December  3, 2003*                   

For Congressman Weldon's response to the VSD Study, click here.

The Elusive Search for an AIDS Vaccine - Scientists hope for at least some success by decade's end - HealthDay - "After a disappointing year of research findings, scientists are little closer to developing the Holy Grail of AIDS prevention -- a successful vaccine...But researchers, doctors and activists still hope to find success by the end of the decade."

China Tells Its Public of Enormity of AIDS Toll - The New York Times (registration and/or subscription required) - "The disease was initially confined to intravenous drug users, sex-trade workers and farmers infected by a tainted blood-selling operation in central China, but it is now spreading into the general population...Part of the problem is a widespread lack of public awareness."

Comment:  It is known that hepatitis B has spread via the use of re-usable needles in Asia, and AIDS has spread the same why in Africa.  Why not AIDS in China?  For more on this, go to:  Scandals: "But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." (update and "flashback")

Will This Year's Flu Shot Work? - Vaccinated People Who Do Get Flu Likely Won't Be as Sick - WebMD

All Iowans Urged To Get Flu Shot - New Warning From The Iowa Department of Health -  www.theiowachannel.com

Flu Shots in Short Supply at Doctor's Offices - WHO-TV NEWS 13

U.S. Proposes Easing Rules on Emissions of Mercury - The New York Times (registration and/or subscription required) - "The Bush administration is proposing that mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants should not be regulated in the same way as some of the most toxic air pollutants, reversing a stance on air pollution control taken by the Clinton administration in 2000...The administration proposal would make legally mandated mercury regulation fall under a less stringent section of the Clean Air Act that governs pollutants like those that cause smog and acid rain, which are not as toxic to humans. The administration says this would be a more efficient and faster way to reduce mercury in the environment."

Early outbreak: Kids die amid flu fear - The Albuquerque Tribune

Flu in the United States - CDC

Flu outbreak crowds ER - Shawnee News Star

Flu complications kill 2 Adams County kids - Rocky Mountain News via MSNBC

Flu virus arrives early: A virulent strain of the illness hits other regions of the country hard - The Register-Guard

Severe Strain Flu - www.wandtv.com

US is not prepared for influenza pandemic - Health and Age

Worst of flu dodged so far - www.middletownjournal.com

Flu makes early arrival in Connecticut - www.wfsb.com

Whooping cough case reported in Oshkosh - Officials await test results from other suspected incidents - Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers via The Post-Crescent
 

TB case at center triggers jitters - Officials try to allay fears of parents after a staff member is hospitalized. - St. Petersburg Times - "Berger explained that TB is harder to catch than mumps and chickenpox. The disease is spread through airborne bacteria. To contract TB, a person needs to be exposed in a confined space for four to six hours a day for three to four weeks, according to Health Department officials...Even then, the disease remains latent for four to six weeks and can be treated before developing into an active case, health officials say."

Wilder, Ky., firm sued in connection with Hepatitis A outbreak - The Cincinnati Post

The AIDS tragedy - The Charleston Gazette (registration required)

Kenyan Prostitutes Offer Hope for AIDS Vaccine - Reuters via www.alertnet.org

Kenyan Prostitutes Offer Hope for AIDS Vaccine - Reuters via www.immunizationinfo.org

Canada: Rate of HIV Jumps in Federal Prisons - CanWest News Service via www.thebody.com

FACTBOX - Analysts tip cancer, heart drugs in Glaxo pipeline - Reuters via Forbes

Glaxo: Up to 20 Blockbusters in Pipeline - Reuters via ABC News

Department of Health and Human Services - Office of the Secretary; Findings of Scientific Misconduct - Agency: Office of the Secretary, HHS. Action: Notice. - The Federal Register via The Office of Research Integrity - "Specifically, PHS found that Dr. Arichi falsified data that purported to show potent long lasting immunization of mice with plasmid DNA leading to protection from challenge with vaccinia virus expressing the hepatitis C core antigen as published in Figures 4, 5, and 6 in PNAS 97:297-302, 2000." (June 17, 2003)

Car fumes linked to child coughs - Young children living near a major road suffer more coughing attacks, research has found. - BBC

Powerful Antibiotics - Ivanhoe - "Traditional antibiotics like penicillin may now be powerless against new strains of bacteria. Stronger antibiotics have been developed but those too are losing the battle against mutated versions of bacteria. Now, doctors are looking to a new class of drugs to do the trick."

Efficacy and Safety of Echinacea in Treating Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Children -  journal article (JAMA)

Cochlear Implants and Bacterial Meningitis - FDA Consumer magazine

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