabant and Cordaptive has tossed a wrench into the company's efforts to boost its bottom line. However, it has not been all gloomy for Merck in 2008. Now that the FDA has expanded the usage of Gardasil vaccine to treat cancers of the vagina and vulva, which affect more than 5,000 women in the U.S. each year, Merck may see an uptick in Gardasil sales."

* ►November 19, 2008 - FDA Panel Slams Rising Antipsychotic Use In Kids - Pharmalot - "After a steady stream of reports that antipsychotics are increasingly prescribed to children, often for unapproved uses, such as treating attention deficit disorders (back story), an FDA advisory committee yesterday chastised the FDA for not doing more to discourage such prescribing."

* ►November 19, 2008 - A Heavy Heart: The FDA Weighs CV Side Effects - Pharmalot - "The rise of serious heart risks in drugs that treat chronic conditions has become one of the FDA’s top worries and is changing how the agency weighs new meds, according to John Jenkins, director of the agency’s Office of New Drugs. And so the FDA is thinking about how to weigh possible side effects as more drugs used to treat diabetes, pain and other conditions also appear linked to heart attacks."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Silence! Glaxo Intimidated Another Avandia Critic - Pharmalot

* ►November 19, 2008 - Wellness centers tapped for three high schools - Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill and Wheaton propsed for programs for uninsured - Bowie Star - "The centers are funded out of Health and Human Services and built as additions to the school, costing an average of $1.3 million to construct. In the health care half, they offer a range of services including prescriptions, on-going treatment and immunizations. That aspect of the center is staffed by health technicians and the school nurse. A nurse practitioner is on hand four days a week; a pediatrician is there once a week."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Whooping cough makes a comeback in Alexandria - Alexandria Echo Press - "Another reason Westby expected a breakout of pertussis is because the last time most people were immunized, they were 6 years old. And now, a new, better-tolerated vaccine, Tdap, has been developed and people should be getting it, she said. She hopes that next fall, the Minnesota Department of Health or the Centers for Disease Control will implement a requirement that all students either entering kindergarten or 7th grade receive the new pertussis vaccine."

* ►November 19, 2008 - FDA opens office in China - USA Today - "In China, eight American employees, with expertise in food, medicine and medical devices, will work with Chinese government agencies and producers to raise standards and guarantee quality before goods are bound for the United States."

* ►November 19, 2008 - What he loves likely sickened him - The State - "Though it’s hard to say with 100 percent medical certainty, Daniel DeCamps, Stone’s longtime doctor, said Stone’s symptoms are consistent with a classic case of mercury poisoning. 'I feel his high mercury levels are attributed to the fact he ate so much (local) fish,' said DeCamps of Lake City. Stone describes it this way: 'I just felt so bad, had hair loss, fatigued, just got to the point where I could hardly go. I couldn’t remember things.' He also had terrible joint pains. ... DeCamps says mercury can affect different people differently. Stone’s blood levels were four times higher than accepted safe levels, DeCamps said."

* ►November 19, 2008 - DHEC lowering mercury limits, but not far enough, some say - The State

* ►November 19, 2008 - GM horse flu vaccines gets go ahead - http://tvnz.co.nz - "GE Free New Zealand president Claire Bleakley says if one of the stable hands had the flu and the horse did as well, we could have a mutation worse than SARS. ERMA admits there is a potential risk but says it's highly improbable."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Feedback: People ‘On Gard’ Over Gardasil - WWNYtv.net

* ►November 18, 2008 - Feedback: Local Woman Says Gardasil Killed Her Daughter (includes video) - WWNYtv.net - "Lisa Ericzon isn’t alone in saying Gardasil killed her daughter. Christine Tarsell, a 21 year old from Maryland died suddenly in June of 2007 - three weeks after her third Gardasil shot. The cause of death was undetermined. Her mother, Emily, blames Gardasil. Amber Kaufmann, a 16 year old from Missouri, died in April of 2008 - three days after her second Gardasil shot. She had a seizure, stopped breathing and was taken off life support several days later. Her cause of death was listed as 'cardiac disturbance of undetermined etiology'. Her mother, Terri Collins, blames Gardasil. Together, Jessie Ericzon, Christine Tarsell and Amber Kaufmann are three of the 27 deaths that have been reported following a Gardasil injection."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Somali Gloves Come Off: Autism in Minnesota - SOMALI GLOVES COME OFF – A mother’s letters to the Minnesota Department of Health By David Kirby - Age of Autism

* ►November 18, 2008 - Autism Strikes 1 in 28 Somali Children in Minnesota By Nancy Hokkanen - Age of Autism

* ►November 18, 2008 - Minnesota Tracked Down Pig Brain Disease, Ignores Autism? By Kim Stagliano - Age of Autism

* ►November 18, 2008 - Paul Offit's Lies: I got me a lawyer. By J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

* ►November 18, 2008 - Gulf War Illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans: Scientific Findings and Recommendations - Anthrax Vaccine -- posts by Meryl Nass, M.D.

* ►November 18, 2008 - My Son Was Autistic. Is He Still? (requires registration) - Washington Post - "Leo, identified as No. C1059, underwent the scans as part of a research study at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. He was thrilled to earn $200 for taking part. I smiled along with him, because I could remember the days when he had a limited range of emotions, and pride was not one of them. The study is examining 35 children, ranging in age from 8 to 17, who once had an autism-spectrum diagnosis but no longer do."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Use of Antipsychotics in Children Is Criticized (requires registration) - The New York Times

* ►November 18, 2008 - HIB Vaccine Shortage (includes video) - KIMA CBS 29, Yakima, WA - "Last December the maker of the vaccine recalled about a million H-I-B vaccine doses because of a possible contamination. That caused a shortage. Doctors are now relying on one manufacturer. "That has not happened at this point and it looks like the shortage will occur through the middle of 2009."..."Because the HIB vaccine has been around for a while, the health department says the risk of the disease is virtually wiped out here and in other countries strong on immunizations. Point is, don't get scared if your baby has to miss a booster. "

* ►November 18, 2008 - How Can I Provide Accelerated Hepatitis Vaccination for Last Minute Travellers? (requires registration) - Medscape Nurses

* ►November 18, 2008 - Leash Attached to Autistic Student (ABC) (video) - ABC News via newsclipper.org

* ►November 18, 2008 - State proposes a mandatory autism registry - Press of Atlantic City

* ►November 18, 2008 - 20 questions about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via St. Cloud Times

* ►November 15, 2008 - I-Team: Lawyers Question Medical Tests on Foster Kids (includes video) - KLAS-TV Las Vegas Now - "This is a story about an eight-year-old boy in foster care. A boy we've never met. He exists for us only as a name on a letter questioning his mental health treatment. But his lawyer Janice Wolf wants us to remember Nathaniel is real. 'Some of the things our kids have gone through, you and I could only imagine in our dreams, or nightmares.' Nathaniel described vivid nightmares according psychiatric records obtained by the I-Team. During his first of two hospitalizations at Montevista, Dr. Mark Collins ordered a procedure called a brain spect. It requires the injection of radioactive material to illuminate blood flow in the brain."

* ►November 2008 - A role for the body burden of aluminium in vaccine-associated macrophagic (pdf) - journal article (Medical Hypotheses)

* ►November 2008 - Autism spectrum disorder-associated biomarkers for case evaluation and management by clinical geneticists (full text) (pdf) - journal article (Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics) via www.usautism.org

* ►Volume 2 Number 4, 2008 - Catholic bioethical perspectives on Ontario’s HPV vaccination - journal article (Open Medicine)

* ►December 2008 - Prevalence of Markers for Hepatitis B Virus and Vaccination Compliance Among Medical School Students in Italy - journal article (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)

* ►December 2008 - The long-term functional status in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome - journal article (European Journal of Neurology)

* ►December 2008 - Antiviral Therapy for Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) Infection at 2 Thai Medical Centers: Survey Findings and Implications for Pandemic Preparedness - journal article (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)

* ►November 20, 2008 - Mercury Dental Amalgams Banned in 3 Countries - FDA, EPA, ADA Still Allow and Encourage Heavy-Metal Fillings - press release - Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - "Any science teacher encouraging students to put mercury in their mouths would be fired for gross negligence and likely prosecuted for endangering the health of a child. Yet dentists do it every day."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Groups Work to Boost Support for Vaccines - (JAMA)

* ►November 19, 2008 - Chelation Therapy Trials Halted - (JAMA)

* ►November 19, 2008 - DPT, hepatitis shots in short supply - Times of India

* ►November 19, 2008 - Pharmaceutical Industry Hustlers - Part II - Pushers of SSRI Antidepressants by Evelyn Pringle - Scoop.co.nz - "To gain approval for treating children, all a drug company has to do is submit two positive studies to the FDA to prove a medication is safe and effective for kids. However, after 20 years of feeding the new generation of antidepressants to tens of thousands of kids in clinical trials, the only one ever approved is Prozac."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Rickets returns to Birmingham - Birmingham Post - "Figures show there were 65 cases of rickets in children under five in Birmingham between 2001 and 2003."

* ►November 19, 2008 - Half of eligible women have jab - New Zealand Doctor Online

* ►November 18, 2008 - Give Gardasil cervical cancer vaccine to boys, says inventor - Giving the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to boys will help wipe out the cancer-causing human papilloma virus, the vaccine's inventor says. - The Advertiser via AdelaineNow

* ►November 18, 2008 - Mandatory autism registry proposed - Press of Atlantic City

* ►November 18, 2008 - How Much Did Our Family Spend on Autism? - mom.notcalm

* ►November 18, 2008 - Raising an Autistic Child - transcript (requires registration) - Washington Post - "Can a child recover from autism? After receiving several different kinds of therapy, Jane Lytel's son may be one of the few children to do so. She was online Tuesday, Nov. 18 at noon ET to discuss her son's journey. She was joined by Dr. Fred R. Volkmar, one of the world's leading autism experts and the director of the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Lung Cancer Vaccine - News4Jax.com

* ►November 18, 2008 - County officials look to trim 20% from budget - East Valley Tribune - "For the past week, Maricopa County public health officials have been figuring out how to return federal money they've already spent on vaccines. The federal Centers for Disease Control cut the department's immunization funding for this year by 25 percent earlier this month, said Dr. Bob English, the county's public health director. Nearly all that cash has already been spent."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Vaccine Impresario, Todd Patrick, At it Again With Immunization Against Strep Throat - Xconomy Seattle - "'I can remember going on the road to meet with investors, and nobody wanted to talk to us,' Patrick says. Then came the hepatitis B vaccine, made through modern genetic engineering, which Merck and Glaxo offered at $150. Then came the haemophilus influenzae type B at $100 a dose. A new chickenpox vaccine at $150. Then the motherlode: Wyeth’s pneumococcal vaccine for infants (Prevnar) was approved by the FDA in 2000. At $230 for a four-dose course of therapy, it created a market that generated $2.4 billion in sales last year. 'It’s been about pricing,' Patrick says. 'If you can get good margins, capital will be attracted.'"

* ►November 18, 2008 - Gulf war syndrome is real, says US report - New Scientist

* ►November 18, 2008 - Ethics professor said HPV vaccine fits with Catholic values - Board reconsiders its ban Wednesday - The Sault Star

* ►November 18, 2008 - Gardasil Vaccination Results in Three Outbreaks of Genital Warts in Fiji School Children - LifeSiteNews.com

* ►November 18, 2008 - Case Strengthens For HPV Vaccination In Boys - Clinical Oncological Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting via Medical News Today

* ►November 18, 2008 - Gardasil for boys and girls - transcript - PM via www.abc.net.au - "MICHAEL TURTLE: Do you personally have a vested interest in this being expanded to boys? IAN FRAZER: I have had my male children vaccinated; I think that that's good thing to do because I don't want anybody to be at risk of a cancer they don't need to be. But I'm also a beneficiary of any vaccine sales though royalties and therefore it would be inappropriate for me to specifically advocate for increasing the amount of vaccine that gets sold."

* ►November 18, 2008 - School system gives 1,600 students FluMist - Asheville Citizen-Times - "The school district and department of public health were chosen by the North Carolina Immunization Branch to be one of four pilot counties to participate in the FluMist campaign."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Older people should have the flu jab this winter, warn experts - Editorial: Influenza vaccine in the over-65s - BMJ-British Medical Journal via EurekAlert!

* ►November 18, 2008 - OAPs told: Ignore flu-jab sceptics - The Scotsman

* ►November 18, 2008 - New Survey Finds Mothers See Influenza as a Serious Health Threat, but Often Don't Get Their Families Vaccinated - American Lung Association's 2008 Faces of Influenza survey underscores that mothers need to get families immunized against influenza; Mother and Gold Medalist Kristi Yamaguchi joins initiative (includes video) - press release - American Lung Association via PRNewswire

* ►November 18, 2008 - UNICEF Inducted Into Polio Hall Of Fame - Medical News Today - "UNICEF was inducted into the Polio Hall of Fame today in recognition of its role as a founding partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). The other three founding partners in the initiative-Rotary International, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-were also inducted."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Academy names midshipman who died from meningitis - 66 at academy get antibiotics, monitoring as precaution - Annapolis Capital - "The Naval Academy administers a meningococcal vaccine to all newly reporting midshipmen, including Naval Academy Preparatory School midshipmen candidates, in accordance with a Department of Defense policy, the news release states....The vaccine covers nearly 70 percent of the possible agents that can cause meningitis, but does not protect against Niesseria meningitis, subtype B, the news release states."

* ►November 18, 2008 - MRSA: Patients revolt against hospital secrecy - MRSA: Consumers have launched a battle against hospital secrecy and demanded aggressive steps to control infections like MRSA. But in Washington state, MRSA rates remain hidden and state initiatives to combat the drug-resistant germ have come up short. - Seattle Times

* ►November 18, 2008 - Inovio reports positive interim results from Phase I/II hepatitis study - Trading Markets - "ChronVac-C is a therapeutic DNA-based vaccine given to individuals already infected with the hepatitis C virus with the aim of clearing the infection from the liver by boosting the body's immune response against the virus. Inovio's electroporation technology is being used to deliver the vaccine and is intended to enhance the potency of the DNA vaccine."

* ►November 18, 2008 - Which Kills Smokers: "Camels" or Carrots? - Are Smokers Getting Lung Cancer From Beta-Carotene? - press release - Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

* ►November 18, 2008 - Half of primary-care doctors in survey would leave medicine (includes video) - CNN - "The survey, released this week by the Physicians' Foundation, which promotes better doctor-patient relationships, sought to find the reasons for an identified exodus among family doctors and internists, widely known as the backbone of the health industry."

* ►November 18, 2008 - UK Government Policy On Pesticides Ruled Unlawful - Georgina Downs statement outside High Court Friday 14th Nov. 2008 - The One Click Group

* ►November 18, 2008 - Iraq And Afghanistan Wars - New Gulf War Syndrome - The Guardian via The One Click Group

* ►November 18, 2008 - Gulf War Syndrome - Dark Psychiatric Malfeasance Exposed - Reuters via The One Click Group - "One Click Note: The professional death knell for UK psychiatrist Simon Wessely, who has been so much involved with this illness is sounding. For many years, Wessely et al have maintained that Gulf War Syndrome is a somatic disorder. Science from the United States now proves otherwise."

* ►November 18, 2008 - FDA Considers Zyprexa Warnings For Kids - Newsinferno.com

* ►November 18, 2008 - Fluorescence Used To Develop Method For Detecting Mercury In Fish - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a simple and quick method for detecting mercury in fish and dental samples, two substances at the center of public concern about mercury contamination. The technique involves a fluorescent substance that glows bright green when it comes into contact with oxidized mercury. The intensity of the glow indicates the amount of mercury present. - University of Pittsburgh via ScienceDaily

* ►November 18, 2008 - Tainted meats point to superbug C. diff in food - Study finds gut germ in 40 percent of grocery meats; CDC says not to worry - MSNBC - "'With difficile, you can eat a nice, thick braunschweiger sandwich today, then two weeks from now you get strep throat, take antibiotics and develop difficile-related disease,' Songer explained. 'You're weeks separated from the event.'"

* ►November 18, 2008 - Drawbacks of a 'miracle' drug - Bradford Telegraph and Argus - "It was such an amazing invention that Dr Fleming used one chapter of the book to predict how it could be used to prevent, as well as cure, the diseases that afflicted mankind. One of his suggestions, for example, was that lumps of penicillin powder could be put in the air intakes of air-conditioning systems in factories, so that people would breathe in the magic drug as they worked. This, he said, would soon get rid of coughs, colds and flu and make the general population healthier. Of course, this sounds ridiculous now. Soon after his book was published, penicillin’s drawbacks started to worry doctors. People became allergic to it, something no-one had predicted. It was only useful against a proportion of the germs it was prescribed for, and even the germs that were initially susceptible to it started to show resistance to it. The factory intake idea was soon lost in a welter of criticism. Mass medication of the population was dropped as an idea, and it hasn’t been raised again."

* ►November 17, 2008 - Governments urged to take broader perspective when considering whether to fund vaccines - Including quality-of-life impacts in assessments of national vaccination programs would lead to many benefits, including improved productivity and less sick leave for parents, according to an editorial co-authored by a University of New South Wales (UNSW) researcher, that has appeared in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. - University of New South Wales News-Medical.Net

* ►November 17, 2008 - A Wolfe in Wolf’s Clothing - Consumer safety advocate Sidney Wolfe took Big Pharma to task over DTC advertising during his first appearance as a permanent member of the Drug Safety & Risk Management Advisory Committee. For sponsors with other pending products, it was just a taste of what can be expected. - The RPM Report

* ►November 17, 2008 - Infant Death Investigation - News Channel 5 TV - "Public health investigators got involved because the baby, only a few weeks old, died from whooping cough, an extremely contagious bacterial infection. The baby died at Edinburg regional hospital. Hospital administrators have not returned our phone calls, but we're told they immediately got the health department involved."

* ►November 17, 2008 - Young Children Now Being Targeted For Statin Drug Use - NaturalNews.com

* ►November 17, 2008 - Common Ear Disease Causes Deafness, Meningitis, Facial Paralysis - PressRelease NewsWire via EIN News - "Cholesteatomas can form as a cyst behind the eardrum. These cysts are made of skin cells which multiply. As the cholesteatoma grows, it can damage structures in the middle or inner ear. Bacteria can also grow inside or near the cyst. Hearing loss and dizziness can ensue."

* ►November 14, 2008 - Hepatitis B triple series vaccine and developmental disability in US children aged 1–9 years (pdf) - journal article (Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry) "This study found statistically significant evidence to suggest that boys vaccinated with the triple Hepatitis B vaccine, during the time period in which vaccines were manufactured with thimerosal, were at significantly greater odds to receive EIS (early intervention or special education services) than were unvaccinated boys. Boys were also at greater odds to receive EIS than were both vaccinated and unvaccinated girls. The finding of a significantly greater proportion of boys with developmental disability is consistent with reports in the literature (Bailey et al. 2004; Montes and Halterman 2006). However, the association between vaccination with the triple series Hepatitis B vaccination and receiving EIS is a new finding, and warrants discussion."

* ►November 14, 2008 - Invasive, paediatric, vaccine strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Are there differences in clinical characteristics? - journal article (Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►November 14, 2008 - Report Reveals Pesticide Incidents At Oregon Schools - Beyond Pesticides

* ►November 14, 2008 - Hypoxic–ischemic changes in SIDS brains as demonstrated by a reduction in MAP2-reactive neurons - journal article (Acta Neuropathologica)

* ►November 14, 2008 - Battle of the X's (requires registration) - The Scientist - "In the course of human history, something wonky happened to the levels of genetic diversity on the X chromosome -- scientists just can't agree on what."

* ►November 13, 2008 - Lymph node injections offer fast allergy therapy - Reuters Health via Yahoo!

* ►October 31, 2008 - JANE DOE/23, Petitioner, v. SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Respondent. (pdf) - Office of Special Masters - U.S. Court of Federal Claims - "Each expert in the instant case agrees that optic neuritis is frequently a hallmark for MS. There is a logical sequence of cause and effect connecting petitioner’s exposure to hepatitis B vaccine and her onset of demyelinating disease. Petitioner has proved causation in fact."

* ►October 8, 2008 - CHRISTINE LEE, Petitioners, v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Respondent. (pdf) - Office of Special Masters - U.S. Court of Federal Claims - "Stipulation; influenza vaccine; transverse myelitis."

* ►Vaccine Cases (PUBLISHED) - U.S. Court of Federal Claims
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* ►Vaccine Cases (UNPUBLISHED) - U.S. Court of Federal Claims
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* ►Omnibus Autism Proceeding - Vaccine Program/Office of Special Masters - U.S. Court of Federal Claims

* ►Dr Nagui MICKHAEL From : 29 November 2008   To : 30 November 2008 - Category : Fitness to Practise Hearings - General Medical Council Press Office, UK - "It is also alleged Dr Mickhael failed to adhere to a programme of immunisation in respect of a number of children and, in doing so, his conduct was not in the best interests of those children and not of the standard expected of a reasonably competent general practitioner. Further, it is alleged that, in doing so, Dr Mickhael gained a pecuniary advantage and that his conduct was financially motivated."

* ►Vaccine Reaction Report Form - Australian Vaccination Network via www.avn.org.au