November 29, 2003

November  29, 2003                   

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Drug company pushes for all children under 2 to be vaccinated against pneumonia - journal article (BMJ)

 

For another perspective on what might be among the (unexamined?) consequences of this push by a drug company, go to Scandals: Changing Disease Epidemiology Via Vaccines - Are We "Robbing Peter To Pay Paul"?

Aids vaccine researchers fight for cash - www.iol.co.za - "To be a scientist pursuing an elusive vaccine for the rapacious Aids epidemic takes patience, optimism and lots of money...Only one is in short supply: money. Researchers estimate that only one percent of the 70 billion dollars the world spends on research for all medicines every year goes to Aids vaccine research...But with more at least four dozen vaccines now under investigation, compared to a paltry four or five just four years ago, scientists are confident they will figure out how to immunise against HIV infections that lead to Aids."

Experts cast bet on flu vaccine -  Imperfect shield beat delivery delay - http://newsobserver.com - "Despite evidence that a flu bug had mutated and was defying the current vaccine, health officials around the world took a calculated risk not to change the formula for this year's flu shots...Part of the reason was that the new strain was difficult to grow in the lab. That could have delayed the vaccine's development and, thus, its availability.  Given two options -- a late but better vaccine or a timely but flawed shot -- health officials chose the latter."

Officials: Late flu shot better than none - Federal, local government brace for worse-than-usual sickness season -  Ventura County Star

Japan Lags Behind in Taking Measures Against Measles - Asahi News Service) via www.immunizationinfo.org

Nasty flu bug picks on kids - The Salt Lake Tribune

Flu season hitting early and severely - Seattle Times

Experts urge vigilance, not alarm, about flu - The Buffalo News

Whooping cough on rise again - Coughing, fever may not just be symptoms of flu - The Akron Beacon Journal

New screening method for newborns can prevent complications - journal article (BMJ)

'Delivery by caesarean section in the first pregnancy could increase the risk of unexplained stillbirth in the second' (requires registration) - journal article (The Lancet)

Migrants should not be forced to have TB and HIV screening - journal article (BMJ)

Ethics of research involving vulnerable populations - letter - journal article (The Lancet)

Drug companies succeed in keeping payments to doctors secret - journal article (BMJ)

Critic of large malpractice awards ordered to pay $800,000 in damages - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

South Africa introduces world's largest AIDS treatment plan - journal article (BMJ)

 

Global efforts to control AIDS are "entirely inadequate" - journal article (BMJ)

 

Nearly 50 000 adults in the United Kingdom now have HIV - journal article (BMJ)

 

24m Africans HIV Positive, Says Akinkugbe - This Day via www.allafrica.com
 

Comment: But what if, as some believe, HIV has nothing to do with AIDS?

The statin wars - letter - journal article (The Lancet)

West Nile Virus may have felled Alexander the Great - Dying ravens provide clue to conqueror's swift demise. - Nature

State wants to use endangered fish to fight West Nile virus - Arizona Daily Sun

Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences - journal article (BMJ)

Japan to study ties between raw food, listeriosis - The Japan Times

How to scare a US marine - American troops in Liberia refused to take malaria pills, because they fear the side effects more than bullets.  Brendan O'Neill on the undermining of morale - The Spectator

Animal Research: Not Just Monkeying Around - Cambridge Test Laboratory Gains Approval - www.zenit.org
 

Half of general practices (in England) offer patients complementary medicine - journal article (BMJ)

Let there be light - (requires registration) - journal article (The Lancet)    "Use of ultraviolet light seemed to result in far fewer symptoms, as well as respiratory and mucosal symptoms than did non-use."

The Lancet, Table of Contents

BMJ Table of Contents - www.bmj.com

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