►February 27, 2004 - Jury still out on safety of male hormones - New York Times via The Houston Chronicle - "Given the shocking recent discovery of potentially serious ill effects of hormone replacement for women, it is hardly surprising that many experts are warning against assuming that supplemental testosterone is safe and effective for men experiencing the normal effects of aging."

►February 28, 2004 - Netherlands to crack down on complementary medicine - journal article (BMJ) - "The Netherlands is considering tougher laws on practitioners of complementary medicine after government health inspectors who were investigating the death from breast cancer in 2001 of the actress and comedienne Sylvia Millecam severely criticised her treatment.^..The investigators found that alternative practitioners contradicted the diagnosis of breast cancer made by her doctors and offered her instead the prospect of a cure with 'unfounded methods of treatment.'"

Comment:  Would that unfounded allopathic methods of treatment and misdiagnoses were eyed with the same level of scrutiny.

►February 23, 2004 - Doctors pressure human guinea pigs - MDs are paid up to $5,000 per patient to sign up volunteers for drug trials - CanWest News Service via The Vancouver Sun via www.canada.com

Comment:  Wow.  If that isn't a conflict of interest, I don't know what is.  This article is chock-full of disturbing information.

►February 28, 2004 - Only 6% of drug advertising material is supported by evidence - journal article (BMJ)

►February 27, 2004 - Jury awards $63M for brain-damaged baby born in Boynton Beach - The Palm Beach Post via www.tcpalm.com

►Mad Cow Disease, Mad Deer Disease - Chronic Wasting Disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy - feature articles - Organic Consumers Association

►February 29, 2004 - New Vaccine Shortage - CDC via www.about.com

►March 1, 2004 - Fowl exposed to flu used in soup - The Asahi Shimbun

►March 1, 2004 - Japan minister livid after bird flu cover-up - Japan's 3rd bird flu outbreak confirmed - AP via www.etaiwannews.com

►February 29, 2004 - Peru bans imports of poultry from bird flu-affected countries  - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 26, 2004 - Deputies call for state takeover of troubled hospital - AP via The San Diego Union Tribune via www.signonsandiego.com

►March 1, 2004 - Misreporting Measles Research - National Electronic Library for Health (archive) - www.nelh.nhs.uk - "The research study found that a higher proportion of children with developmental disorder and new variant inflammatory bowel disease had measles virus in their gut tissue than healthy children."

Comment:  This analysis tries to make it appear as if there is no evidence linking MMR vaccine to the measles virus in these children or good reason to believe they might be connected. As for research, there is research evidence linking the two.  As for good reason, these children were vaccinated and had never had the measles.  So the presence of measles virus in their gut probably either means that a) it is measles vaccine virus or b) vaccinated children who get the measles can suffer gastrointestinal problems which may or may not be related to autism. 

►The Exemption Debate - West Virginians For Vaccination Exemptions

►March 1, 2004 - Vaccinations: Irrational fear isn't confined to Third World - editorial - The Dallas Morning News - "Polio is back in northern Nigeria, thanks to a conspiracy theory spread by some Muslim clerics. They're telling their people that a United Nations vaccine program is part of a Western plot to render their women infertile. African children will be left crippled because of such barbaric nonsense, and a dread disease that could have been eradicated by scientists will live to maim countless others...But before we start feeling too superior to the superstitious Nigerians, let's consider how vulnerable our own irrational fears of vaccines leave our population to potentially calamitous outbreaks of disease."

Comment:  It's only an irrational fear if you dismiss or ignore the evidence against vaccines.

►February 29, 2004 - Nil by mouth - For thousands of Britons battling the debilitating effects of cancer, depression, even eczema, diet is crucial. They view the vitamins and minerals they take as vital in their fight against sickness. So why does the EU want to cut off their supply? Rose Shepherd makes the case for rescuing remedies - The Observer via The Guardian, UK - "In the 21st century we live under siege. There are concerns about pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, GM, mobile phones, microwaves, amalgam fillings, falling sperm counts, mad cows, MMR - even milk. Farmed salmon is a Trojan horse for carcinogens. Obesity and diabetes are on the march. There is a mass of documentation on all this. So what is the European Commission's big idea? 'Let's clamp down on vitamins and minerals.'...It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. While the EU has been busy drafting legislation, we seem to have been sleepwalking into a situation where chemists and health stores will be purged of hundreds of nutritional supplements."

►February 29, 2004 - Parents lobby to ease immunization laws - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - "The same vaccines that many credit with ushering in a public health miracle were a curse to 4-year-old Caleb Mueller, his father believes...Keith Mueller of Kansas City blames a batch of state-mandated vaccines with causing a severe allergic reaction in his son when the boy was just over 1. Today, the father is certain that his son's autism is tied to the shots, as well...Mueller is joining several parents rights advocates this year to support bills in the Missouri Legislature that would make it easier for parents to exclude their children from immunizations."

►March 1, 2004 - Stars leap at chance to raise cash for meningitis - The Scotsman

►March 1, 2004 - JK boosts meningitis charity £130,000 splash - Evening News via The Scotsman

►February 27, 2004 - Using soils as filters to prevent 'crypto' from moving to the groundwater - A study published in the Vadose Zone Journal examines how different soil types affect Cryptosporidium parvum's transport. - American Society of Agronomy via www.eurekalert.org 

►February 17, 2004 - Immune Activation and CD8+ T-Cell Differentiation towards Senescence in HIV-1 Infection - journal article (PLoS Biology) 

►February 27, 2004 - Avian influenza A(H5N1) - update 30: Situation (human) in Thailand - WHO 

►February 27, 2004 - Drugs limit deadly side effects of graft-versus-host disease - Could make bone marrow transplants an option for more cancer patients - University of Michigan Health System via www.eurekalert.org 

►February 17, 2004 - pRb Inactivation in Mammary Cells Reveals Common Mechanisms for Tumor Initiation and Progression in Divergent Epithelia - journal article (PLoS Biology) 

►February 17, 2004 - Treatment of Terminal Peritoneal Carcinomatosis by a Transducible p53-Activating Peptide - journal article (PLoS Biology) 

►February 28, 2004 - Panel Urges Stricter Limits on Acne Drug - Reuters via Yahoo! News 

►February 28, 2004 - Panel Backs National Accutane Registry - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►February 29, 2004 - Experts Urge Tools for Women's Health - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►February 29, 2004 - Insomnia Drug Gets Tentative Approval - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►February 29, 2004 - Harvard Plans Stem Cell Research Center - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►March 1, 2004 - Doctors Urge Eye Wear for Kids in Sports - AP via The Herald-Sun

►March 1, 2004 - More Wonder About What's Safe to Eat - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►March 1, 2004 - CDC Says Ads Getting Kids to Play Outside - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►February 29, 2004 - Dismal payout record for radiation-induced illnesses - Government programs aimed at compensating cancer-stricken nuclear-era workers or survivors criticized for complexity and heavy denial rate - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

►March 1, 2004 - Studying Hyperlexia May Unlock How Brains Read - Children With Rare Disorder Have Heightened Reading, Learning Skills (requires registration) - Washington Post

►February 29, 2004 - Religious exemption worries Ripley mother - Sunday Gazette-Mail - "'How can these groups call themselves pro-life and pro-family if taking a moral stand against abortions performed in the 1960s takes precedence over protecting the lives of those with weakened immune systems today?' she asked."

Comment:  As I said in my 2002 speech: "Public Health will say that these vaccines must be mandatory or these diseases will spread.  But if the vaccines work, anyone choosing them will be protected.  If they don’t prevent the spread of the disease to the vaccinated, what is the point?  It hardly seems right that those who don’t want to be vaccinated should be required to be vaccinated, because vaccines don’t always work...And to whatever extent vaccines are being required because the “immune suppressed” cannot be vaccinated, and are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of disease, while my heart goes out to such people, they are not more important than children who are harmed by vaccines.  Nor should the notion that vaccination may in itself be creating immune suppression be left out of this equation...Besides there is documented proof of outbreaks in 100% vaccinated populations.  Now, whose fault is that?"

►February 29, 2004 - Twisted conflicts - (letters) The Observer via The Guardian, UK - "It seems a scientist, such as Dr Andrew Wakefield (News and Leader, last week), who uncovers genuine concerns about the safety of a vaccine has to be 'squeaky clean'...In contrast, scientists who are vocal in support of the vaccine, and are responsible for checking its safety, are allowed to receive research funding from the company that produces it and to hold shares in the company, or act as consultants." (sent by Dr Milton Wainwright, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield)

►February 27, 2004 - Emergency polio campaign ends, marred by lingering Nigerian Muslim boycott - AP via San Francisco Chronicle

►February 27, 2004 - Family exposed to rabies (requires registration or subscription) - Times Herald-Record

►February 27, 2004 - Alliance Sets Goal to Increase Child Vaccinations - Reuters via Yahoo! - "The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and The Vaccine Fund, its financial arm, hope to raise $400 million annually from governments and private sources to immunize 30 million children against diseases such as polio, hepatitis and yellow fever...'Our goal is to allow every child, everywhere in the world access to immunizations,' Jacques-Francois Martin, the president of The Vaccine Fund, said at the London launch of the campaign."

►February 27, 2004 - Baxter and Arriva Pharmaceuticals Complete First Clinical Trial Evaluating the Safety and Tolerability of Nebulized Recombinant Alpha 1-Antitrypsin - PRNewswire-FirstCall via http://interestalert.com

►February 29, 2004 - Kyoto bird flu outbreak kills 67,500 chickens - The Daily Yomiuri

►February 29, 2004 - CDC, health officials use innovative ways to fight diseases abroad - AP via www.accessnorthga.com

►February 27, 2004 - Kyrgyzstan: Deadly Disease Peril - Cash crisis in health service so acute that specimens of anthrax are ferried to an infectious diseases laboratory by public transport. - www.iwpr.net

►February 29, 2004 - West Nile, A Pregnancy Danger? - CDC via www.medicinenet.com

►February 27, 2004 - Foot and mouth disease found in Kyrgyzstan - UPI via http://interestalert.com

►February 27, 2004 - Doctoral candidates in S. Florida see Scripps as avenue for jobs - Sun-Sentinel

►February 29, 2004 - Problems of modern children often take a back seat to the seemingly more urgent problems of adults - Growing up pains - Times Leader

►February 29, 2004 - Dirty tricks drug firms use to get publicity - The Scotsman - "SHOCKING tactics including bribery, fabrication and plagiarism are being used by unscrupulous drug companies to get their research published in influential medical journals, according to a damning new report...Only a week after controversial research on the MMR vaccine was discredited by the journal which published it following a 'fatal conflict of interest', an influential committee has revealed the widespread use of underhand tactics by researchers."

►February 29, 2004 - Doctor demands apology for MMR claims in Lancet - Telegraph, UK - "Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who first raised fears of a link between autism and the MMR vaccine, has hired a libel lawyer to demand an apology from The Lancet after claiming that the medical journal has cast doubt on his honesty...Dr Wakefield's decision to enlist the support of Carter-Ruck, the London law firm that specialises in defamation suits, follows the denunciation of his work last week by The Lancet."

►February 27, 2004 - Alkali Creek Elementary School special ed teacher forced to move after 25 years - Billings Gazette

►February 27, 2004 - Technology suffers in budget - Funds needed for hardware, software upgrades - Watertown Tab & Press via www.townonline.com

►February 27, 2004 - Chasing A Hope: Advocates for Mentally Ill See Help in Proposed Sales Tax Increase - The Ledger

►February 29, 2004 - Baby Blair had MMR jab after outcry (requires subscription) - Times Online, UK - "LEO BLAIR, the prime minister’s youngest child, received the MMR jab later than normal after sustained public and press questioning of his parents, according to family and political sources...The Blairs and Downing Street have consistently refused to confirm whether Leo has had the vaccination despite the government’s advocacy of the MMR jab as the best and safest protection against measles, mumps and rubella."

►February 29, 2004 - Red tape delays hepatitis-B vaccination - The Daily Star

Comment:  For a different perspective on both the risk of acquiring hepatitis B as well as its seriousness, go to Scandals: The CDC and “The New Math”, where 1 + 1  does not equal 2.  For more on the the spread of hepatitis B in developing nations and why advocating the use of vaccination, under the circumstances, is very revealing, go to Scandals: "But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." - Thomas Moore (Scandals - update and "flashback").

►February 29, 2004 - NHS scornful of Charles on alternative medicines - www.independent.co.uk - "National Health Service managers yesterday dismissed calls by Prince Charles for more complementary medicines to be made freely available on the NHS, saying most of them did not work...Dr Gill Morgan, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, the umbrella body for managers, said the NHS could use only those medicines that had been proven effective, ruling out the majority of complementary therapies."

►February 29, 2004 - Chicken pox vaccine not foolproof - Times of India

►February 29, 2004 - Is Biotechnology Losing Its Nerve? (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "S a founder of four biotechnology companies, Dennis A. Carson can practically write an encyclopedia entry on risk. After all, his first start-up, a gene therapy and vaccine company called Vical, still does not have a product on the market after 16 years and more than $100 million spent...But now Dr. Carson, who is also the director of the cancer center at the University of California at San Diego, is playing it safe, or at least safer. Rather than develop radical new technology or invent new medicines, his latest venture, Salmedix, plans to sell drugs licensed from other companies - drugs that are already on the market or that have at least gone through some clinical trials."

►February 29, 2004 - Research slowly helping despair give way to hope (requires registration) - The Arizona Republic - "'Your child has autism.'...More than 10 families contact the Phoenix-based South- west Autism Research & Resource Center every week after hearing that devastating diagnosis...I say 'family' because autism not only affects your child, but every member of the family. How you feel, what you do, where you eat, how and where you sleep largely depend upon your child with autism."

►February 29, 2004 - Key to unlock disorder may lie in genomics (requires registration) - The Arizona Republic

►February 29, 2004 - Deadline set to counter flu epidemic - Gulf Daily News

►February 29, 2004 - More bird flu confirmed in Japan - www.abc.net.au

►February 29, 2004 - Autism is a mystery, not a medical conspiracy - opinion - The Scotsman - "In contrast to Wakefield, I intend to declare an interest at the outset. My son Josh is autistic. Like most children, he was given the MMR vaccine at around 18 months. Shortly afterwards, he began exhibiting the first signs of what we now identify as autistic behaviour. The link between these two events is tempting, but, for reasons of sanity, I have resisted it...In the vast majority of cases, autism manifests itself at around two years, or, in other words, just after the MMR is administered. This coincidence inspired Wakefield’s study. In 1998, his team reviewed reports of children with bowel disease and autistic symptoms. Their research led them to conclude that the MMR shot caused developmental regression, in some cases within 24 hours of vaccination."

Comment:  A temporally related relationship alone does not prove causation.  But a recent event raises a red flag and is, in fact, the most likely cause.  Moreover, the fact that autism didn't used to occur at two years old, nor did it result in the loss of skills as does the new, "regressive" form of autism, means cavalierly dismissing the temporal relationship as "coincidental" is neither wise nor scientific.  Sadly, however, this is characteristic of what happens re: the vaccine issue. The fact that others are beginning to corroborate Wakefield's findings, in spite of the difficulty finding funding to do so, and the potential risks to one's reputation and livelihood, make easy answers like the ones voiced in the opinion piece above even harder to swallow.

►February 29, 2004 - Wakefield unlikely to be charged over MMR scare - www.independent.co.uk

►February 27, 2004 - Emergency polio campaign ends, marred by lingering Nigerian Muslim boycott - AP via www.sfgate.com

►February 27, 2004 - HRT risks 'were known years ago' - Women could have been told about the risks of taking hormone replacement therapy years ago. - BBC

►February 26, 2004 - Mix of Chemicals Plus Stress Damages Brain, Liver in Animals and Likely in Humans - news release - Duke University Medical Center

►February 22, 2004 - WHO ‘suppressed’ scientific study into depleted uranium cancer fears in Iraq - Radiation experts warn in unpublished report that DU weapons used by Allies in Gulf war pose long-term health risk - Sunday Herald, UK

►February 26, 2004 - MMR medics challenged over child spinal taps - Times Online - "NEW questions about the ethics of the controversial study that linked the MMR vaccine to autism in children will be raised in Parliament today, The Times has learnt..Less than a week after the doctor who pioneered the research was accused of failing to disclose a £55,000 payment, ministers are to be asked whether he had received proper ethical approval. The fresh doubts centre on whether the lumbar punctures to which autistic children were subjected by Andrew Wakefield’s team at the Royal Free Hospital were clinically justified."

►February 26, 2004 - Leslie Burke is terminally ill. Today he will ask a court for the right to live - www.independent.co.uk

►February 29, 2004 - Great Influenza killed quickly, cruelly, perversely - Vivid history of U.S. epidemic of 1918 is also a cautionary tale for our times (requires registration) - book review - The Providence Journal

►February 29, 2004 - Hospital report card - www.newsday.com

►February 29, 2004 - Japanese chickens test positive for avian flu - Taipei Times

►February 29, 2004 - Japanese farm to kill 190,000 chickens after H5 virus bird flu confirmed - AFP via www.channelnewsasia.com

►February 29, 2004 - Bird flu outbreak raises fears of chicken consumers - Mainichi Daily News

►February 29, 2004 - Dirty tricks drug firms use to get publicity - Scotland on Sunday via www.scotsman.com

►February 25, 1999  - Antimicrobial Resistance: The NIH Response to a Growing Problem - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health

►February 29, 2004 - 'Unless pin-up parents rally round, we will see the return of dread diseases' - comment - The Observer via The Guardian, UK - "Meet 'John' and 'Jane', pin-up parents. They insist on organic food for their toddler, bring him to the best baby group in town, buy him only all-cotton outfits from Baby Gap and won't let him watch more than three hours of television a week...Despite this perfect parenting, however, John and Jane put their child's health at risk every day. They are among the 5 per cent of British parents who have opted out of vaccinating their child."

Comment:  This argument rests on assuming that the epidemic of autism, the rise in chronic disease (including cancer, asthma, diabetes), and other concerns raised by so-called "pin-up parents" could have nothing to do with vaccination and have been scientifically settled.  But condescension does not truth make.  And buying the propaganda generated by the vaccine manufacturers as to the safety of their product does not prevent harm from being done.  To the contrary, if these parents are right, it merely serves to perpetuate and compound the damage.

►February 29, 2004 - Int'l bird flu meeting agrees on help to affected countries - Vietnam News Agency

►March 1, 2004 - Flu puts scar on region - The Standard

►February 29, 2004 - Threat of bird flu pandemic haunts officials - Los Angeles Times via www.contracostatimes.com

►February 29, 2004 - Most `stomach flu' avoidable - In case you haven't been listening, wash those germy hands! - AP via Akron Beacon Journal via www.ohio.com

►February 29, 2004 - School nurses valued, but...Districts that have them plan to keep them, despite costs; others say life OK without them - South Bend Tribune

►February 29, 2004 - Health bosses deny MMR deception - Health bosses have denied university students' claims that they were tricked into having the MMR vaccine without their knowledge. - BBC - "A mass inoculation programme against mumps took place at the University of Kent at Canterbury earlier this month after six students caught the disease...Now some students have told a national newspaper they were not told they were being given the MMR vaccine."

►February 29, 2004 - MMR docs' links with drugs firms - Sunday Mercury via http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk - "Four leading Midland doctors who deemed the controversial MMR vaccine safe have links to the drug giants who make or supply the jab...Campaigners have called for the General Medical Council to investigate the senior Government advisors, who all hold scientific posts in the Midlands and sat on key committees which declared the vaccine safe."

►March 1, 2004 - Rutter reveals India plans - Business Standard

►February 29, 2004 - Tragedy saves twin, motivates his parents - The Modesto Bee - "RSV is something most of us can shrug off as a common cold: a shot of Nyquil, a box of Kleenex and a few nights of discomfort...Many babies get it, too, from shopping carts and from being around others with colds. But for infants in the high-risk category, it can be deadly. For them, RSV can have the same impact as double-pneumonia would on an adult."

►February 29, 2004 - Health Care - Hospitals are graded average for quality - Few excel in any of the state measures - Buffalo News

►February 29, 2004 - Reenactors flock to relive history - DeRidder Beauregard Daily News - "One of the peculiar things Rebekah has learned through her reading is that Civil War battlefield nurses and doctors used Cockroaches to make a tea to treat Tetanus...'If given the choice of dying and drinking that tea I'd choose dying,' Rebekah joked."

►2004 - Red Wine Maintains Immune System - www.about.com

►February 29, 2004 - Activists get help in fight on AIDS - Grant: Maryland groups receive $335 million, part of the president's pledge to fight the disease and help victims in Africa and elsewhere. - Baltimore Sun

►February 28, 2004 - Crowding and gangs add to ‘a pretty rough time’ - Reno Gazette-Journal

►February 28, 2004 - CDC chief urges better effort to stop diseases that affect women - The New York Times via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

►February 29, 2004 - Source of mercury ‘glob’ sought - Clinton - Jared Eliot Middle School has returned to its normal operation after mercury was found in a fountain drain pipe earlier this week, but it is still unclear how the mercury got there. - The Middletown Press via www.zwire.com

►February 29, 2004 - Campaign: Scandal of the Anthrax Babies: A Deadly Chemical Weapon - The Sunday Mirror, UK

►February 29, 2004 - Campaign: Scandal of the Anthrax Babies: Our Worst Nightmare - Baby Kye died: 5 weeks - The Sunday Mirror, UK

►February 29, 2004 - Study: Vaccine benefit fades - Less effective after a year - The Cincinatti Enquirer - "A new study might spark debate among pediatricians and parents about the effectiveness of the chickenpox vaccine and when it should be given to children...Researchers at Yale Medical School say the effectiveness of the vaccine fades significantly in the first year after vaccination. And the vaccine also doesn't appear to be as effective in children younger than 15 months."

Comment:  Prior to the vaccine being developed, chickenpox was universally considered a benign disease.  If it has become more serious since that time, why might that be?

►February 29, 2004 - Two more bird flu-affected areas removed from quarantine - Xinhuanet via China View

►February 29, 2004 - Bird Flu Threat Shuts Live Markets - Health authorities close four poultry sellers as a precaution after finding the virus in a Texas flock. Farmers fear long-term bans overseas. (requires registration) - The Los Angeles Times

►February 29, 2004 - Experts say Flu to Cost Asia $500 Million (requires registration) - The Los Angeles Times

►February 29, 2004 - Daughter's disability fuels mother's desire to bring program to Siouxland - Sioux City Journal

►February 28, 2004 - HIV/AIDS: Why Cure Hasn't Been Found - Abalaka - This Day via www.thisdayonline.com - "Managing Director of Abuja-based Medicrest Specialist hospital Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka, has said that the world has not been able to discover a cure for the HIV/AIDS scourge because all HIV preventive vaccines so far developed are designed to elicit anti-HIV antibody production...Speaking to newsmen in Abuja at the weekend, Abalaka said the only way to outsmart the virus is to design and apply a vaccine that would not be anchored on stimulating anti-HIV antibody production."

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

►February 29, 2004 - Trapped In A World Of Hurt - 50 Million Americans Have Chronic Pain, And So Far Doctors Can't Offer Much Relief (requires registration) - The Hartford Courant via www.ctnow.com

►February 29, 2004 - Denver Health a model for national health care - perspective - Denver Post

►March 1, 2004 - Peptech props up on Domantis patent - Shaw Stockbroking via www.egoli.com.au

►February 29, 2004 - Growth inhibitor shows promise - USA Today

►March 1, 2004 - Experts re-examine autism, vaccine debate - Daily Times, Pakistan

►March 1, 2004 - Facility with bird flu put poultry on market - The Japan Times

►March 1, 2004 - Flu-hit farm may have rushed to ship birds early - The Japan Times

►February 29, 2004 - Poultry farm in bird flu scare disinfected - Authorities do not wait for test results before trying to contain illness - The Japan Times

►March 1, 2004 - Flu shots for SAF troops training in Thailand - Though introduced last year to screen out Sars, jabs now also given in the wake of bird flu outbreak to help pinpoint ailments fast - The Straits Times

►February 27, 2004 - West African Polio Campaign Inoculates 60 Million Children - United States Department of State via www.allafrica.com

►March 8, 2002 - Serial letter writer, Dr. Elphinstone exposed - Private Eye via www.whale.to

►February 29, 2004 - Sunday Times Letters (requires subscription) - Times Online, UK

►February 24, 2004 - Re: Pocket Money - letter - www.telegraph.co.uk

►February 26, 2004 - Letters of the Week - The Guardian, UK

►November 6, 2003 - A further dose of MMR - letters - The Guardian, UK

►February 17, 2002 - MMR and autism - letters - The Observer via The Guardian, UK

►October 7, 2003 - Wealth, not health - letter - www.telegraph.co.uk

►October 30, 2003 - MMR Vaccine - letter - journal article (BMJ)

►February 28, 2004 - Anthrax: Vital fact the diggers weren't told - The Australian
 
►February 24, 2004 - This carefully orchestrated campaign must not be allowed to stifle real debate on MMR (requires subscription) - www.independent.co.uk

►February 29, 2004 - No vaccination for Blair - When the PM speaks out against something, we believe the opposite - comment - The Observer via The Guardian, UK - "The government's attempt to discredit Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who first pointed to a link between autism in children and the MMR vaccine, will have exactly the opposite effect to that intended...Parents who may have had their doubts before will nly be left wondering why the authorities have used such strong-arm tactics, reminiscent of the treatment of Dr David Kelly, if the vaccine is so completely safe as they now claim...But that is only half the problem. Blair's personal intervention, urging all parents to have their children vaccinated, has illustrated vividly the fix the Labour Government now is in post-Iraq - namely, people no longer believe anything the Prime Minister says."

►Brain Injury and Early Childhood Education Resources - The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential® - website

►February 28, 2004 - Medical Journal Malpractice - letter - journal article (BMJ)

►March 2004 - My life with Asperger’s syndrome - journal article (Archives of Disease in Childhood) 

►February 25, 2004 - Chua: Fund has benefited 44 chronic illness patients - Forty-four patients suffering from chronic illnesses have benefited from the National Health Welfare Fund, Health Minister Datuk Chua Jui Meng said today. - New Straits Times