►February 26, 2004 - Overweight in Childhood and Adolescence - journal article (New England Journal of Medicine)

►March 2004 - Quality Assurance Program for Clinical Measurement of Antiretrovirals: AIDS Clinical Trials Group Proficiency Testing Program for Pediatric and Adult Pharmacology Laboratories - journal article (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy)

►February 26, 2004 - Relation of Serial Changes in Childhood Body-Mass Index to Impaired Glucose Tolerance in Young Adulthood - journal article (New England Journal of Medicine)

►February 27, 2004 - WHO Upbeat on Eradicating Polio - Reuters

►March 2004 - Differential Effect of Fetal, Neonatal and Treatment Variables on Neurodevelopment in Infants with Congenital Hypothyroidism - journal article (Hormone Research)

►February 26, 2004 - Immunization bill passes Senate - AP via Charleston Daily Mail - "Senators passed a bill that would expand mandatory immunizations for public school students while for the first time allowing them to decline shots for religious reasons."

Comment:  It is not clear from this whether or not the ambiguous wording in the bill re: homeschoolers (i.e., can they be charged with a misdemeanor and fined for not vaccinating?) has been dealt with. 

►February 26, 2004 - Park Nicollet recognized for immunization program - Apple Valley Sun Current

►February 26, 2004 - Mix of Chemicals Plus Stress Damages Brain, Liver in Animals and Likely in Humans - AScribe Newswire - "Stress is a well known culprit in disease, but now researchers have shown that stress can intensify the effects of relatively safe chemicals, making them very harmful to the brain and liver in animals and likely in humans, as well...Even short-term exposure to specific chemicals -- just 28 days -- when combined with stress was enough to cause widespread cellular damage in the brain and liver of rats, said Mohamed Abou Donia, Ph.D., a Duke pharmacologist and senior author of the study."

►February 27, 2004 - New Type of Cancer Drug Approved - Newsbytes via www.pharmacytimes.com

►February 26, 2004 - Naturopathy: Fibroids Caused by Hormonal Imbalances - The New Straits Times via Healthy News

►February 26, 2004 - Whence the Beef? - The gruesome trip from pasture to platter (and how to ensure that it's not so bad). - http://slate.msn.com

►February 26, 2004 - Journal of Nursing, Politics and Policy Interview - www.johnkerry.com

►February 26, 2004 - Oh, Deer - Is chronic wasting disease the new mad cow? - http://slate.msn.com

►February 26, 2004 - Mom's Smoking Tied to Adult Children's Lung Disease - Reuters Health via Yahoo!

►February 26, 2004 - Protein in monkeys blocks HIV virus, US study finds - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 26, 2004 - Son banned from playground, mom suing - AP via www.wmtw.com

►February 26, 2004 - Tiny doses of some toxins may make body stronger, theory says - Knight Ridder Newspapers via www.kentucky.com

►February 26, 2004 - Focused instruction can help kids with dyslexia - Research suggests specialized training exercises stimulate brain areas previously thought to be 'broken' - Newsday

►February 26, 2004 - Vaccine Program Remedies Must Be Exhausted Before Filing Suit - The Legal Intelligencer via www.law.com - "A couple whose son suffers from autism because of an alleged adverse reaction to thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative once present in vaccines for newborns, may not file suit in Pennsylvania against a group of pharmaceutical companies until they exhaust administrative remedies available through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled...According to the Superior Court opinion, the federal Vaccine Act of 1986 requires that before commencing any state or federal claims, vaccine claimants must first file a petition with the "no-fault" compensation program, a special tribunal of the Federal Court of Claims known as the Vaccine Court and located in Bethesda, Md."

►February 26, 2004 - Defence health goes under the microscope - www.abc.net.au

►February 26, 2004 - Cause of dead elk still eludes officials - Casper Star Tribune

►February 26, 2004 - Doubt cast on free radical theory - Scientists have questioned a widely accepted theory for a cause of diseases such as cancer and arthritis. - BBC

►February 26, 2004 - Official Defends Polio Vaccine Boycott - AP via Ledger-Enquirer

►February 26, 2004 - Disease Expert Attacks Decline in Vaccinations - National Post via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►February 26, 2004 - Human Bird Flu Vaccine Ready for Testing in March - Agence France Presse via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►February 26, 2004 - In Brief: Africa - Washington Post via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►February 26, 2004 - Kenya: New AIDS Vaccine Trials Said to Be Introduced Within Two Years - BBC News via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►February 26, 2004 - QLD Reports Increase in Whooping Cough Cases - AAP via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►February 26, 2004 - WHO Says Conditions 'Ripe' for Bird Flu to Become Pandemic - AP via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►February 26, 2004 - McCollum Introduces Legislation Establishing Livestock Tracking Technology To Ensure Food Safety - South St. Paul's Digital Angel Among Technology Providers to be Considered - PRNewswire-FirstCall via http://interestalert.com

►February 27, 2004 - 'You'd think a hospital would be the cleanest place in the world' - Danville Register Bee

►February 27, 2004 - Latest WHO bid gets support in Washington - http://publish.gio.gov.tw

►February 26, 2004 - New European center for disease control to be based in Stockholm - AFP via Yahoo!

►February 26, 2004 - "Superbug" deaths rise 15-fold in past decade - Reuters via Yahoo! - "Britain has vowed to reduce hospital infections caused by a "superbug" after new figures showed deaths from the drug-resistant bacteria had climbed 15-fold in a decade."

►February 26, 2004 - Age-Old Advice on Fluids for Colds Disputed - No proof that fluid intake helps, study says - HealthDay Reporter

►February 26, 2004 - Gen-Probe to Webcast Presentation at the Lehman Brothers 7th Annual Global Healthcare Conference - PRNewswire-FirstCall via http://interestalert.com

►February 26, 2004 - Health Highlights: - Survey: Seniors Don't Know About Medicaid Drug Bill - Most Health Workers Don't Get Flu Shots - Watchdog Group Wants Acne Drug Pulled From Market - Lead Risk in D.C. Water Prompts Warning - Breast Cancer Risk Tied to Weight Gain - Pig Cell Transplants Stop Diabetes in Rats - ScoutNews, LLC via www.hon.ch

►February 26, 2004 - Covalent Group Announces $4.8 Million In New Clinical Research Contracts - PRNewswire-FirstCall  via http://interestalert.com

►February 26, 2004 - Fury as union backs special schools strike - The Scotsman

►February 27, 2004 - Journals plan regulation scheme - Medical journals should have a code of conduct, similar to that which governs newspapers, an ethics body has said. - BBC

►February 26, 2004 - Superflu is being brewed in the lab - New Scientist - "After the worldwide alarm triggered by 2003's SARS outbreak, it might seem reckless to set about creating a potentially far more devastating virus in the lab. But that is what is being attempted by some researchers, who argue that the dangers of doing nothing are even greater...We already know that the H5N1 bird flu virus ravaging poultry farms in Asia can be lethal on the rare occasions when it infects people. Now a team is tinkering with its genes to see if it can turn into a strain capable of spreading from human to human. If they manage this, they will have created a virus that could kill tens of millions if it got out of the lab."

►February 26, 2004 - Dengue fever in Indonesia - WHO

►February 26, 2004 - Inhibition of insulin-like growth factor receptor-1 as promising anticancer therapeutic - Cell Press via www.eurekalert.org 

►February 26, 2004 - New genomics tool boosts diabetes research - Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research via www.eurekalert.org 

►February 27, 2004 - FDA Debates More Restrictions on Accutane - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►February 27, 2004 - FDA OKs First-Of-A-Kind Colon Cancer Drug - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►February 27, 2004 - New Type of Cancer Drug Approved - FDA Hails Therapy That Starves Tumors by Blocking Their Blood Supply (requires registration) - Washington Post 

►February 27, 2004 - Call for independent inquiry into MMR research - Croner via www.healthcare.net  

►February 26, 2004 - Most parents will allow MMR jab - icSouthLondon - "Eight out of 10 British parents now think the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination is safe and almost nine in 10 would give it to their child, according to a new poll ...Two years ago the number who thought it was safe was seven in ten."

Comment:  If I understand this poll correctly, it shows that around 1 in 10 parents thinks the MMR is not safe but would still give it to their child.  Can that be? 

 ►February 26, 2004 - New MyVoice ID Speaks When You Can't; Support Systems Product Development Corporation Releases Newly Patented Personal Identification Device - Business Wire 

►February 26, 2004 - Was the original MMR study unethical? - The Guardian, UK - "Not entirely. What has got lost in the outcry over the undisclosed conflict of interest of Andrew Wakefield, the lead researcher, is that the Lancet, which published his study in February 1998, does not regret publishing the core findings. Only one aspect of it (albeit the most contentious) - the linking of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination (MMR) to bowel disease and autism - does editor Richard Horton consider 'entirely flawed'...Dr Horton still considers the paper important because it identified a new syndrome suffered by children who had symptoms both of chronic bowel disease and autism. 'I do not regret for one second publishing details of this new syndrome,' he said...'"I'm disappointed that Liam Donaldson [chief medical officer] has stated this was poor science. By stating that he dismisses a very important novel observation.'"

►February 26, 2004 - Accutane Linked to Birth Defects, Should Be Pulled From Market, Public Citizen Tells FDA - Public Citizen 

►February 26, 2004 - Doubt cast on free radical theory - Scientists have questioned a widely accepted theory for a cause of diseases such as cancer and arthritis - BBC News 

►February 26, 2004 - Bush plan for mercury lambasted - Critics say the proposal would actually weaken control over industry (requires registration) - Charlotte Observer

►February 26, 2004 - Local officials say federal plan won't limit mercury emissions - Illinois, Environment: EPA recently identified Chicago as a "hot spot" where mercury fell back to earth - AP via The Times of Northwest Indiana

►March 11, 2004 - The Dawn of McScience - (book review: Science in the Private Interest: Has the Lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research?) - The New York Review of Books 

►February 26, 2004 - Give us the choice of vaccines - Letters to the Editor - The Telegraph, UK - "Have you any idea how frustrating it is to read or listen to the reams of opinion on the MMR debate and to feel that last on the list of importance are the very children damaged, as their parents believe, by the vaccine?...But deep down there is utter desolation that something that is of paramount importance in our lives is like a toy being batted back and forth. Who was to know what a hot political potato this would turn out to be?" 

►February 27, 2004 - Vaccination: Mother's anger at withdrawal of MMR jab legal aid - The mother of an autistic child today hit out at a decision to cut legal aid for families who are attempting to prove the MMR jab ruined their children's lives - The Peterborough Today, UK - "'To pull funding at a time when the evidence is quite clearly becoming extremely strong is absolutely outrageous...'It's the ultimate insult to deny that these children are ill and have got a problem and to deny them their day in court.'"

►February 26, 2004 - MMR and autism - A dose of dissent - The Economist - "A FEW years ago Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist at Oxford University, came up with the idea of the “meme”. He was trying to make the slippery problem of the evolution of human culture as tractable as that of biological evolution, and he thought that if cultural information could somehow be divided into separately transmissible elements, in the way that biologically heritable information is divided into genes, the rest might follow. A successful meme, he speculated, might pass from person to person like a virus...Few recent memes have been more successful than the one which causes many people, particularly in Britain, to believe that the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine can cause autism in children. That meme has been responsible for a fall in vaccination rates in Britain from more than 90% to less than 80% over the past six years (see chart)."

Comment:  Perhaps the "meme" is that the MMR vaccine does NOT cause autism.  Given that there is a growing body of evidence that it is involved, the self-satisfied criticizers of those thought to be swept up in an allegedly incorrect idea, might better redirect their gaze to themselves. 

►March 1, 2004 - A comparative evaluation of the effects of MMR immunization and mercury doses from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines on the population prevalence of autism - journal article (Medical Science Monitor) (abstract)

►February 25, 2004 - Bomb Scare Suspect Faces Terrorist Charges - Officials Find 5 Ounces Natural Mercury Inside Man's Vehicle - Click2Houston via www.firehouse.com

►February 25, 2004 - US poultry ban widens as virulent bird flu is found - The Financial Times

►February 26, 2004 - Vaccine company Biomira Inc. cuts Q4 loss to $4.6M from $8.6M - CP via www.canadaeast.com

►February 27, 2004 - MP gathers support for vaccine - The Islander via www.kangarooisland.yourguide.com.au

►February 26, 2004 - Fairport Boy Dies of Meningitis - www.wroctv.com

►February 26, 2004 - Nation remains vigilant against bird flu - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 26, 2004 - Texas bird flu deemed 'highly pathogenic' Affects on trade could be 'tremendous' - Country World News

►February 27, 2004 - UN agency attacks Nigeria's ban on polio vaccines - www.abc.net.au

►February 26, 2004 - New Sinus and Allergy Guidelines Recommend Omnicef(R) as First-Line Treatment Option for Acute Bacterial Sinusitis - Approximately 20 Million Cases of Acute Bacterial Sinusitis Diagnosed Each Year - Abbott Laboratories via PRNewswire-FirstCall via Yahoo!

►February 26, 2004 - Yukon teens target for whooping cough jabs - CBC North

►February 27, 2004 - Parents warned on fatal illness - Townsville Bulletin

►February 27, 2004 - Deadly apathy - comment - Townsville Bulletin

►February 26, 2004 - Children's access to oral health care at risk - Juneau County Star Times

►February 26, 2004 - B.C.'s avian flu is mild form of virus - The Western Producer

►February 26, 2004 - Avian Flu Still Spreading, Experts Warn - VOA via www.iwar.org.uk

►February 26, 2004 - Côte d'Ivoire: First Polio Case for Four Years May Be Linked to Nigeria - IRIN via www.allafrica.com

►February 26, 2004 - Nine Out of Ten Parents Will Give Children MMR Jab - PA News via The Scotsman

►February 27, 2004 - Eight out of ten think MMR jab safe, TV poll finds - The Scotsman

►February 27, 2004 - Anti-MMR parents 'accused of abuse' - Daily Mail via www.femail.co.uk

►February 26, 2004 - UK Parliament to raise ethical questions over MMR study - The Times, UK via www.awares.org

►February 26, 2004 - Signet Laboratories Announces the Availability of it's 'Top Line' IHC Products at the USCAP Meeting in Vancouver, BC - press release - Signet Laboratories, Inc.via PRNewswire via Yahoo!

►February 27, 2004 - Call for independent inquiry into MMR research - Croner via www.healthandcare.net

►February 26, 2004 - Area leaders question DNR's plans to combat chronic wasting disease (requires registration) - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via www.jsonline.com

►February 27, 2004 - Fourth suspected bird flu found in Japan - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 27, 2004 - Bird flu tests positive at Kyoto farm - Japan govt - Reuters

►February 26, 2004 - Drug Combo Relieves Rheumatoid Arthritis - HealthDayNews via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►February 27, 2004 - Two Drugs Better Than One for Arthritis Patients - Reuters

►February 26, 2004 - Remicade Fights Crohn's Disease Complications - Extended Treatment with the Drug Helps Prevent Fistulas - WebMD

►February 26, 2004 - New Type of Colorectal Cancer Drug Approved - FDA Approval of Avastin Marks New Approach in Colorectal Cancer Treatment - WebMD

►February 26, 2004 - We' re Not Opposed to Immunisation - JNI - This Day via www.thisdayonline.com

►February 27, 2004 - Link between antibiotics, breast cancer stirs debate - Cox News Service via the Arizona Republic

►February 27, 2004 - Australian sailors misled about anthrax vaccinations for Iraq war - International Committee of the Fourth International via www.wsws.org

►February 27, 2004 - Smallpox vaccine pioneer lectures - The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

►February 27, 2004 - Live-bird market owners worry about bird flu - Star Tribune

►February 27, 2004 - Another bird flu case hits Japan - www.theage.com.au

►February 27, 2004 - Autism fundraiser coming up at Clark Hall - Queen's University - The Journal

►February 27, 2004 - Journals plan regulation scheme - Medical journals should have a code of conduct, similar to that which governs newspapers, an ethics body has said. - BBC

►February 27, 2004 - Vaccines less risky than diseases - editorial - Indianapolis Star

►February 26, 2004 - Pneumonia shots advocated - Capital Journal

►February 26, 2004 - Human bird flu vaccine nearly ready - Could be widely available in 3-6 months, scientists say - Reuters via MSNBC

►February 27, 2004 - UN conference hears bird flu crisis poses "unprecedented" threat - AFP via www.channelnewsasia.com - "'Never in the past have we witnessed an avian virus circulating so quickly in such a large part of the world,' he said in a statement as experts from 23 Asia Pacific nations convened for three days of talks...Vallat said the immediate priority for affected nations was to stop the virus in its tracks by slaughtering infected poultry as well as birds that had come in contact with them."

►February 27, 2004 - NDDB arm to open 2000 vaccine centres - Business Standard

►February 26, 2004 - Area boy, 7, dies of meningitis - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

►February 26, 2004 - Health Asia - Better Detection Key to Avoiding New Bird Flu Crisis - If Asia is to avoid another avian flu crisis, the region has to change the current ways that its poultry industry has been expanding and put into place new surveillance systems to detect animal diseases, experts said here Thursday. - Inter Press Service News Agency

►February 26, 2004 - Intranasal Influenza Vaccine Used in Switzerland During 2000-2001 Season Apparently Conferred a High Risk of Bell's Palsy - New England Journal of Medicine via Doctor's Guide - "The intranasal influenza vaccine used during the 2000-2001 influenza season in Switzerland was associated with a greatly increased risk of Bell's palsy that was highest during the second month after vaccination. This inactivated virosomal-subunit influenza vaccine, licensed only in Switzerland, is no longer in use...'In contrast, no significant risk of Bell's palsy was found to be associated with the parenteral influenza vaccines,' reports Margot Mutsch, PhD, MPH, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, in Zurich, and colleagues."

Comment:  The authors of this study are to be commended for following these vaccinees for more than a month.

►February 26, 2004 - Tinubu's Wife Flags-Off Polio Campaign - P.M. News via www.allafrica.com

►February 26, 2004 - Bauchi Denies Suspending Immunisation - Daily Trust via www.allafrica.com

►February 26, 2004 - MMR and autism - A dose of dissent - Doubt has been cast on the paper that started the MMR-and-autism scare - The Economist

►February 26, 2004 - Suffolk MMR uptake is worse than Brazil - East Anglian Daily Times

►February 26, 2004 - Illusion of Aids Vaccine Development - Daily Champion via www.allafrica.com

►February 26, 2004 - Michigan may end mercury as we know it - The Bay City Times via www.mlive.com

►February 26, 2004 - Bush Plan to Cut Mercury Emissions 'Dangerously Inadequate,' Environmental Activists say - Voice of America

►February 26, 2004 - Infant Vaccine Shortage Little Cause for Concern - The Intelligencer & Wheeling News Register

►February 26, 2004 - Park Nicollet recognized for immunization program - Rosemount Sun Current via www.mnsun.com

►February 26, 2004 - African polio vaccination drive ends without reaching heart of outbreak - AFP via Yahoo!

►February 26, 2004 - Islamic leaders blamed for return of polio - Reuters via The New Zealand Herald

►February 26, 2004 - Another Nigerian state drops boycott of UN polio programme - AFP via Yahoo!

►February 26, 2004 - Vaccine a whooping good idea: pediatricians - CBC, New Brunswick

►February 26, 2004 - Two Teachers Die of Hepatitis Infection - The East African Standard via www.allafrica.com

►February 26, 2004 - Oh, Deer - Is chronic wasting disease the new mad cow? - http://slate.msn.com

►February 26, 2004 - EPA rules on mercury responsible - guest column - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►February 26, 2004 - India to test AIDS vaccine next year - IRIB News

►February 26, 2004 - Meningitis Cases Link - Express & Echo via www.thisisexeter.co.uk

►February 26, 2004 - Scientific Tests Led to Bird Flu Upgrade - Sophisticated Tests Led Scientists to Upgrade Bird Flu Risk - AP via ABC News

►February 26, 2004 - Human bird flu vaccine ready for testing in March: WHO - AFP via www.channelnewsasia.com

►February 26, 2004 - Conditions 'ripe' for human bird flu - AP via The Australian

►February 26, 2004 - China lifts quarantine of six bird flu-hit areas - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 26, 2004 - Risk of human bird flu infection still exists: Vice-Premier - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 26, 2004 - 2 more flu type A infections, suspects detected in Vietnam - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 26, 2004 - Vietnam decodes bird flu virus - AFP via www.channelnewsasia.com

►February 26, 2004 - Bancroft Preschool for children with autism marks 1st anniversary - Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel via www.centralmaine.com

►February 26, 2004 - Schools send hundreds home for lack of shots - Multnomah County districts turn away students missing vaccines for diseases from mumps to chickenpox - The Oregonian via www.oregonlive.com

►February 26, 2004 - Anti-MMR parents threatened with being branded child abusers - Medical News Today - "The Daily Mail (UK newspaper) says that parents who blame the MMR vaccine on their children’s autism are being accused of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy. This means they are deliberately harming their children to bring attention to themselves."

►February 26, 2004 - Protein discovered that blocks HIV in monkeys: potential for vaccine and treatment research - Nature via www.aidsmap.com

►February 26, 2004 - Most of nasal spray flu vaccine unsold - UPI via The Washington Times - "Eighty percent of the new nasal spray vaccine FluMist, manufactured by MedImmune Inc., of Gaithersburg, Md., went unsold in the United States...MedImmune told a federal panel Tuesday in Atlanta about 4 million doses of leftover FluMist would most likely have to be destroyed."

►February 26, 2004 - Nasal Flu Vaccine Available for Free - The Ledger

►February 26, 2004 - Medical briefing: There’s more to cancer than diet - Times Online, UK

►February 23, 2004 - Is it safe? - Clarksburg Exponent Telegram - "The state Department of Health and Human Resources distributed 68,000 flu vaccine doses this flu season, with 63,000 of them containing a chemical the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has suggested be removed from childhood vaccines..Joe Thornton, state Health and Human Resources spokesman, said 5,000 were pediatric doses that did not contain thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury."

►February 26, 2004 - Diagnosis requires thorough research - opinion - The Purdue Exponent

►February 26, 2004 - 'No permanent' anthrax jab problems - www.abc.net.au

►February 26, 2004 - Autism is 'positive' for Welsh painter - The Western Mail via http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk

►February 26, 2004 - Nigerian state boycotts polio drive - www.ndtv.com

►February 26, 2004 - Monkey-cell protein discovery has AIDS researchers abuzz - Special gene that provides immunity may help humans - San Francisco Chronicle

►February 2004 - Epstein-Barr Virus-Associated Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder After a Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Presenting With Pulmonary Nodules - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology)

►March 2004 - Correlating Epidemiologic Trends with the Genotypes Causing Meningococcal Disease, Maryland - journal article (Emerging Infectious Diseases) via CDC

►March 2004 - The sustainability of health promotion interventions for different levels of social organization - journal article (Health Promotion International)

►February 2004 - Profile of Medical Charges for Children by Health Status Group and Severity Level in a Washington State Health Plan - journal article (Health Services Research)

►February 2004 - Identifying Children with Special Health Care Needs in the National Health Interview Survey: A New Resource for Policy Analysis - journal article (Health Services Research)

►March 2004 - Age-specific Relationship between CD14 and Atopy in a Cohort Assessed from Age 8 to 25 Years - journal article (American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)

►February 2004 - Causes and therapy of hyperinsulinism in infancy - journal article (Current Opinion in Endocrinology and Diabetes)

►March 2004 - Panic attacks and psychopathology among youth - journal article (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)

►March 2004 - Is there a specific polysomnographic sleep pattern in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder? - journal article (Journal of Sleep Research)

►February 24, 2004 - USA's youth at high risk for venereal diseases - USA Today

►February 24, 2004 - Poll: Paying for drugs is a problem for many families - AP via USA Today

►February 24, 2004 - St. Jude/Mayo Clinic study finds direct link between CBP gene and lymphoma - Development of lymphoma in mice missing CBP gene occurs in cooperation with reduction of p27Kip1 protein level—despite the presence of the anti-cancer gene p53 - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital  via  www.eurekalert.org

►February 24, 2004 - Piercing Upper Ear May Cause Infection - Oregon Outbreak Underscores Danger of Upper-Ear Piercing; May Result in Hard-To-Treat Infections - AP via ABC News

►February 24, 2004 - Doctors warned off picture phones - The Medical Defence Union has warned doctors to be careful of using picture phones for diagnosing patients. - BBC

►February 27, 2004 - MMR scientist did not hide link with legal case, letter reveals - by Jeremy Laurence, Health Editor, The Independent, UK - "Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who sparked the MMR scare with a paper in The Lancet six years ago, did not cover up his links with the Legal Aid Board, it emerged yesterday...Dr Wakefield was accused at the weekend of failing to disclose the conflict of interest over his research at the Royal Free Hospital in London, suggesting a possible link between the MMR vaccination and bowel disease and autism, which has led tens of thousands of parents to boycott the triple vaccination...But he did reveal his links with the Legal Aid Board in a letter published in The Lancet on 2 May 1998, less than three months after his original research paper."

Comment:  "RFD Comment:  'The plot thickens...'" To read the rest of this comment and get the kind of insight into health issues only Nicholas Regush can provide, go to www.redflagsdaily.com (Much of the website now requires a subscription.)

►February 27, 2004 - Journalist takes MMR battle away from high court - MediaGuardian, UK - "A freelance journalist is hoping to use his upcoming legal action against medical journal the Lancet to move the debate about the controversial MMR jab from the high court to a county court in south London.,,Brian Deer said he was taking his claim for damages relating to a breach of confidentiality over his exclusive story on the man behind the claims that MMR may be linked to autism to Lambeth county court on Monday.