Breaking News Archives August 2005  - each day's breaking news from December 1, 2003 (check here for breaking news you might have missed and breaking news that didn't ever hit the "front page")

* ►August 31, 2005 - Experts consider ending vaccination of newborns against tuberculosis in Finland - NewsRoom Finland

* ►August 31, 2005 - More jabbed children get meningitis bug - Three fully vaccinated young people have contracted meningococcal disease in the past three weeks, exceeding Health Ministry expectations. - The Dominion Post via www.stuff.co.nz - "We fully expected vaccine breakthrough cases. We have been very clear in our communication that no vaccine is 100 per cent effective."

* ►August 31, 2005 - Expect NZ doctors, nurses to die from birdflu - researcher - Health authorities must start preparing for general practitioners and nurses to die when bird flu starts being spread between humans in a global epidemic, says a University of Otago public health researcher, Nick Wilson. - NZPA via www.stuff.co.nz - "Dr Wilson who is based at Otago University's Wellington School of Medicine, earlier this year published another paper in the Medical Journal predicting up to 3700 deaths in New Zealand from a first wave of pandemic influenza and up to a million people infected...'It is likely that some difficult decisions will be required in limiting hospital care to those where it would most likely affect final health outcomes,' that study said. Patients who were unlikely to be saved might not be admitted to hospital."

* ►August 31, 2005 - Crowds defy polio vaccine scare - AP via The Australian - "Indonesian leaders and celebrities have been enlisted to help convince a sceptical public that the vaccinations are safe...Indonesian first lady Kristiani Yudhoyono gave oral drops at a makeshift health centre in a Jakarta suburb, where the mood was festive, with balloons and a live band."

* ►August 31, 2005 - Indonesia hits at polio outbreak - International Herald Tribune

►August 31, 2005 - Doctor rates vaccination programme - RNZ via http://tvnz.co.nz

* ►August 30, 2005 - Proposed Flu And Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Mandate Is A Bad Idea For NJ’s Children - A newly formed coalition of national and state advocacy groups voice opposition to the proposed NJ Health Department flu and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine mandate for preschool and daycare children. - press release - The Autism Autoimmunity Project of New Jersey and Parents for Autism Autoimmune and Vaccine Education via PRWeb

* ►August 30, 2005 - WHO offers reassurance over Indonesian polio vaccine campaign - www.abc.net.au - "WHO's Indonesia representative Dr Georg Petersen says children are more vulnerable to other illnesses rather than the vaccine...'This is one of the safest vaccines,' he said...'But we also have to remind people that everyday in Indonesia, more than 2,000 children die of other causes...'So when we vaccinate absolutely every child in the country, of course, some children who got the vaccine, might die of other causes afterwards.'"

►August 30, 2005 - Stars, clerics help Indonesia start polio plan - Reuters AlertNet

►August 30, 2005 - Facts on Indonesia Polio Vaccinations (requires registration or subscription) - AP via Washington Post

►August 30, 2005 - Indonesia Moves to Halt March of Resurgent Polio - www.cnsnews.com

►August 30, 2005 - First Lady Calls For Monitoring of Polio Vaccination Drive - Antara News

►August 30, 2005 - Madagascar: Campaign launched to immunise 650,000 children against polio - IRIN via Reuters AlertNet

►August 30, 2005 - Scientists Seek Vaccine For Bird Flu Virus - Voice of America

►August 30, 2005 - Experts see Alaska as US front against bird flu - Reuters AlertNet

►August 30, 2005 - Vietnam confirms 3 civets die of bird flu - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 30, 2005 - No humans infected with bird flu in Russia - Rospotrebnadzor - Interfax Russia

►August 30, 2005 - Bird flu confirmed in 46 Russian settlements - Itar-Tass

►August 30, 2005 - British expert warns of bird flu spread - UPI via ScienceDaily

►August 30, 2005 - France boosts bird flu protection - France is taking extra measures to protect itself against bird flu, stockpiling drugs and vaccines and reinforcing health checks at airports. - BBC

►August 30, 2005 - Evidence for More H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Recombination - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 30, 2005 - More Gulls Die in Oulu Finland - commentary - Recombinomics

* ►August 30, 2005 - Pharmacists joining flu fight - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - "As early as January 2006, long lines of patients waiting for flu shots at doctors’ offices may become a distant memory. That’s when Pennsylvania residents will be able to get flu shots and other vaccinations from their local pharmacists."

►August 30, 2005 - Flu vaccines: Short supply? - Beaver County Times via www.timesonline.com

►August 30, 2005 - Persistent Inequalities: Poverty, Lack of Health Coverage, Wage Gaps Plague Economic Recovery, Says Institute for Women's Policy Research - press release - Institute for Women's Policy Research  via U.S. Newswire

* ►August 30, 2005 - Case of chickenpox found on SIUC campus - The Southern - "Health officials at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are warning students they've found a confirmed case of chickenpox on campus."

►August 30, 2005 - A Pox (Isn't) on You! - Gilroy Dispatch

►August 30, 2005 - International Health Threats Worry Disease Specialists - Voice of America

►August 30, 2005 - State issues measles warning for Lufthansa flyers - http://wwmt.com

►August 30, 2005 - Measles Exposure at Detroit Metropolitan Airport - www.wilx.com

►August 30, 2005 - Low Cost Tissue Culture Vaccine For Encephalitis - MedIndia

►August 30, 2005 - Bubonic Plague Buries Colony Of Prairie Dogs - www.thenewmexicochannel.com

* ►August 30, 2005 - State Records Second Case Of Human Plague - AP via www.thenewmexicochannel.com

* ►August 30, 2005 - Two Toronto men dead from West Nile virus - CTV News - "'They both had the more severe type of West Nile virus, the neurological symptoms, and they got progressively worse in hospital,' said Dr. Michael Finkelstein, Toronto's associate medical officer of health."

►August 30, 2005 - Japan Grants ¢24.5bn to Support Disease Prevention - Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra) via http://allafrica.com

* ►August 30, 2005 - Local Health Agencies Faulted on Bioterror Response Times - HealthDay via Forbes - "The researchers made more than 100 calls to these agencies, and three agencies never responded to the first five calls they received...In one instance, after being given a description of the classic symptoms of bubonic plague, a public health worker told the caller not to worry and to 'go back to sleep,' because no other cases had been reported...In another call, a researcher reported a case of what appeared to be botulism and was told: 'You're right, it does sound like botulism. I wouldn't worry too much if I were you.'"

►August 30, 2005 - RAND Study Examines Public Health Clinics (requires registration or subscription) - AP via Washington Post

►August 30, 2005 - New target in fight against cancer - Key protein discovered in NK cell; Montreal scientists find way to boost immune system to fight hepatitis, cancer - Montreal Gazette via www.canada.com

►August 30, 2005 - Disarming Anthrax - Engineered antibodies show promise as prophylactic and
antidote - Chemical & Engineering News

►August 30, 2005 - Anthrax Vaccination On in Murehwa - The Herald (Harare) via http://allafrica.com

►August 30, 2005 - Emergent Biosolutions' Typhoid Vaccine Achieves Positive Results in Phase II Clinical Study - Novel oral typhoid vaccine well tolerated and highly immunogenic after a single dose in a new simplified dosing regimen - press release - Emergent BioSolutions via PRNewswire

►August 30, 2005 - Interim HIV Vaccine Trial Results to be Presented at AIDS Vaccine 2005 International Conference - press release - CytRx Corporation via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►August 30, 2005 - Outside auditor to manage Uganda HIV/AIDS funds - Reuters AlertNet

►August 30, 2005 - Raccoon Vaccination Program Begins Next Week - www.newsnet5.com

►August 29, 2005 - Bird flu suspected in two Russian settlements after short lull - Itar-Tass

►August 29, 2005 - Integrated US Effort Helps Mitigate Spread of Bird Flu in Asia - U.S. coordinating with APEC, international organizations, USDA official says - All American Patriots

►August 2005 - The Role of Genetic and Environmental Factors in the Development of Schizophrenia - Psychiatric Times

* ►August 30, 2005 - Biomedical treatments are helping children with autism - press release - Autism Canada Foundation via Canada NewsWire - "The medical team from Autism Research Institute and Defeat Autism Now! will lead an upcoming conference for families and medical professionals interested in the latest, safe and effective biomedical interventions for Autism, including; Dr. Elizabeth Mumper MD, assistant professor of paediatrics at The University of Virginia, Nancy O'Hara, M.D. an experienced paediatrician, and Maureen McDonnell, RN...Keynote Speaker: Dr. Andrew Wakefield, gastroenterologist and researcher. Dr. Wakefield's recent research has led him to uncover a bowel disease unique to autistic children....What: Mini DAN! (Defeat Autism Now!) Conference...When: September 16, 17 & 18th, Where: Holiday Inn Select Airport, Toronto...visit www.autismcanada.org."

* ►August 30, 2005 - Indonesia's polio campaign threatened by rumours - transcript - PM via www.abc.net.au

* ►August 30, 2005 - Indonesia Begins Mass Polio Vaccination Drive - Voice of America - "Doctor Ana Hasnani was on hand at the clinic and says she and her colleagues have spent days explaining to mothers in the neighborhood that the vaccine is safe. 'I talked with not all, but some mothers, to explain to them,' she said, 'because they are afraid.'"

* ►August 30, 2005 - After 225 cases of polio, Indonesian toddlers line up for vaccinations - AP/CP via CBC - "'The biggest problem right now is confusion over whether sick children can be vaccinated,' said UNICEF's Claire Hajaj, who works on the UN agency's global campaign to eradicate polio in six countries where it is endemic and 17 others, including Indonesia, that have recently been reinfected."

►August 30, 2005 - Indonesia fails to win public over to polio vaccine (requires subscription for full article) - Financial Times

►August 30, 2005 - City ready for polio immunization - Jakarta Post

►August 30, 2005 - Otago a benchmark for meningococcal B campaign - press release - Otago DHB via www.scoop.co.nz

►August 30, 2005 - Trial poultry vaccination programme begins in Vietnamese capital - AFP via TODAYonline

►August 30, 2005 - Rs 2.59b anti-hepatitis programme launched - Aziz says clean drinking water to be provided to every Pakistani under Khushaal Pakistan Programme - Daily Times, Pakistan

* ►August 29, 2005 - MMR Vaccine, Thimerosal and Regressive or Late Onset Autism (“Autistic Enterocolitis”)  - "A Review of the Evidence for a Link Between Vaccination and Regressive Autism" by David Thrower (requires subscription) - www.redflagsdaily.com

* ►August 29, 2005 - Diseased seagulls in Finland not affected with H5N1 virus: EC spokesman - Xinhuanet via China View

* ►August 29, 2005 - Here is the Flus - BBC workers and MPs to get vaccine for deadly bird virus - Glasgow Daily Record

►August 29, 2005 - A Fatal Flight To Europe? - Holland and Germany keep their flocks indoors after a bird flu scare in Europe - TIME Magazine

►August 29, 2005 - Ulster acts to head off bird flu menace - Antiviral medicine on way to province - Belfast Telegraph

►August 29, 2005 - High powered meeting on bird flu threat - Belfast Telegraph

►August 29, 2005 - Guidelines to be issued for dealing with bird flu cases - RIA Novosti

►August 29, 2005 - French president calls for strong international measures against bird flu - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 29, 2005 - Bird flu reported in another Omsk region district - Interfax Russia

►August 29, 2005 - State preparing for deadly avian flu virus - Utah hospitals already on lookout for symptoms - Standard-Examiner

►August 29, 2005 - Obese adults get fewer cancer screens, flu shots - American Journal of Public Health via Reuters UK

►August 29, 2005 - UN health agency reports massive polio vaccination campaign in Indonesia - UN News Centre

►August 29, 2005 - Indonesia moves on polio campaign - Indonesia geared up Monday for massive polio vaccination campaign amid fears the crippling virus that has sickened 225 children in the archipelago could spread to other parts of Southeast Asia. - AP via CNN

►August 29, 2005 - Polio campaign launched in Madagascar - Xinhuanet via China View

* ►August 29, 2005 - Indonesia prepares for onslaught against polio under world's gaze - AFP via TODAYonline - "Celebrities in Indonesia urged parents across the vast archipelago nation to have their children vaccinated against polio as tens of thousands of health workers prepared for an unprecedented immunisation drive on Tuesday."

* ►August 29, 2005 - Indonesia begins huge polio drive - Indonesia is launching its largest ever immunisation campaign against polio, which is expected to reach 24 million children under the age of five. - BBC

* ►August 29, 2005 - The Age of Autism: Gold salts to be tested - UPI via Washington Times - "'You follow your nose in research, and when I saw that I thought, yes, this is a possibility,' said Boyd Haley, a professor and former chemistry department chairman at the university."

►August 29, 2005 - Environmental Effects Of W. Nile Virus, And Spraying For It, Unclear - Sacramento Bee via The Day

►August 29, 2005 - A Mother's Mission - Wisconsin State Journal via www.madison.com - "Menactra, a new vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration in January, is being recommended for middle school to college-aged students...Gail Bailey of Jefferson wishes her son had been vaccinated when he was at the UW a few years ago."

►August 29, 2005 - DC Officials Rush to Immunize All Students - www.wtopnews.com

►August 29, 2005 - Back-to-school shots needed - The beginning of the school year each fall can be a real shot in the arm for students across the state. - The Daily Inter Lake

►August 29, 2005 - Free immunization for children in San Leandro - Oakland Tribune via www.insidebayarea.com

►August 29, 2005 - Ask Dr. H | Pertussis still around, often in mild form (requires registration or subscription) - Knight Ridder News Service via Philadelphia Inquirer

►August 29, 2005 - State confirms measles exposure on Northwest flight from Germany - AP via Detroit Free Press

►August 29, 2005 - Highlights From MMWR: Measles Outbreaks Underscore Need for Adherence to Vaccination Guidelines and More (requires registration) - Medscape

* ►August 29, 2005 - Lab tests for herpes often give wrong results - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology via Reuters

►August 29, 2005 - Advaxis' Listeria Cancer Vaccine Shows Strong Safety Profile In Toxicology Studies - press release - Advaxis, Inc. via Business Wire

* ►August 29, 2005 - MS Vaccine Shows Promise - www.wlns.com

►August 29, 2005 - Scientists move closer to malaria vaccine - UPI via ScienceDaily

►August 29, 2005 - Unexpected Features of Anthrax Toxin May Lead to New Types of Therapies - Salk Institute for Biological Studies via Newswise

►August 29, 2005 - Anthrax test, developed by army and CDC, receives FDA approval - US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases via www.eurekalert.org

►August 29, 2005 - Genencor gets defense grant - Rochester Business Journal

* ►August 29, 2005 - Carbohydrate-based vaccine against cancer? - Couldn't we be immunized against cancer? This sounds like a dream, but is in fact a thoroughly realistic research goal. American researchers have now taken an important step forward in the development of a cancer vaccine. Their fully synthetic vaccine candidate consists of an oligosaccharide, a peptide, and a lipopeptide. - www.physorg.com

►August 29, 2005 - Cattle vaccination against foot-and-mouth starts in Russian Far East - RIA Novosti

►August 29, 2005 - MedImmune Licenses Worldwide Rights for Anti-Staphylococcal Antibody Program From GlaxoSmithKline - Company Reinforces Commitment to Fighting Pediatric Infectious Diseases - press release - MedImmune via PRNewswire-FirstCall - "BSYX-A110 is a monoclonal antibody in development for the prevention of staphylococcal infections in premature infants."

►August 29, 2005 - Scientists produce human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 29, 2005 - Bubonic Plague not cause of death in Hart Flat cats (includes video) - www.kget.com

►August 29, 2005 - Pig producers may get salmonella vaccine - New knowledge about the speed at which salmonella genes work, and their reaction to body temperature, may enable researchers to develop a pig and poultry vaccine that will eliminate salmonella from the food chain. - www.thepigsite.com

►August 29, 2005 - UP seeks Centre's help to import Encepahlitis vaccines - PTI via Outlook India

* ►August 29, 2005 - Encephalitis toll crosses 300; but root cause ignored - www.newkerala.com

* ►August 29, 2005 - Call for action to combat rampant tuberculosis in Africa - Business Day

* ►August 29, 2005 - US to help China combat surge in HIV - AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

►August 29, 2005 - Gilead cuts HIV drug prices in developing world - Reuters

* ►August 29, 2005 - Compensation debate over Bulgarian nurses - Accused of infecting hundreds of children with HIV, the nurses languish on Libyan death row as their fate is discussed at home - Spero News - "International experts testified at the trial of the medical staff that the infections were caused by poor hygiene at the hospital and had spread before their arrival. Around 50 have now died, fuelling outrage in Libya."

►August 26, 2005 - Preventable Measles Among U.S. Residents, 2001--2004 - MMWR via CDC

►August 26, 2005- Progress in Improving State and Local Disease Surveillance ---United States, 2000--2005 - MMWR via CDC

►August 26, 2005 - Indonesia, Angola Battle Polio Outbreaks - Both nations plan immunization campaigns as case numbers mount - US Dept of State

* ►August 18, 2005 - Public Act 094-0614 - Illinois General Assembly - "This Act may be cited as the Mercury-Free Vaccine Act."

►September/October 2005 - Vaccination of Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients with Tumor Lysate-Pulsed Dendritic Cells: A Clinical Trial. - journal article (Journal of Immunotherapy)

►September/October 2005 - Immune and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Stage IV Melanoma Vaccinated with Peptide-Pulsed Dendritic Cells Derived From CD34+ Progenitors and Activated with Type I Interferon. - journal article (Journal of Immunotherapy)

►September/October 2005 - Are Reports of Childhood Abuse Related to the Experience of Chronic Pain in Adulthood?: A Meta-analytic Review of the Literature. - journal article (Clinical Journal of Pain)

* ►September 7, 2005 - Development of cell culture (MDCK) live cold-adapted (CA) attenuated influenza vaccine - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►September 2, 2005 - Cost effectiveness and delivery study for future HIV vaccines. - journal article (AIDS)

►September 1, 2005 - Effect of plasmid backbone modification by different human CpG motifs on the immunogenicity of DNA vaccine vectors - journal article (Journal of Leukocyte Biology)

* ►September 1, 2005 - Administering pharmaceuticals to latex-allergic patients from vials containing natural rubber latex closures (full text) - journal article (American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy) - "However, intramuscular administration of up to 100 µg of allergenic latex protein into sensitized individuals during immunotherapy can provoke severe systemic reactions in minutes to several hours in latex-allergic individuals. The levels of allergen released by rubber closures (estimated by radioallergosorbent inhibition analysis) are much lower than those used in immunotherapy."

►September 1, 2005 - Regulation of Aged Humoral Immune Defense against Pneumococcal Bacteria by IgM Memory B Cell - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►September 1, 2005 - CD14 deficiency leads to increased MIP-2 production, CXCR2 expression, neutrophil transmigration, and early death in pneumococcal infection - journal article (Journal of Leukocyte Biology)

►September 2005 - CpG oligodeoxynucleotides stimulate cord blood mononuclear cells to produce immunoglobulins - journal article (Clinical Immunology)

►September 2005 - New Methods for Clinical Proteomics in Allergy (full text) - journal article (Allergology International)

►September 2005 - A Quantitative Immunochromatography Assay of Whole Blood Samples for Antigen-specific IgE -A New Method for Point of Care Testing for Allergens- (full text) - journal article (Allergology International)

►September 2005 - Childhood Onset Adult Asthma: A Comparison of Asthma Development with Exposure to High and Reduced Levels of Air Pollution (full text) - journal article (Allergology International)

►September 2005 - A Randomized, Double-blind Trial of Lactobacillus GG Versus Placebo in Addition to Standard Maintenance Therapy for Children with Crohn's Disease. - journal article (Inflammatory Bowel Diseases)

►September 2005 - Ipecac syrup abuse, morbidity, and mortality: Isn’t it time to repeal its over-the-counter status? - journal article (Journal of Adolescent Health)

* ►August 29, 2005 - French president calls for strong international measures against bird flu - Xinhuanet via China View

* ►August 29, 2005 - 'More than Band-Aid queens' - Casper Star Tribune - "Kids' most common problems are Attention Deficit Disorder, allergies, asthma, headaches, mental illness and seizures. There are also dozens of students with diabetes, heart problems, gastrointestinal disorders, and vision and hearing problems. "It's kind of like running a field hospital," Delger said. "You never know what is going to walk in the door." New health insurance rules mean more students will have to get their shots at a doctor's office, so the schools won't be giving immunizations this year. But the nurses track who has them and who doesn't. Students won't be able to attend school if they don't have their shots, or an exemption, by Sept. 28."

* ►August 29, 2005 - China to Impose Compulsory Batch Inspection on Vaccine Products - Asia Pulse via www.immunizationinfo.org - (abstract)

* ►August 29, 2005 - What is Thimerosol? - Gloucester County Times via www.nj.com

* ►August 29, 2005 - Bird Flu Will Be Harder to Tame Than SARS - Montreal Gazette via www.immunizationinfo.org - (abstract)

* ►August 29, 2005 - New Avian Influenza Website Resources - CIDRAP via University of Minnesota via IDSA

►August 29, 2005 - Dr. Bill Elliott: Bird flu has potential to be pandemic - Marin Independent Journal

►August 29, 2005 - Ulster acts to head off bird flu menace - Antiviral medicine on way to province - The Belfast Telegraph, UK

►August 29, 2005 - Detecting anthrax proteins at ultralow concentrations - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) via www.eurekalert.org

►August 29, 2005 - Scientific community to set goals for flu research in face of pandemic threat - Canadian Press

►August 29, 2005 - High price of chicks may encourage smuggling -Poultry industry warns against spread of bird flu - New Age via www.bangladesh-web.com

►August 29, 2005 - BSE blood test gives new hope - Patients could be screened for vCJD - The Guardian, UK

►August 29, 2005 - The Misguided Assault on the U.S. Drug Industry: Kevin Hassett - Bloomberg

►August 29, 2005 - MedImmune Licenses Worldwide Rights for Anti-Staphylococcal Antibody Program From GlaxoSmithKline - PRNewswire-FirstCall via http://interestalert.com

►August 29, 2005 - U.K. Needs to Protect Drug Firms From Activists: Matthew Lynn - Bloomberg

►August 29, 2005 - Fibromyalgia treatment guideline. - University of Texas, School of Nursing via www.guideline.gov

►August 29, 2005 - Diabetes mellitus - My partner is 43 years old and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last June. We have a three-year old daughter and we were planning to have another child before he was diagnosed. In case we do have another baby, what are the chances of the baby having diabetes as an adult? Please give us more information on this matter. – K.A.L., Las Pinas City. - The Manila Bulletin

►August 29, 2005 - Body's defence cells cause asthma symptoms: - McGill University Health Centre via www.newkerala.com

►August 29, 2005 - FLAVORx Expansion Includes All Major U.S. Drug Stores - FLAVORx announced that its partnering with Walgreens, the nation's largest drug store chain, to bring its current client list to more than 30,000 pharmacies. - PRWeb

* ►August 29, 2005 - Flu vaccines for all nursing home patients? - Health Sentinel - "Taking the raw mortality data from a number of sources and plotting them versus vaccination rates I arrived at similarly interesting results (http://www.healthsentinel.com/graphs.php?id=67&event=graphs_print_list_item). In 1979 the mortality rate was approximately 21 per 100,000. By 2002, the rate had increased to 37 per 100,000. During the same time period influenza vaccination rates had gone from 20% of the population to approximately 65% of the population. Contrary to general assertions the mortality rate increased during the time vaccination rates had increased. However, through an email exchange with the lead author of that February 14, 2005 study, Dr. Simonsen, she noted that after adjusting for an increasingly aging population and for changes in circulating influenza strains that the increase became a flat trend. That is to say there was no change at all despite a 50% increase in influenza vaccinations....A report by the CDC on the effectiveness of the 2003-2004 influenza vaccine (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr52/nvsr52_03.pdf) showed only a 14% and 3% effectiveness. Still worse, the person-time analysis showed that vaccinated persons had a 12.28% chance of becoming ill (ILI), whereas non-vaccinated persons had a 11.5% (or 10.6% analysis #2) chance of becoming ill, indicating you were more likely to become ill if you were vaccinated against influenza."

►August 29, 2005 - How something so simple can be so deadly - The Galveston County Daily News

►August 29, 2005 - The diseases, not the lab, should be feared - The Galveston County Daily News

►August 29, 2005 - British health officials stockpiling for fear of flu pandemic - UPI via Monsters & Critics

►August 29, 2005 - Vietnamese gov't urges poultry vaccination - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 29, 2005 - Ministers leave '2m lives at risk from bird flu' - The Scotsman - "The emeritus professor of microbiology at Aberdeen University, who is Britain's leading expert on the H5N1 sub-virus, yesterday accused health officials of creating 'the new BSE'."

►August 29, 2005 - Parents of children with autism discuss results of chelation - Debate over controversial treatment heats up after death of 5-year-old boy - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

►August 29, 2005 - Main Autism Behaviour Types Are Not Genetically Linked - The Institute of Psychiatry via Medical News Today

* ►August 29, 2005 - Wockhardt, Ranbaxy in race for AIIMS typhoid technology - Business Standard - "Typhoid vaccine market in India is currently around Rs 25-30 crore with an 80 million dozes per annum requirement and its export potential is estimated at $1 billion at current price level...The industry sources said that the domestic requirement of typhoid vaccine is expected to double if the vaccine is identified for the national immunisation programme."

►August 29, 2005 - Hepatitis remains an uncontrolled disease in Pakistan - Daily Times

►August 29, 2005 - Poultry farmers get disease vaccination reminder - www.abc.net.au

►August 29, 2005 - 11 dog bite victims in town get vaccine - Sun.Star

►August 29, 2005 - Wave goodbye to Hutchison's health IT knowledge - press release - New Zealand Labour Party via www.scoop.co.nz

►August 29, 2005 - Nelson woman latest meningococcal victim - A 20-year-old Nelson woman became the 168th victim of meningococcal disease this year after she was admitted to Nelson Hospital's intensive care unit in a serious condition early on Friday morning. - The Nelson Mail via www.stuff.co.nz

►August 29, 2005 - Uganda's Aids programme faces crisis - The Guardian, UK

* ►August 28, 2005 - Potentially Fatal Shot Comes From Syringe, Not a Rifle - Alva Review Courier - "In his official report dated March 28 of this year, Dr. Naguib listed his medical impression as: 1. Immunoglobulin A deficiency 2. Immunodeficiency due to #1 3. Multiple neurological manifestations with no structural disease on imaging and no infections etiology on work up. Suggestive of probable immunologic reaction to vaccination. Dr. Naguib further stated, "The patient has a history of anthrax vaccination series 5 out of 6 doses among other vaccinations that preceded the evolution of symptoms in this previously healthy 37-year-old male. Makes vaccines a suspect etiology for this unusual presentation."

►August 28, 2005 - New flu strain has disease experts worried - The Galveston County Daily News - “I believe this virus is very close to putting in the last or second-to-last change necessary to go human-to-human,” Webster said. Once that happens, “there’s not much to stop it,” said Stanley Lemon, chairman of the medical branch’s Institute for Human Infections and Immunity. Lemon also chairs a national forum on microbial threats."

►August 28, 2005 - Scientific community to set goals for flu research - Canadian Press via www.mytelus.com

►August 28, 2005 - Airlines and hotels could be hit by bird flu fallout - Financial Times - "If there was such evidence then it could be expected that the World Health Organisation would aggressively enforce travel bans. This would have a severe impact on all companies in travel-related industries such as airlines and hotels. Airlines are already under pressure from the continued rise in oil prices."

►August 28, 2005 - After decades of war and isolation, Vietnam could become the centre of a pandemic - Sunday Herald, UK

►August 28, 2005 - Warning: this bird could kill - Sunday Herald, UK

►August 28, 2005 - Italy tightens entry control amid bird flu scare - China Economic Net

►August 28, 2005 - 'Mad cow' proteins successfully detected in blood - Biochemical technique expected to yield new, more effective test for disease-causing prions in cattle and humans - University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston via www.eurekalert.org

►August 28, 2005 - Mental health overhaul - Oregon’s care system for disturbed children shifts focus to families - Mail Tribune

►August 28, 2005 - Eli Lilly to Help Pay for Crafting Medicaid Reforms in Georgia - The Atlanta Journal and Constitution via BCBS Health Issues

►August 28, 2005 - Major breakthrough in the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases - Montreal researchers identify new anti-cancer, anti-infection response control mechanism - Canada NewsWire via CNW Telbec via ArriveNet

►August 28, 2005 - Careful Management of Diseases Can Extend Lives - Scripps Howard via BCBS Health Issues

►August 28, 2005 - It’s pure ‘jealousy’ - Times of Oman - "On what basis was the study dismissing homoeopathy, they queried, and supporting them in spirit, and otherwise, were patients who benefited from this science and who, while pledging their support for homoeopathy, voiced their anger against such studies."

►August 28, 2005 - The Dalai Lama Visits PADMA AG Production Plants: Is There Room to Integrate the Science of Tibetan Medicine Into Our Western Medicine Model? - Exciting news in the nutraceutical world. Padma, Inc., a herbal and dietary supplement company was honored by a visit from the Dali Lama this month. It is viewed as support for the establishment and research of Tibetan medicine in the West. - PRWeb

►August 28, 2005 - Coffee is number one source of antioxidants - American Chemical Society via www.eurekalert.org

►August 28, 2005 - Whey to grow strong - StarMag via www.thestar.com.my

* ►August 28, 2005 - Vaccine crux of parental concern - The Gloucester County Times via www.nj.com - "Thimerosol, the controversial mercury-based preservative, is used only in flu vaccines today. Though federal government officials insist that the increased use of the preservative during the 1990s cannot be linked to the dramatically higher rate of autism and other childhood neurological disorders, some parents are not convinced."

►August 28, 2005 - Are vaccines safe? - The Gloucester County Times via www.nj.com - "Paul Potito, Executive Director of New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community, agreed, saying that -- even so -- parents should ask 'a lot of questions.' He added that it is a good idea to request that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine be split up, since preservatives are used to keep the vaccination fresh when it's 'lumped together.'"

►August 28, 2005 - A few guns, not many bullets in flu arsenal - The Galveston County Daily News

* ►August 28, 2005 - Should you panic?: Scientists say no - The Galveston County Daily News - "On March 24, 1976, President Ford issued a dire warning about a flu outbreak after a soldier at Fort Dix had dropped dead of the swine flu. Ford asked Congress to put up money and provide liability protection for vaccine manufacturers so that every American could be quickly inoculated against the disease...But the anticipated swine flu pandemic never materialized — and it was not because of the heroic vaccination program undertaken by the government...The government did, however, end up having to pay $90 million to settle claims of bad side effects caused by the hastily manufactured vaccine. And public health officials have since said the false alarm served to undermine citizens’ faith in the U.S. public health system."

►August 28, 2005 - Spanish flu epidemic hammers island - The Galveston County Daily News

►August 28, 2005 - Suspected bird flu hits Finnish gulls - AFX via Forbes

►August 28, 2005 - ‘Fingers crossed' policy won't stop virus from spreading - Sunday Herald

►August 28, 2005 - Italy tightens entry control amid bird flu scare - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 28, 2005 - Govt takes stock of bird flu situation - Khaleej Times

►August 28, 2005 - Papers focus on avian flu fears - The possible outbreak of bird flu occupies several of Sunday's papers. - BBC

►August 28, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu in Bulgaria? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 28, 2005 - Marathon run to drive away polio - Express News Service via Lucknow Newsline

* ►August 28, 2005 - Meningitis shots are urged for kids, but few know it (requires registration or subscription) - Chicago Tribune - "Now, Morcone said, parents of adolescents are seeking meningitis shots just as this year's crop of college freshmen also are ordering the newest version. That has created a shortage...'It's hard to recommend [getting vaccinated] when we do not have supplies,' Dircksen said...Last month the vaccine's maker, Sanofi Pasteur, issued a statement saying health-care providers could get a maximum of 20 doses at a time. The company emphasized that the older vaccine should be considered an option, especially for college students."

►August 28, 2005 - MU: No O'Neal settlement - MU has 30 days to file an answer to the family’s lawsuit. - Columbia Missourian

* ►August 28, 2005 - Suspected cases of human infection growing - AP via Boston Globe - "Despite announcing two new suspected cases of Eastern equine encephalitis, state health officials say they're not worried about an epidemic."

►August 28, 2005 - First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology - Chicken-produced antibodies demonstrate enhanced cell killing compared to conventionally produced anti-cancer antibodies - Origen Therapeutics via www.eurekalert.org

►August 28, 2005 - Local Authorities Conduct Anthrax Training - www.whiotv.com

►August 28, 2005 - Sale of vaccine firm approved - Minister of Finance Michael Cullen and Crown Research Institutes Minister Steve Maharey have signed off on a deal to sell the AgResearch's animal health subsidiary AgVax Developments. - Manawatu Standard via www.stuff.co.nz

* ►August 27, 2005 - Expert says bird flu won't spread westward of Urals in 2005 - Itar-Tass

* ►August 27, 2005 - Migratory birds take flu to Europe - London Sunday Telegraph via Washington Times

►August 27, 2005 - Blood 'cleaning' aids transplants - A new technique could allow transplant patients to receive organs from donors with a different blood group. - BBC

* ►August 27, 2005 - Bird flu: is it ‘if’ or ‘when’? - EDP 24

* ►August 27, 2005 - David Kirby: Autism and Chelation: Where is the Science? - Huffington Post via Yahoo! - "But what if the opposite were true? What if the “rigorous science” recommended by the IOM had yielded proof that chelation can indeed help some kids -- provided that it’s done with the safest agents, at the safest doses, and through the safest routes of administration (not to mention in combination with other therapies)? Either way, if America had done its scientific homework, as recommended by its top science professors, Abubakar might still be alive today."

* ►August 27, 2005 - Are Genetically Modified Foods Really Safe? - Healthy News - "Codex Alimentarius, the UN's food arm which not too long ago adopted giudelines to severely restrict international trade in vitamin and mineral food supplements, perfectly safe natural substances that are vital for human health by any standard, has made substantial equivalence of GM foods a loophole that that one could drive a truck through, giving industry carte blanche for the sale of their products. Genetically modified products can claim that they are not substantially different from their natural cousins that have proven their value through millennia of use."

* ►August 27, 2005 - Nonstick Pollution Sticks in People - Science News

►August 27, 2005 - Biological weapons not linked with outbreak of tularemia in Russia - A US pensioner wrote that an online journal that there were certain opportunities in several regions of Russia to conduct a warfare with the use with biological weapons - PRAVDA, RU

►August 27, 2005 - Mankind Is Predisposed To Diseases Of Civilization - www.alphagalileo.org via www.medicalnewstoday.com

►August 27, 2005 - Sneaky drug targets brain tumours - Scientists have identified a chemical that can sneak through the blood-brain barrier to treat tumours. - BBC

►August 27, 2005 - From the August 24, 1935, issue - Science News

►August 27, 2005 - Health Highlights: - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay via Health Yahoo!

* ►August 26, 2005 - Damaging children for the sake of profits - Online Journal - "The truth is the New Freedom Commission serves as the hub for a grand profiteering scheme involving the Bush administration, federal and local government officials, and drug companies to broaden the market for the sale of expensive but lethal drugs. If all goes according to plan, it will generate millions of new prescription drug customers."

* ►August 26, 2005 - A strange case of West Nile transmission (requires registration or subscription) - Canadian Press via The Globe And Mail - "An animal-control officer in Alberta contracted the disease in 2003 after fluid from an infected crow's brain splattered in his eyes and face."

►August 26, 2005 - Bogus Mercury/Autism Claims Linked to Death - NewsBusters

►August 26, 2005 - Livestock industry responds to anthrax outbreak - Rapid City Journal

►August 26, 2005 - California Accuses Drug Companies of Fraud (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

►August 26, 2005 - Gene Expands Malaria’s Invasion Options - Howard Hughes Medical Institute via Biocompare

►August 26, 2005 - Drug Trials & Media - Ivanhoe - "Given the potential impact of the media in formulation of health policy related to HIV, efforts are needed to effectively engage the media during periods of controversy in the HIV/Aids epidemic," says study author Edward Mills of McMaster, DPH, MSc., of McMaster University in Canada."

►August 26, 2005 - Sending Medication To School - www.keloland.com

►August 26, 2005 - Pinpointing the Cause of a Neurodegenerative Disorder - Researchers have discovered how the abnormal repetition of a genetic sequence can have disastrous consequences that lead to the death of neurons that govern balance and motor coordination. The studies bolster the emerging theory that neurodegenerative disorders can be caused by having extra copies of a normal protein, not just a mutated one. - Howard Hughes Medical Institute via Innovations Report

►August 26, 2005 - Kendle Experts Comment on Key Issues Regarding Drug Safety and Risk Management at the FDA Regulatory and Compliance Symposium at Harvard University - PRNewswire-FirstCall via www.pharmalive.com

►August 26, 2005 - ICH Workshop on Oncolytic Viruses - The ICH Gene Therapy Discussion Group will sponsor a public one-day workshop on Oncolytic Viruses on November 7, 2005. The workshop will be held in conjunction with ICH Expert Working Groups and Steering Committee Meetings at the Westin Michigan Avenue Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, USA. - FDA/CBER

►August 26, 2005 - Cellular Power Plants Also Fend Off Viruses - Howard Hughes Medical Institute - "We would like to exploit these findings to develop more effective antiviral strategies.”

►August 26, 2005 - RNA clue to immune system - Immunity via www.health24.com

►August 26, 2005 - Notice: Notice of Establishment; National Commission on Digestive Diseases (Commission) - Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health via www.pharmcast.com

►August 26, 2005 - Homeopathic Effectiveness - Lancet via Ivanhoe - "We acknowledge that to prove a negative is impossible, but we have shown that the effects seen in placebo-controlled trials of homeopathy are compatible with the placebo hypothesis." In an accompanying editorial, Jan Vandenbroucke, M.D., Ph.D, of Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands says, "Now doctors need to be bold and honest with their patients about homeopathy's benefit."

►August 26, 2005 - Cases of potentially lethal bug top 44,000 - The Guardian, UK

* ►August 25, 2005 - Acambis hopes to build a flu vaccine that lasts - CIDRAP News

►August 25, 2005 - Study: Newer Malaria Drugs Save More Lives (requires registration or subscription) - AP via The Washington Post

►August 25, 2005 - California sues 39 drug makers for inflated prices - Reuters via Health Yahoo!

►August 25, 2005 - Guidance for Industry ANDAs: Impurities in Drug Products (pdf) - FDA/CDER

►August 25, 2005 - Definition of Primary Mode of Action of a Combination Product; Final Rule - FDA/CBER

* ►August 25, 2005 - School of Medicine plans huge expansion - Liverpool Daily Post, UK - "School director Janet Hemingway told the committee the new centre would secure a huge deal with the charitable Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Breast Milk of Oregon Women Contaminated - AP via Health Yahoo!

►August 25, 2005 - Merck's legal team regroups after loss - AP, USA Today

►August 25, 2005 - Take it to the bank, breast milk is best (requires registration or subscription) - The Globe And Mail

►August 25, 2005 - Prominent U.S. Research Scientists Counter Lancet Claims On Homeopathy - National Center for Homeopathy

►August 25, 2005 - Doubts Over 'Metabolic Syndrome' Weigh on Sanofi - Reuters

►August 24, 2005 - Immigrant children misdiagnosed as language-impaired - University of Alberta via www.eurekalert.org

►August 24, 2005 - Painkillers can cause fatal stomach bleeding - Reuters Health via Yahoo!

►August 24, 2005 - Cigna offers its customers drug data - Bloomberg News via Indianapolis Star

►August 23, 2005 - Notice: Draft Guidance for Industry on Gene Therapy Clinical Trials--Observing Participants for Delayed Adverse Events; Availability - Food and Drug Administration, HHS via www.pharmcast.com

►August 22, 2005 - CDER Report to the Nation: 2004 - Improving Public Health Through Human Drugs - Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

►August 22, 2005 - Notice: Approaches for the Application of Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Models and Supporting Data in Risk Assessment - Environmental Protection Agency via www.pharmcast.com

* ►August 9, 2005 - Title: Multi-stage cascade boosting vaccine - Immunomedics, Inc. (Morris Plains, NJ) via www.pharmcast.com

* ►August 9, 2005 - Title: Vaccine composition comprising iron phosphate as vaccine adjuvant - Sanofi Pasteur S.A. (Lyons Cedex, FR) via www.pharmcast.com

►August 2005 - Practitioner Review: Use of antiepileptic drugs in children - journal article (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

►August 2005 - Familial aggregation of aspirin-induced urticaria and leukotriene C4 synthase allelic variant - journal article (British Journal of Dermatology)

* ►August 28, 2005 - Lancet author slamming Homeopathy was behind blow to Vioxx - The Sunday Express - "Matthias Egger, at the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Berne in Switzerland, established the connection between Merck drug Vioxx and increased risk of cardiovascular problems. This study was published in Lancet in November 2004....The study on Homeopathy was commissioned by the Federal Office of Public Health in Switzerland to find out if Homeopathy treatment should be a part of a social insurance package. Already, acting on Egger’s findings, the country has decided to not include Homeopathy in its package."

* ►August 28, 2005 - Merck needs radical surgery - The maker of the controversial drug Vioxx has plenty of other headaches, writes Heather Connon - The Observer via Guardian Unlimited, UK

* ►August 28, 2005 - Mass polio vaccination campaign in Indonesia hampered by rumours, ignorance - AP/CP via www.canada.com - "'I'm afraid. Maybe my boy will get paralysed,' said Sari, who was among 62 per cent of parents in her village who refused to get their children vaccinated in June during a regional campaign on Java, the main island where most of the country's 226 polio cases have occurred."

►August 28, 2005 - Flu vaccine programme faces delays - Scotland on Sunday via The Scotsman

►August 28, 2005 - Vietnam capital warned of renewed bird flu threat - TODAYonline

►August 28, 2005 - Focus: Bird flu. Is it the new BSE? - Last week we broke the news that bird flu could soon arrive in Britain. Now, as Europe takes ever more stringent precautions, our Environment Editor, Geoffrey Lean, investigates how big a threat to us the disease is, whether predictions of as many as 750,000 British deaths are realistic, and what the Government should be doing to counteract the risk of an epidemic  - The Independent, UK

* ►August 28, 2005 - Meningitis survivors urge vaccinations - Disease considered unpredictable, swift and severe - San Antonio Express-News via Inside Bay Area - "In May, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended vaccinations for children who are 11 to 12, students entering high school and college freshmen who plan to live in dorms...Frankie Milley of Houston considers these parameters a good start, but she doesn't think they go far enough. Milley helped shape the new recommendations as part of a CDC steering committee. She now plans to push for mandatory vaccinations across the United States beginning at age 2."

►August 28, 2005 - U.S. adding airport quarantine stations - UPI via Monsters & Critics

* ►August 27, 2005 - Waiver leaves some uneasy, unmedicated - Dallas: Sheriff's staffers won't sign meningitis release; official says intent misinterpreted (requires registration) - Dallas Morning News - "No signature, no Cipro...Dallas County Sheriff's Department staffers exposed to an inmate who may have had meningitis were forced to sign a county waiver this week before they could receive the antibiotic Cipro...But several employees were so alarmed at the sweeping language of the waiver that they refused to sign – and were denied the Cipro...'It was like they were threatening us – we'll help you only if you relieve us of our liability,' said Ben Roberts, one of the deputies who wouldn't sign the form."

* ►August 27, 2005 - All an economist can do about bird flu is flap about - The Telegraph, UK

►August 27, 2005 - Malaysia to stockpile bird flu drug Tamiflu, says health official - The China Post

►August 27, 2005 - Finland says H5N1 strain of bird flu not in Europe - Reuters AlertNet

►August 27, 2005 - Co-circulation of H5N1 and H7N7 Bird Flu in Europe? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 27, 2005 - Bird flu 'A disaster waiting to happen' - Bird flu outbreak poses a risk to public health that science, despite its great advances, may be unable to contain, Nobel Prize winner Peter Doherty argues in a new book. -

►August 27, 2005 - Expert says HK could play vital role in containing pandemic - The Standard

►August 27, 2005 - China claims breakthrough in anti-SARS vaccine - Press Trust of India

* ►August 27, 2005 - Rumors Imperil Anti-Polio Bid - 24 Million Children Set to Be Immunized Tuesday (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post - "Hipgrave stressed that the vaccine was safe, even for children who are sick. The four youngsters who died were among the 2,000 children who die every day in Indonesia from dengue, malaria and other ailments, he added."

►August 27, 2005 - The End of Polio? - 2005 could be a landmark year in the history of India’s health achievements as we stand on the threshold of having a polio-free India - op-ed - Indian Express

►August 27, 2005 - Officially High Figures Prompt Polio Vaccinations - Yemen Observer

►August 27, 2005 - Meningitis risks greatest during this time of year - Chillicothe Gazette

►August 27, 2005 - Desperate parents seek autism's cure - A child's death near Pittsburgh heightens the controversy surrounding popular chelation therapy. (requires registration) - Providence Journal

►August 27, 2005 - West Nile Virus Concerns After People Diagnosed with Disease - www.wlns.com

►August 27, 2005 - Minister explains why slarm on HIV/AIDS, TB in Africa - AngolaPress

►August 27, 2005 - HIV drugs may cause heart problems - www.abc.net.au

►August 27, 2005 - Missing rats worry plague researcher - Denver Post

►August 27, 2005 - Vaccinations slowing SD anthrax outbreak - Rapid City Journal

►August 26, 2005 - Anthrax Hits 97th ND Herd - AP via www.kxmc.com

►August 26, 2005 - Province To Vaccinate 130.000 Children Against Polio - AngolaPress

►August 26, 2005 - New vaccine protects more effectively against tuberculosis - Max Planck researchers uncover the mechanism by which the new genetically engineered vaccine functions - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft via www.eurekalert.org

►August 26, 2005 - A job for the experts - Federal health agencies, not Homeland Security, should take charge if avian flu epidemic strikes U.S. - editorial (requires registration or subscription) - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

* ►August 26, 2005 - 'Scare tactics' over net flu drugs - Manchester Evening News

►August 26, 2005 - Health officials already planning for flu season - AP via Grand Forks Herald

►August 26, 2005 - Avian flu virus infected civets in Vietnam - CIDRAP News

►August 26, 2005 - Chronology-Key dates in Asian bird flu outbreak - Reuters AlertNet

►August 26, 2005 - Over 6,000 Turn Up for HIV/Aids Testing - The New Times (Kigali) via http://allafrica.com

►August 26, 2005 - Harmless virus may hold key to more effective HIV drug discovery - New phage display technique successful in identifying compounds that show potential to overcome drug resistance - University of California - Irvine via www.eurekalert.org

►August 26, 2005 - Experts: Autism Treatment Not Worth Risk - A 5-year-old boy with autism died last Tuesday after getting a controversial treatment. - FOX News

►August 26, 2005 - West Nile Death Toll Grows in California - CBS 5

* ►August 25, 2005 - FDA Opposes California Lawsuit Demanding Canned Tuna Label Warnings About Mercury Risks to Pregnant Women, Fetuses, Letter Says - Daily Health Policy Report via Medical News Today

* ►August 29, 2005 - Nothing to Sneeze At - Local Firm Looks to Create a Stir In the Competitive Allergy Market - San Diego Business Journal - "The sales potential for the only competitors of the epinephrine injection market is not small. The number of people susceptible to severe reactions is upward of 40 million, according to industry experts, who say anaphylaxis is highly underreported, partly because deaths from the attacks are sometimes attributed to cardiac arrest."

* ►August 28, 2005 - Question must be asked, but in confidence - www.newstalkzb.co.nz - "It has been reported some parents and teachers are upset children as young as eleven are being questioned about their sexual activity in front of their peers, before getting their meningitis B jabs...Adolescent health expert Dr Sue Bagshaw says the questions should be asked in a confidential way...But she says it is vital pregnancy is checked before any vaccination is given."

* ►August 27, 2005 - Medical Tests: Influenza virus ‘can be contained' - Thai simulations yield positive news on global outbreak. Two recent simulations of a potential influenza pandemic carried out in Thailand tell the first piece of positive news about the next probable global outbreak. The containment and elimination of an emergent pandemic strain of influenza at the point of origin is feasible using a combination of antiviral preventive treatments and social distance measures, the models showed. - The Nation

* ►August 27, 2005 - Saudi wants kids to carry vaccine tag - Indian Express - "The Health Ministry is working out how to issue polio immunisation certificates to children heading to Saudi Arabia after Riyadh placed India on a list of 19 nations where children below 15 have to show proof of polio immunisation in order to enter the country."

►August 27, 2005 - Indonesia, Angola Battle Polio Outbreaks - United States Department of State (Washington, DC) via http://allafrica.com

►August 27, 2005 - Gorakhpur people blame civic authorities of inaction against encephalitis virus - http://news.webindia123.com

►August 27, 2005 - Encephalitis: Search for cheaper vaccine - Fever: A committee of the Health ministry looking at vaccines produced by Korea and China - PTI via Indian Express

* ►August 27, 2005 - Minister Junor is right - editorial - The health minister, Mr Junor, has our full support for his efforts at encouraging parents to have their children immunised. - Jamaica Observer - "According to Mr Junor, immunisation coverage among Jamaican children is down to 77 per cent, from upwards of 90 per cent not so long ago. The slippage, apparently, has been in all communicable diseases, against which children would normally be immunised."

* ►August 26, 2005 - Autistic kids' parents desperate for help - 'Others don't understand my life,' a mother says - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

* ►August 26, 2005 - Chelation therapy has critics, champions - Reports of success have caused a surge in the use to treat autistic children - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

* ►August 26, 2005 - WHO ready to declare emergency over African tuberculosis - The Independent, UK - "Most strains of tuberculosis can be treated with a six-month course of antibiotics, but many African sufferers have no access to medical care or medication. The most common vaccination used in the West, the BCG, has been found to be ineffective in countries near the equator."

* ►August 26, 2005 - Africa ministers declare tuberculosis emergency - Reuters AlertNet

* ►August 26, 2005 - EU: Experts Say Risks Of Avian Influenza Reaching Europe Too Remote To Spark Measures - Veterinary experts from the 25 European Union member states say the risks posed by recent outbreaks of avian influenza in Russia and Kazakhstan remain too low to justify drastic preventive measures in Europe. However, they admit very little is known about the way the virus is transmitted. This particularly applies to the role of migratory birds, thousands of which arrive in Europe from Siberia and Central Asia every year. As a result, one EU member state, the Netherlands, has already decided to move ahead with its own stricter regime of prevention. Others may follow suit. - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

* ►August 26, 2005 - Health authorities trace steps of man with measles - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

* ►August 26, 2005 - Measles detected in county: Contamination risk for population is low, health officials say - King County Journal

* ►August 26, 2005 - Officials issue measles alert - Seattle Times - "A man returning from a trip to France earlier this month may have spread measles at four Redmond locations, including two on the Microsoft campus, health officials said yesterday."

* ►August 26, 2005 - Measles scare hits Microsoft - Overseas worker returns to spark Redmond alert - The Inquirer, UK

►August 26, 2005 - Eisteddfod link to mumps outbreak - A doctor dealing with a mumps outbreak among teenagers at his north Wales surgery is urging young people to check their immunity to the virus. - BBC

►August 26, 2005 - Indonesia Muslim body supports polio vaccinations - Reuters AlertNet

►August 26, 2005 - Indonesia confident on curbing polio outbreak - AFP via TODAYonline

►August 26, 2005 - Fighting Indonesia's polio outbreak - Newsday

►August 26, 2005 - Yemen: 50 New Polio Cases Discovered - AKI via http://mathaba.net

►August 26, 2005 - Second Phase of National Campaign Against Polio Starts Today - Angola Press Agency (Luanda) via http://allafrica.com

►August 26, 2005 - EC downplays bird flu threat - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 26, 2005 - Manchester prepares for overdue flu pandemic - The Union Leader

►August 26, 2005 - Bird flu kills civets in captivity in Vietnam - Reuters

►August 26, 2005 - Vietnam bird-flu vaccination program lagging: official - Vietnam’s poultry inoculation program against bird flu was slipping behind schedule, a government official said Wednesday. - Thanh Nien Daily

►August 26, 2005 - Bird flu jitters spur growing interest in drug - People concerned about bird flu are already seeking prescriptions from doctors for an anti-viral drug. - www.stuff.co.nz

►August 26, 2005 - Asian bird flu outbreak 'could trigger 1930s-style collapse' - The Telegraph, UK

* ►August 26, 2005 - DPH warns colleges of meningitis-vaccine shortage - State House News Service via Kingston Mariner via www.townonline.com - "Thousands of college students will arrive on Massachusetts campuses during the next few weeks without a meningitis vaccination, despite a new state law requiring all new students to get the vaccine if they attend a college that provides student housing...A new state law passed last year requires all new full and part-time students attending Bay State colleges that offer housing to be vaccinated against the rare, but potentially fatal, bacterial disease two weeks before beginning classes...Students can opt out of the requirement if they have religious or medical reasons or if they sign a waiver indicating they've received information about the disease and the vaccine and choose not to receive it."

►August 26, 2005 - New meningococcal vaccine in short supply - Wisconsin Radio Network - "We have enough of the vaccine, Menmune, that lasts for three to five years. It's very useful, very effective for protecting children."

►August 26, 2005 - Players question Missouri's actions in O'Neal death - From the frantic moments after 19-year-old Aaron O'Neal's death in July to the preseason practices leading to their first game next week, Missouri football players have publicly stood united in support of the program. - AP via Fox Sports

* ►August 26, 2005 - Concern at rise in meningitis cases - Cases of the potentially deadly infection meningitis have risen, prompting renewed warnings from campaigners about the dangers. - Yorkshire Post Today - "There have been 74 more cases of the illness in the first seven months of the year compared with the same period last year...A total of 1,375 cases of meningitis and septicaemia were recorded in England and Wales up to the beginning of August, including 100 in the first two weeks of July alone....Of these Yorkshire accounted for 179 cases. South Yorkshire was worst hit with 98 cases while there were a further 49 in West Yorkshire, 30 in East Yorkshire and two in North Yorkshire...Cases of the C strain had fallen dramatically after a new vaccine was introduced in 1999 but there was no protection against the more common B strain."

►August 26, 2005 - Pertussis is gaining ground in Alaska - Whooping cough: 46 cases are a four-fold increase over last year. - Anchorage Daily News

►August 26, 2005 - Bobo: Valuable lessons about mercury - guest commentary - Cohasset Mariner via www.townonline.com

►August 26, 2005 - 'Ensure yours kids are fully immunised' - In the face of the falling immunisation rates in Jamaica, Health Minister John Junor on Wednesday called on parents to ensure that their children are fully immunised before the beginning of the school year, which is a little over a week away. - Jamaica Observer

►August 26, 2005 - County emergency agencies perform bio-hazard exercise - Northwest Arkansas Times

* ►August 26, 2005 - Health officials warn cat owners about plague risk - Santa Cruz Sentinel - "Four house cats have tested positive for bubonic plague, California health officials said, prompting a warning to cat owners to keep their pets away from wild rodents."

►August 26, 2005 - Novel plague virulence factor identified - Duke University Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org

* ►August 26, 2005 - 'Six million South Africans are HIV positive' - Independent Online - "South Africa has the fifth highest prevalence of HIV in the world, with 21,5 percent of the population estimated to be infected."

►August 26, 2005 - The Implications of HIV/Aids Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa - Ghanaian Chronicle (Accra) via http://allafrica.com

►August 26, 2005 - Beijing sees 53.2% rise in reported HIV carriers - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 25, 2005 - Jurors Find Hospital Negligent In HIV Civil Suit - Pregnant Woman Misdiagnosed As HIV-Positive Wins $52,000 In Damages - www.click2houston.com

►August 25, 2005 - Living Well With HIV: A Long-Term Survivor Perspective - press release - Program for Wellness Restoration via PRNewswire

* ►August 25, 2005 - Personalized Cancer Vaccine Tested - Drug Discovery & Development

►August 25, 2005 - Hepatitis Vaccines important for Back-to-School - The Village News

►August 25, 2005 - Vaccinations Prevent Diseases And Epidemics - commentary - The Newtown Bee

►August 25, 2005 - J'cans studying abroad must be immunised, ministry says - Jamaica Observer

►August 25, 2005 - A shot for good health - The Daily Mining Gazette

►August 25, 2005 - 90% of children in Congo receive polio vaccination - AngolaPress

►August 25, 2005 - Bengo: PAV Hopes To Vaccinate Over 70.000 Children Against Polio - AngolaPress

►August 25, 2005 - Flu vaccine supply expected to match 2004 numbers - The Register via www.townonline.com

►August 25, 2005 - Bird flu bound for Britain - Vet Association president - AFX via Forbes

►August 25, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Spreads Across Northern Mongolia - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 25, 2005 - Balkans may be bird flu gateway to wider Europe - Reuters

►August 25, 2005 - Avian flu 'could cripple economy' - A pandemic caused by the spread of bird flu could cause economic chaos, halting global trade and forcing stock markets to close, a report has claimed. - BBC

►August 25, 2005 - Vaccination against influenza A may prevent bird flu in humans - RIA Novosti

* ►August 25, 2005 - Novavax reports positive preclinical results on its novel vaccine for pandemic influenza  - press release - Novavax, Inc. via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►August 25, 2005 - Novavax posts good avian flu animal data - AP via BusinessWeek

►August 25, 2005 - Cat with plague brought to clinic - The Union of Grass Valley

►August 25, 2005 - Danes, Brits in smallpox vaccine fight - UPI via Monsters & Critics

* ►August 25, 2005 - Parents, it's time to immunize students - Park Ridge Herald-Advocate via Pioneer Press Online - "School districts must demonstrate at least 90 percent compliance with the immunization requirements no later than Oct. 15 each year or face a 10 percent loss of state aid. School districts have the option of enforcing the requirement any time from the opening day of school until Oct. 15."

* ►August 24, 2005 - UN-backed Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, malaria suspends grants to Uganda - UN News Centre - "The United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has temporarily suspended all five of its grants to Uganda, totalling $201 million, because of 'serious mismanagement' and asked the country’s Finance Ministry to put in place a new structure to ensure effective handling of the grants."

►August 26, 2005 - Life-Lengthening Hormone Found in Mouse Research (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post
 
►August 26, 2005 - Improving the potential of cancer vaccines - Baylor College of Medicine via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 26, 2005 - Pinpointing the Cause of a Neurodegenerative Disorder - Howard Hughes Medical Institute

* ►August 26, 2005 - Director of NIH Agrees To Loosen Ethics Rules (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post - "Flooded with 1,300 comments by employees and threats of high-level defections, the head of the National Institutes of Health agreed yesterday to loosen some of the ethics rules he unveiled in February...But Sidney M. Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group at the consumer organization Public Citizen, characterized the changes as a 'huge retrenchment' that left plenty of loopholes for NIH employees to accept industry money. Although he said the ban on consulting was positive, he warned that researchers could collect money from companies 'laundered' through a journal or a scientific association."

* ►August 26, 2005 - For Merck, Global Legal Woes (requires registration or subscription) - International Herald Tribune via The New York Times

* ►August 26, 2005 - Uganda: Government to probe use of anti-AIDS grants - IRIN via Reuters AlertNet

►August 26, 2005 - Desperate families search for autism's 'magic pill' - The Telegraph, UK

* ►August 26, 2005 - Autism boy dies after alternative therapy - The Telegraph, UK - "Abubakar Tariq Nadama, whose father is a doctor, died on Tuesday after receiving his third round of chelation therapy, an intravenous treatment designed to remove heavy metals from the body...Marwa Nadama, the boy's mother, said she did not blame the therapy for her son's death but was awaiting the results of the autopsy. Speaking yesterday from Monroeville, where she had been staying, she said it was 'not a good time' to speak."

* ►August 26, 2005 - Autistic boy, 5, dies after US therapy - The Times, UK

* ►August 25, 2005 - Boy dies during autism treatment - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

* ►August 25, 2005 - Autistic boy's death raises questions about medical treatment - AP via www.phillyburbs.com

* ►August 25, 2005 - GP blasts MP over MMR jab - A senior Bracknell doctor has hit out at the town's MP Andrew MacKay, accusing him of a "great disservice" to children because of his stance on the controversial MMR jab. - http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk - "Dr George Kassianos says Mr MacKay's decision not to give his own son the triple vaccine in 2003, because of fears over its link to autism, is a reason there has been a drop in children taking the vaccine...At the time, Dr Kassianos warned parents a measles epidemic could break out if their children did not have the MMR jab."

* ►August 25, 2005 - National Expert to Discuss Vaccines for Children - PharmaLive via www.medadnews.com - "Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), will provide parents and caretakers with the latest information on vaccines during a presentation at the Mission Resort Inn on Sept. 1, 2005."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Spread of bird flu virus is a 'national emergency' - The Times, UK - "Veterinary experts from across Europe are meeting today to develop a strategy to stop the spread of a deadly strain of avian flu, which one British scientist has declared a national emergency."

►August 25, 2005 - New vaccination requirement for long-term care facilities - CCH Health Care - "Under the proposed rule, LTC facilities would be required to offer the influenza vaccine annually, between October 1 and March 31. An offer of pneumococcal vaccine usually will be required only once during a beneficiary's lifetime."

►August 25, 2005 - Health officials prepare for possible flu pandemic - AP via Indianapolis Star

►August 25, 2005 - Surviving the influenza pandemic - Canadian experts warned Wednesday of the devastating economic fallout of a long-overdue flu outbreak. The last time, 50 million people died - Vancouver Sun via www.canada.com

►August 25, 2005 - Bird-flu vaccination for poultry going slowly - Viet Nam News Agency

►August 25, 2005 - Vigilance but no panic over risk of bird flu - The Scotsman

►August 25, 2005 - Experts worried by bird flu's flight out of Asia - Sify News

►August 25, 2005 - Fourth round of combating polio kicked off - Yemen Times

* ►August 25, 2005 - Public Health reports one case of imported measles - press release - Seattle & King County Public Health

►August 25, 2005 - Five Die Of Measles Outbreak In Indonesia - All Headline News

►August 25, 2005 - Tassie wins a break from deadly bug - Hobart Mercury - "Eric Pastoor -- who lost his legs and fingers after contracting meningococcal in 2001 -- hailed the three-year immunisation campaign as 'a huge success' but says he will not rest until all young Tasmanians are aware of the dangers posed by the disease."

* ►August 25, 2005 - New Vaccine Created In Fight Against Meningitis - Entering New Groups Of People Puts You More At Risk Of Getting Meningitis - www.nbc10.com - "Dr. Paul Offit is chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a specialist in vaccines...'I trust this vaccine. What I don't trust is the disease. Because the disease can attack anywhere, anytime, and there is, frankly, no avoiding it with the exception of trying to get a vaccine to prevent it,' Offit said...This new meningitis vaccine called Menactra is 70 percent effective at preventing meningitis. It does not need any booster shots. It should protect your child for the rest of his or her life."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Vaccine is in short supply - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - "The vaccine -- called Menactra -- is effective for more than eight years, while the old vaccine lasted for just three to five years."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Herb Weisbaum: Back To School With New Meningitis Vaccine - www.komo1000news.com - "There is a nationwide shortage of Menactra right now. So the manufacturer is limiting how much a doctor, hospital, county health department can order. That means you may have to search around for the vaccine or wait awhile to get it...Health experts say the old vaccine is perfectly fine. It just doesn’t last as long as the new vaccine. So that may be an option you want to consider if you can’t find Menactra. Talk to your doctor about that."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Health officials want students to get meningitis vaccine - News 14 Carolina

* ►August 25, 2005 - Billboard has nontoxic effect on Mercury sales - The Grand Rapids Press via www.mlive.com - "The billboard is among at least three in Grand Rapids, Hudsonville and Holland installed in late July and early August to educate the public about concerns with flu shots containing thimerosal, a mercury-containing preservative that some fear may cause autism...A local chapter of Unlocking Autism paid for the billboards and chose the spot not knowing it was near Molotky's new Lincoln Mercury dealership. The billboard, showing a syringe, is on the corner of Molotky's land."

* ►August 25, 2005 - California targets 39 companies in drug fraud lawsuit - AP/CP via www.canada.com - "Among those named were drug giants Amgen Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C., Novartis AG, Sandoz Inc., Mylan Laboratories Inc. and Schering-Plough Corp...'We're going to drag these drug companies into courts of law because they've been gouging the public,' California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said at a news conference."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Vioxx lawsuit tally nears 5,000, lawyer says - 20 million people took Merck drug until drug was taken off shelves - AP via MSNBC

►August 25, 2005 - Health Officials Report Rise in Whooping Cough - AP via www.wibw.com

►August 25, 2005 - Booster Shots: A Necessary Evil (includes video) - www.10tv.com

►August 24, 2005 - Back to School: N.D. Health Department outlines shot needs - Students must be immunized against serious diseases - Grand Forks Herald

►August 25, 2005 - Is a Longevity Vaccine on the Way? - HealthDay via Forbes

►August 25, 2005 - Research body to commercialise 'goat plague' vaccine technology - www.newkerala.com

►August 25, 2005 - Scientists develop vaccine to tackle blue tongue disease - www.newkerala.com

* ►August 25, 2005 - Foot-and-mouth vaccination could cripple livestock farmers - NFU Cymru - Farmers Weekly, UK - "The union said it had a number of concerns with the proposed vaccination strategy."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Tanzania to try out malaria vaccines - Xinhua via People's Daily Online - "Tanzania has chosen 12 villages for a trial of the malaria vaccines as a major move in the country's fight against the life-threatening disease."

* ►August 25, 2005 - How malaria thwarts vaccine success - Daily Mail, UK - "Researchers found that the gene - PfRh4 - enables p.falciparum to switch invasion paths with 'exquisite adaptability' in the face of nerve reactions and immune system responses, the study in Science magazine reports."

►August 25, 2005 - Tracking system for HIV may be tossed - Los Angeles Times via Seattle Times

►August 25. 2005 - Compound might defeat African sleeping sickness, clinical trial beginning this month - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
►August 25, 2005 - Gene expands malaria's invasion options - Howard Hughes Medical Institute via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 25, 2005 - New dye could offer early test for Alzheimer's - MIT technique is noninvasive - Massachusetts Institute of Technology via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 25, 2005 - Solving the mystery of mutated proteins and the brain - Baylor College of Medicine via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 25, 2005 - Scientists find that protein controls aging by controlling insulin - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
 
►August 25, 2005 - New protein vital for immune response is found in surprise location - University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
 
►August 24, 2005 - Transplants: Is system fair? - St. Louis Post-Dispatch via Seattle Times

* ►August 24, 2005 - Vaccinate Johnny To Protect Grammy — And Other Wild Ideas - By Red Flags Columnist F. Edward Yazbak, MD - www.redflagsdaily.com

* ►August 24, 2005 - Exposed: Vioxx firm's cash payments made to arthritis charities - The Independent, UK - "Leading arthritis charities have accepted thousands of pounds in sponsorship and donations from Merck, the drugs company that stands accused of deliberately suppressing information about the health risks of its painkiller Vioxx...The financial links with the pharmaceutical giant have led some critics to accuse charities of a potential conflict of interest, particularly where they run helplines offering supposedly impartial advice on treatments and pain relief to patients."

* ►August 24, 2005 - Acambis accused of vaccine secrets theft - Evening Standard via This is Money

* ►August 24, 2005 - National Tracking System for Neonatal Herpes Is Urged (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "The report was financed in part by GlaxoSmithKline, which makes antiherpes drugs, and all of its authors have received research grants from the company. Dr. Handsfield also works part time as a visiting scientist at the C.D.C."

* ►August 24, 2005 - TB Vaccine Failing Worldwide - New Vision (Kampala) via http://allafrica.com - "Global  health scientists are back in the laboratories after the tuberculosis (TB) vaccine appears to be having little success. The vaccine is expected to protect children from contracting the disease later in life."

* ►August 24, 2005 - Modified BCG vaccine 'better at fighting tuberculosis' - Science and Development Network

►August 24, 2005 - WHO says only 40 countries ready for bird flu - Only 40 countries worldwide have put in place plans to prepare for an eventual avian flu pandemic, a World Health Organization spokesman told CNBC Wednesday. (requires registration) - MarketWatch

►August 24, 2005 - Fortress Europe is not immune to epidemic - Financial Times

►August 24, 2005 - Flu shot fee raised to $20 - The Grand Rapids Press

►August 24, 2005 - WHO warns flu pandemic to occur - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 24, 2005 - UM scientists developing hand-held flu virus detector - Little device could play big role in fighting outbreaks - www.mlive.com

►August 24, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu in Altai Republic in Russia? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 24, 2005 - Reports conflict on bird flu in Russia (requires registration or subscription) - AP via The Mercury News

►August 24, 2005 - Meningococcal B Six months on - press release - Tairawhiti District Health via www.scoop.co.nz

►August 24, 2005 - Sources, symptoms vary in meningitis infections - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

* ►August 24, 2005 - Presidential committee to investigate meningitis deaths in Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka Daily News via www.colombopage.com - "Following recent deaths from meningitis allegedly caused by contaminated syringes and other medical equipment, President Chandrika Kumaratunga has appointed a two-member committee to inquire into the cause."

►August 24, 2005 - Meningitis vaccine exhausted - The Enterprise

►August 24, 2005 - Scribes should remain wary of the Figures Flu - In Lucknow to conduct a media training on how to tackle the challenge of accurate and sensitive reporting on HIV-AIDS, former journalist and communication specialist Dr Jaya Shreedhar tells our correspondent that the HIV-AIDS situation in UP reminds her of how things were in her home state of Tamil Nadu 15 years ago and there were talks about the need for a planned strategy and investigative reports to sift facts from the mounds of figures and fiction. - Lucknow Newsline via http://cities.expressindia.com
 
►August 23, 2005 - Family anger at tot's 'missed' meningitis - Evening Mail via http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk

►August 23, 2005 - Antibodies hamper MS treatment - Immune system reaction interferes with effectiveness of multiple sclerosis drugs - Macleans

►August 23, 2005 - Fund provides HIV/AIDS drugs for 90,000 - AAP via http://news.ninemsn.com.au

►October 2005 - MRI of fetal and neonatal cerebellar development - journal article (Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine)

►September/October 2005 - A Comparison of Physician and Nonphysician Acupuncture Treatment For Chronic Low Back Pain. - journal article (The Clinical Journal of Pain)

* ►September 1, 2005 - {alpha}-Galactosylceramide Can Act As a Nasal Vaccine Adjuvant Inducing Protective Immune Responses against Viral Infection and Tumor - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

* ►September 1, 2005 - A Novel Viral System for Generating Antigen-Specific T Cells - journal article (The Journal of Immunology) - "Dendritic cell (DC)-based vaccines are increasingly used for the treatment of patients with malignancies. Although these vaccines are typically safe, consistent and lasting generation of tumor-specific immunity has been rarely demonstrated."

* ►September 1, 2005 - Drug regulatory process is focused on safety, officials claim (full text) - journal article (American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy)

* ►September 1, 2005 - Natural Recovery and Protection from Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis: Contribution of CD4+CD25+ Regulatory Cells within the Central Nervous System - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►September 1, 2005 - Stat3 in Resident Macrophages as a Repressor Protein of Inflammatory Response - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►September 1, 2005 - Regulation of Basal and Induced Expression of C-Reactive Protein through an Overlapping Element for OCT-1 and NF-{kappa}B on the Proximal Promoter - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►September 1, 2005 - Identification of Aldolase as a Target Antigen in Alzheimer’s Disease - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►September 1, 2005 - Are antibiotics indicated following human bites? - journal article (Emergency Medicine Journal)

* ►September 2005 - Cutaneous lymphoid hyperplasia and marginal zone B-cell lymphoma following vaccination - journal article (Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology)

* ►September 2005 - Polymorphism at 3' UTR +28 of the prion-like protein gene is associated with sporadic Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease - journal article (European Journal of Human Genetics)

►September 2005 - Estrogen receptor beta gene variants are associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease in women - journal article (European Journal of Human Genetics)

►September 2005 - Recent Developments in Genetic Study of Allergic Disease in the Japanese Population (full text) - journal article (Allergology International)

►September 2005 - Cross-reactive Carbohydrate Determinant Contributes to the False Positive IgE Antibody to Peanut (full text) - journal article (Allergology International)

►September 2005 - Attitudes of Australian Pharmacists Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicines - journal article (The Annals of Pharmacotherapy)

* ►August 25, 2005 - The Search for Effective HIV Vaccines (free full text) - journal article (NEJM) - "As of this writing, two phase 2 trials that are testing therapeutic HIV vaccines are under way — these vaccines are designed not to prevent infection but, rather, by stimulating T lymphocytes that can identify and kill HIV-infected cells, to prevent or limit viral replication and delay disease progression. Although experts have not given up the ultimate goal of a preventive vaccine, they are hopeful that a therapeutic vaccine will, at least, help stem the devastating tide of disease, disability, and death from AIDS."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Parents concerned over vaccine safety - China Daily via Xinhuanet - "According to survey results released yesterday, 26 per cent of parents chose not to have their children inoculated, saying they are worried about vaccine's reliability. Concerns about the necessity and convenience of the flu vaccine also topped a list of reasons concerning them. "There have been many negative reports about inoculation safety recently," Yi Qing, market director of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur, said yesterday.  In June, a school pupil in East China's Anhui Province died after receiving an inoculation against Hepatitis A. Around 200 others were also taken ill after unqualified doctors inoculated them."

* ►August 25, 2005 - Russia to step up vaccination of population amid bird flu scare - Itar-Tass News Agency

►August 25, 2005 - Avian flu "undoubtedly" will hit UK - Telegraph, UK

►August 25, 2005 - Babies disease threat - Herald Sun, AU - "This year, 20 Victorian babies have been diagnosed with whooping cough out of 682 notifications to the Human Services Department. At the same time last year 420 people had been diagnosed and 39 babies under one had the disease. "There has been an increasing trend for the past three years, but we are not in the territory of the very big years we have experienced in the past when we had up to 1200 cases," Human Services Department spokesman Bram Alexander said."

►August 25, 2005 - Occupational Hazards (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►August 25, 2005 - Patents versus Patients? Antiretroviral Therapy in India (free full text) (includes audio) - journal article (NEJM)

►August 25, 2005 - Curing Stigma — The Limits of Antiretroviral Access (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►August 25, 2005 - Protein snapin has potential as a drug target in therapies aimed at learning and memory disorders - Rutgers' Bonnie Firestein likens nerve cells to trees -- some are short and bushy with many branches while others are tall with a few branches coming out of one or two main trunks. Different branching patterns correlate with specific disorders and Firestein's quest is to discover how these dissimilar patterns come about and why. - Rutgers via Medical Research News

►August 25, 2005 - New role for RNA in human immune response - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine via www.medicalnewstoday.com

►August 25, 2005 - Stem cells with heart bypass surgery trial to begin at University of Pittsburgh - Study marks second UPMC stem cell trial approved by FDA - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 25, 2005 - Vaccine makers fight over 'indigenous' label - The Times of India

►August 25, 2005 - Focus: EU's Eastern Borders Brace For Bird Flu Threat - Dow Jones Newswire via Yahoo!

►August 25, 2005 - New strategy for FMD and Avian Influenza control - www.greaterkashmir.com

►August 25, 2005 - Deadly virus: how it began and why it is spreading our way - The Independent, UK

►August 25, 2005 - Avian Flu Virus Reaches Another Siberian Region - Reuters via The Moscow Times

* ►August 25, 2005 - Altor gets govt funding to make drugs in lettuce - In the US, Altor BioScience has received a phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support development of its processes for making therapeutic antibodies in transgenic lettuce. - www.in-pharmatechnologist.com

* ►August 25, 2005 - Acambis turns to America in defence of patent claim - The Independent, UK - "Acambis, the Cambridge-based vaccines company which developed a jab against smallpox, is set to rely on its relationship with the US government as it prepares to defend allegations of stealing trade secrets and breaching a rival's patents."

►August 25, 2005 - Hepatitis C co-infection blunts response to antiretroviral therapy - Aidsmap

* ►August 25, 2005 - Town's under-20s offered jabs to counter Meningococcal C outbreak - New Zealand Herald - "Huntly mother Chrisla Wallace wants her five children promptly vaccinated against meningococcal C, after an outbreak which has sent the town's rate of the potentially deadly disease soaring...Her children, all under 9, recently finished their vaccine injections against the B strain."
 
* ►August 24/31, 2005 - Vaccination During Eruptive Stage of Smallpox - journal article (JAMA)

* ►August 24/31, 2005 - Could a Novel Vaccine Help Smokers Quit? - journal article (JAMA)

►August 24/31, 2005 - Positive Test Results for Acute Hepatitis A Virus Infection Among Persons With No Recent History of Acute Hepatitis—United States, 2002-2004 - journal article MMWR via (JAMA)

* ►August 24, 2005 - Huntly reluctant to take on new vaccination programme - NZPA via New Zealand Herald - "The Health Ministry has urged the Waikato District Health Board's public health unit to immunise every Huntly person under 20 against Meningococcal C...Community health worker Ngawaina McKinnon said it would be tough persuading some parents to get their children immunised against Meningococcal C so soon after the Meningococcal B mass vaccination campaign...Ms McKinnon, who works at Maori health provider Raukura Hauora o Tainui, said colleagues were struggling to get children back for their second and third shots in the MeNZB programme and it would be no easier getting them for Meningococcal C vaccinations."

* ►August 24, 2005 - No Meningitis Shortage - http://nbc15.madison.com - "Department of Health and Family Service officials say the centers for disease control has limited the amount of new vaccine going to all states. Wisconsin is expected to get more than 30,000 doses...But DHFS officials reassure both the new and original meningitis vaccines are effective, the only difference is the length of immunity...'There's not a vaccine shortage, parents should feel confident in getting their child immunized with the original vaccine, it lasts for about 3–5 years, it's very effective and that way their child is still protected,' says Stephanie Marquis of the Department of Health and Family Services."

* ►August 24, 2005 - Missouri college students required to get vaccine - www.ktvotv3.com - "'It's any students that were going to live in the residence hall had to show proof of the shot, or they had to sign a waiver saying that they know the risk, and they know that if they contract meningitis that they would be asked to leave the residence hall,' said family nurse practitioner Kelly Freeland."

►August 24, 2005 - New vaccine available for meningitis, availability limited - Oshkosh Northwestern via www.wisinfo.com

* ►August 24, 2005 - Vaccine Shortage Hits Vermont - www.wcax.com - "'The risk of this disease is still exceedingly low, even among college students living in dormitories. So they shouldn't be fearful if they didn't have access to the vaccine before. And hopefully over the next few months the supply will catch up to the demand,' says Dr. Cort Lohff, Vermont State Epidemiologist...An older version of the vaccine is widely available. Dr. Lohff says it is a good option if you're worried. It does work, but its protection does not last as long as the newer meningitis vaccine."

►August 24, 2005 - Bird flu under control in Russia - official - AFX via Forbes

►August 24, 2005 - WHO Speeding Up Flu Pandemic Preparations - Voice of America

►August 24, 2005 - Roche Gives WHO 3M Doses of Bird Flu Drug (requires registration or subscription) - AP via Washington Post

►August 24, 2005 - WHO will try to "nip pandemic in the bud" with donated flu drug: officials - Canadian Press via www.canada.com

* ►August 24, 2005 - The Age of Autism: Gold and mercury - UPI via Washington Times

* ►August 24, 2005 - Traces of Polio found in Tel Aviv sewage system - Ha'aretz - "Traces of the Polio virus were found Wednesday during a routine Health Ministry check of sewage collection points at the Reading bus station in Tel Aviv....The ministry said that the traces found are not dangerous and will not cause sickness. They originated in child immunizations."

►August 24, 2005 - Indonesia must make 'tremendous' effort to curb polio outbreak - officials - AFX via Forbes

►August 24, 2005 - Nigeria Picks Up The Pace in War Against Polio - Two-Year Delay Let Disease Spread (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post

►August 24, 2005 - Indonesian Polio Cases Rise to 226; New Case in Central Java - Bloomberg

►August 24, 2005 - Cat owners in Calif. warned of plague - San Francisco Chronicle

►August 24, 2005 - Owner of deceased cats says their deaths not her fault (includes video) - www.kget.com

►August 24, 2005 - Anthrax vaccination recommended for Barnes County - Valley City Times Record

* ►August 24, 2005 - Serum Institute refutes claim made by Shanta Biotechnics - Serum Institute of India has sold over 100,000 doses of the combination vaccine - www.ciol.com - "Dr Cyrus Poonawalla, chairman and managing director, Serum Institute of India said his company was the first Indian company to have launched the country's first indigenously developed 4-in-1 combination."

►August 24, 2005 - More Immunizations - www.ktre.com - "East Texas students are back in school, but many still don't have their immunizations."

►August 24, 2005 - Vaccine for Some Leukemia, Lymphoma Cancers - Nature Medicine via Ivanhoe

►August 24, 2005 - Shots ward off tetanus in Stoughton - Wisconsin State Journal

►August 24, 2005 - Hepatitis A Vaccine Urged for Hep C Patients - Despite recommendations, few people with chronic hepatitis C are being vaccinated against the hepatitis A virus. - FOX News

►August 24, 2005 - Widow of Beaver County man sues alleging Chi-Chi's related death - AP via Penn Live

* ►August 24, 2005 - 'We should have been warned' - Siobhan O'Neill was told the new five-in-one jab might leave her daughter irritable for a day or two. No one mentioned the possibility of serious side-effects lasting up to a week - The Guardian, UK - "So why did our baby continue to have a high temperature? Why was she listless and pale? Why less interactive? Why did she have that odd glassy stare and seem completely different to the way she was before we apparently poisoned her?"

* ►August 24, 2005 - Bavarian Nordic Positive to Broader Usage of Safe Smallpox Vaccine - Bavarian Nordic via U.S. Newswire - "Bavarian Nordic, the Danish biopharmaceutical company developing a new, safer smallpox vaccine (Imvamune(tm)), commended the U.S. government for broadening the usage of MVA-based smallpox vaccines beyond those who are immune-compromised."

* ►August 24, 2005 - Internet Registry Will Help Keep Track Of Child Immunizations - www.wral.com - "Simplifying childhood immunization even further are new combination vaccines. On the horizon is a one-shot vaccine combination that will handle measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox. "Pretty soon, you'll be giving a child maybe two shots, but they'll be getting maybe six to eight immunizations in those two shots," Cathcart said."

►August 24, 2005 - Patients with HCV Often Skip HAV Vaccinations - Hepatology via www.medpagetoday.com

►August 24, 2005 - National Institutes of Health worker pleads not guilty to making Florida anthrax threat - AP via WOAI San Antonio News

►August 24, 2005 - Doctors fight killer disease - News Shopper, UK - "THE cause of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak is being sought after four people contracted the deadly illness."

►August 24, 2005 - Gender hormones may lend to social disorder therapies - Wisconsin Technology Network - "To understand why autistic children have trouble engaging in social interactions, researchers have long observed "rough-and-tumble" play - the propensity to bite, wrestle or pounce - in juvenile rats. Scientists were convinced that testosterone solely dictated the onset of such behavior."

►August 24, 2005 - Why we can miss 'obvious' sights - Scientists say they have pinpointed the brain region involved in a curious phenomenon called "change blindness". - BBC

►August 24, 2005 - New Technology in the Battle Against Transmission of Infectious Diseases Designed to Help Hospitals and Save Taxpayers Money - American Safe Room, Inc. of Sutherlin, Oregon has developed the Safe Cell 800i, a portable system that quickly and easily converts a standard patient room to a regulation CDC qualified infectious isolation room like those used for tuberculoses patients, or positive pressure isolation room like those used for bone marrow transplant, burn and AIDS patients. - PRWeb

►August 24, 2005 - Canada Reinstates Attention-Deficit Drug - AP via Health Yahoo!

►August 24, 2005 - Study: Placebos Make People Feel Better - AP via Health Yahoo!

►August 24, 2005 - Prince orders cost study of alternative medicine - The Guardian, UK

►August 24, 2005 - Mother hopes to increase autism awareness - Linton Daily Citizen

►August 24, 2005 - Thumbs up for leech therapy - www.news24.com

►August 24, 2005 - Unilever point out benefits of black tea - 58 percent of consumers surveyed mistakenly identify herbal tea as a good source of antioxidants, when in fact herbal tea, unlike green and black tea, does not contain antioxidants. - Nutrition Horizon

►August 24, 2005 - Drug company donates bird flu vaccine to World Health Organization - A donation by Swiss drug maker Roche, of enough of its Tamiflu antiviral drug to treat 3 million people against birdflu, could slow the spread of the outbreak among humans, especially in countries too poor to afford their own stockpile - www.news-medical.net
 
►August 24, 2005 - Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines; Request for
Nominations for Voting Members - Federal Register Online via GPO Access
 
►August 24, 2005 - Novel lipoplex nanoparticle to be used in 1st human trial treating advanced solid cancer - Georgetown University Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 24, 2005 - Snapin: A protein with therapy potential for autism - Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 24, 2005 - Vioxx scandal points to deeper industry issues - Vioxx. Bextra. Zyprexa, Seroxat. At no period of time have so many high-profile drugs come under the spotlight as drug companies face legal action over drug safety. It's make or break time for the pharmaceutical industry as drug companies are possibly facing its biggest crisis since the thalidomide fiasco almost fifty years ago - www.drugresearcher.com
 
►August 24, 2005 - S.Korean scientists clone pigs able to produce cancer cure protein - People's Daily Online

►August 24, 2005 - Canada Reinstates Attention-Deficit Drug - Herald-Sun

►August 24, 2005 - Inquest: Op gloves 'killed elderly woman' - An elderly woman died on the operating table after possibly suffering an allergic reaction to latex gloves, an inquest has heard. - Peterborough Evening Telegraph

►August 24, 2005 - Food allergies in kids mean strict discipline for families - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

* ►August 24, 2005 - Researchers Study Possible Peanut Allergy Vaccine - www.thewbalchannel.com - "The Food Allergy consortium, led by Dr. Hugh Sampson, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, will receive approximately $17 million over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...Additionally, the institute will provide a $5 million grant to the Rockville, Md.-based Emmes Corp. to fund a statistical center to support the consortium."

* ►August 23, 2005 - Significant Increase in Students With Food Allergies Reported by School Nurses - Students With Food Allergies Need to be Prepared for School by Taking CARE - press release - The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network via PRNewswire - "In the study, conducted by FAAN, 60% of the school nurses reported an increase in elementary-school-age students with food allergies in the classroom over the last five years. Nearly 94% of school nurses reported having at least one child with food allergies in their school. More than one-third of the nurses indicated that they had 10 or more students in the school with food allergies, and 87% stated that, compared with other health-related issues, food allergies among school-age children are somewhat or very serious."

* ►August 23, 2005 - On the Bookshelf: A profit motive to find illnesses - US News

►August 23, 2005 - Mice with Human Antigen Presenting Molecules Demonstrate Strong Responses to Novel Melanoma Peptide Vaccine Which is Destined for Clinical Trials - Generex Biotechnology via PRNewswire-FirstCall via WTHR 13 Indianapolis

►August 23, 2005 - Preparing for a Flu Outbreak - New Hampshire Public Radio - "Today (Tuesday) the state’s Department of Health and Human Services held the second in a series of legislative briefings on how the state is gearing up to combat a potential flu pandemic."

►August 23, 2005 - Missouri football player died from meningitis - AP via Belleville News Democrat

►August 23, 2005 - For him, West Nile is much, much worse than the flu - Though a Largo man keeps hearing talk of mild flu-like symptoms, he has been ravaged by the disease. He still can't walk. - St. Petersburg Times

►August 23, 2005 - Unproved Lyme Disease Tests Prompt Warnings - The New York Times via The Gainesville Sun

►August 23, 2005 - New Target Found To Fight, Treat Parkinson's - University at Buffalo via Biocompare - "Neuroscientists from the University at Buffalo have described for the first time how rotenone, an environmental toxin linked specifically to Parkinson's disease, selectively destroys the neurons that produce dopamine, the neurotransmitter critical to body movement and muscle control."

►August 23, 2005 - The Other Brain Also Deals With Many Woes - The New York Times via The Gainesville Sun - "During stress, trauma or 'fight or flight' reactions, the barrier between the lumen, the interior of the gut where food is digested, and the rest of the bowel could be broken, and bad stuff could get across," Dr. Wood said. "So the big brain calls in more immune surveillance at the gut wall by activating mast cells."

►August 23, 2005 - European Rare Diseases Therapeutic Initiative could provide an important new mechanism for developing new drugs - Because of the very high costs in developing drugs for rare genetic diseases, and the low return on investment, the pharmaceutical industry has rarely developed specific treatments for many of these diseases. But a new public-private partnership, called the European Rare Diseases Therapeutic Initiative (ERDITI), could provide an important new mechanism for developing new drugs. - PLOS via www.news-medical.net

►August 23, 2005 - Mouse model of Rett Syndrome displays reduced cortical activity - Rett Syndrome Research Foundation via www.eurekalert.org

►August 23, 2005 - Study: Older Siblings at No Higher MS Risk - HealthDay News via Health Yahoo!

►August 23, 2005 - A better screening test for infant iron deficiency? - Earlier detection and treatment could prevent impaired mental development - Children's Hospital Boston via www.eurekalert.org

►August 23, 2005 - What's next for Merck and its lawyers? - Vioxx verdict likely to be reduced but could impact other cases - CNN

►August 23, 2005 - First Detailed Picture Of Migraine Attack - Swedish Research Council via ScienceDaily

►August 23, 2005 - Alzheimer's Hits Brain's 'Daydream' Centers - HealthDay News via Health Yahoo!

►August 23, 2005 - New Trend Has Consumers Taking Charge of Their Well-Being - HealthDay News via Health Yahoo! - "We've created a nation of very entitled people who think they can have almost everything," said Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that represents more than 200 businesses, mostly Fortune 500 companies."

►August 23, 2005 - Drugs that improve Parkinson's symptoms may not slow disease progression - Center for the Advancement of Health
 
►August 23, 2005 - New Target Found to Fight, Treat Parkinson's - State University of New York at Buffalo
 
►August 23, 2005 - A better screening test for infant iron deficiency? - Earlier detection and treatment could prevent impaired mental development - Children's Hospital Boston via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 23, 2005 - Penn study finds a new role for RNA in human immune response - Findings could lead to new types of therapeutic RNAs for cancer, genetic diseases - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 23, 2005 - Long-term aspirin use reduces risk for colorectal cancer - Higher doses needed to produce effect, more research needed to clarify risks - Massachusetts General Hospital via www.eurekalert.org

►August 22, 2005 - A genetic disorder - Most 11-year-olds don't react to their first trip to the zoo the way Alex Richie did. "I shouldn't have come. I shouldn't have come." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

►August 19, 2005 - New Sleep Drug Binds To Melatonin Receptors - With a unique mechanism of action, ramelteon enters a crowded market as a new option for people who suffer from insomnia. - journal article (Psychiatric News)

►August 19, 2005 - PAHO Plans Response to New HPV Vaccine - Pan American Health Organization
 
►August 19, 2005 - Study Shows Enzyme Linked To Spread Of Breast Cancer Cells - Virginia Commonwealth University
 
* ►August 18, 2005 - Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics of West Nile Virus Disease (requires registration) (full text) - Emerging Infectious Diseases via Medscape

* ►August 18, 2005 - An Overview of Bacterial Meningitis - US Pharmacist

►August 17, 2005 - Role of Atypical Bacteria and Azithromycin Therapy for Children With Recurrent Respiratory Tract Infections (requires registration) (full text) - CME - The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal via Medscape

►August 17, 2005 - Empathy: Lost or Found in Medical Education? (requires registration) (full text) - Medscape General Medicine

* ►August 16, 2005 - Techniques and Criteria in Pathologic and Forensic-Medical Diagnostics in Sudden Unexpected Infant and Perinatal Death (requires registration) (full text) - American Journal of Clinical Pathology via Medscape

►August 12, 2005 - Growth and Development of a Specialty: The Professionalization of Child Health Care (requires registration) (full text) - Pediatric Nursing via Medscape

►August 12, 2005 - Neonatal Oxygen Exposure May Increase Childhood Cancer Risk (requires registration) - Reuters Health via Medscape

* ►August 2005 - New approaches in vaccine development for parasitic infections - journal article (Cellular Microbiology) - "This review attempts to highlight recent advances that could impact vaccine discovery and development in parasitic infections and proposes areas where future studies may lead to breakthroughs in vaccines for the agents of parasitic diseases."

►August 2005 - Status epilepticus: Beyond guidelines - journal article (Current Paediatrics)

►August 2005 - Gastrointestinal problems in disabled children - journal article (Current  Paediatrics)

►August 2005 - Occupational Exposure to Ionizing Radiation Is Associated with Autoimmune Thyroid Disease - journal article (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism)

►August 2005 - Cortisol Response in Relation to the Severity of Stress and Illness - journal article (The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism)

►August 2005 - Are you pro or anti biotics? (full text) - journal article (Journal of Community Nursing)

►Volume 20 Number 5, 2005 - Escherichia coli Septic Shock following Second-Trimester Amniocentesis - journal article (Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy)

* ►September 2005 - Predictors of STI vaccine acceptability among parents and their adolescent children - journal article (Journal of Adolescent Health) - "The majority of these parents and their adolescent children found STI vaccination very acceptable, suggesting that there will be great interest in these vaccines once they become available."

* ►September 2005 - Epstein-Barr Virus Infection in Childhood May Precipitate Atopic Diseases (full text) - journal article (Allergology International)

* ►September 2005 - In vitro-generated regulatory T cells induced by Foxp3-retrovirus infection control murine contact allergy and systemic autoimmunity - journal article (Gene Therapy) - "Strikingly, treatment with Foxp3-infected T cells reduced serum concentrations of antinuclear antibodies in CD40L tg mice, which was paralleled with reduced renal immunoglobulin depositions and increased kidney function. Together, these findings indicate that newly in vitro-generated regulatory T cells can be successfully used to treat inflammatory and ongoing autoimmune disorders."

* ►September 2005 - Can Claims, Misleading Information, and Manufacturing Issues Regarding Dietary Supplements Be Improved in the United States? - journal article (Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics Fast Forward)

►September 2005 - Imiquimod and S-27609 as adjuvants of DNA vaccination in a transgenic murine model of HER2/neu-positive mammary carcinoma - journal article (Gene Therapy)

►September 2005 - T cells and viral persistence: lessons from diverse infections - journal article (Nature Immunology)

►September 2005 - The role of plasmacytoid dendritic cells in immunity and tolerance. - journal article (Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation) - "Understanding the immune regulatory functions and the mechanisms of plasmacytoid dendritic cells may lead to the development of novel therapies for infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and organ transplantations."

►September 2005 - The effect of infliximab on extraintestinal manifestations of Crohnrsquos disease - journal article (Rheumatology International)

►September 2005 - Genetically modified crops and allergenicity - journal article (Nature Immunology)

►September 2005 - A Case of Food-dependent Exercise- induced Anaphylaxis after Grapefruit Ingestion (full text) - journal article (Allergology International)

►September 2005 - Attitudes of Pharmacists Toward Mental Illness and Providing Pharmaceutical Care to the Mentally Ill - journal article (The Annals of Pharmacotherapy)

►August 24, 2005 - The Importance Of Child And Adult Immunization - The Bahama Journal

►August 24, 2005 - Scientists fear pigs may play role in bird flu - Officials meet farmers to plan ways to stop spread of viruses - The Guardian, UK

►August 24, 2005 - Deadly flu break-out 'inevitable' - Brisbane Courier-Mail

►August 24, 2005 - Europeans on alert for Asian bird flu - International Herald Tribune

►August 24, 2005 - Bird flu killer product to hit market soon - China Daily - "A disinfectant that can 'thoroughly and swiftly' kill the deadly avian flu virus is expected to hit the market in the near future."

* ►August 24, 2005 - Hungary set to start vaccine trials on humans - Bangkok Post - "Hungary will start human trials of a bird flu vaccine as soon as the country's pharmaceutical ethics committee approves the trials, Public Health Office spokesman Emese Ritook told state news agency MTI yesterday."

* ►August 23, 2005 - Cautious response to warning on vaccines grown from foetal cell lines - www.cathnews.com - "The Australian Vaccination Network, which has concerns about vaccination, called on the Government to state which vaccines that may be added to the scheduled list used foetal cell lines. Rubella, combined MMR, chickenpox and hepatitis A vaccines are taken from these cell lines."

* ►August 23, 2005 - Issues affecting students' well being - Capital News - "The Back to School Program also focused on breakthroughs in immunizations including new vaccines for children and teens that safeguard against meningitis, whooping cough and cervical cancer."

* ►August 23, 2005 - Mumps on the rise - www.newsshopper.co.uk - "The take-up rate for the MMR vaccination in Dartford and Gravesham is above the national average at 92 per cent. For the MMR vaccine to work 95 per cent of the total population has to be immunised."

►August 23, 2005 - WHO won't make 2015 targets - AFP via http://iafrica.com

►August 23, 2005 - Eli Lilly, Novell pour cash into China R&D - Asia Times

►August 23, 2005 - Punishment for Merck (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "A Texas jury hit Merck with a symbolically staggering $253.5 million judgment (it will be reduced to $26.1 million under a Texas law capping punitive damages) even though the evidence that Vioxx actually caused the victim's death was extremely thin. The verdict may reflect the fact that Merck was facing an extremely capable lawyer, while its own lawyers committed blunders that alienated the jury."

►August 23, 2005 - Ajinomoto, Aspartame & Brain Tumors: Recipe For Death - www.phxnews.com

►August 23, 2005 - German candidates debate science - Education and research minister reverses herself on stem cell law and criticizes potential successor - The Scientist

►August 23, 2005 - Tyumen epidemiologists prepare region for vaccination - Itar-Tass

►August 23, 2005 - No windfall profit seen for bird flu vaccine firms - Reuters

* ►August 23, 2005 - Prognosis for bird flu still alarming - The man who 40 years ago predicted the origin of pandemic influenza says seeing his hunch come true would be thrilling if it were not so terrifying. - UPI via www.physorg.com

* ►August 23, 2005 - Penning poultry indoors doesn't eliminate risk of bird flu spread: officials - Canadian Press via www.canada.com - Dr. Perry Kendall, chief medical officer of health for British Columbia, said that province's H7N3 avian flu outbreak in 2004 showed the chickens kept indoors were more vulnerable than those kept outside...'You've got 10,000 birds all in a small shed, packed in together - they act like a petri dish,' Kendall explained in an interview...'The intensely farmed birds tend to be very genetically similar. The methods of farming result in them being actually more frail and more vulnerable to diseases, particularly since there are so many of them in such a small volume (space).'"

* ►August 23, 2005 - Scientists Race To Head Off Lethal Potential Of Avian Flu (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post

►August 23, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Migration In Russia Kazakhstan Mongolia - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 23, 2005 - WHO exec works to keep the world safe from influenza - New York Times via Salt Lake Tribune

►August 23, 2005 - WHO expert warns short of drugs for new influenza pandemic - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 23, 2005 - EC says bird flu under control in Russia - RIA Novosti

►August 23, 2005 - France warns producers on bird flu, risk limited - Reuters AlertNet

►August 23, 2005 - Nation on watch for flu pandemic - Experts are afraid virus carried by wild birds is mutating, adapting and may spread to humans. - McClatchy Newspapers via The Detroit News

►August 23, 2005 - Europe acts to halt bird flu - Financial Times

►August 23, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu in Surgut Kanti-Mansi In Russia? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 23, 2005 - EU to Consider Coordinated Action on Avian Influenza (Update3) - Bloomberg

►August 23, 2005 - Deadly bird flu strain confirmed in Kazakh villages - Reuters

* ►August 23, 2005 - Questions & Answers: Projected Vaccine Supply for the 2005-06 Influenza Season - Center for Disease Control and Prevention via Community Dispatch

►August 23, 2005 - Yemen: Vaccination campaign kicks off as polio cases rise - IRIN via Reuters AlertNet

►August 23, 2005 - UNICEF seeks to improve management of childhood diseases in Sudan - UN News Centre

►August 23, 2005 - UN Warns Polio Outbreak in Indonesia Poses Global Risk - Voice of America

►August 23, 2005 - Japan Backs Unicef's Child Survival Programme - This Day (Lagos) via http://allafrica.com

* ►August 23, 2005 - Alternatives: Vaccine Safety Concerns, Part II - The Epoch Times - "Consider our immune systems, which governments down to the local school system seem to want to govern. Vaccinations are required from daycare through college. Although the government has paid $1.5 billion to parents of children damaged or killed by vaccines through its Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, it is still not funding long-term, randomized controlled studies comparing groups of vaccinated children with unvaccinated ones."

* ►August 23, 2005 - Make drug-firm bosses accountable - editorial - Montreal Gazette via www.canada.com

►August 23, 2005 - A shot of protection: Required immunizations help rein in disease (requires registration or subscription) - Contra Costa Times

►August 23, 2005 - When punishment is the crime - column - www.townhall.com

* ►August 23, 2005 - Mass vaccination planned for Huntly - RNZ via http://tvnz.co.nz - "The Waikato Medical Officer of Health says it is important to mass vaccinate all under-20 year olds in Huntly to avoid an outbreak of the deadly Meningococcal C disease."

►August 23, 2005 - Health Departments Investigate Meningitis Cases - Doctors have diagnosed more than two dozen cases of viral meningitis in Marion and Harrison Counties in the past two weeks. - www.wtrf.com

►August 23, 2005 - Lawyer: Mo. Player Died From Meningitis - AP via San Francisco Chronicle

►August 23, 2005 - Meningitis shots in short supply - The Republican via www.masslive.com

►August 23, 2005 - Students Face Bacterial Meningitis Vaccine Shortage - Providers Urged To Target Vaccine To Freshmen - www.thebostonchannel.com

►August 23, 2005 - Students face shortage of meningitis vaccine - AP via Boston Globe

►August 23, 2005 - Vaccine shortage creates bind for students - Boston Globe - "A spokesman for Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccine manufacturer with US headquarters in Swiftwater, Pa., said yesterday that the company had been on track to meet the anticipated demand in the United States until the new CDC guidelines increased the number of vaccinations needed. Demand rose by about 8 million, said company spokesman Len Lavenda."

►August 23, 2005 - Parents' concern about meningitis - Tampa Bay's 10

►August 23, 2005 - Patients and Doctors Join Governor Schwarzenegger and U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein at UCLA Today to Call for Passage of Federal Legislation That Bans Cloning but Supports Stem Cell Research - press release - Alliance for Stem Cell Research via Yahoo!

* ►August 23, 2005 - Anthrax shots gain ground - Camp Pendleton troops volunteering at high rate - San Diego Union-Tribune - "A big test of the Pentagon's revived vaccination program will come late this year, when tens of thousands of Camp Pendleton troops will be asked to roll up their sleeves before their next deployment to the Middle East... Eighty-five percent of the base's troops are saying 'yes' to the inoculations, said Navy Capt. Eric McDonald, a surgeon for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force."

►August 23, 2005 - Homeland Defense Exercise Wraps Up in Alaska - American Forces Press Service via US Department of Defense

►August 23, 2005 - Anthrax drill reveals preparedness shortcomings - East Hartford Gazette via www.zwire.com

►August 23, 2005 - UTMB biologist who touted anti-anthrax lotion quits - AP via Houston Chronicle - "A University of Texas Medical Branch microbiologist who faced scrutiny for claiming that a Dallas company's anthrax protection lotion would protect the public from anthrax has resigned, a spokeswoman for the Galveston school said."

* ►August 23, 2005 - Anthrax confirmed in Hand County - Police cell phones didn't work, the highways were impassable, power at the emergency evacuation site failed and then Mother Nature deluged volunteers and staff with rain, wind and lightning during an anthrax exposure. - Miller Press via www.zwire.com

►August 23, 2005 - A novel virus for croup - Public Library of Science via www.eurekalert.org

* ►August 23, 2005 - Rattlesnake bite vaccine for dogs available in NM - Las Cruces Sun-News - "But Jody Kincaid, a holistic veterinarian in Anthony, does not put as much value on vaccines as traditionally trained doctors do, and cautioned pet owners against using the vaccine...'The vaccines are far more dangerous than the snake bites,' he said, because they are foreign to the dog’s body and must be very strong to combat rattlesnake venom."

►August 23, 2005 - Acambis to start ChimeriVax-JE final stage trials - Reuters, UK

►August 23, 2005 - Experts in Herpes, Public Health Call for Reporting of Herpes in Newborns - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins via Newswise

►August 23, 2005 - Hepatitis A vaccine not widely used for Hepatitis C patients - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. via www.eurekalert.org

►August 23, 2005 - Anadys Pharmaceuticals Announces Publication of Clinical Study of Isatoribine in Chronic Hepatitis C Demonstrating Proof of Concept - Peer Reviewed Report in Hepatology  Details Inhibition of Hepatitis C Virus and Immune Activation by a TLR7 Agonist - press release - Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►August 23, 2005 - Pharmasset Earns Milestone Payment for Reverset(TM) Study 203 Results - press release - Pharmasset, Inc. via PRNewswire via Yahoo!

►August 23, 2005 - XTL signs $35.5m. licensing agreement (requires registration) - Jerusalem Post

►August 23, 2005 - Transmission of Hepatitis C among family members - A study examines the incidence and risk factors associated with Hepatitis C infection in rural Egypt - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. via www.eurekalert.org

►August 23, 2005 - Kazakhstan: Fight against HIV/AIDS continues - IRIN via Reuters AlertNet

►August 23, 2005 - Recent Firing of Washington, D.C., HIV/AIDS Administration Director Raises Discussion on Qualities of Successor - Daily HIV/Aids Report via www.kaisernetwork.org

►August 23, 2005 - HIV/AIDS intervention programme lauded at world conference - Newindpress

* ►August 23, 2005 - CSL more than doubles profit - AAP via Australian Financial Review - "'However, with the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine launch drawing closer, anticipated royalty payments on product sales in the US and Europe will improve our franking position in subsequent years,' he said."

►August 23, 2005 - Emergent BioSolutions Expands Global Marketing Reach - Company Establishes Office in Germany - Names Dr. Andreas Hartmann as Vice President International Markets - press release - Emergent BioSolutions via PRNewswire

►August 23, 2005 - Berna Biotech Late-Stage R&D On Track - New Ratings

►August 23, 2005 - Planes to drop rabies vaccine - AP via The Burlington Free Press via Boston Globe

►August 23, 2005 - Monster tuna found to contain high level of mercury - KRT via The Philadelphia Inquirer via Lexington Herald Leader via www.kentucky.com

►August 22, 2005 - West Nile vaccine a reality for horses, but what about humans? - www.kesq.com

* ►August 22, 2005 - Immune system finding paves way for vaccine use in some leukemia, lymphoma cancers - The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the National Cancer Institute via www.medicalnewstoday.com

* ►August 22, 2005 - Immunization Choices/Dr. Reactions - www.kndu.com - "Dellaina Holland, mother of three, says she has no plans to have her children vaccinated. She has an infant, a toddler, and a teenager--and immunization is something she feels has not been proven to be necessary or safe."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Dead Cats Prompt Plague Precautions - www.thebakersfieldchannel.com - "But recently they noticed dozens of the cats were dying, and called Animal Control. Officials quarantined the area, and passed out flyers warning neighbors of the Plague, which is found in Kern County mountain areas. It is transmitted by bites of fleas infected with a pathogenic bacteria. Cats are very susceptible to the Plague, which can kill them in just two days. Plague, also known as Black Death, can be easily transmitted to humans; it killed about a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages. Now it can be treated successfully with antibiotics if caught early."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Vietnam Invites NanoViricides to Play Role in Battle against Bird Flu - NanoViricides, Inc. via Business Wire - "NanoViricides, Inc. is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy. NanoViricides, Inc. has exclusive license in perpetuity for technologies developed by Theracour Pharma for the five virus types: HIV, HCV, Herpes, Asian (bird) flu and Influenza. A NanoViricide(TM) is a nanoparticle that contains an encapsulated active pharmaceutical ingredient and targets it to a specific type of virus."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Antidepressant Seroxat linked to suicide attempts among adults - The Independent, UK - "The antidepressant Seroxat has been linked to an increase in suicide attempts among adults. Researchers suggest that patients and doctors should be warned of the propensity to suicidal thoughts while on the drug."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Glaxo says Paxil suicide study flawed, misleading - Reuters

* ►August 22, 2005 - Genetic Test for Your Meds - Ivanhoe - "If the cause of a drug reaction isn't genetic, it could be due to age, sex, weight or general health. The drug reaction test costs between $250 and $800 depending on if you need one test or up to four tests. The test is sometimes covered by insurance and available to anyone who is willing to pay for it."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Controversial Smoking Study - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education University of California, San Francisco - Ivanhoe - "We found the original draft of the scientific paper, which said, 'Secondhand smoke increases the risk of sudden infant death,' in Phillip Morris's corporate files along with their suggestions to Sullivan to change it," explains Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., cardiovascular research and tobacco control specialist from University of California, San Francisco."

►August 22, 2005 - Langerhans cells are more efficiently transduced than dermal dendritic cells by adenovirus vectors expressing either group C or group B fibre protein: Implications for mucosal vaccines - journal article (European Journal of Immunology)

►August 22, 2005 - Mallards carry flu in Europe - Wild ducks, especially mallards, carry more than a half-dozen different types of avian flu virus and could be used to track and predict outbreaks, Dutch and Swedish researchers said on Monday. - Reuters via www.keralanext.com

►August 22, 2005 - A novel virus for croup - Public Library of Science via www.eurekalert.org

►August 22, 2005 - GeneOhm Sciences Announces Year-Long MRSA Study in the United Kingdom; Birmingham Hospitals Lead the Way in Rapid Proactive Testing - GeneOhm Sciences via Business Wire

►August 22, 2005 - Medical Studies and the Average American Kid (requires registration or subscription) - Pop quiz for parents: - The Washington Post

►August 22, 2005 - Hundreds of identified genes involved in the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease - Public Library of Science via www.eurekalert.org

►August 22, 2005 - Cautious parents are neglecting children's pain - The Australian

►August 22, 2005 - British lawyers poised after US Vioxx award - Arthritis sufferer who took drug says Merck puts profits before lives - The Guardian, UK

►August 22, 2005 - New anti-inflammatory drug may fill the Vioxx void - The Australian - "We're targeting a protein in the body called p38 map kinase," said Sundeep Dugar, a spokesman for US company Scios, which is developing the drug."

►August 22, 2005 - Slipping past the blood brain barrier: Research shows potential treatment for brain cancer - Saint Louis University findings are published in this week's PNAS online - Saint Louis University via www.eurekalert.org

►August 22, 2005 - On pain's trail (requires registration or subscription) - Exploring fibromyalgia's mysteries, researchers look to the central nervous system, gaining deeper insight into why we suffer. - Los Angeles Times

►August 22, 2005 - What's New This Week - The following new/updated information was posted to the NGC Web site the week of August 22, 2005. - www.guideline.gov

►August 22, 2005 - Butterbur Offers Hay Fever Relief - HealthDay News via Health Yahoo!

* ►August 21, 2005 - Sales of key antiviral drug soar as awareness of flu pandemic potential rises - Canadian Press via Yahoo!

* ►August 21, 2005 - Immunizations required for pilgrims to stop polio - AP via St. Petersburg Times

►August 21, 2005 - European drugmakers turn to U.S. (requires registration or registration) - Foreign companies find more favorable conditions here, and the region profits. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

►August 21, 2005 - Gene discovery sheds light on causes of rare disease, cancer - NIH/National Institute on Aging via www.eurekalert.org

►August 21, 2005 - Studies show Violent Television Weakens the Immune System - Best Syndication

►August 21, 2005 - Critical, demanding parents can damage gifted children - USA Today

* ►August 20, 2005 - Code dispenses with the entertaining frill - The Weekend Australian - "Three years ago, peak industry body Medicines Australia made headlines when it reviewed its Code of Conduct, redefining "acceptable" relationships with the medical profession. Lobster and caviar were off the menu and replaced with open sandwiches, rolls and quiches. No longer could companies put up doctors' families in fancy hotels, and entertainment of any kind became a thing of the past."

* ►August 20, 2005 - Battered but Unbowed: Can Painkillers Recover? (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "Celebrex sales, they say, could reach as high as $2 billion this year, a decline of 39 percent from last year. The rebound comes despite warnings that Celebrex - like Vioxx and Bextra - can cause cardiovascular problems in some patients. Merck has another cox-2 drug, Arcoxia, that is already approved in 54 other countries and generated worldwide sales of $100 million in the first half of this year."

* ►August 20, 2005 - Drug price lawsuit retooled Plaintiffs seek class-action certification - Bloomberg via South Florida Sun-Sentinel - "The companies targeted by the plaintiffs include GlaxoSmithKline PLC of Middlesex, United Kingdom, Europe's largest drug maker; AstraZeneca PLC, a London-based holding company; Schering-Plough Corp. of Kenilworth, N.J.; and Johnson & Johnson of New Brunswick, N.J."

►August 20, 2005 - Vioxx defeat unexpected - AP via The Washington Times

►August 20, 2005 - ABC of asthma Prevalence (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

* ►August 19, 2005 - Flu vaccine production capacity inadequate in emergency: WHO - AFP via Yahoo!

* ►August 19, 2005 - Preparing for a Pandemic - The New York Sun - "Senator Frist is calling for an all-out attack on infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and in particular the avian flu. This is not the usual scaremongering so beloved by attention-seeking politicians."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Research and Markets: Therapeutic Vaccines for Cancer: On the Threshold of Success - Business Wire via www.pharmalive.com

* ►August 19, 2005 - State scrambles to get ready for bird flu - Strain that has killed dozens in southeast Asia has spared Delaware, but plenty -- from doctors to housewives -- preparing for the worst - The News Journal via www.delawareonline.com

* ►August 19, 2005 - Adult onset diabetes increasing - Gainesville Daily Register - "The Veterans Administration acknowledged in 2000 that Agent Orange, a defoliant used liberally in the Vietnam conflict, could be responsible for increasing numbers of diabetes cases of Vietnam veterans."

* ►August 18, 2005 - Advances in the development of Cav2.2 (N-type) calcium channel blockers as analgesics. - According to LeadDiscovery's recent feature report, Pain Therapeutics 2005, about one and a half billion people suffer from moderate to severe chronic pain worldwide, driving the market for analgesics to nearly $23 billion in 2004. Many companies are investing heavily in the development of new pain therapeutics, even more so now with the recent problems to have hit the Cox-II inhibitors. Calcium channel blockers stepped into the spotlight at the end of last year with the FDA approval of Elan's - LeadDiscovery via www.pharmiweb.com

►August 18, 2005 - Fetal skin cells heal burns - Procedure could replace traditional skin grafting. - news (Nature)

►August 18, 2005 - First Single-Dose Oral Antibiotic Zmax (Azithromycin Extended Release) Available in US Pharmacies for Adults with Certain Types of Sinusitis and Pneumonia - Pfizer Inc. via Doctor's Guide

* ►August 16, 2005 - Most Americans Not Concerned About U.S. Avian Flu Pandemic - Wall Street Journal - www.immunizationinfo.org - (abstract)

►August 13, 2005 - Acupuncture in patients with tension-type headache: randomised controlled trial (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

* ►August 12, 2005 - Therapeutic immunization of highly active antiretroviral therapy-treated HIV-1-infected patients: safety and immunogenicity of an HIV-1 gag/poly-epitope DNA vaccine. - journal article (AIDS)

►August 11, 2005 - Asymptomatic Inflammatory Bowel Disease Presenting With Mucocutaneous Findings - journal article (Pediatrics) - "Nine children are reported who had no gastrointestinal symptoms suggestive of IBD but presented with mucocutaneous findings of IBD and were subsequently diagnosed with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis based on characteristic features on gastrointestinal endoscopy and/or biopsies."

►August 2005 - Imaging meningo-encephalic tuberculosis - journal article (European Journal of Radiology)

►August 2005 - Diagnosis and management of Guillain–Barré syndrome - journal article (Current Paediatrics)

►August 2005 - Investigation of progressive developmental delay - journal article (Current Paediatrics)

►August 2005 - An ERP Study of Second Language Learning after Childhood: Effects of Proficiency - journal article (Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience)

►August 2005 - Rabies Vaccination Revisited - www.thehorse.com

►July 18, 2005 - Eosinophilic gastroenteritis in a young girl – long term remission under Montelukast (pdf) - Journal article (BMC Gastroenterology)

* ►July 2005 - Effect of etanercept and anakinra on inflammatory attacks in the hyper-IgD syndrome: introducing a vaccination provocation model. - journal article (The Netherlands Journal of Medicine) - "In one patient, a fever episode could be readily provoked within 12 to 24 hours by vaccination. In this patient, the IL-1ra analogue anakinra was more successful in aborting the inflammatory attack than etanercept. We propose that this vaccination model will allow evaluation of treatment-on-demand in a controlled setting."

►August 29, 2005 - Pharmacogenetics in drug regulation: promise, potential and pitfalls - journal article (Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences)
 
►August 29, 2005 - Pharmacogenetics in drug development - journal article (Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences)
 
►August 29, 2005 - The genetics of human drug response - journal article (Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences)
 
►August 29, 2005 - Genomic medicine: genetic variation and its impact on the future of health care - journal article (Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences)

►August 23, 2005 - Less extensive biopsy method helps diagnose cancer progression of large breast tumors - University of North Carolina School of Medicine via www.eurekalert.org

►August 23, 2005 - Russia Urges Worldwide Bird Flu Effort - Reuters via The Moscow Times

►August 23, 2005 - Britain lets poultry run free despite the threat of bird flu - The Government is refusing to quarantine free range poultry even though other countries have taken measures to tackle the disease - The Times, UK

* ►August 22, 2005 - Pneumonia, flu vaccines lie at center of storm - New rules would require shots for kids in day care, preschool - The Star-Ledger via www.nj.com - "Vaccine opponents, a scattered though potent force, have been gearing up in recent weeks to fight state health officials who are pushing for new immunization rules for babies and young children...This latest vaccine skirmish centers on proposals to require that young children in child care centers or preschool get vaccinated against both the flu and pneumonia. The shots would be for children over 6 months old and would include the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), and the influenza vaccine."

* ►August 22, 2005 - GSK to seek vaccine approval this year - Financial Times - "The company has already run clinical trials showing successful treatment of other flu strains using its flu vaccines in combination with a common “adjuvant” designed to help further boost the response of the human immune system."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Pandemic fight faces limitations - Financial Times - "As researchers work to develop a vaccine to guard against pandemic bird flu, they are faced with both a scientific and logistical challenge: how to produce it in sufficient quantities to provide widespread protection."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Sales of key antiviral drug soar as awareness of flu pandemic potential rises - Canadian Press via www.canada.com - "Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada's chief medical health officer, rhymes off a long list of reasons why people should think hard before laying in antivirals...It's not clear the H5N1 strain will cause a pandemic, or that the drug will be effective if it does... Stockpiled drugs might pass their expiry date before a pandemic starts. People might confuse a cold with the flu and waste irreplaceable drug. There may be side-effects that haven't yet come to light because the drug has not been widely used...But Butler-Jones stops short of asking Canadians not to stockpile Tamiflu, which costs about $60 for one course of 10 pills."

►August 22, 2005 - Brits get ready for bird flu pandemic - Before the onset of winter and the annual flu outbreak, doctors around the UK will be preparing for a much more worrying influenza epidemic this season. - www.news-medical.net

►August 22, 2005 - Govt's bird flu prep should be sped up - press release - Green Party via www.scoop.co.nz

►August 22, 2005 - Chicken flu virus registered in six districts of Altai Territory - Itar-Tass

►August 22, 2005 - US poultry growers on guard against bird flu -NCC - Reuters AlertNet - "'I think biosecurity has been ratcheted up to a high level. It is very hard to get on farms these days,' said Richard Lobb, spokesman for the National Chicken Council."

►August 22, 2005 - Bird flu again detected in Japanese poultry, Agriculture Ministry says - San Diego Union-Tribune

* ►August 22, 2005 - Mallards carry flu in Europe, study finds - Reuters AlertNet - "Flu strains taken from the birds might also be used to make up a stockpile of potential vaccines against outbreaks in both animals and people, the researchers said."

►August 22, 2005 - Bird Flu H5N1 virus has expanded its geographical range - Medical News Today

►August 22, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Confirmed in Tomsk Region In Russia - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 22, 2005 - Is Bird Flu Being Covered-Up in India? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 22, 2005 - First case of suspected bird flu at major poultry farm - RIA Novosti

►August 22, 2005 - Study warns of Bird Flu virus danger in the UAE - Al-Bawaba

►August 22, 2005 - Taiwan launches battle against influenza threat - DOH estimates there will be adequate vaccine available for high-risk groups by end of September - Taiwan News

►August 22, 2005 - Local doctors put in orders for flu vaccines early - Lewisville Leader via www.zwire.com

►August 22, 2005 - Unique respiratory virus is identified - UPI via World Peace Herald - "The researchers detected seven virus species in the samples, one of which was a human bocavirus provisionally named HBoV. All HBoV-positive samples came from infants and children."

►August 22, 2005 - Scientists begin to trace autism's genetic roots - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

* ►August 22, 2005 - The Age of Autism: Gold? - UPI via Washington Times

* ►August 22, 2005 - Thimerosal in Immunizations May Be Linked to Autism - The Epoch Times - "American children are the most vaccinated children in history and the sickest. Our federal health agencies do not see any connection."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Vatican warns on vaccines grown from foetal cell lines - www.themercury.news.com.au

►August 22, 2005 - Delaware Officials Remind Parents of Children's Vaccinations - WBOC TV 16

►August 22, 2005 - Actress Rai backs polio campaign - Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai has been invited to kick-start a campaign of immunisation against polio in Pakistan. - BBC

►August 22, 2005 - Yemen: Fifty New Polio Cases Discovered - AKI via www.adnki.com

►August 22, 2005 - Second Phase of National Campaign Against Polio Begins Friday - Angola Press Agency (Luanda) via http://allafrica.com

* ►August 22, 2005 - Unicef Immunization And Malaria Efforts in Nigeria Receive Boost From Japan - UN News Service (New York) via http://allafrica.com - "United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) efforts to promote immunization and malaria prevention in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country where one in five youngsters dies before the fifth birthday, have received a shot in the arm with a $5.2 million donation from the Government of Japan."

* ►August 22, 2005 - New immunization drug to be introduced in Guyana shortly - press release - Ministry of Health via Harold Doan and Associates - "Minister of Health, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy yesterday announced that his Ministry would soon be adding to the vaccines administered to children, with the introduction of the ‘Rota-virus’ vaccine."

►August 22, 2005 - College Students Warned Of Dangers Of Meningitis - Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department has a warning for in-coming college freshmen. - www.wboy.com

►August 22, 2005 - New meningitis vaccine recommended for college students, children - KRT via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Centre Daily Times

►August 22, 2005 - Kicking away at meningitis - Beaver Dam Daily Citizen via www.wiscnews.com

* ►August 22, 2005 - 17 new West Nile cases, 15 of them "neuroinvasive" - AP via Dateline Alabama via www.tuscaloosanews.com

* ►August 22, 2005 - Chad battles Hepatitis E outbreak - An outbreak of Hepatitis E has claimed the lives of at least 50 people in remote villages of eastern Chad. - BBC - "Souleymane Diabate of Unicef says that one of the most frustrating aspects of the disease how simple it is to prevent - clean drinking water and good hygiene practices are all that are needed."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Delray neurologist to test Alzheimer's vaccine - Palm Beach Post - "A Delray Beach neurologist is one of five doctors in the country testing a new Alzheimer's vaccine in a clinical trial...The vaccine, made by Elan Pharmaceuticals in Dublin, Ireland, should prompt the body to produce antibodies that will attack plaque that forms in the brain of Alzheimer's patients. Dr. Mark Brody, a principal investigator, said no one is certain that the plaque is the primary cause of the memory loss and mental degeneration, but it forms where memory is stored and processed."

* ►August 22, 2005 - Vaccines for some cancers seen possible - UPI via World Peace Herald

* ►August 22, 2005 - Danish vaccine maker in patent row with UK rival - Reuters

►August 22, 2005 - Profit Growth Slows At Big Drugmakers - Patent expirations and recalls hit sales and earnings at U.S. companies - Chemical & Engineering News

►August 22, 2005 - Israel Developing AIDS Vaccine - Finance Ministry seeks institution to develop AIDS vaccine based on a biological agent discovered by Agriculture Ministry. - Red Herring

►August 22, 2005 - Education is our only HIV vaccine - comment - The South African Star

►August 22, 2005 - Swazi girls end chastity ritual despite AIDS threat - Reuters South Africa

►August 22, 2005 - RPT-Indian women bear brunt of AIDS epidemic--experts - Reuters AlertNet

►August 22, 2005 - 81,000 could be HIV victims - Some 81,000 Malaysians could be victims of HIV/AIDS. This is the estimate of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), which says the situation in Malaysia has reached generalised epidemic proportions. - New Straits Times

►August 22, 2005 - Panacos shares soar on HIV clinical study - AP via BusinessWeek

►August 22, 2005 - Vitamins May Have Down Side for HIV Patients - Antioxidant supplements taken by people with HIV appear to improve cholesterol levels and midriff weight gain, but may have a negative impact on blood sugar levels. - Pak Tribune

►August 22, 2005 - Autism Society of America Launches New Branding Effort - Initiatives to Enhance ASA's Presence, Bring Increased Attention to Autism Epidemic - press release - The Autism Society of America via PRNewswire

►August 22, 2005 - Mapping Mercury - Hot-spot unknowns complicate mercury regulations - Scientific American

►August 22, 2005 - Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics Announces New Laws Protecting Students' Right to Breathe - State statutes protecting student rights to carry and use prescribed asthma and anaphylaxis medications. - press release - Allergy & Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics via PRNewswire

►August 22, 2005 - Study shows Phase I cancer findings under-reported - Increased publishing in peer-reviewed journals could impact patient care, outcome; researchers need commitment, set time devoted to effort - University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 22, 2005 - Mayo Clinic researchers measuring C-reactive protein is early indicator of stiffened arteries - May help identify heart disease in patients who have no symptoms - Mayo Clinic via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 22, 2005 - Database studies may not accurately estimate risk of MI in naproxen, ibuprofen users - Epidemiological survey study links heart protection with non-aspirin, non-steroidal drugs - University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 22, 2005 - Gene therapy advance treats hemophilia in mouse models - Vector improved in two ways creates a sustained, partial correction to bleeding problems in mice - University of Iowa via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 22, 2005 - Researchers devise new technique for creating human stem cells - Howard Hughes Medical Institute via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 22, 2005 - Potential ovarian cancer oncogene offers possibility of predictive test and a novel therapy - University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 22, 2005 - Reversal of role for a viral protein associated with the development of lymphoma - Protein thought to promote lymphoma by merely preventing cancer cells from dying appears to actively promote cancer cell growth - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 22, 2005 - New drug reverses effects of sleep deprivation on brain - Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 21, 2005 - Hide and seek: Researchers discover a new way for infectious bacteria to enter cells - Howard Hughes Medical Institute via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 21, 2005 - Immune system finding paves way for vaccine use in some leukemia, lymphoma cancers - University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center via www.eurekalert.org

* ►August 21, 2005 - Unique chest infection virus find - Scientists have identified a unique virus linked to serious chest infections in children and babies. - BBC - "All of the 17 children with what the researchers are calling human bocavirus had distressed breathing and fever and were hospitalised."

►August 21, 2005 - Local physician presses fight on HIV - Kuhn quits St. Mary AIDS post to lead another attack on disease. - Long Beach Press-Telegram

►August 20, 2005 - Woman may have rare virus - Suspected human EEE case prompts warning - Concord Monitor - "State health officials suspect that a Londonderry woman has contracted the state's first human case of Eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but potentially fatal illness spread through mosquito bites."

►August 20, 2005 - Soviet Germ Factories Pose New Threat - Once Mined for Pathogens in Bioweapons Program, Labs Lack Security (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post
 
►August 20, 2005 - New Alzheimer's Drug Approved By FDA - All Headline News
 
►August 19, 2005 - Jefferson Researchers Find Potential Biomarker for Heart Failure - Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
 
►August 19, 2005 - New therapy recommendations for spinal complications of cancer - Kentucky study indicates combination of surgery and radiation yields better mobility, lower death rates in patients suffering from spinal cord compression - University of Kentucky via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 17, 2005 - Genome Sequence for Haemophilus Influenzae Completed - Columbus Children's Hospital via Newswise
 
►August 17, 2005 - FDA Says Collaboration Key to Drug Development - Genomics & Proteomics

* ►September 7, 2005 - Implications for herpes simplex virus vaccine strategies based on antibodies produced to herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein gC immune evasion domains - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►September 7, 2005 - The synthetic peptide Trp-Lys-Tyr-Met-Val-d-Met as a novel adjuvant for DNA vaccine - journal article (Vaccine)

►September 2005 - Effects of familial risk factors and place of birth on the risk of autism: a nationwide register-based study. - journal article (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

►September 2005 - Patient attitudes to clinical trials: development of a questionnaire and results from asthma and cancer patients - journal article (Health Expectations)

►September 2005 - Atypical Antipsychotics and a Src Kinase Inhibitor (PP1) Prevent Cortical Injury Produced by the Psychomimetic, Noncompetitive NMDA Receptor Antagonist MK-801 - journal article (Neuropsychopharmacology)

* ►August 22, 2005 - Acambis accused in smallpox vaccine row - The Guardian, UK - "A fight to supply the US with smallpox vaccine has led to aggressive allegations against one of Britain's largest biotechnology companies, Acambis, which stands accused of stealing trade secrets from a rival."

* ►August 22, 2005 - High-Risk HPV Infections Preventable by Vaccine May Vary by Region - The Lancet via Medical News Today - "Population-based data of HPV-type distribution is a prerequisite to the development of new HPV screening tests and to the assessment of the effect of future vaccination on HPV infection, but these data have been limited or missing for many world regions."

►August 22, 2005 - The HIV Vaccine Challenge - The Rising Nepal

►August 22, 2005 - Mercury/Has Minnesota been a leader? - editorial (requires registration or subscription) - Minneapolis Star Tribune

►August 22, 2005 - Officials Fear Flu Hit First Big Poultry Farm - Reuters via The Moscow Times

►August 22, 2005 - China swine flu 'under control' - A deadly swine disease that killed at least 38 people and sickened scores more in south-west China has been brought under control, the country's health and agriculture ministries have said. - AFP via Daily Telegraph

►August 22, 2005 - Biota flu drug no longer on the nose - Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is in talks with more governments interested in stockpiling the anti-flu drug Relenza in case of a global flu pandemic. - The Australian

* ►August 21, 2005 - More on mercury in vaccines (opinion) - Palm Beach Post - "She added: "I cited the House and Senate bill numbers of the proposed 'Mercury-Free Vaccines Act' so readers could read the proposals for themselves. The legislation would not completely eliminate mercury in vaccines, but it would reduce the mercury level to less than 1 microgram per dose. By comparison, according to the Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review of vaccines and autism, 'the maximum amount of mercury from vaccines on the recommended childhood immunization schedule that an infant (less than 6 months of age) can now be exposed to is (less than) 3 (micrograms), down from 187.5 (micrograms) in 1999.' "

►August 21, 2005 - Flu vaccines advised in fall - Portsmouth Herald via www.seacoastonline.com

►August 21, 2005 - Biosecurity regs, funding hamper vaccine research - Bozeman Daily Chronicle - "The scientists included experts on rabies and a host of other diseases -- such as West Nile, mad cow and chronic wasting -- that, like brucellosis, may move between wildlife and livestock. They discussed what is known, and what needs to be better understood, about a disease that has been known to plagued people and livestock since the 1770s."

►August 21, 2005 - Saudi cracks down on polio immunization - www.gulf-news.com

►August 21, 2005 - Fishing: Mercury is the hot topic - State is given OK to develop own regulations for power plant emissions - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

►August 21, 2005 - Researchers make 'embryonic-like' stem cells from umbilical cord blood - University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston via I-Newswire

►August 21, 2005 - Maitake goodness - http://thestar.com.my - "Researchers have indicated that whole Maitake has the ability to regulate blood pressure, glucose, insulin and both serum and liver lipids, such as cholesterol, triglyceride and phospholipids; and may even be useful for weight loss."

►August 21, 2005 - Influenza experts meeting in Malta - Times of Malta

►August 21, 2005 - Timely Malta conference of influenza specialists - Maltamedia Daily News

►August 21, 2005 - Measures to prevent avian flu outbreak - http://wam.org.ae

►August 21, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu on Commercial Farm in Omsk Russia? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 21, 2005 - New treatment works against SARS in monkeys - Reuters, UK

►August 21, 2005 - Genetic Material May Aid SARS Treatment (requires registration or subscription) - AP via Los Angeles Times

* ►August 21, 2005 - Protective and therapeutic HPV vaccine under development at Georgetown - Medical News Today

* ►August 21, 2005 - Vaccine development seen as growth market (requires registration) - The Money Show Digest via Ventura County Star

►August 21, 2005 - Finding Paves Way for Vaccine Use in Some Leukemia, Lymphoma Cancers - University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center via Newswise

* ►August 21, 2005 - Husband: School bus driver who died from meningitis was pressured to work - Tampa Bay's 10 News

►August 21, 2005 - India to come out with US-like law to facilitate research - www.newkerala.com

►August 21, 2005 - Public-private partnership must for drug discovery: Sibal - Press Trust of India

►August 21, 2005 - Political veto? - Times Herald-Record - "Striking a blow against a call for "politically correct" language in public documents, Gov. George Pataki vetoed a bill this week that would have switched the designation of 'autistics' to 'people with autism.'"

►August 21, 2005 - Incoming college students find these shots aren't for parties - Evansville Courier & Press

►August 21, 2005 - Back to school means time for immunizations - Times-Standard

* ►August 21, 2005 - Add vaccinations to college students' to-do list - Nashua Telegraph - "The recommendation for hepatitis B, which is not mandated, is the same one made by several prestigious national medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and Family Physicians, and the Centers for Disease Control...There is not universal endorsement, however. Last February, for example, an article in a French medical journal urged that more research is needed on the hepatitis B vaccine. The article warned of potentially serious autoimmune hazards from the vaccine."

►August 21, 2005 - New strategy shows promise in hidden HIV - AP via Quad-City Times

►August 21, 2005 - Modern plagues - The HIV and Flu Pandemics - Jamaica Gleaner

►August 21, 2005 - Common virus linked to breast cancer - AAP via http://news.ninemsn.com.au

►August 20, 2005 - Single dose Hepatitis B vaccine, courtesy Shantha Biotech - Once in the market, Shantha Biotech will be the first company to offer the vaccine in single dose globally - www.ciol.com - "Shantha Biotechnics Ltd, a biotech healthcare products company, is making a pioneering attempt to reduce the dosage of Hepatitis B vaccine from three doses to single dose. The company said that, presently, no other firm globally is offering the vaccine in single dose."

►August 20, 2005 - Fla. School Bus Driver Dies Of Meningitis - AP via www.local6.com

* ►August 20, 2005 - Bridging autism's distance - Parents are turning to alternative interventions such as metal-stripping drugs, antioxidants and special diets to help their children, but experts say the costly approaches are unproven. - Savannah Morning News

►August 20, 2005 - Encephalitis kills 100 children in poor Indian state - AP via Boston Herald

►August 20, 2005 - Toxic threats plague schools - Kennebec Journal via www.mainetoday.com

►August 20, 2005 - China on dengue fever alert after HK case - China View via Xinhuanet.

►August 20, 2005 - Lyme disease a hard diagnosis - The Bend Bulletin - "They have each been dealing with pain, neurological problems, joint aches and other symptoms for years. All three have gone through a variety of diagnoses, including multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome."

►August 20, 2005 - Lab tests for Lyme disease - The Journal News

►August 20, 2005 - Can Viagra and other lifestyle drugs save lives? - Science News

►August 20, 2005 - From the August 17, 1935, issue - Science News

* ►August 19, 2005 - Nabi vaccine targets staph in hospitals - The Business Gazette - "Frankly, I'm very skeptical that the vaccine will be effective. I have heard it multi times in the last 20 years," said Dr. Venkat Mani, chief of infectious diseases at Southern Maryland Hospital. He said the increase in resistant staph infections "has been humongous" nationwide."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Bavarian Nordic A/S Enforces Its Intellectual Property Rights Against Acambis plc and Acambis Inc. - Bavarian Nordic A/S via U.S. Newswire - "If successful, Bavarian Nordic will be in a position to either stop Acambis from engaging in the importation of any infringing MVA smallpox vaccine products into the USA, or seek a royalty for each infringing dose of MVA smallpox vaccine imported to the USA."

* ►August 19, 2005 - ID Biomedical initiated with "strong buy" -update - www.newratings.com - "The recall of Chiron's flu vaccine from the US market last year has offered ID Biomedical an attractive opportunity to gain exposure to the market, the analyst says. JMP Securities expects Fluviral to receive the FDA approval in 1H06."

►August 19, 2005 - State's TB testing begins - Times-Journal

►August 19, 2005 - Soviet-era germ factories pose new threat - ‘Antiplague’ labs used in secret bioweapons program lack security - The Washington Post via MSNBC

►August 19, 2005 - Drug firms back-pedal on direct advertising - The pharmaceutical industry is taking a long, hard look at how it promotes its products to the public. Colin Macilwain reports. - news (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)

* ►August 19, 2005 - To Whom Is It Accountable - Khaleej Times - "Drug companies are one of the most powerful industries on this planet. Do you know of many other companies that could lose $30 billion in one day and still go on strong? Let me tell you, it doesn't get any bigger than the drug companies. They even dwarf computer giants like Microsoft and Apple in terms of total revenue. They use some of the most sophisticated marketing strategies known to man. And why not? They can afford the best, and I assure you they use it. They have the full force of the government behind them, as they control the largest political lobbying group and have spent over $1 billion alone on lobbying in the last 10 years. There are more drug company lobbyists than there are congressmen. While spending a billion dollars to influence government over 10 years may seem like a lot, it pales in comparison to what they spend to influence you."

►August 19, 2005 - Insects may have complex immunity - Thanks to alternate splicing of Dscam, they could possess up to 18,000 immune receptors - The Scientist

►August 19, 2005 - Bacteria that eats flesh kills woman - Victim was riding personal watercraft on St. Johns prior to Aug. 3 death - The Florida Times-Union

►August 19, 2005 - Survey questions safety of alternative medicine - Adverse reactions must be monitored, warns expert. - news (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)

►August 19, 2005 - Is holistic homeopathy the popular alternative? - www.newindpress.com

►August 18, 2005 - Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal (approval letter) - (FluMist) MedImmune Vaccines, Inc 2005-2006 United States formulation - FDA/CBER

►August 18, 2005 - JCI table of contents September 1, 2005 - Journal of Clinical Investigation via www.eurekalert.org

►August 18, 2005 - Scientists discover gene that controls speed of tuberculosis development - McGill University via www.medicalnewstoday.com

►August 18, 2005 - UCR chemists prepare molecules that accelerate chemical reactions for manufacturing drugs - New molecules help make stable catalysts that work at room temperature - University of California - Riverside via www.eurekalert.org

►August 18, 2005 - Lyme Disease Hits Home - Town Times - "There is not a person who I've met in Durham that doesn't either have Lyme disease or know someone closely who has it," said Sandra Ulbrich of Durham, who has been infected with Lyme disease for 16 years."

►August 18, 2005 - Indications for Merck's SINGULAIR® Expand with FDA Approval for Perennial Allergic Rhinitis - SINGULAIR Now Shown to Provide Relief from a Broad Range of Indoor and Outdoor Allergy Symptoms - Merck

►August 18, 2005 Issue date July 29, 2005 - Warning Letter - BioMerieux, Inc - FDA

►August 18, 2005 - Clinical Trials Update: - Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch via HealthDay News via Yahoo Health!

►August 18, 2005 - Case Charging Nation's Largest Drug Companies of Defrauding Consumers Moves Closer to Trial - Patients receiving physician-administered drugs urged to join suit - PRNewswire via www.pharmalive.com

►August 18, 2005 - What's in the spray, anyway? (requires registration or subscription) - Experts say chemicals that kill mosquitoes are mostly harmless. - The Sacramento Bee

►August 18, 2005 - Medco Completes $2.3 Billion Acquisition of Accredo, Creates Largest Specialty/Biotech Pharmacy Operation - PRNewswire-FirstCall via www.pharmalive.com

►August 18, 2005 - Human Genome, GSK to Develop Cancer Drug - AP via MSNMoney

* ►August 17, 2005 - Meningococcal Polysaccharide (Serogroups A, C, Y and W-135) Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine (approval letter) - (Menactra) (Clinical Review) - Aventis Pasteur - For active immunization of adolescents and adults 11-55 years of age for the prevention of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, Y and W-135 - FDA/CBER

* ►August 17, 2005 - Hepatitis A Vaccine, Inactivated (approval letter) - (VAQTA) (Supplement) - Merck & Co, Inc - Lowering the age indication for VAQTA from two years to 12 months of age - FDA/CBER

►August 17, 2005 - Study: Epilepsy research focus wrong - University of Rochester Medical Center via Newsday

►August 16, 2005 - Clinical Investigator Inspection List - This list contains names, addresses, and other information gathered from inspections of clinical investigators who have conducted studies with investigational new drugs or investigational devices reviewed by CBER. These inspections were conducted as part of the Food and Drug Administration's Bioresearch Monitoring Program. This list contains information on inspections that were closed after 1989. - FDA/CBER

►August 16, 2005 - Notice: Vision 2006--A Conversation With the American Public; Notice of Public Meetings on Specific Food and Drug Administration Issues; Request for Comments - Food and Drug Administration, HHS via www.pharmcast.com

* ►August 2, 2005 - Title: Salmonella vaccine materials and methods - Pharmacia & Upjohn Company (Kalamazoo, MI) via www.pharmcast.com

* ►August 2, 2005 - Title: Active immunization of AScr for prion disorders - Neuralab Limited (BM) via www.pharmcast.com

►August 2, 2005 - Title: Monoclonal antibodies specific for the E2 glycoprotein of hepatitic C virus and their use in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of hepatitis C - The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health & Human Services (Washington, DC) via www.pharmcast.com

►August 2, 2005 - Title: Inhibitors for RNA viruses - www.pharmcast.com

►August 2, 2005 - Title: Process for discriminating between biological states based on hidden patterns from biological data - Correlogic Systems, Inc., (Bethesda, MD); The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC) via www.pharmcast.com

* ►August 2005 - Therapeutic cancer vaccines (full text) - journal article (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery) - "Using epidemiology-based forecast peak sales and the assumption that the most promising pipeline candidates in Phase III clinical trials are granted marketing approval, we estimate that the market could be worth US$633 million by 2014."

►August 2005 - Intracellular protein therapy with SOCS3 inhibits inflammation and apoptosis - journal article (Nature Medicine)

►August 2005 - Allergies and the Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: A Meta-analysis with Review of Epidemiology and Biological Mechanisms - journal article (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)

►August 2005 - DNA methylation and human disease - DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic modification of the genome that is involved in regulating many cellular processes. These include embryonic development, transcription, chromatin structure, X chromosome inactivation, genomic imprinting and chromosome stability. Consistent with these important roles, a growing number of human diseases have been found to be associated with aberrant DNA methylation. The study of these diseases has provided new and fundamental insights into the roles that DNA methylation and other epigenetic modifications have in development and normal cellular homeostasis. - journal article (Nature Reviews Genetics)

►August 2005 - Physical and emotional development, appetite and body image in adolescents who failed to thrive as infants - journal article (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry)

* ►August 21, 2005 - Army researchers at Fort Detrick to study vaccines' effects - AP via The Herald-Mail - "Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are studying the long-term effects of repeated administration of multiple vaccines, including an anthrax vaccine, Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed."

* ►August 21, 2005 - Sanofi owes bird flu vaccine to Memphis virus hunter - Bloomberg via The Journal News - "The market for a vaccine that could be produced in time to respond to a global epidemic would easily reach $1 billion, said Aaron Geist, an analyst with Robert W. Baird & Co. in Milwaukee, in an interview this month."

* ►August 21, 2005 - Kiwis stockpile bird flu drugs - Anxious Kiwis are stockpiling the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to protect themselves against a lethal world bird flu epidemic which experts say is inevitable. - Sunday Star-Times via www.stuff.co.nz - "Auckland GP Dr Simon Cotton has ordered more than $2500-worth of Tamiflu - 40 packets - for himself, family, friends and colleagues...He is convinced the epidemic will kill many New Zealanders."

* ►August 21, 2005 - Indonesia Sets National Days to Protect Children From Polio - Voice of America - "Health workers say it is important to vaccinate all children in a community.  The World Health Organization says the polio vaccine is safe even if a child is sick and has a high body temperature."

►August 21, 2005 - Flight H5N1 is approaching Britain. Brace for impact - The Telegraph, UK

►August 21, 2005 - Could avian flu infect humans? - column - Staunton News Leader

►August 21, 2005 - Pak invites Aishwarya to kickstart polio immunisation drive - Indian Express

►August 21, 2005 - Yemen polio cases hit 426 as vaccination launched - Reuters AlertNet

►August 21, 2005 - Kingdom Moves to Halt Polio Spread - Arab News

►August 21, 2005 - When a Bug Becomes a Monster (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "Health officials in New York are working with increasing urgency to develop a defense in case a deadly strain of influenza begins to spread widely."

►August 21, 2005 - Infection fear two in hospital (requires registration) - The Age, Australia

►August 21, 2005 - All ports to be closed if bird flu strikes - Sydney Morning Herald

►August 21, 2005 - Expert sheds light on spread of bird flu - Following the news that bird flu has spread into Russia, swissinfo spoke to expert Christian Leumann about the virus and its consequences for humans. - Swissinfo

►August 21, 2005 - Virus knows no boundaries - The Telegraph, UK

* ►August 20, 2005 - India's encephalitis death toll rises to 110 - Reuters AlertNet

* ►August 20, 2005 - Saudi Arabia announces tighter measures during hajj to curb polio spread - AP/Canadian Press via www.canada.com - "Saudi authorities regularly run vaccination programs ahead of the annual hajj and the minor "omra" pilgrimage, which is conducted at any time of the year....But this year will be the first when all pilgrims 15 and under must prove they have been vaccinated against polio to receive a Saudi entry visa. What's more, Saudi health officials said, each person 15 and under from the 19 countries where the virus is found will be required to take an oral vaccine upon entering the country as a precaution."

* ►August 20, 2005 - Muslims' New Tack on Polio: A Vaccine en Route to Mecca (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

►August 20, 2005 - Bird flu suspected to have hit Russian poultry farm - Interfax Russia

►August 20, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu in Whooper Swans and Bar Headed Geese - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 20, 2005 - Scots doctors to get bird flu advice - The Scotsman

►August 20, 2005 - Russian poultry in bird flu fear - PA News via The Scotsman

►August 20, 2005 - Four young children die in West Sumba measles outbreak - Jakarta Post - "'More than 100 children are still being treated at the Kori and Bukembero community health centers, and the Caritas Kori Hospital. The four children who died might have suffered from measles, breathing problems and diarrheal complications,' said Marthen."

►August 20, 2005 - Vaccine supply not short - Meningitis shots ready for students - Iowa City Press Citizen

►August 20, 2005 - Schools crack down on student vaccinations - The Birmingham News via www.al.com

►August 20, 2005 - Most KU students choosing vaccine - Only 81 sign waiver showing they understand risks - Lawrence Journal World

►August 20, 2005 - Severe Allergies Bring Back-to-School Dangers - HealthDay via Forbes

►August 20, 2005 - Learning to live with risky drugs - editorial - The human element in warnings vs. bans in the regulation of drugs and devices: Warnings allow individuals to decide what is best for them. Bans represent a classic case of regulatory overkill - National Post via Vancouver Sun via www.canada.com

* ►August 20, 2005 - Bioterrorism vaccine available by 2008 - AAP via  http://news.ninemsn.com.au - "Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, the director of diabetes and endocrinology at Adelaide's Flinders Medical Centre, has been awarded more than $3 million by the United States government to develop the vaccines."

►August 20, 2005 - Former Soviet 'anti-plague' labs a risk - UPI via ScienceDaily

►August 20, 2005 - Virus Scare Spurs Quarantine of Arkansas Pet Distributor - ScoutNews LLC via www.healthcentral.com

►August 20, 2005 - Virus may be fought from air - Fourth case of West Nile reported in San Joaquin County on Friday - Tri-Valley Herald

►August 20, 2005 - Anthrax outbreak scares Manitoba farmers - CTV News

►August 20, 2005 - Indian cricketers join hands with Unicef for AIDS orphans - www.indiantelevision.com

►August 20, 2005 - Thailand warned of HIV infection rebound - Xinhua via People's Daily Online

* ►August 19, 2005 - Bush administration disputes California on tuna mercury warnings - AP via North County Times - "California's attorney general on Friday accused the federal government of trying to kill a state lawsuit demanding canned tuna companies place mercury warning notices on their products."

►August 19, 2005 - Authorities in Europe Try to Limit Spread of Bird Flu - Voice of America

►August 19, 2005 - Sharp Increase Of The Deadly Diseases In Delhi - MedIndia - "Doctors warn there's going to be a sharp increase in deadly diseases like hepatitis E, meningitis, typhoid and malaria. Since wet weather is conducive for most microbes, those transmitted by oro-nasal routes and through people-to-people contact usually have a field day in the rainy season."

►August 18, 2005 - Immunization: Why vaccines are so important to safeguarding health - Mayo Clinic

►August 21, 2005 - Migrating birds could bring deadly flu to UK this winter - The Independent, UK

* ►August 20, 2005 - US firm to fight drug onslaught - US drugs giant Merck is vowing to fight a potential wave of thousands of lawsuits over the painkiller Vioxx, once taken by 20 million people. - BBC - "A widow in Texas won $253.4m (£141.07m) damages after a jury accepted that her husband had been killed by the drug...The verdict could clear the way for some 4,200 other cases involving Vioxx, which raises the risk of heart attacks or strokes if taken for a long period."

* ►August 20, 2005 - Merck & Co. vows to appeal $253M judgment - AP via USA Today - "After news of the late-afternoon decision, Merck shares fell 7.7% to close at $28.06, wiping away almost $5.2 billion in market capitalization."

►August 20, 2005 - Migratory birds in Mongolia have H5N1 bird flu, Wildlife Conservation Society - Medical News Today

►August 20, 2005 - Bird flu virus: A crisis waiting to explode - It is spreading fast and nations are stockpiling antidotes - Financial Express

►August 20, 2005 - Had Govt acted in time, Kasauli vaccine could have saved Gorakhpur kids - www.newindpress.com

* ►August 20, 2005 - Shantha Biotechnics launches 4-in-1 vaccine - The Financial Express - "This combo-vaccine Called Shantetra, has undergone trials at five centres with 150 subjects without causing any adverse affects."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Mumps suddenly a serious problem - Ill-advised decisions by U.K. medical authorities may have put children in harm’s way - By Red Flags Columnist F. Edward Yazbak, MD - www.redflagsdaily.com

* ►August 19, 2005 - Residents Abandon Village Because of Disinformation On Vaccination - Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo) via http://allafrica.com

* ►August 19, 2005 - MMR jabs used without licence - Belfast Telegraph - "High-profile GP Brian Patterson said it was vital those who needed the jab should get it...'The quality of the vaccine was every bit as good,' he said...'People shouldn't be put off by the labelling in German.'"

* ►August 19, 2005 - August 24 DC Protest - Activists Against TeenScreen Will Attend - OpEdNews - "TeenScreen is planting the seed of mental illness in the minds of children. School kids are being conned into taking a survey full of loaded questions and the results are being used to convince parents their children are mentally ill and need dangerous brain-damaging drugs."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Bird flu in Russia - scaremongering or real danger? - opinion & analysis - RIA Novosti - "The Russian media have published more than a thousand reports on bird flu, but only six of Russia's 89 regions (mainly in Siberia and beyond the Urals), have recorded mortality among domestic poultry caused by the virus A(H5N1). There have been no recorded cases of bird flu at poultry farms or anywhere else in the country's agro-industrial sector. Nor have there been any instances of humans contracting the virus."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Pandemic Influenza vaccine may appear in Russia in mid-winter - RIA Novosti - "The pilot batch of an inactivated New Human Influenza vaccine, also referred to as Pandemic Influenza vaccine, will be released in Russia in January or February of next year, the Federal Consumer Rights Protection Service said in a posting Friday...The inactivated vaccine, which contains the human strain of the bird flu virus, will be developed in Russia using gene-reassorting techniques. The first batch is to be produced in association with the Immunopreparat company, based in the central-western Russian city of Ufa."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Avian flu kills 140,000 birds in Russia - ministry - Interfax Russia - "More than 11,000 birds have died from avian flu and another 127,000 have been slaughtered in the Tyumen, Chelyabinsk and Omsk regions and Altai territory to stop the spread of the outbreak, the press service said...'Laboratory examinations of selected blood samples from dead birds confirmed the presence of the AH5 bird flu virus that is not dangerous to humans. Most birds contracted avian flu from migrating wild birds from Southeast Asia,' the ministry said."

►August 19, 2005 - Pandemic Influenza vaccine may appear in Russia in mid-winter - AFX via Forbes

►August 19, 2005 - Roche close to deal with WHO on bird flu drug (subscription required for full article) - Financial Times

►August 19, 2005 - Bird flu spreads to new village in Kazakhstan - Reuters AlertNet

►August 19, 2005 - Bird flu may spread to Moscow in autumn 2005 - ornithologist - Interfax Russia

►August 19, 2005 - Bird flu strikes Saitama farm - The Asahi Shimbun

►August 19, 2005 - Bird Flu- The Next Pandemic –Part II - The Bahama Journal

►August 19, 2005 - Japan halfway through bird flu checks on farms - Reuters AlertNet

►August 19, 2005 - H5 Wild Bird Flu Confirmed in Mongolia - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 19, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Confirmed in Nalobino Kazakhstan - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 19, 2005 - Dutch keep poultry indoors to prevent bird flu - Reuters AlertNet

►August 19, 2005 - Angola launches polio appeal as more cases emerge - Reuters South Africa

* ►August 19, 2005 - Souped-up BCG vaccine destroys TB - Journal of Clinical Investigation via New Scientist

* ►August 19, 2005 - Shanta Bio launches 4-in-1 vaccine - Sify - "Shanta Biotechnics on Friday announced the availability of 'Shantetra', a combination vaccine against Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis and Hepatitis- B, claimed to be the first indigenously developed four-in-one immunity shot."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Meningitis vaccine is in short supply - In demand: The CDC's recommendation for Menactra has the manufacturer trying to increase production - Salt Lake Tribune - "Leigh Ann Morse is fed up...Since early July, she has tried to get Menactra, a new bacterial meningitis vaccine for people between the ages of 11 and 55, for her 13-year-old son, Quentin. But her pediatrician and local health clinics have run out of supplies - a shortage that exists nationwide...In May, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released recommendations that advise vaccinating children 11 to 12 years old, previously-unvaccinated adolescents who are starting high school, and college freshmen living in dormitories...'It's insane,' Morse said. 'They make it a big deal and get everybody nervous about it, then it's unavailable."
 
* ►August 19, 2005 - Colleges Push Meningitis Vaccine - Inside Higher Ed - "The ACHA said that the crunch was expected to ease later in the fall, but that in the meantime, another medication, tetravalent polysaccharide, known as Menomune, 'remains a very acceptable alternative while the conjugate vaccine remains difficult to secure.'"

►August 19, 2005 - Modification of Meningococcal Vaccine Widens Protection (requires registration) - Journal of Infectious Diseases via Reuters via Medscape

►August 19, 2005 - An ounce of prevention - Kokomo Tribune

►August 19, 2005 - Immunizations required for school - Newport News Times

►August 19, 2005 - Schools getting in their shots - Vaccines help keep students, cities healthy - Standard-Examiner

►August 19, 2005 - Child vaccine rates improving - Irish Health

►August 19, 2005 - Immunization - your best protection - Tillsonburg News

►August 19, 2005 - New Vaccine Requirements For Students - www.komotv.com

* ►August 19, 2005 - Child malnutrition hits thousands in Nigerian north - Reuters AlertNet - "In the dry north of Nigeria, there is chronic malnutrition stemming from a complex set of factors including poverty, poor healthcare and a staple diet lacking in many important nutrients -- but this year measles compounded the problem...People ill with measles require a lot of protein for their organisms to fight the disease. Children who do not get enough can quickly become malnourished...'Our nutritional study in Jibia found 2.7 percent of children under five were severely malnourished and 7 percent were moderately malnourished,' said Thierry Allafort-Duverger, MSF's head of emergency operations, on a visit to the feeding centre...The WHO is planning a major measles vaccination campaign that will start in December, ahead of the dry season when the disease tends to spread, in northern states including Katsina."

►August 19, 2005 - Japan Donates N778m for Immunisation - This Day (Lagos) via http://allafrica.com

►August 19, 2005 - Indonesian polio epidemic poses 'real risk' to Asia - New Scientist

►August 19, 2005 - 2005 Polio Termination target plagued by infections in Africa - www.earthtimes.org

►August 19, 2005 - Angola launches polio appeal as more cases emerge - Reuters AlertNet

►August 19, 2005 - Polio survivor wages battle for the disabled - Access: Peter Raimondi is unrelenting in his fight to get motorized carts in stores and shopping centers. (requires registration or subscription) - Baltimore Sun

►August 19, 2005 - Government, Partners Seek Financial Aid To Fight Polio - AngolaPress

►August 19, 2005 - Alarming increase in hepatitis cases in Delhi - www.ndtv.com

►August 19, 2005 - Encephalitis death toll rises to 100 - www.ndtv.com

►August 19, 2005 - Six more succumb to encephalitis in UP - Chennai Online

►August 19, 2005 - Nurse Shares Story Of Hepatitis C, the 'Silent Epidemic' (includes video) - www.ksdk.com

►August 19, 2005 - Whooping Cough Cases at Record High - Kitsap Sun

►August 19, 2005 - Second plague outbreak found in Boulder County prairie dogs - AP via www.9news.com

►August 19, 2005 - Mercury Rising? - Toxic mercury linked to developmental disorders and learning disabilities in children - www.richmond.com

►August 19, 2005 - The Mercury Scare is a Fish Story - National Center for Policy Analysis

►August 19, 2005 - Women's hair tested for mercury - Richmond Times-Dispatch

►August 19, 2005 - Curbing mercury - editorial - Patriot-News via www.pennlive.com

►August 19, 2005 - Coal lobby pressuring Leahy on power plant-mercury issue - Barre Montpelier Times Argus

►August 19, 2005 - Research sheds light on plague agent and potential vaccine - CIDRAP News

* ►August 19, 2005 - Specter visits Costa Rica to see drug program, vaccine study - AP via Penn Live - "Specter also was expected to meet with researchers from a study involving an experimental vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is linked to cervical cancer, cervical pre-cancers and genital warts...The vaccine is being given to 5,000 women in northern Costa Rica."

* ►August 19, 2005 - PAHO Plans Response to New HPV Vaccine - Pan American Health Organization - "The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has launched a process to respond to the introduction – sometime in mid-2006 – of a vaccine to immunize against a virus associated with cervical cancer...The virus is the human papilloma virus, or HPV. An HPV vaccine is now under development and according to Dr. Jon Andrus, chief of PAHO's Immunization Unit, the vaccine 'will be available in middle of next year.'"

►August 19, 2005 - Bavarian Nordic A/S Enforces Its Intellectual Property Rights Against Acambis plc and Acambis Inc. - press release - Bavarian Nordic A/S via U.S. Newswire

* ►August 19, 2005 - Aldevron gets $3.2M for vaccine (requires registration) - AP via In-Forum - "A Fargo-based biosciences company has received a $3.2 million federal grant to develop and test new HIV vaccine candidates, officials."

►August 19, 2005 - Tarvacin(TM) Phase I Hepatitis C Virus Trial, Peregrine Pharmaceuticals - Medical News Today

►August 19, 2005 - Celera Genomics and Seattle Genetics select target for cancer research - A tumor surface antigen target identified by Celera Genomics has been selected for further investigation by Seattle Genetics. This is the first target to be selected for advancement in the collaboration established last year between the two companies to jointly discover and develop antibody-based therapies for cancer. - Pharmaceutical Business Review

►August 19, 2005 - Dyax strikes collaboration deal with Merck KGaA - Dyax Corp has granted a non-exclusive license to Merck KGaA giving the German pharmaceutical firm access to its proprietary "phage display libraries" for the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies and peptides. - Pharmaceutical Business Review

►August 19, 2005 - New law to focus on HIV in blacks - Infection rate tied to prison population (requires registration or subscription) - Chicago Tribune

►August 19, 2005 - Late diagnosis could be helping spread of HIV - A failure by doctors to diagnose new cases of HIV early enough could lead to the virus spreading faster, according to a Zurich University Hospital study. - Swissinfo

►August 19, 2005 - Drug therapy means she has her mother's nose, not her HIV - News Sentinel via www.knoxnews.com

►August 19, 2005 - WHO Reinstates Generic HIV Drugs from India -  The reinstatement of seven generic antiretroviral drugs produced by Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd in India on WHO's list of prequalified medicines will reinforce efforts to ensure access to affordable quality AIDS drugs in poor countries, the global health agency stated Friday. - Inter Press Service News Agency

►August 18, 2005 - Public health, government officials hold mock disaster drill - Greenville Daily Reflector

►August 18, 2005 - WHO takes steps to protect staff from flu pandemic - www.scidev.net
 
►August 18, 2005 - One bacteria stops another on contact - Findings have implications for urinary tract infections - University of California - Santa Barbara via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 18, 2005 - Fetal Tissue Heals Burns - Tests Show Treatment Led to Normal Skin Regrowth (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post
 
►August 17, 2005 - UC Riverside Researchers Discover Model Organism For Studying Viruses that Affect Humans - Simple nematode has similar virus-fighting mechanism as humans and can be used in research - University of California, Riverside
 
►August 17, 2005 - Protein that regulates aging may provide key to new diabetes therapies - Washington University School of Medicine via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 17, 2005 - Purdue research shows added calcium benefits women on the pill - Purdue University
 
* ►August 16, 2005 - School TB Jabs Face Axe After 50 Years - Belfast Telegraph - "Pupils in schools across Northern Ireland will no longer be immunised against tuberculosis because a vaccination programme has been scrapped after more than 50 years."

►August 16, 2005 - Scientists discover gene that controls speed of tuberculosis development - McGill University via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 16, 2005 - Hospitalizations because of chicken pox down dramatically since implementation of vaccine - JAMA and Archives Journals via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 16, 2005 - U.S. Seeks Massive Stock of Smallpox Vaccine - (requires registration or subscription) - Reuters via The New York Times
 
►August 16, 2005 - Scientists make nerve stem cells - The world's first pure nerve stem cells made from human embryonic stem cells has been created by scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Milan - BBC News
 
►August 16, 2005 - U of M researchers show that increasing sugar processing in the liver can lower blood sugar - May lead to future treatments for diabetes, obesity - University of Minnesota via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 16, 2005 - UT Southwestern researchers test experimental drug to help tiniest heart patients - The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
 
►August 16, 2005 - Leptin-signaling protein maintains normal body weight and energy balance in mice - SH2-B enhances brain's leptin sensitivity - University of Michigan Health System via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 16, 2005 - Breast cancer detected through mammography has survival advantage - University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 16, 2005 - Weight control protein may yield antiobesity drugs - Cell Press via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 16, 2005 - Turning one hepatitis virus against the other - www.scidev.net
 
►August 15, 2005 - Lyme disease prevention program launched in Connecticut - Yale University via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 15, 2005 - No small feat: First ever gene therapy success for muscular dystrophy achieved - Using mini gene and new systemic approach treated animals were significantly improved, lived longer - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 15, 2005 - e-Science methods reveal new insights into antibiotic resistance - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 15, 2005 - GSK's, Merck's cervical cancer vaccines may be most effective in Europe - AFX via Forbes
 
►August 14, 2005 - Scientists link vascular gene to Alzheimer's disease - University of Rochester Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 14, 2005 - Tadpole soon to help in the fight against cancer and lymphedema - VIB, Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology via www.eurekalert.org
 
►August 14, 2005 - Roots of epilepsy may lie in oft-ignored brain cells - University of Rochester Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org

* ►September 15, 2005 - Clinical Responses to Smallpox Vaccine in Vaccinia-Naive and Previously Vaccinated Populations: Undiluted and Diluted Lancy-Vaxina Vaccine in a Single-Blind, Randomized, Prospective Trial - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 15, 2005 - HIV-1 Virologic and Immunologic Progression and Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV-1Infected Subjects in a Trial of the Efficacy of Recombinant Glycoprotein 120 Vaccine - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 15, 2005 - Detection of Severe Human Metapneumovirus Infection by Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction and Histopathological Assessment (free access) - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 15, 2005 - A Soluble Receptor Decoy Protects Rats against Anthrax Lethal Toxin Challenge - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 15, 2005 - A Case-Control Study to Examine HLA Haplotype Associations in Patients with Posttreatment Chronic Lyme Disease - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►September 7, 2005 - Development of a synthetic consensus sequence scrambled antigen HIV-1 vaccine designed for global use - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►September 7, 2005 - Vaccine and adjuvant activity of recombinant subunit B of E. coli enterotoxin produced in yeast - journal article (Vaccine)

►September 2005 - Defining childhood atopic phenotypes to investigate the association of atopic sensitization with allergic disease - journal article (Allergy)

►August 19, 2005 - 'Bird flu could cause global economic mayhem' - China Daily

►August 19, 2005 - German govt to take measures against bird flu - Xinhuanet via China View

* ►August 19, 2005 - $3m US grant for bio-terror vaccine - The Advertiser - "The United States government has given more than $3 million to a South Australian researcher to develop vaccines that protect against bioterrorism."

* ►August 19, 2005 - Vaccine campaign reaches 2 million - More than two million doses of the meningococcal B vaccine have been delivered, but the campaign looks unlikely to reach its goal of immunising 90 per cent of New Zealand children. - The Dominion Post via www.stuff.co.nz - "There had been a 20 per cent dropoff between the first and third doses in the under-fives age group, mainly because parents led busy lives and it was a big commitment for them to bring children in to a clinic three times to get injections, Dr O'Hallahan said...Youths aged 16 to 20 who had left school also had a low uptake of the vaccine, but this group was not at such high risk of infection."

* ►August 18, 2005 - Prospects for a vaccine against the hepatitis C virus - journal article (Nature)

* ►August 18, 2005 - Officials investigate sixth possible case of CJD - Elmore County man receiving treatment - The Times-News via www.magicvalley.com

►August 18, 2005 - 79 Children die of suspected Japanese encephalitis in northern India - www.irna.ir

►August 18, 2005 - Medical Marijuana and the Supreme Court (free full text) (includes audio) - journal article (NEJM)

►August 18, 2005 - Asthma and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease - journal article (NEJM)

►August 18, 2005 - Cerebral Folate Deficiency Syndrome - journal article (NEJM)

►August 18, 2005 - Helping kids with ADHD - StarTwo via www.thestar.com.my

►August 18, 2005 - Guest Opinion: R&D Prioritization - Going beyond decision analysis - www.eyeforpharma.com

* ►August 18, 2005 - Smallpox vaccine turns up in yard sale purchase - AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

* ►August 18, 2005 - State seeks to uphold mandatory anthrax-inoculation ban - Army Times - "Connecticut’s top attorney is asking a federal appeals court to uphold a ban on the Pentagon’s mandatory anthrax vaccination program, arguing that the vaccine is not licensed to protect against inhalational anthrax...'Fundamentally this is a very simple case,' Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal wrote in court papers filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia."

* ►August 18, 2005 - Military Children Receive Back-to-School Shots - Bethesda Journal - "Proper immunizations are especially important to athletes. Their chances of making the school team can decrease to zero without them...'If [the child] is going to play sports, the school wants the child to make sure they get a tetanus shot,' Aaron said."

* ►August 18, 2005 - Boosting the BCG vaccine to beat tuberculosis - Journal of Clinical Investigation via www.eurekalert.org - "Tuberculosis remains a major global health threat. Although more than 3 billion doses of the BCG vaccine have been administered to fight tuberculosis, the ability of the BCG vaccine to protect adults is very limited, as is its efficacy against newly emerging isolates."

* ►August 18, 2005 - Pig flu infects 215 people in China - transcript - The World Today via www.abc.net.au

* ►August 18, 2005 - Russia to create bird flu vaccine - Onishchenko - Interfax Russia

* ►August 18, 2005 - GPs to get drill for bird flu pandemic - Financial Times

* ►August 18, 2005 - Group questions whether wild birds carry much flu - Reuters AlertNet

►August 18, 2005 - Russia loses over 11,000 birds from avian flu - Interfax Russia

►August 18, 2005 - Bird flu case detected at chicken farm in east Japan - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 18, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Confirmed in Kalmykiya Near Caspian Sea - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 18, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Confirmed in Yesil Kazakhstan - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 18, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Spreads to Kursk in Western Russia? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 18, 2005 - Geographical spread of H5N1 avian influenza in birds - update 28 - WHO

►August 18, 2005 - WHO urges close bird flu watch in Russia, Kazakhstan - Reuters AlertNet

►August 18, 2005 - State, UAF test for avian influenza - SitNews

►August 18, 2005 - Chinese Farmers Still Wary of Bird Flu (requires registration or subscription) - AP via Los Angeles Times

►August 18, 2005 - Medicare proposes requiring nursing homes to give flu shots - CIDRAP News

►August 18, 2005 - Early warning signs for flu season - State House News Service via Norwell Mariner via www.townonline.com

►August 18, 2005 - Muslim nations in poverty see polio resurgence - Rich counterparts do little to help (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post via Mercury News

►August 18, 2005 - Hepatitis claims two; toll rises to 284 in city, Thane - Express News Service via Mumbai Newsline via http://cities.expressindia.com

►August 18, 2005 - Plague found in reservation prairie dog colony - AP via Aberdeen American News

* ►August 18, 2005 - Fear Not - Vaccinations don't give children autism. They save children from disease. - New Haven Advocate - "But the CDC has to deal with a very serious dilemma. Anything that serves to undermine public confidence in the safety of vaccines may decrease compliance and thereby increase the rate of preventable diseases, causing harm and even death. In other words, if people begin to doubt vaccines, children may die. The CDC's job is to protect the public health, and that means doing what they can to quell false fears. In order to accomplish this, they have chosen to play their cards close to their vest: to monitor vaccine safety in secret and then only make concerns public when they have been confirmed. This will avoid countless false alarms, which would constantly send waves of fear about vaccine safety across the country."

* ►August 18, 2005 - Autism studies - Vaccine link has support - letter - Asbury Park Press - "The studies — the ones our government calls "inconclusive" — are often funded by the government agencies whose employees have a direct tie to pharmaceutical companies or by doctors who hold patents to vaccines in production. These studies have major flaws in their research methods."

►August 18, 2005 - First-time students must first immunize - The Herald-Sun

►August 18, 2005 - Arizona makes quick strides in immunizing kids - Babies and children in Arizona have never been better-immunized. Ready availability of vaccines, a statewide immunization database and health care providers keeping tabs on their patients has led the state to near 80 percent of children who are fully immunized. - East Valley Tribune

* ►August 18, 2005 - Department faces vaccine shortage - News 14 Charlotte - "Students heading to college this fall may find it difficult to receive all their vaccinations...The nation is facing a meningitis vaccine shortage."

* ►August 18, 2005 - CDC urges teens, preteens to get meningitis vaccine - Rare disease: Menactra can be hard to find, due to increased demand and the newness of the drug - Salt Lake Tribune

* ►August 18, 2005 - CDC recommends doctors immunize younger children against meningitis - www.wistv.com - "Dr. Ellen Rome is a pediatrician at the Cleveland Clinic, 'Bacterial meningitis is airborne, so if somebody coughs into their hand, and then touches a doorknob and the next kid touches a doorknob they might be at risk.'"

►August 18, 2005 - Younger Kids Should Get Meningitis Immunizations - www.nbc10.com

►August 18, 2005 - Doctors running short of meningitis vaccine - AP via Cedar Rapids Gazette

►August 18, 2005 - New for Back to School: Meningitis, Whooping Cough Vaccines - HealthDay via Forbes

►August 18, 2005 - Coroner to rule on toddler's meningitis death - Ireland Online

►August 18, 2005 - Meningococcal warning - Three cases of the potentially deadly meningococcal disease have been reported in New South Wales in the past 24 hours. - www.news.com.au

►August 18, 2005 - Health Dept urges calm over doubling of meningococcal deaths - www.abc.net.au

►August 18, 2005 - Scientists Find Common Virus May Help Treat Brain Tumors - press release - Oncolytics Biotech via PRNewswire

►August 18, 2005 - FDA Approvals: Fortical, Actonel With Calcium, VAQTA (requires registration) - Medscape

►August 18, 2005 - Anadys Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Acceptance of IND Application for ANA975 - Anadys to Receive $10 Million Milestone Payment From Novartis - press release - Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►August 18, 2005 - Woman faces theft charges over autism advocacy role - Asbury Park Press

►August 18, 2005 - Austin couple deals with reality of autism (requires registration) - www.kvue.com

►August 18, 2005 - Some state government leaders question lab consolidation study - AP via The Dispatch

►August 18, 2005 - Something extra at one Richmond salon: mercury testing - Richmond Times-Dispatch - "Greenpeace and the Sierra Club tested 28 women's hair today at a Richmond salon for traces of mercury in an effort to see how much of the substance they may have ingested, mainly by eating fish."

►August 18, 2005 - Mercury spills on New York set of `Guiding Light' when prop breaks - AP via Newsday - "A hazardous-materials crew from the Fire Department of New York was called to the studio and tested the air and the soles of people's shoes, FDNY spokesman Jim Long said."

►August 18, 2005 - Fargo biosciences company gets grant to work on HIV vaccine - AP via In-Forum

►August 18, 2005 - Many have fixed feelings on HIV vaccine research - Journal of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes via Reuters UK

►August 18, 2005 - ADRA Combats HIV and AIDS in Africa - Reuters AlertNet

►August 18, 2005 - NGOs Analyse National Response to HIV/Aids - Angola Press Agency (Luanda) via http://allafrica.com

►August 17, 2005 - Niger: Food and vaccines saving children's lives - UNICEF via ReliefWeb

►August 17, 2005 - Can the bird flu be stopped in Asia? - The deadly virus has killed 62 Asians in the last two years - MSNBC

* ►August 17, 2005 - New vaccines giving kids a better shot - The Seattle Times - "They're intended to protect against diseases ranging from rotavirus, a common cause of diarrhea, to human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer. "This is more [in development] than I remember. ... I think we're beginning to realize the potential of modern understanding of the immune system and new technology to prevent diseases," said Dr. Ed Marcuse, associate medical director of Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center and a member of the national committee that advises the CDC on vaccines."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Resident physicians not enamored with drug reps - www.eyeforpharma.com - "Although more than half (53%) say they appreciate the free food and promotional items reps bring, they could do without the accompanying “speech.” But 10% say they never take drug company “freebies,” and some say they find the practice to be “unethical.”

* ►August 17, 2005 - Moving beyond DTC - www.eyeforpharma.com - "In 1997, Stern says, statistics showed the industry was ranked among the best in serving its customers. But by 2004, pharma had slipped 35%, leaving it ranked below even the tobacco industry. The reversal of fortune, Stern suggests, correlates with the rise of DTC advertising."

* ►August 17, 2005 - When Doctors Advise Investors (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "The financial firms seeking advice include hedge funds, venture capital firms, investment bankers and stockbrokers, among others. They are assisted by specialized companies that enroll doctors and link them with information-hungry financial firms. A doctor is typically paid on an hourly basis - at rates ranging from $200 to more than $1,000 per hour - for consulting that can be done by telephone or face to face."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Canada/US Link Critical Disease Surveillance Systems - Health Canada via www.medicalnewstoday.com

* ►August 17, 2005 - Study to Look at Mexican American Family Strengths - www.news.ucdavis.edu - "It is critical to understand that Mexican immigrants have far fewer behavioral problems including both mental disorders and drug abuse," said Vega, a nationally recognized authority in mental health and family studies of Latinos. "In later generations, the cultural protective factors erode and rates begin to approximate the higher rates found in the U.S. population."

►August 17, 2005 - Competitive Intelligence: An Ethical Necessity in the Pharmaceutical Field - Cutting Edge Information via www.pharmalive.com

►August 17, 2005 - Pharmaceutical Marketing: Early Commercialization Drives Product Success - PRNewswire via www.pharmalive.com

►August 17, 2005 - Official FDA Terms, Lists and Training Rules - FDA via www.pharmalive.com

►August 17, 2005 - Closing Arguments Wednesday in Vioxx Lawsuit in Texas (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

►August 17, 2005 - AstraZeneca may shut Swedish operations - The Guardian, UK

►August 17, 2005 - Malaysian, Russian firms in drug venture - Business Times

►August 17, 2005 - Ranbaxy eyes large-sized acquisitions — Kalam inaugurates third R&D facility - The Hindu Business Line - "We want to be among the Top 5 companies before 2012. We are looking at acquisitions in the US, Europe and India. We are looking at the right synergy and product portfolio."

►August 17, 2005 - Health Tip: Allergic to Drugs? - HealthDayNews via Health Yahoo!

►August 17, 2005 - FDA Won't Ban Diet Drug Meridia - AP via Health Yahoo!

* ►August 16, 2005 - Vaccine route, dose and type of delivery vector determine patterns of primary CD8+ T cell responses - journal article (European Journal of Immunology)

* ►August 16, 2005 - Doctors' Links With Investors Raise Concerns (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

* ►August 16, 2005 - FDA chief takes show on the road - Crawford to hear consumer concerns - The Boston Globe

►August 16, 2005 - Brand-Name Drug Prices Continue to Soar: Report - HealthDay News via Health Yahoo!

►August 16, 2005 - Educating Physicians on Controversies in Health (EPoCH) - www.ama-assn.org

►August 16, 2005 - 'Superbug' scare rings Opposition alarm bells - Victorian health authorities have downplayed the link between more than 120 hospital deaths and a superbug called MRSA. It has been revealed than between June 2004 and May 2005, the superbug was found in the system of 120 people who had died in Victorian public hospitals. - www.keralanext.com

►August 16, 2005 - Tom Cruise's Comments About Psychiatry Are Distorted and Damaging, According To Editor-in-Chief Harold Koplewicz, M.D. - NAMC Newswise

►August 16, 2005 - Fighting a high-tech war against sinusitis - www.keralanext.com

►August 16, 2005 - Fish oil 'calms kids with ADHD' - The Australian

►August 16, 2005 - State should ban sale of feed for deer - Times Herald-Record

►August 15, 2005 - Susceptibility to hepatitis A in patients with chronic liver disease due to hepatitis C virus infection: Missed opportunities for vaccination - journal article (Hepatology)

►August 15, 2005 - Animal disease events an early warning system for emerging human diseases - www.keralanext.com

►August 15, 2005 - Study: Pain Neurons Respond to Garlic - AP via Yahoo!

* ►August 14, 2005 - California needs to invest in biomonitoring - A benchmark investigation of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides in umbilical cord blood. BodyBurden2: The Pollution in Newborns - Environmental Working Group

►August 13, 2005 - Disease study could shape policy - Experts are examining if the history of disease outbreaks can teach doctors lessons about how to manage public health in the future. - BBC

►August 12, 2005 - Cannabis drugs might relieve bowel disease - New treatments offer hope for sufferers of Crohn's disease, colitis - Reuters via MSNBC

* ►August 11, 2005 - One in Six US High-School Students Has Asthma (requires registration) - MMWR  via Reuters Health via Medscape

►August 11, 2005 - Religious Characteristics of U.S. Physicians (requires registration) (full text) - Journal of General Internal Medicine via Medscape

* ►August 10, 2005 - Tetanus, Diphtheria, Acellular Pertussis Booster Vaccination for Adolescents (requires registration) (full text) - Pediatric Pharmacotherapy via Medscape

►August 1, 2005 - Herb-drug interactions: Interactions between ginseng and prescription medications - journal article (Geriatrics)

* ►August 2005 - Hepatitis Birth Dose Now Is the Standard of Care: ACIP's vote, pending CDC approval. - Pediatric News

* ►August 2005 - Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis Manifesting as Intracerebral Hemorrhage Associated with Herpes Simplex Virus Type I - journal article (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics) - "Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis (AHL) is a rare and usually fatal disorder characterized by an acute onset of neurological abnormalities. It may occur in association with a viral illness or vaccination."

* ►August 2005 - The Development of Therapeutic and Preventive Vaccines for Gastric Cancer and Helicobacter pylori - journal article (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)

►August 2005 - Supportive care for patients with guillain-barre syndrome. - journal article (Archives of Neurology)

►August 2005 - FDA Panel: Delay Safety Changes to Concerta Label - Pediatric News

►August 2005 - Changes in the interleukin-6/soluble interleukin-6 receptor axis in meningococcal septic shock *. - journal article (Critical Care Medicine)

►August 2005 - Neonatal Hypoxia/Ischemia Is Associated With Decreased Inflammatory Mediators After Erythropoietin Administration - journal article (Stroke)

►August 2005 - Risk of Hemorrhagic Stroke With Aspirin Use - journal article (Stroke)

►August 2005 - The ADHD and Sleep Conundrum: A Review. - journal article (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics)

►August 2005 - Risk of Hemorrhagic Stroke With Aspirin Use - journal article (Stroke)

* ►August 18, 2005 - Two million MeNZB vaccine doses delivered - press release - New Zealand Government via www.scoop.co.nz - "What reactions to the vaccine have been reported?...Vaccines are designed to generate a reaction, but the level of reaction varies. From 19 July 2004 to 17 June 2005, the Centre for Adverse Reactions Monitoring has recorded 925 reports of events following MeNZB vaccination. Most of the reactions have been local reactions that are expected, such as pain or swelling at the injection site."

►August 18, 2005 - Health office says dengue vaccine unlikely - Sun.Star

►August 18, 2005 - Case of Deadly Bird Flu Suspected West of Urals - Reuters via The Moscow Times

* ►August 18, 2005 - Parents to raise funds to help 5-year-old son - The Gazette - "County police Lt. Bob Gibson and his wife, Lisa Gibson, said their son Joshua was a bright child with an age-appropriate vocabulary at 12 months, but after he received a routine vaccination, they said Joshua's ability to talk seemed to disappear overnight."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Trust Me: I Have The Statistics To Prove It - By Red Flags Columnist F. Edward Yazbak, MD - www.redflagsdaily.com

* ►August 17, 2005 - Help is on the way for families touched by autism - Arizona Daily Sun - "Martin says that she thinks the number of cases of autism is growing in Arizona...'Every time I turn around, it's a nephew, a child or grandchild," she says. 'We're trying to get some research out there to help these people...Martin says her son was developing normally until he received the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) shot at 4 years old...'Autism happened after the shot, and 1 1/2 years after the shot, leukemia showed up,' Martin says."

* ►August 17, 2005 - The Age of Autism: March of the experts (requires registration) - UPI via Washington Times - "The news that the first child diagnosed with autism got better after medical treatment -- while leading experts didn`t make the connection -- suggests how research and reality have been distorted for decades."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Avian Flu - An Impending Economic and Humanitarian Catastrophe? - Resource Investor - "Perhaps one of the most chilling aspects of Type A H5N1 is that it could, counter intuitively, be more lethal to those with strong immune systems, via an effect known as the Cytokine Storm, which in essence can entail the rather macabre death of an infected person through the over zealous response of their own immune system."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Russia needs one year to develop vaccine against bird flu- view - Itar-Tass

* ►August 17, 2005 - Vietnam's mass bird vaccination to end in November - Reuters AlertNet - "Vietnam requires farmers to keep vaccinated birds for 28 days before putting them on sale to make sure the injected birds are healthy."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Vietnam orders speeded up bird flu poultry vaccinations - AFP via TODAYonline

* ►August 17, 2005 - Mass bird deaths found in European Russian region - Reuters

* ►August 17, 2005 - Expert proposes poultry vaccination - RIA Novosti - "'Russia has supporters and opponents of vaccination,' Eduard Dzhavadov said. 'Each side is giving its pros and cons. Unfortunately, our opinion [of the necessity] to carry out vaccination near the affected regions differs from that of some statesmen.'...He said his institute wanted to protect people, not birds....Dzhavadov also said most European organizations are against the vaccination of birds."

►August 17, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Spread to Sverlovsk Russia? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 17, 2005 - Experts Discuss Possible Bird Flu Spread (requires registration or subscription) - AP via Washington Post

►August 17, 2005 - Bush Reads About Salt, Flu While in Texas (requires registration or subscription) - Washington Post

►August 17, 2005 - Task force on avian influenza organized in Biliran - press release - Philippine Information Agency

►August 17, 2005 - ”Bird flu” discovered in one more region of North Kazakhstan oblast - Kazinform

►August 17, 2005 - Bird flu spreads from Western Siberia to South Urals - RIA Novosti

►August 17, 2005 - Russia slaughters fowl to prevent bird-flu epidemic - Sapa/AP via Mail & Guardian Online

►August 17, 2005 - A federal strategy against bird flu needs to be developed - RIA Novosti

►August 17, 2005 - Experts: Bird flu outbreak can be contained no earlier than October - Interfax Russia

►August 17, 2005 - Health keeps tabs on bird flu developments - Health officials are ‘taking note’ of international efforts to prepare for a possible bird flu pandemic. - Guernsey Weekly Press

►August 17, 2005 - Pandemic could trigger second Depression: firm - CTV News - "'I would strongly urge businesses to work with local government and emergency teams to plan for the impact of a pandemic influenza,' said Dr. Arlene King, the Public Health Agency of Canada's director of immunization and respiratory infectious diseases division."

* ►August 17, 2005 - CDC: Chickenpox Vaccine Cuts Hospitalizations - In the decade since the chickenpox vaccine became available in the U.S., hospitalizations and deaths from the disease have dropped dramatically among infants, children, and adults, according to a new report from the CDC. - FOX News - "According to earlier estimates from the CDC, the annual cost of vaccinating all children in the U.S. against chickenpox is approximately $144 million. The new report suggests that the vaccination program saves $63 million annually in direct medical costs. But medical costs represent only a small percentage of the total savings, experts say...Government researchers are conducting a more comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of the chickenpox vaccination program. But pediatric public health researcher Matthew M. Davis, MD, says such an analysis may be impossible because there is no good way to measure crucial cost variables such as lost work time by parents caring for children with the disease."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Most Americans have allergies - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology via Reuters - "More than half (54.3 percent) of the U.S. population is sensitive to one or more common allergens, placing them at increased risk for the development of asthma, hay fever, and eczema."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Severe Allergies in the Classroom - American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology via Medical News Today

* ►August 17, 2005 - Worker diagnosed with rare disease at Washington D.C. postal facility - AP via Newsday - "An employee at the District of Columbia postal facility where anthrax killed two workers in 2001 has been diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease, heath officials said Wednesday."

* ►August 17, 2005 - The Pet Doctor: Gary Richter - Canine vaccines can be a complicated issue (requires registration or subscription) - Walnut Creek Journal via Contra Costa Times - "Deciding what to vaccinate your dog for and how often can be a complicated issue. The question of which vaccines and how often to vaccinate is one being contemplated by some of the foremost researchers in veterinary medicine. The balance between protecting a dog from infectious diseases and possible complications related to vaccinations has led to changing ideas regarding canine vaccines."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Parents, it's time to immunize students - Franklin Park Herald-Journal via Pioneer Press Online - " School districts must demonstrate at least 90 percent compliance with the immunization requirements no later than Oct. 15 each year or face a 10 percent loss of state aid. School districts have the option of enforcing the requirement anytime from the opening day of school until Oct. 15...State law does provide exemptions from the immunization requirements for religious or medical reasons...Along with the required immunizations, some physicians are recommending additional vaccines...Franklin Park family physician Dr. Nicholas Recchia said many health professionals are in favor of a Hepatitis B vaccine booster for those entering high school or for students going away to college...'Getting a booster probably is a good idea if its' been eight to10 years (since receiving the vaccine),' Recchia said. 'I'd say it's especially important for those going away to college."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Crucell and US Navy Sign Agreement to Test AdVac-based Vaccine Against Anthrax and Plague - press release - Crucell N.V. via PrimeZone

* ►August 17, 2005 - Dynavax Appoints Acclaimed Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Stanley A. Plotkin to Board of Directors - press release - Dynavax Technologies Corporation via PRNewswire-FirstCall - "Dr. Plotkin is Emeritus Professor of the University of Pennsylvania and Executive Advisor to Sanofi Pasteur. Until 1991, he was Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Professor of Virology at the Wistar Institute and at the same time, Director of Infectious Diseases and Senior Physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  In 1991, Dr. Plotkin left the University to join the vaccine manufacturer, Pasteur-Merieux-Connaught (today, Sanofi Pasteur), where for seven years he was Medical and Scientific Director, based at Marnes-la-Coquette, outside Paris."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Research into vaccines needed - letter - Lindsay This Week via www.mykawartha.com - "It seemed, for many years, that measles and chicken pox were practically normal childhood rites of passage until they were recently re-labeled dangerous and life-threatening. All of the 'designated diseases' which are immunized against have been rather easily cured with vitamin C therapy (Levy, 2002). Even the dreaded poliomyelitis has been cured via vitamin C intravenous and oral vitamin C (see Fred Klenner's work among others, documented in the 1940s)."

►August 17, 2005 - 'Safeguard of our community' - Lynchburg News and Advance - "About the ouch - do the vaccinations really hurt or are the children suffering from anticipatory fear?..'Pain is very subjective,' said Dana Woody, R.N., and the district’s immunization action plan coordinator. 'I’ve given shots to children who never wince, and some that have a tantrum.'"

►August 17, 2005 - DC Schools On Track For New Year - 570 New Teachers Hired - www.nbc4.com - "Janey said about 1,700 students who attended city schools last year still need to complete their required immunizations and most of them are in high school."

►August 17, 2005 - Health officials get early jump on flu vaccine status - Daily News Tribune

►August 17, 2005 - Thimerosal, autism not now linked - Seattle Times

►August 17, 2005 - New vaccines giving kids a better shot - Seattle Times

►August 17, 2005 - New vaccines required for first-time students - Sweetwater Reporter

►August 17, 2005 - School 'shots' given priority - Decatur Daily Democrat - "While some of the letters sent out by a school may indicate that a child needs shots, 'we are finding that many of these children have already received these immunizations,' she noted."

►August 17, 2005 - Nobody should be immune from vaccinations (requires registration or subscription) - Kansas City Star

►August 17, 2005 - Why School Vaccinations are so Important - www.kfyrtv.com

►August 17, 2005 - Six cases of polio in Angola bring on new immunization campaigns, UN says - UN

►August 17, 2005 - UNICEF Says It Still Lacks Sufficient Funds For Ethiopia - Organization also doubling emergency appeal to Mali in light of looming humanitarian crisis. - www.mtv.com - "'Ethiopia has no [choice] but to repeat the Herculean task of defeating the virus by going door-to-door across this country to immunize every single child under 5,' Ljungqvist said."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Hundreds of cattle dead; anthrax leaves ranchers scrambling - AP via In-Forum - "An outbreak of livestock anthrax has killed hundreds of cows in North Dakota and South Dakota, and put at least two ranches under quarantine in Texas. North Dakota officials call it the worst such outbreak in state history. Some farmers and ranchers wonder about their future."

* ►August 17, 2005 - Anthrax crisis drill floods school gym - Monticello Times - "The public health departments of Benton, Sherburne, Stearns and Wright Counties and the Minnesota Department of Health held a drill that tested various components of the mass dispensing function of the Strategic National Stockpile Program (SNS)."

►August 17, 2005 - The Big Deal About Smallpox - opinion - www.opinioneditorials.com

* ►August 17, 2005 - Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals' Chief Scientific Officer Awarded $1.2 Million Research Grant by National Institutes of Health - NIH Funded Study to Evaluate Ceragenix's Barrier Repair Technology as Potential Method to Prevent Potentially Fatal Complication of Smallpox Vaccinations in Persons Who Have Had Eczema - Genetic Engineering News

►August 17, 2005 - Dendreon's new CFO sees future in tailored vaccines - Dendreon Corp.'s (DNDN) nontraditional approach to combatting cancer is a big reason why Michelle Burris chose to take the job as the company's new chief financial officer. - MarketWatch

►August 17, 2005 - BioBlower likely to get federal funds - Buffalo News - "A company started by two University at Buffalo researchers is in line to receive $3 million from the federal government to support efforts to produce a device that cleans the air of dangerous biological agents."

►August 17, 2005 - Kicking away at meningitis - Portage Daily Register - "Since proceeds from the Dustin Raley Memorial Kickball Tournament began going to the county to pay for free meningitis immunizations, Health and Human Services has immunized about 550 people against meningitis, according to HHS Public Health Administrator Susan Lorenz."

►August 17, 2005 - Teen in hospital with meningococcal - www.abc.net.au - "Even if their children are vaccinated for meningococcal 'c', the disease is caused by other strains there not covered by that vaccine."

►August 17, 2005 - Meningitis Vaccine Shortage - www.wxow.com - "The supply is so small... many health departments across the state are *completely* out of the vaccine.   The La Crosse county health department will only get 27 percent of what it expects to need for the year."

►August 17, 2005 - Viral Link to Liver Cancer Found - Hepatitis Neighborhood

►August 17, 2005 - State to seek tighter mercury standards than feds - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

►August 17, 2005 - The return of the Aids plague - A global regime where private corporations can enforce intellectual property rights to the detriment of public health is bad news for the millions most vulnerable to HIV/Aids, reports Tom Burgis. - openDemocracy

►August 17, 2005 - HIV/AIDS to become serious health risk in Somalia: UN report - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 17, 2005 - New vaccines to lift sales at Panacea Biotec - Bloomberg via International Herald Tribune

►August 17, 2005 - Vaccine crisis in health hubs - City hospitals are not fully equipped to fight rabies cases. - The Telegraph, India

►August 17, 2005 - HIV-positive patients coinfected with HCV up to 80% more likely to die even with HIV treatment - Aidsmap

►August 17, 2005 - Australia's Biotron Develops Anti-HIV Compound - All Headline News

►August 17, 2005 - China denies nationwide outbreak of anthrax - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 17, 2005 - Federal Grand Jury Indicts Woman For Anthrax Hoax - Woman Faces Felony Charge - www.nbc6.net

►August 16, 2005 - Tracking the vaccinations - Everyone with a stake in preventing childhood disease can benefit from state software.- The News Sentinel via www.fortwayne.com

►August 16, 2005 - Watts removed as HIV/AIDS Administration director - Washington Business Journal

►August 16, 2005 - HIV/Aids Claims About 1,000 Lives Within the Police - Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo) via http://allafrica.com

►August 16, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Reaches Caspian Sea? - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 16, 2005 - Rapid H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Spread to Europe - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 16, 2005 - Bio-era Announces Extension of Avian Influenza Service - Service to be offered through the end of 2005. Will expand to include analysis of corporate pandemic planning and preparedness, emerging vaccine production technologies, in addition to the business and economic impacts of an avian influenza pandemic - press release - Bio-era via PRWeb

►August 16, 2005 - Turning one hepatitis virus against the other - Virus Research via Science and Development Network

►August 16, 2005 - State Officials Steering Clear of Strong Mercury Protections - Process Moves Forward, But Still No Mention of Reduction Targets - press release - PennEnvironment

►August 16, 2005 - Pennsylvania to Develop State-Specific Mercury Regulations to Protect Public Health and Economy - Environmental Quality Board Supports DEP's Recommendation to Initiate Rulemaking Process - press release - Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection via PRNewswire

►August 16, 2005 - Rendell administration gets support for tougher mercury rule - AP via Newsday

►August 15, 2005 - Update: Guidelines and Recommendations Interim Guidance about Avian Influenza A (H5N1) for U.S. Citizens Living Abroad - By National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Center for Disease Control and Prevention - Community Dispatch

* ►August 9, 2005 - Saddam's germ war plot is traced back to one Oxford cow - The Times, UK

* ►August 2005 - Should we question the benefits of influenza vaccination for the elderly? (requires registration) - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com - "The CDC (and the NIH) hastily cobbled together a statement that attempted to put this finding in perspective, and to reassure the public, as well as physicians, that influenza vaccine should still be targeted to those older than age 65."

* ►August 2005 - Researchers defend influenza vaccine study (requires registration) - Researchers say yes, question the benefits of flu vaccine for the elderly, but definitely vaccinate them. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com - "If there is a problem, it should be addressed through research leading to the development of more immunogenic vaccines, improvement of vaccine coverage in undervaccinated frail elderly populations, implementation of strategies for indirect protection through immunization of family and caregivers or through greater use of antiviral drugs."

* ►August 2005 - Enhance the national influenza vaccination strategy (requires registration) - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com - "We suggest, in the article, that to overcome this lack of progress, the national strategy should be enhanced. Evidence from studies of multiple types indicates that significant reductions of mortality in the elderly as a whole can be achieved by expanding the vaccination program to include not only risk groups, but also transmission groups, specifically schoolchildren."

* ►August 2005 - Darwin Chronicles (requires registration) - Darwin Chronicles is a column featuring news about infections in animals, plants and marine life. Because these organisms sometimes jump species – think BSE and avian flu – we think these stories may be of interest to the ID physician. [FDA withdrawals support for enrofloxacin in animals] [Mouse studies of oseltamivir show promise against H5N1 influenza virus] [West Nile vaccine using DNA technology approved for horses] - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

►August 2005 - Clinical guides for HIV testing updated (requires registration) - Task force suggests HIV screening for all pregnant women, not just those at risk. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

►August 2005 - Nosocomial pathogens: growing problem requires prudent use of antibiotics (requires registration) - Number of FDA-approved antibiotics is decreasing each year. Infection control efforts and optimizing antibiotic use are the only tools available. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

►August 2005 - Necrotizing fasciitis infections caused by CA-MRSA noted in L.A. (requires registration) - Treatment for MRSA cases occurring in L.A. should include antibiotics that are predictably active against this pathogen. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

►August 2005 - Hemoglobin C properties better able to fend off malaria than other types (requires registration) - Malaria proteins did not stick to the surface of hemoglobin type C cells. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

►August 2005 - HIV transmission highest in early stages of infection (requires registration) - Measures such as partner notification, counseling services and novel biologicals should be developed specifically for people with early HIV infection. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

►August 2005 - Fluoroquinolones and QT prolongation research continues (requires registration) - Prolongation of the QT interval is associated with potentially life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias such as torsades de pointes. - www.infectiousdiseasenews.com

►September 2005 - Specific oral tolerance induction with food in children: transient or persistent effect on food allergy? - journal article (Allergy)

►September 2005 - An analysis of the factors influencing the paediatrician-parents relationship: the importance of the socio-demographic characteristics of the mothers - journal article (Child: Care, Health and Development)

►August 22, 2005 - I Shouldn't Have Had To Beg for a Prognosis - With all the conflicting reports on Doug's health, I didn't know if he was holding steady or dying. - Newsweek - "If specialists are uncomfortable discussing anything outside their area of expertise—perhaps because of a fear of lawsuits or because they haven't had time to familiarize themselves with the facts—then the hospital needs to designate someone to fill in the information gaps. I had to do this myself by gleaning tips from sympathetic doctors and nurses, and learning how to decipher medical jargon. Deep into the Information Age, why is this still a do-it-yourself process?"

►August 17, 2005 - Varicella Vaccine, Cost-effectiveness Analyses, and Vaccination Policy - journal article (JAMA)

►August 17, 2005 - Large European study finds HIV/HCV coinfected patients do not have an increased risk of HIV disease progression - Aidsmap

►August 17, 2005 - Possible polio case in Khyber Agency - Daily Times, Pakistan

►August 17, 2005 - Rotary 'Polio Plus' campaign - Grenfell Record and Bland Advertiser via http://grenfell.yourguide.com.au

►August 17, 2005 - Kicking the cough - press release - Asthma and Respiratory Foundation of New Zealand via www.scoop.co.nz

►August 17, 2005 - Influenza outbreak swamps doctors - Fiji Times

* ►August 17, 2005 - Acambis confident over billion-dollar vaccine bid - The Scotsman - "The British vaccine-maker said its MVA3000 smallpox vaccine could form the basis of an emergency stockpile of up to 80 million doses that the US government is seeking to build."

* ►August 16, 2005 - US seeks stockpile of safer smallpox vaccine - CIDRAP News - "The US government has called for proposals to supply up to 80 million doses of a weakened smallpox vaccine to protect people for whom the conventional vaccine is too risky, according to two vaccine manufacturers...Acambis and Bavarian Nordic said the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has requested proposals to supply the attenuated vaccine called modified vaccinia Ankara, or MVA. Both companies have developed versions of MVA."

* ►August 16, 2005 - U.S. Government Issues RFP-III for the Purchase of 20 Million Doses of MVA-Based Smallpox Vaccine - press release - Bavarian Nordic A/S via U.S. Newswire - "With this tender, the U.S. Government has committed itself to protect the 25 percent of the population who cannot safely be given the current smallpox vaccines. The world market for a safe smallpox vaccine has now been opened, since governmental authorities in the larger European countries will naturally undertake a similar commitment as the American authorities."

* ►August 16, 2005 - US seeks massive stock of smallpox vaccine - Reuters AlertNet

* ►August 16, 2005 - Acambis says US to buy smallpox vaccine - Reuters UK - "The United States has issued a tender for up to 80 million doses of a weakened form of smallpox vaccine, vaccine-maker Acambis said on Tuesday."

►August 16, 2005 - Acambis Gets A Negative In Govt Vaccine Plan - New Ratings

►August 16, 2005 - Nomura Retains Buy Rating On Acambis >ACAM - New Ratings

* ►August 16, 2005 - Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Development Accelerated at Generex Biotechnology with Hire of Accomplished Senior Scientist - Novel Vaccine Technology Boosts T Helper Cell Responses to Asian Bird Flu Influenza, to Aid Some Existing Vaccines and for Use as a Stand-Alone Vaccine in Developing Countries - press release - Generex Biotechnology Corporation via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►August 16, 2005 - We must prepare for any pandemic - editorial - Taipei Times

►August 16, 2005 - Bird flu virus confirmed in six Altai districts - Itar-Tass

►August 16, 2005 - Bird flu outbreak in Kazakhstan - RIA Novosti

►August 16, 2005 - No humans infected with bird flu in Russia - Interfax Russia

►August 16, 2005 - EU keeps eye on Russia bird flu but unfazed so far - Reuters AlertNet

►August 16, 2005 - International Epizootic Bureau to help Kazakhstan fight with bird flu - Kazinform

►August 16, 2005 - Vaccine makers spread wings to help save millions (subscription required for full article) - Financial Times - "At its factory in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, Sanofi-Pasteur, a division of the French-based group Sanofi-Aventis, has received one of the largest orders of eggs ever placed by the US government."

* ►August 16, 2005 - Flu pandemic could trigger second Great Depression, brokerage warns clients - Canadian Press via www.canada.com

►August 16, 2005 - Avian flu poses pandemic potential - Our position is: Increased preparedness is needed to deal with possibility of a global pandemic. - editorial - Indianapolis Star

* ►August 16, 2005 - 'Pox parties' reach Nelson - Some Nelson parents are arranging "pox parties" to deliberately infect their children with measles, mumps and chickenpox. - The Nelson Mail via www.stuff.co.nz

* ►August 16, 2005 - Chickenpox Vaccine Cuts Cost of Varicella Care - MedPage Today - "'The study shows the profound effect we have had with our varicella vaccine,' Dr. Davis said in an interview...But he said the study still doesn't give a complete picture. 'We don't actually have the mechanisms to adequately measure the full extent of the costs and benefits of our vaccine programs,' he said...Understanding the costs and benefits of vaccine programs is important when decisions are made to recommend or not to recommend new vaccines, Dr Davis said, adding, 'costs are just as much a part of vaccines as their benefits.'"

►August 16, 2005 - Chickenpox Vaccine Cuts Hospitalizations, Saves Money - Vaccine saves millions compared to prevaccination period, researchers say. - HealthDay via Dr. Koop

►August 16, 2005 - New Vaccine to Combat Shingles (requires registration) - Press-Enterprise

* ►August 16, 2005 - UMass has partner in vaccine search - The Republican via www.masslive.com - "UMass researchers have been working on finding a vaccine for more than 20 years. Last year they tested a preliminary vaccine on a mouse model and it was effective. The next step will be to produce the vaccine in bulk and prove that it works both in animal and human models. Stuart estimates it will take another 5-10 years to achieve an approved vaccine."

* ►August 16, 2005 - U-Mass-BioVeris join forces to find chlamydia vaccine - AP via Eyewitness News - "U-Mass and BioVeris Corporation of Maryland have entered into an option agreement that will give the company exclusive patent rights to a vaccine candidate. In addition, the company has pledged up to 600-thousand dollars in U-Mass research to develop the vaccine."

* ►August 16, 2005 - Hawaii Biotech's West Nile Vaccine Shows 100% Protection in Durability Study; Third Study Confirms Vaccine Candidate's Protective Efficacy - press release - Hawaii Biotech, Inc. via Business Wire

* ►August 16, 2005 - Crucell and DSM Announce PER.C6 Licensing Agreement with Chiron - Primezone via COMTEX via MarketWatch - "This new agreement allows Chiron to evaluate the PER.C6(R) cell line for use in the manufacturing of Chiron's prophylactic hepatitis C vaccine, which is currently in phase I clinical trials."

►August 16, 2005 - Pharmexa: Promising Preliminary Results with Breast Cancer Vaccine - Primezone via http://interestalert.com - "The first phase II trial tests the HER-2 Protein AutoVaca vaccine formulated in Alhydrogel adjuvant. The second Phase II trial will test the same vaccine in combination with QS-21, a proprietary adjuvant Pharmexa has licensed from Antigenics."

►August 16, 2005 - University professor pins hope on drug to fight MRSA - Smaller companies and academics plug the research gap - The Guardian,UK

►August 16, 2005 - Dangers for kids in alternative cures - The Australian

►August 16, 2005 - Singapore BioOne Co Gets Deal To Develop GSK Vaccine - Dow Jones Newswire via Yahoo! Singapore

►August 16, 2005 - Visceral Leishmaniasis: Successful Vaccine Trial In Dogs - Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement via ScienceDaily

►August 16, 2005 - Japan Donates 5 Mln.USD for Prevention of Polio, Malaria - The Ethiopian Herald (Addis Ababa) via http://allafrica.com

►August 16, 2005 - DRC-Zambia: WHO calls to step up polio surveillance along borders - IRIN via Reuters AlertNet

►August 16, 2005 - Suspected FMD outbreak in Pandamatenga - Francistown: The department of animal health and production has reported a suspected outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Pandamatenga in the Chobe-Sub District. - Mmegi

►August 16, 2005 - Free vaccination services for Muslim pilgrims - Kazinform

* ►August 16, 2005 - Battling whooping cough - The Journal News - "Dr. Walter Orenstein, associate director of the Emory Vaccine Center in Atlanta and former director of the National Immunization Program at the CDC, supported the new vaccine at an American Medical Association media briefing Thursday...'A major problem with regard to adolescents is waning immunity,' Orenstein says. 'The goal is to boost that immunity.'"

►August 16, 2005 - Ouch! Immunization time for children - Durango Herald

►August 16, 2005 - Immunize now for the 2005-6 school year - Important new requirements; Clinics throughout King County - King County

* ►August 16, 2005 - Kids turned away at vaccine clinics (includes video) - www.kvue.com

►August 16, 2005 - Medicine Makeover - New Vaccines Available for Older Children - Long Island Press

►August 16, 2005 - Now, cheaper, less painful vaccines - Express News Service via Pune Newsline via http://cities.expressindia.com - "Serum Institute of India Limited has launched its combination vaccine Q-Vac for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP) and hepatitis B."

►August 16, 2005 - Genes play role in autism, researchers find - "Off switches" in the brain's neurons aren't able to control nerve impulses, study shows. - Contra Costa Times via Springfield News-Leader

►August 16, 2005 - 'Autistic' lecturer speaks out - Evening News via The Scotsman

* ►August 16, 2005 - Autism: the Mercury Trail - New Statesman via RedNova

►August 16, 2005 - MPCA/Mercury missteps need review - editorial (requires registration) - Star Tribune
 
►August 16, 2005 - State Calls the Shots for New College Students - Florida law recommends two vaccinations for those who will live on campus. - The Ledger

►August 16, 2005 - This shot aimed at child killer - opinion - Indianapolis Star

►August 16, 2005 - Parents Scramble to Get Students Vaccinated - www.wlns.com

►August 16, 2005 - CDC advises that teens, adolescents get meningitis vaccine (requires registration) - www.king5.com - "Given that the newness of the latest vaccine, the manufacturer is having trouble keeping up with demand. In response, many clinics are currently giving first priority to college freshmen."

►August 16, 2005 - Detroit Zoo Hosting Vaccine Shot Party - School-Aged Children Encouraged To Get Immunized - www.clickondetroit.com

►August 16, 2005 - Westover's bias is showing - letters - St. Paul Pioneer Press via www.twincities.com - "The fact that the president of the Institute of Medicine found it necessary to appear on television to debunk the thimerosal hypothesis is not a sign that the idea is credible, but rather a sad indicator of a lack of scientific sophistication among Americans. We love a good conspiracy theory, even when it's a tale concocted by professional expert witnesses, bought into by distraught parents and aired by the more gullible of the press."

►August 16, 2005 - ND anthrax outbreak grows - In-Forum

►August 16, 2005 - Anthrax hits Rock Lake - CP via Edmonton Sun

►August 16, 2005 - Anthrax prompts cancellation of South Dakota fair event - AP via In-Forum

►August 16, 2005 - 70 new HIV cases reported in HK in Q2 - Xinhuanet via China View

* ►August 15, 2005 - Improving influenza, pneumococcal polysaccharide, and hepatitis B vaccination coverage among adults aged <65 years at high risk. A report on recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services. - Task Force on Community Preventive Services, MMWR via www.guideline.gov

* ►August 15, 2005 - Idaho probes sudden deaths from rare brain disease - Reuters via Health Yahoo! - "As word of this latest death spread on Monday, local and federal health experts sifted through clues about an illness different from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease. "Five (cases) in one valley is pretty serious," Sue Skinner, Marjorie's daughter in law, said in an interview. "It's a grave concern in our family." The mystery has deepened in recent weeks. Only at the end of May did local health officials see a second elderly woman die of the incurable disease involving a malformed protein, or prion, that kills brain cells. After that, they learned of three other suspected cases, including a CJD death in February that was reported only last month."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Drugmakers Are Changing Channels All those "Ask your doctor if it's right for you" ads on TV haven't delivered - Business Week - "According to TNS, drugmakers shelled out $56 million for Internet ads in the first five months of this year, up from $49 million last year. That figure, though, doesn't include deals with search engines to give drug company Web sites preferential placement when someone does a search on a specific disease. But more companies are turning to such techniques. Pfizer Inc. (PFE ), for example, struck a deal with WebMD Corp. (HLTH ) that guarantees that when anyone searches for information on migraines they get referred to a Pfizer-sponsored site on the condition. There they can retrieve information on Pfizer's migraine drug, Relpax."

* ►August 15, 2005 - White Paper Released: Sales Force Effectiveness for Pharmaceuticals - the whole solution -  The Chalfont Project via www.pharmiweb.com - "However, physician access is still an issue, public trust of the pharma industry is still low, sales effectiveness in Europe in particular is still difficult to measure, sales force behaviours are still not managed effectively and boards still want more from less. The white paper covers the following opportunities that a holistic solution offers:"

►August 15, 2005 - Nepal to Launch Anti-Tetanus Vaccination Program - Xinhua News Agency via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►August 15, 2005 - Immune system more concerned with damage detected than foreign invaders, such as viruses - A well-respected researcher who is now a chief of an immunology laboratory of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has rocked the boat in the past few years for the experts in the understanding of the autoimmune system. - Medical Research News

►August 15, 2005 - Animals warn of human health hazards in new 'Canary Database' - Yale University via www.eurekalert.org

►August 15, 2005 - Collaboration Key to Overcoming Obstacles to Drug Development - New AAMC/FDA Report Highlights Partnership Opportunities - www.pharmalive.com

►August 15, 2005 - Refugees start from the bottom, possess high hopes - Lexington Herald-Leader via www.kentucky.com - "A needle in the arm capped a day of beginnings for Christian Swen-Peters. Earlier in the day the 5-year-old took his first LexTran bus ride. He passed his first eye exam. A tuberculosis skin test would be one of his first health screenings."

►August 15, 2005 - Simple saliva test may make it easier to determine your risk of disease - Tribune Media Services via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

►August 15, 2005 - e-Science methods reveal new insights into antibiotic resistance - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council via www.eurekalert.org

►August 15, 2005 - Breastfeeding bill is pending in state legislature - Sentinel & Enterprise - "Breastfeeding advocates say Massachusetts is among the worst states in the nation when it comes to protecting nursing mothers in public and the workplace."

►August 15, 2005 - Health Highlights: - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay via Zwire National News via Pawtucket Times

►August 15, 2005 - Gilead and Achillion Announce Initiation of Phase I Clinical Trial Evaluating GS 9132 for the Treatment of Hepatitis C - press release - Gilead Sciences via Business Wire

►August 15, 2005 - Genomic Profiling Systems awarded $4.1 million to develop anthrax test - Genomic Profiling Systems is set to receive a three-year $4.1 million phase II grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to develop a testing platform for rapid and ultra-sensitive diagnosis of anthrax. - Pharmaceutical Business Review

►August 15, 2005 - Animal Anthrax Cases Cause Cattle Raisers To Act - www.keloland.com

►August 15, 2005 - Roche repeats H2 Tamiflu sales forecasts - Reuters

►August 15, 2005 - FDA To Share Confidential Information on Generic HIV/AIDS Drug Approvals With WHO; Deal Might Speed Drug Distribution - Boston Globe via www.kaisernetwork.org

►August 15, 2005 - Mukanga Calls for Mandatory HIV Testing - The Post (Lusaka) via http://allafrica.com

►August 15, 2005 - Study Says Link With Meth, HIV Infections Exists - CBS 5 San Francisco

►August 14, 2005 - Clinic may help HIV men have kids - The Nation, Thailand

* ►August 14, 2005 - Group studies vaccine priming - Canadian Press via Edmonton Sun - "By giving this group a single shot of a newly developed H5N1 vaccine, researchers hope to start puzzling out answers to two key questions: How long can the immune system remember novel strains of avian influenza? And can priming the body's protective force to fight a previously unseen flu virus arm it to later battle a related pandemic strain?"

* ►August 14, 2005 - A vaccine a day.. - Lebanon Daily News

* ►August 14, 2005 - Dentists prepare to be part of civil defense - "We're scientists," one says about training to help in crises - The New York Times via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

* ►August 14, 2005 - Vital Job Stats - Concord Monitor - "Medical assistants cannot diagnose a patient or write a prescription, although they can give patients immunizations, a qualification that separates them from nursing assistants. Medical assistants are not licensed, and there is no New Hampshire law that requires them to receive certification, although many do."

►August 14, 2005 - Gluten the enemy for those with celiac disease - The Capital

►August 14, 2005 - Scientists link vascular gene to Alzheimer's disease - University of Rochester Medical Center via http://www.eurekalert.org

►August 14, 2005 - Breathe free with herbs - www.thestar.com.my

* ►August 13, 2005 - Feds seeking suspension in anthrax lawsuit - The Palm Beach Post - "Federal attorneys last month asked U.S. District Judge Daniel T.K. Hurley to temporarily suspend any actions in a lawsuit against the federal government filed by the widow of the nation's first anthrax victim while they appeal the case."

►August 13, 2005 - Drugmakers Balk at Rebates - Firms Say Pentagon Isn't Owed Discounts on Individual Purchases (requires registration or subscription) - The Washington Post

* ►August 12, 2005 - Blumenthal Joins Battle Over Anthrax Vaccine - The Hartford Courant - "In his arguments, Blumenthal says the vaccine has never been properly licensed because it has not been proved safe or effective for humans through at least two human trials."

* ►August 12, 2005 - ABC 7 Medical: Autism Treatment (includes video) - ABC 7 News - "Dr. Mary Megson :"We're seeing children all over the country improve as we pull heavy metals from their body-some of the children."

►August 12, 2005 - Anthrax detectors arriving at smaller Postal Service centers - AP via Lexington Herald-Leader

►August 12, 2005 - A giant among viruses could delay ageing and the effects of terminal diseases - AlphaGalileo via www.medicalnewstoday.com

►August 12, 2005 - European Medicines Agency Consulting on a Draft Guideline on Pharmacovigilance for Medicines Used in Children - EMEA via www.pharmalive.com

►August 12, 2005 - State hit on plans to fight diseases Strategies haven't been updated for years, auditor says - San Francisco Chronicle

►August 12, 2005 - Discovery explains green tea's health benefits - One of the beverage's ingredients blocks a protein found at high levels in cancer cells - The Medical Post via www.macleans.ca

►August 11, 2005 - Asian Countries to Set Up Bird Flu Drug, Vaccine Stockpile - Dow Jones Newswires via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►August 11, 2005 - How lepto is transmitted - The Times of India - "Leptospirosis is one of the world’s most common zoonoses, but is a relatively rare bacterial infection in humans. A zoonosis is any infectious disease that can be transmitted from animals, both wild and domestic, to humans. Some of the most well-known zoonoses are anthrax, brucellosis, rabies, salmonellosis, SARs."

* ►August 10, 2005 - Chronic diseases account for 70% of all U.S. deaths - Billings Gazette

* ►August 10, 2005 - Consumer Reports Medical Guide Advises Patients to be Better Educated, Know Their Options - Consumer Reports Medical Guide via www.webwire.com

►August 10, 2005 - Hyperbaric medicine center marks recent milestone of 10,000 'dives' - Patients' wounds heal faster with pressure treatment - Houston Chronicle

* ►August 9, 2005 - Drug Makers Object to U.S. Plan for Early Warnings - Reuters - "Such information is ... not likely to accomplish anything other than confusion among physicians and the public and creation of irrational fears about the safety of drugs on the list," the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America(PhRMA) said in written comments to the FDA."

* ►August 8, 2005 - ICU Patients at Significant Risk for Adverse Events and Serious Errors - www.ahrq.gov

* ►August 7, 2005 - Drug researchers leak secrets to Wall St. - The Seattle Times - "A Seattle Times investigation found at least 26 cases in which doctors have leaked confidential and critical details of their ongoing drug research to Wall Street firms. The practice involves doctors at top research universities from UCLA to the University of Pennsylvania, and powerful financial firms including Citigroup Smith Barney, UBS and Wachovia Securities. In 24 of the 26 cases, the firms issued reports to select clients with detailed information obtained from doctors involved in confidential studies. The reports advised clients whether to buy or sell a drug stock."

* ►August 4, 2005 - Officials: County key in figuring out MS - Carlisle Township -- The large number of people in Lorain County with multiple sclerosis can play a key role nationwide in helping to determine what factors cause the disease, federal and local health officials said yesterday. - The Morning Journal

* ►August 3, 2005 - 700, 000 Flu Shots Bought by Ill. Expired (requires registration or subscription) - AP via The New York Times - "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ordered at least 610,000 flu shots last October. The state agreed to pay about $2.5 million for 256,000 flu doses. The rest would have gone to New Mexico and the two cities. But the FDA withheld its approval, saying it could not guarantee the safety of the shots. The governor accused the FDA of ''acting as a shill for the big pharmaceutical companies.''

* ►August 1, 2005 - Rubella, Rubeola, and Mumps in Pregnant Women - Susceptibilities and Strategies for Testing and Vaccinating - journal article (Obstetrics & Gynecology)

* ►August 2005 - Tuberculosis, a re-emergent disease - journal article (European Journal of Radiology)

* ►August 2005 - Viewpoint: Are doctors responsible for the increase in allergic diseases? - journal article (Pediatric Allergy and Immunology)

►August 2005 - Incidence of Brain Creatine Transporter Deficiency in Males with Developmental Delay Referred for Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging. - journal article (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics)

►August 2005 - Thiamine Deficiency in Infants: MR Findings in the Brain - journal article (American Journal of Neuroradiology)

►August 2005 - Prevalence and Early Identification of Language Delays Among At-Risk Three Year Olds. - journal article (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics)

►August 2005 - The prevalence of peanut sensitization and the association to pollen sensitization in a cohort of unselected adolescents - The Odense Adolescence Cohort Study on Atopic Diseases and Dermatitis (TOACS) - journal article (Pediatric Allergy and Immunology)

►August 2005 - How should we evaluate and treat constipation in infants and children? - journal article (The Journal of Family Practice)

►August 2005 - Parental Emotional Support and Subsequent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems Among Children. - journal article (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics)

►August 2005 - NIP's Immunization Works! Newsletter - CDC

* ►July 17, 2005 - Recipe for extinction - Criminal governments, corrupt media, comatose public: the perfect combination to permanently eradicate the human species - Lewis News - "Nobody owns their homes, their cars; even their educations and careers are in significant hock to the banks. You regard your marriage, for those of you who still have one of those, as inauthentic without the sanction of the state. Even your children are not your property; they must be given poisonous vaccinations at birth or public health fascists will take them from you and claim you are unfit parents. This is law in a world made mad and turned upside down."

* ►September 1, 2005 - Presence of Multiple Copies of the Capsulation b Locus in Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Type b (Hib) Strains Isolated from Children with Hib Conjugate Vaccine Failure - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases) - "To verify whether amplification is involved in vaccine failure, the number of copies of the locus was determined by Southern blotting in 90 strains from children with true vaccine failure (TVF) between 1993 and 1999 and in 139 strains from unvaccinated children (50 collected between 1993 and 1999 and 89 collected between 1991 and 1992, before routine immunization was introduced)."

* ►September 1, 2005 - More on RotaShield and Intussusception: The Role of Age at the Time of Vaccination - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►September 1, 2005 - Rotavirus Vaccines: Targeting the Developing World - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases) - "RotaShield (Wyeth-Ayerst), the first rotavirus vaccine licensed in the United States, was withdrawn after 9 months because of a rare association of the vaccine with the development of intussusception. In the developing world, this vaccine could still have had a measurable effect, because the benefits of preventing deaths due to rotavirus disease would have been substantially greater than the rare risk of intussusception."

* ►September 1, 2005 - Development of a Pentavalent Rotavirus Vaccine against Prevalent Serotypes of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►September 1, 2005 - Serotype Diversity and Reassortment between Human and Animal Rotavirus Strains: Implications for Rotavirus Vaccine Programs - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Evaluation of RIX4414, A Live, Attenuated Rotavirus Vaccine, in a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Trial Involving 2464 Singaporean Infants - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Development of Candidate Rotavirus Vaccines Derived from Neonatal Strains in India - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Anthrax Lethal Toxin Paralyzes Neutrophil Actin-Based Motility - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Modulation of Vaccine-Induced Immune Responses to Hepatitis C Virus in Rhesus Macaques by Altering Priming before Adenovirus Boosting - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Incidence and Burden of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in Japan, as Estimated from a Prospective Sentinel Hospital Study - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Highly Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Sensitive Transgenic Mice Confirm the Essential Restriction of Infectivity to the Nervous System in Clinically Diseased Cattle - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Virulence in Mice of Pneumococcal Clonal Types with Known Invasive Disease Potential in Humans - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Population Dynamics of Nasal Strains of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Their Relation to Community-Associated Disease Activity - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 1, 2005 - Evidence That Interferon- Plays a Protective Role during Cerebral Malaria - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►September 2005 - Hacking the Immune System - HIV is a major global health problem - MSDN Magazine

►September 2005 - Hypersensitivity reactions to paracetamol in children: a study of 25 cases. - journal article (Allergy)

►August 16, 2005 - Supply of Anti-HIV Drugs Falls Short - The Moscow Times

►August 16, 2005 - Angola hit by polio - Bangkok Post

►August 16, 2005 - Deadly bird flu virus is closing in on Europe - The Times, UK

►August 16, 2005 - German order gives Biota a boost (requires registration) - www.theage.com.au

►August 16, 2005 - Forgotten generation - The Scotsman - "The Health Protection Agency is warning school leavers to make sure they are fully immunised against mumps following recent outbreaks in colleges and universities.

►August 16, 2005 - Crocodile blood may yield new antibiotics - www.abc.net.au

* ►August 15, 2005 - The Age of Autism: Case 1 revisited - UPI via Washington Times - "The first person ever diagnosed with autism lived in a small town in Mississippi. He still does...'Donald T.' is now 71, and after a 'miraculous response' to medical treatment at age 12, he appears to have recovered significantly since his original diagnosis as a 5-year-old."

►August 15, 2005 - Delivery of Dendritic Cells Engineered to Secrete IFN-{alpha} into Central Nervous System Tumors Enhances the Efficacy of Peripheral Tumor Cell Vaccines: Dependence on Apoptotic Pathways - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

* ►August 15, 2005 - FDA cuts Merck hepatitis A vaccine approved age - Reuters

* ►August 15, 2005 - FDA Approves Expanded Age Indication for Merck's Hepatitis A Vaccine, to Children as Young as 12 Months of Age and Abbott Receives FDA Clearance to Market FreeStyle Connect(TM) - news release - Financial News USA - "Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved VAQTA® (hepatitis A vaccine, inactivated) for use in children 12 months of age and older. VAQTA is now the first and only hepatitis A vaccine that can be used in children as young as 12 months of age. Previously, VAQTA was approved for use in people two years of age and older."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Therapy may not be necessary for asymptomatic autoimmune hepatitis - "Our data suggest that it may be safe to follow asymptomatic patients with a strategy to institute immunosuppressive treatment if symptoms develop over time" - RxPG News

►August 15, 2005 - Merck gets expanded FDA Vaqta approval - AP via BusinessWeek

►August 15, 2005 - Hepatitis A Becomes 'Widespread' - News Sentinel via RedNova

* ►August 15, 2005 - GSK's, Merck's cervical cancer vaccines may be most effective in Europe - AFX via Forbes - "Vaccines being developed to prevent cervical cancer by drug makers including GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Merck & Co may be more effective in Europe than sub-Saharan Africa, a study published in medical journal The Lancet has concluded, due to the varying prevalence of virus types that cause the disease...GSK has already started to talk to governments and health organisations about vaccination programmes."

►August 15, 2005 - Proportion of High-Risk HPV Infections Preventable by Vaccine May Vary by Region - The Lancet via Newswise

* ►August 15, 2005 - Flu Fear for the Birds - op-ed column (requires registration) - New York Post - "One my patients got in touch last week to ask if she should keep stores of Tamiflu, an anti-flu drug, on hand at all times. Since we're at least four months from flu season, I understood she was concerned about bird flu. 'Forget it,' I advised. 'There isn't a single case here.'  Unfortunately, that fact doesn't stop Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, from overinflated talk of 'total preparedness.'...This is a potential health threat, not an actual one. The bird flu has to mutate before it can affect humans — and historically it only makes that jump about once every 50 years."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Bird-flu vaccine not up to scratch - Nature via www.abs-cbnnews.com - "Results from earlier trials suggest that low doses might work in combination with an ingredient called an adjuvant. These are chemicals that seem to irritate the immune system, boosting response...Fedson has long argued that this is the correct approach, and that the NIH should have tested adjuvants from the outset. But it has not yet done so because regulatory agencies treat adjuvanted vaccines as new products, and so require a lengthy approval process."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Bird flu: in favour of contingency plans - The Lancet via Science and Development Network

►August 15, 2005 - Bird flu reaches Russia's Urals - Bird flu has spread west to a sixth region in Russia, triggering the slaughter of hundreds more birds. - BBC

►August 15, 2005 - Bird flu deaths in another district in Chelyabinsk region - Interfax Russia

►August 15, 2005 - Russian bird flu outbreak advances toward Europe - Reuters

* ►August 15, 2005 - Russian Doctors Dismiss Information of Human Contracting Bird Flu in Siberia - www.mosnews.com

►August 15, 2005 - Journalist hospitalized in Siberia with suspected bird flu - RIA Novosti

►August 15, 2005 - Bird flu may spread to southern Russia - physician - RIA Novosti

►August 15, 2005 - Russia loses over 10,000 domestic, wild birds to flu - ministry - Interfax Russia

►August 15, 2005 - Two large regions in Western Siberia hit hardest by bird flu - RIA Novosti

►August 15, 2005 - Bird flu affects ten Altai districts with population of 30,000 - Itar-Tass

►August 15, 2005 - Another Call For a Manhattan Project on Infectious Diseases - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 15, 2005 - US, Viet Nam cooperate in bird flu control - Viet Nam News Agency

►August 15, 2005 - Vietnam to start mass poultry vaccination next month - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 15, 2005 - About ID Biomedical - press release - ID Biomedical via Canada NewsWire

►August 15, 2005 - ID Biomedical posts wider Q2 loss of $32.5 million compared to year-ago $10.9M - CP via National Post via www.canada.com

►August 15, 2005 - WHO Hails Obasanjo On Immunisation Programme - This Day (Lagos) via http://allafrica.com

* ►August 15, 2005 - Polio eradication plan will miss 2005 goal for stopping transmission: WHO - CP via via www.canada.com - "That admission will come as little surprise to those charting polio's recent rapid rampage through a number of countries that had previously stopped its spread. For months, experts have been predicting that the reintroduction of polio to Indonesia, for instance, would force the need to reset the goalpost."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Polio cases reach 219 in Indonesia; third Jakarta resident stricken - AP/CP via www.canada.com

* ►August 15, 2005 - Recovery slow for possible West Nile virus victim - Greenhills woman's polio-like symptom is unusual for such cases - Cincinnati Enquirer

* ►August 15, 2005 - West Nile virus victim's family angry at county, state officials - Lodi News-Sentinel - "She said she wonders if Rodgers' death was California's fourth, as state officials maintain. Could deaths caused by pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases been a result of West Nile as well, Pam Shands asked."

►August 15, 2005 - Los Angeles Launches Air Campaign On Mosquitos To Stop West Nile - AP via KGO TV

►August 15, 2005 - Vaccine available to combat meningococcal - Neosho Daily News

►August 15, 2005 - Sixty-one people infected with meningitis this year - Prague Daily Monitor

►August 15, 2005 - New lab research may help those deafened by immune system attack - Study may one day lead to test that could show which patients may be helped by immediate steroid treatment - University of Michigan Health System via www.eurekalert.org

* ►August 15, 2005 - Vaccine needed for dengue, says health official - Inquirer News Service via http://news.inq7.net

►August 15, 2005 - Nepal to launch anti-tetanus vaccination program - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 15, 2005 - Hope on way for sufferers from shingles - London Free Press via www.canoe.ca - "There is hope, however. This summer, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported on the latest phase of a U.S. Shingles Prevention Study in which an investigational shingles vaccine, produced by Merck & Co., Inc., and designed to prevent the activation of the latent virus, had been tested in more than 38,500 men and women age 60 and over."

►August 15, 2005 - How important are vaccines and how often do you have to get them? - Neosho Daily News

►August 15, 2005 - State law makes vaccine mandatory - Crawfordsville Journal Review

►August 15, 2005 - Great child immunisation stats - Parkes Champion Post via http://parkes.yourguide.com.au

►August 15, 2005 - Last minute vaccines offered for students - www.kvue.com

►August 15, 2005 - Dozens of families wait for immunizations - www.kristv.com

►August 15, 2005 - Poor Care for Elderly Linked to Early Death - HealthDay via RedNova

►August 15, 2005 - Family teaches playtime to counteract son's autism - Method focuses on helping child build relationships (requires registration) - Ventura County Star - "According to the San Diego-based Autism Research Institute, the number of children diagnosed with autism has shot up since the early 1990s from 5 cases in every 10,000 children to about 60 cases for every 10,000 children."

►August 15, 2005 - Don't assume it's autism (requires registration or subscription) - Kansas City Star

►August 15, 2005 - Palm Beach County parents criticize plans for disabled students as too vague - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

►August 15, 2005 - Area to get shot at reducing pertussis - New vaccine for youths may cut spread of disease - Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter via www.wisinfo.com - "Boostrix, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, boosts immunity against pertussis, commonly called whooping cough. It is now available at Aurora Health Care clinics in Manitowoc, Two Rivers and Valders...The cost is $81, which is generally covered by insurance, according to Aurora spokesman Michael Spofford. If no insurance is available, the cost is $68.85."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Chemical 'Key' Found to Virus-Induced Asthma - Chemical Messenger May Reveal if Asthma Attack Is Due to Allergy or Virus - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine via WebMD

►August 15, 2005 - Russia reports suspected case of anthrax - Reuters AlertNet - "Two Russian butchers in the southern Siberian region of Altai were suspected of having contracted anthrax on Monday after slaughtering an infected cow, local media reported."

►August 15, 2005 - Animal Anthrax Cancels Brown County Fair Event - www.keloland.com

►August 15, 2005 - Rabies vaccine to fall from the sky - Broadcast News via National Post via www.canada.com - "People should not touch the baits, but if the vaccine inside the bait is touched, a doctor should be called as a precaution."

►August 15, 2005 - Airdrop for rabies vaccines scheduled - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

►August 15, 2005 - Syphillis epidemic will spread, report authors warn - transcript - The World Today via www.abc.net.au - "A report in the Medical Journal of Australia shows there's been a 10-fold increase in syphilis in the last five years, mostly among HIV-positive men."

►August 15, 2005 - Cuban Pharmaceutical Company Meets International Quality Standards - AIN via Cuban News Agency

►August 15, 2005 - BiodefenseStocks.com Reports: Cryogenic Approach Advances Hazardous Material and Vaccine Shipping Technology - Cryogenic technology utilized in development of one-way disposable shipping for biochemical samples - press release - www.BiodefenseStocks.com (BS) via Business Wire

►August 15, 2005 - Pfizer to acquire privately held Bioren - AP via BusinessWeek

►August 15, 2005 - LaVoie Group Adds Infectious Disease Drug Developer ELUSYS to its Client List - press release - LaVoie Strategic Communications Group, Inc. via PRNewswire via Yahoo!

* ►August 15, 2005 - Mass held for convicted Bulgarian nurses in Libya and HIV infected children - Bulgarian News Network - "Libya’s Supreme Court is expected to rule on Nov. 15 on an appeal by the medics against death sentences a lower court in the city of Benghazi has handed them on charges of deliberately injecting more than 400 local children with blood contaminated with the HIV virus that causes AIDS."

►August 15, 2005 - When treatment gets tricky - Mutating virus, co-infections dodge medication, wreak havoc on body - News Sentinel via www.knoxnews.com

►August 13, 2005 - Sun Struck: Data suggest skin cancer epidemic looms - Science News

►August 13, 2005 - Can Chocolate Fight Diabetes, Too? - Science News

►August 13, 2005 - From the August 10, 1935, issue - Science News

►August 12, 2005 - Canadian MP misrepresents data - Neuroscientist says his studies of a company's nutraceutical did not show the results claimed - The Scientist

►August 12, 2005 - Educating Physicians on Controversies in Health (EPoCH) - www.ama-assn.org

►August 12, 2005 - Isoniazid Hepatotoxicity Revisited - journal article (Journal Watch) - "However, recent guidelines from CDC and the American Thoracic Society state that tuberculin testing should focus on people at risk for exposure or reactivation and that "a decision to test is a decision to treat," regardless of age. Thus, updated estimates of age-specific INH hepatotoxicity are of interest."

►August 12, 2005 - Back to School, Back to Germs - HealthDay News via Health Yahoo! - "American children miss 22 million days of school each year due to colds, flu and other infections, experts say. But that statistic should come as no surprise to the nation's teachers: In a new survey, seven out of 10 say their classrooms aren't regularly disinfected by custodians, and more than half say they spend their own money and time ridding their classrooms of germs."

►August 12, 2005 - Use of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders Varies Widely - Ivanhoe

* ►August 11, 2005 - Tick bites cause more than Lyme - 2 other diseases show sharp rise - Poughkeepsie Journal - "We don't know if these bacteria and parasites are mutating into more virulent strains, or if there is some resistance developing because we treat so many of these infections in the area," Stokes said. "We're not sure what's going on."

* ►August 11, 2005 - Pollution exposure linked to childhood cancer - Reuters via Health Yahoo!

►August 11, 2005 - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever — Changing Ecology and Persisting Virulence - journal article (NEJM)

►August 11, 2005 - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from an Unexpected Tick Vector in Arizona - journal article (NEJM)

►August 11, 2005 - Developmental Outcomes after Early or Delayed Insertion of Tympanostomy Tubes - journal article (NEJM)

►August 11, 2005 - Medical scandals may have a negative impact on scientific research - Effect of media portrayals of removal of children’s tissue on UK tumour bank BMJ Volume 331, pp 401-3 - BMJ-British Medical Journal via www.eurekalert.org

►August 11, 2005 - Milk Allergy Diet - www.kidshealth.org via Health Yahoo!

* ►August 10, 2005 - Blood Mercury Levels and Neurobehavior - journal article (JAMA) - "Second, in Alzheimer disease, the most common form of dementia, clinical symptoms may not manifest for 30 to 50 years.3-4 If mercury plays a pathogenetic role in Alzheimer disease,4 cumulative mercury exposure may cause subsequent cognitive impairment some decades later without elevation of mercury levels when symptoms develop."

►August 10, 2005 - New Survey: Recent Rise In Whooping Cough Among Teens Great Concern For School Nurses - Cohn & Wolfe via Biocompare

►August 10, 2005 - FDA Commissioner pushes Tougher Inspection Rules for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers - BMN Press Releases via Biocompare

►August 10, 2005 - Germany tightens rabies strategy - After the disease threatened to spread into France, reference lab takes corrective action - The Scientist

►August 10, 2005 - Child cancer 'exhaust fume risk' - Children who live close to major transport hubs are more at risk of dying of cancer, a study says. - BBC

* ►August 9, 2005 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Vaccines and Autism: Looking for the Truth? Study the Amish - Huffington Post via Yahoo!

* ►August 9, 2005 - US senator seeks probe of drug researcher payments - Reuters - "A top Republican senator on Monday urged the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department to look into a report that Wall Street investors paid researchers to reveal confidential information about ongoing drug studies. "Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets," Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said in a letter to SEC Chairman Chris Cox and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales."

* ►August 9, 2005 - Diagnosis puts face on second-hand smoke risk - A doctor who never smoked is battling lung cancer 37 years after leaving home. - News-Leader - "Clark and his wife, Lugene, are state and national advocates for a ban on a mercury-laced preservative in childhood vaccines. They feel mercury caused their son's autism-related disorder. From their home in Carthage, the Clarks run a Web site nomercury.org. Clark, a retired emergency room physician, also writes the "Ask Dr. Clark" column about general health issues for the St. John's Health System Web site, stjohns.com."

►August 8, 2005 - Political tussle over bioethics - Leading German researcher says opposition criticism of ethics council is about control over stem cell laws - The Scientist

►August 8, 2005 - Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of celiac disease in children: recommendations of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. - Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition via www.guideline.gov

►August 8, 2005 - Guideline for the evaluation of cholestatic jaundice in infants: recommendations of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. - Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition via www.guideline.gov

* ►August 6, 2005 - Big pharma: It's enough to make you sick (requires registration or subscription) - Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients - The Globe And Mail

* ►August 6, 2005 - F.D.A. Responds to Criticism With New Caution (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "The F.D.A. should not be slowing things down or speeding them up depending on how the wind blows," said Senator Charles E. Grassley, a powerful Iowa Republican who has become one of the agency's toughest critics. "Instead, the agency should be a rock of stability."

►August 6, 2005 - Two Okla. Children Die of Rare Infection - AP via Health Yahoo! - "The boys, ages 9 and 7, did not know each other but were both believed to have been swimming in area ponds before contracting Naegleria, an amoeba that enters the body through the nose and can cause a deadly inflammation of the brain."

* ►August 5, 2005 - Drugs could head off a flu pandemic — but only if we respond fast enough - Models show how spread of disease might be stopped. - (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)

* ►August 5, 2005 - Report: Review of NIH conflicts inadequate - Federal scientists still violating standards of ethics, government says - AP via MSNBC

* ►August 4, 2005 - UK's Acambis Says Developing Universal Flu Vaccine - Reuters via Medscape

►August 4, 2005 - FDA Approvals: Diovan, Celebrex, Adderall XR (requires registration) - Medscape Medical News

►August 4, 2005 - Move to commercialise breast milk - A US firm is looking to commercialise breast milk by selling it to hospitals for the treatment of sick babies. - BBC

►August 4, 2005 - Value of Banked Milk Over Formula for Premature Infants Questioned (requires registration) - Reuters Health via Medscape

* ►August 3, 2005 - Notice: Authorization of Emergency Use of Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed for Prevention of Inhalation Anthrax by Individuals at Heightened Risk of Exposure Due to Attack With Anthrax; Extension; Availability - Food and Drug Administration, HHS via www.pharmcast.com

* ►August 3, 2005 - Manual of Standard Operating Procedures and Policies Regulatory – General Administrative Procedures for Emergency Use Authorization of Medical Products - FDA/CBER

►August 3, 2005 - How to Manage a Pertussis Outbreak in Your Practice (requires registration) (full text) - A physician shares the lessons he learned after unknowingly exposing patients and staff to whooping cough. - Family Practice Management via Medscape

►August 3, 2005 - Notice: Prospective Grant of an Exclusive License: Anti-Cancer Vaccines - National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, HHS via www.pharmcast.com

►August 3, 2005 - A 2-Year-Old Girl With Persistent Ascites (requires registration) (full text) - Cases in Pediatric Gastroenterology from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Medscape General Medicine

►August 2, 2005 - Risk Factors for Pediatric Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease (requires registration) (full text) - Emerging Infectious Diseases via Medscape

►August 2, 2005 Issue Date July 22, 2005 - Warning Letter - Merck & Company, Inc - FDA - "Significant deviations in the manufacture of Asparaginase intermediate observed during the inspection include, but are not limited to, the following"

* ►August 1, 2005 - Regulatory Beat: FDA Seeks Safer Drugs and Biologics - The agency is expanding systems to detect safety issues for blood, vaccines, and biotech therapies while examining the need for new approaches. - BioPharm Magazine - "FDA has established additional systems to monitor the safety and manufacturing quality of inherently complex vaccines, blood products, and emerging cellular products. Because vaccines and biologics often are critical to public health and lack substitutes if quality concerns necessitate pulling a product off the market, FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) emphasizes manufacturing process controls and product risk management to prevent and limit safety problems, explained CBER Director Jesse Goodman at the April meeting of the FDA Science Board."

►August 1, 2005 - The FDA is Here! A Primer on What To Expect - Careful preparation and a cooperative attitude will ensure a more positive inspection experience. - BioPharm Magazine

►August 1, 2005 - Compliance and Surveillance - FDA/CBER - "Health professionals and members of the public are encouraged to report problems with biological products to FDA’s MedWatch and, for vaccines, to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)."

►August 1, 2005 - Respondent Burden in Clinical Research (requires registration) (full text) - When Are We Asking Too Much of Subjects? - IRB: Ethics & Human Research via Medscape

* ►August 2005 - Evaluation of a Quadrivalent Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella Vaccine in Healthy Children. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) - "Measles-like rash and fever during days 5-12 were more common after the first dose of MMRV (rash, 5.9%; fever, 27.7%) than after M-M-R(R)II and VARIVAX (rash, 1.9%; fever, 18.7%). The incidence of other adverse events were similar between groups. Response rates were >90% to all vaccine components in both groups."

►August 2005 - Dose-Response Study of a Quadrivalent Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella Vaccine in Healthy Children. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►August 2005 - Effectiveness of Measles Vaccination After Household Exposure During a Measles Outbreak: A Household Contact Study in Coburg, Bavaria. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►August 2005 - Parent Attitudes Toward Immunizations and Healthcare Providers The Role of Information - journal article (American Journal of Preventive Medicine)

►August 2005 - Adverse reactions to immunization with newer vaccines in the very preterm infant - journal article (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health)

►August 2005 - Nonstimulatory peptides contribute to antigen-induced CD8−T cell receptor interaction at the immunological synapse - journal article (Nature Immunology)

►August 2005 - Diagnostic Utility of Borrelia burgdorferi Cerebrospinal Fluid Polymerase Chain Reaction in Children with Lyme Meningitis. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►August 2005 - Comparison of risperidone and methylphenidate for reducing ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents with moderate mental retardation. - journal article (Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

►August 2005 - Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in 200 Canadian children - journal article (The Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology)

►August 2005 - Complementary Feeding with Cow's Milk Alters Sleeping Metabolic Rate in Breast-Fed Infants. - journal article (The Journal of Nutrition)

* ►August 2005 - ACIP: No to routine second dose of varicella vaccine (requires registration) - ACIP: No to routine second dose of varicella vaccine - Infectious Diseases in Children - "Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) did not recommend a second dose of varicella vaccine (Varivax, Merck). Some members said the issue should be deferred because of the possible licensure of a combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine (MMRV; ProQuad, Merck). Merck filed an application for approval with the FDA for the combination vaccine last August, and a decision could come this fall, according to some ACIP members."

* ►August 2005 - Hepatitis B vaccine recommendations stress the birth dose, screening of immigrants (requires registration) - Recommendations for use of the vaccine have not been updated in more than 10 years. - Infectious Diseases in Children  - "The element that strengthens the routine birth dose recommendation is the standing order recommendation, included in the implementation section. It reads, “all delivery hospitals should implement standing orders for administration of hepatitis B vaccination as part of routine medical care of all medically stable infants ....” There was debate about whether the language allowing for rare exceptions to the birth dose before discharging the infant from the hospital should be struck from the recommendations, with some experts concerned that the deferment would put babies at risk for HBV by providing formal opt out language. The language underscores the importance of the birth dose, according to those in favor of the language. The ACIP had talked about whether or not to leave an element of flexibility in the birth dose recommendation at previous meetings, and it has continued to be a point of debate."

* ►August 2005 - Two advisory bodies recommend priority groups for pandemic flu vaccines, antivirals (requires registration) - One committee also recommended that the federal government be the sole purchaser of vaccines during a pandemic. - Infectious Diseases in Children

* ►August 2005 - Optimism remains in the face of setbacks to polio and measles elimination (requires registration) - Samuel L. Katz, MD, says the diseases will be eliminated. Preventing donor and volunteer fatigue, however, will be key to success. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►August 2005 - Looking back on the varicella zoster vaccine (requires registration) - There has been a marked decrease in cases of varicella since the advent of the vaccine program. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►August 2005 - Black box warning recommended for asthma drug (requires registration) - Class of drugs may be the problem, FDA panel says. - Infectious Diseases in Children - "Novartis’ long-acting beta2-agonist Foradil should include a black box warning because life-threatening events seen with GlaxoSmithKline’s Serevent might be seen across the entire class of drugs, according to the FDA’s Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee."

►August 2005 - Planned comanagement essential for treating subspecialty disorders (requires registration) - To provide the best care for children with subspecialty disorders, both generalists and subspecialists are needed. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►August 2005 - C-reactive protein: point-of-care testing in the pediatrician’s office (requires registration) - A plea for an inexpensive test for acute phase reactants to use in the office. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►August 2005 - Pharmacotherapy for childhood obesity (requires registration) - Sibutramine and orlistat may provide moderate beneficial effects to obese adolescents, but data are still needed. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►August 2005 - Some Web sites encourage eating disorders (requires registration) - ‘Thinspiration’ Web sites promoting eating disorders associated with more hospitalizations, decreased time spent on schoolwork. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►August 2005 - What's Your Diagnosis (requires registration) - A monthly case study featured in Infectious Diseases in Children, with treatment information and discussion to follow. - Infectious Diseases in Children

►July 22, 2005 - Immunogenicity of an inactivated hepatitis A pediatric vaccine: three-year post-booster follow-up. - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►July 19, 2005 - Title: Enhancing immune responses to genetic immunization by using a chemokine - Chiron Corporation (Emeryville, CA) via www.pharmcast.com

* ►July 2005 - Brief report: risk factors for pneumococcal vaccine refusal in adults: a casecontrol study. - journal article (Journal of General Internal Medicine)

* ►Issue 3, 2005 - Patient Reminder and Patient Recall Systems to Improve Immunization Rates - journal article (The Cochrane Library)

►August 15, 2005 - U.N.: Polio Cases Reach 219 in Indonesia - Herald-Sun

* ►August 15, 2005 - Sadly, a vaccination sometimes isn't enough - A Bloomfield woman who lost her daughter to meningitis is warning students and parents that vaccines won't stave off all strains. - http://desmoinesregister.com - "Jessica, who at the time she was stricken was an Indian Hills Community College student, had been immunized against the disease as awareness about getting vaccinated was growing. But she contracted Type B of the infection, a rare type for which researchers have not yet developed a vaccine."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Doctors demand liability cover in MMR licence row - The Scotsman - "Doctors were at loggerheads with government officials last night over the use of hundreds of thousands of unlicensed MMR vaccinations."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Manufacturer calls for immediate use of bird-flu vaccine (subscription required for full article) - Financial Times - "Rino Rappuoli, chief scientific officer and head of research at Chiron, the US-based group, said a recently completed study supported by his company over the past eight years provided "compelling" data that a vaccine against bird flu was possible."

* ►August 15, 2005 - CMS Proposal Would Require Nursing Homes to Vaccinate Residents Against the Flu, USA - Medical News Today - "Because of the impending influenza season, this expedited proposed rule will have a 15-day comment period. To review the proposal, go to the Federal Register Web site at http://www.gpo.gov."

* ►August 15, 2005 - Doctors seek flu vaccine shortcut - CP via London Free Press via www.canoe.ca

►August 15, 2005 - Mental and social downside to child health - The Advertiser - "Australian children are facing more mental health and social problems despite enjoying a reprieve from traditional infectious diseases, researchers say."

►August 15, 2005 - Great child immunisation stats - Parkes Champion Post

►August 15, 2005 - Flu hits Victoria earlier and harder - More than twice as many cases as last year of the potentially fatal illness have been reported. (requires registration) - www.theage.com.au

►August 15, 2005 - Prevention still key to fighting Aids plague - opinion - Bangkok Post

►August 15, 2005 - High proportion of HIV-positive patients obese or overweight - The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes via Aidsmap

* ►August 14, 2005 - H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Recombining Away From Pandemic Vaccine - commentary - Recombinomics

►August 14, 2005 - Hungary to start human trials on avian flu strain - MaldivesInfo

►August 14, 2005 - Avian Flu - The U.S. must be more prepared - editorial (requires registration or subscription) - Philadelphia Inquirer

►August 14, 2005 - Bird-flu pandemic just ‘plane ride away’ - Officials watch state for signs of outbreak - www.thenewstribune.com

* ►August 14, 2005 - Alternatives: Vaccine Safety Concerns, Part I - The Epoch Times - "Recent research in neuroimmunology has shown that the brain has its own immune system. Multiple vaccines given close together over-stimulate the brain’s immune cells called microglia. These cells then release toxic substances, which damage other brain cells and their synaptic connections. If you are having a discussion with your pediatrician on this subject, here are the references: Russell L Blaylock, M.D. (neurosurgeon): “Interaction of Cytokines, Excitotoxins, Reactive Nitrogen and Oxygen Species in Autism Spectrum Disorders” [Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association 2003; 6(4)] and “Chronic Microglial Activation and Exicitotoxicity Secondary to Excessive Immune Stimulation: Possible Factors in Gulf War Syndrome and Autism,” in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons [JAPS 2004; 9(2)]"

* ►August 14, 2005 - A front of virulent epidemics requires bold action - opinion by William H. Frist, Guest Columnist - Seattle Post-Intelligencer - "To meet this threat, I propose an unprecedented effort -- a 'Manhattan Project for the 21st century' -- not with the goal of creating a destructive new weapon, but to defend against destruction wreaked by infectious diseases such as H5N1 and biological weapons."

* ►August 14, 2005 - Govt mulls apex body for vaccine production - Financial Express - "Many developed countries are no longer interested in producing vaccines for various infectious and communicable diseases as their production has become uneconomical due to drastic reduction in prices and less access to markets in the developing countries. This has presented a big opportunity for Indian companies."

►August 14, 2005 - Rodents Infected with Potentially Deadly Virus May Have Been Shipped to Pet Stores in Wisconsin - www.newsinferno.com

►August 14, 2005 - Teenagers need their shots, too - The Free Lance-Star

►August 14, 2005 - Heading for college? Get a meningitis shot - CDC ramps up advisory, urges all freshmen to be vaccinated. - San Antonio Express-News via South Florida Sun-Sentinel

►August 14, 2005 - Vaccine on shopping list for college students - Mobile Register via www.al.com

►August 14, 2005 - Schools require up-to-date immunizations for first day (requires registration) - www.kvue.com

►August 14, 2005 - Hundreds lined up for free immunization program - The line stretched from Peet Junior High School to Southwest Boulevard Saturday as hundreds of children waited to receive necessary immunizations in order to return to school this week. - Conroe Courier via www.zwire.com

►August 14, 2005 - Overcoming autism - Treatment program provides intense training to help kids control behavior. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

►August 14, 2005 - Autism treatment comes at a price - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

►August 14, 2005 - Health officials keep an eye on West Nile virus, EEE - Brockton Enterprise

►August 14, 2005 - Mississippi Records First West Nile Death - AP via www.wtok.com

►August 14, 2005 - Experts: W. Nile could be peaking (requires registration or subscription) - The Sacramento Bee

* ►August 14, 2005 - Mosquito virus bites blood supply - Tests catch West Nile in 20 donors in region - Auburn Journal

►August 14, 2005 - Verdict out on South Africa's anti-HIV efforts - San Francisco Chronicle

►August 14, 2005 - Scientists say valproic acid can eradicate dormant HIV - Early research by scientists in the U.S. suggests that valproic acid could be a potential way to eradicate dormant HIV infections. - www.news-medical.net

►August 14, 2005 - PNG 'heading for HIV disaster' - AAP via http://news.ninemsn.com.au

►August 14, 2005 - China, US launch AIDS prevention program - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 14, 2005 - SA scientists working on vaccine for AIDS - San Antonio Express-News

►August 14, 2005 - Trains to spread awareness on AIDS in India - Xinhuanet via China View

►August 14, 2005 - Moderation is key in watching mercury intake - Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers - Green Bay Press Gazette

►August 14, 2005 - Postal service boosts biohazard detection - The Journal Gazette via www.fortwayne.com

►August 13, 2005 - Novosibirsk H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Evolv