►March 7,
2004 -
Autism debate underscores research difficulty, cost of disproving bad science
- CP via www.canada.com - "When Dr. Noni
MacDonald starts talking about the debate over whether childhood vaccinations
cause autism, her words are steeped in anger. She thinks the public ought to be
angry, too...The source of the emotion? The years of time, effort and research
funding that has been spent disproving a piece of British research that last
week was repudiated by most of the team responsible for it."
Comment: Do any
of those who are using this opportunity to discredit the research linking the
MMR to autism care that the research has not actually been disproved? Do
they care that all that has happened is that a potential conflict has been
raised? Do they care that, although regrettable, a potential for conflict
of interest does not in and of itself disprove research, but merely raises the
specter that the research has been tainted and/or influenced by the conflict?
Have any of these self-righteously angry decriers ever once complained about the
clear and obvious conflicts of interest in support of the MMR vaccine?
►March 7,
2004 -
Dangerous disease -
opinion - Scotland on Sunday - "Up to now, parents who
fundamentally oppose the MMR have either had to source and pay for single
injections - at up to £350 per course - or gamble that if they leave their
children unprotected they will not catch one of the diseases. The former option
is becoming increasingly rare, with sources of single inoculations drying up -
at the moment the mumps vaccine is almost impossible to obtain. A mass order for
single vaccines from the NHS would soon have manufacturers vying to meet the
demand, of course, and it looks increasingly sensible to offer parents that
alternative, so long as they are willing to pay for a service which is above and
beyond basic need. Some will see this as caving in to ill-informed prejudice but
this would be a small price to pay to protect all our children from disease."
►March 7,
2004 - Leading article:
The MMR superstition (requires subscription) -
The Times Online
►March 6,
2004 -
Autism link claim took vaccine from hero to
villain (requires subscription) - The Times
Online
►March 7,
2004 -
The needle and the damage done
- opinion - Scotland on Sunday - "THE hours after her
one-year-old son Victor was injected with the MMR vaccination were among the
longest of Iustina Del Veneziano’s life...After an agonising decision process
before deciding to go ahead with the jag, the Edinburgh mum was watching for any
small indication that she might have made the wrong move. She didn’t have to
wait long."
►March 5, 2004 - House
committee votes to kill immunization bill - AP via Charleston Daily Mail -
"A bill that would have allowed parents to refuse to have their children
immunized for religious reasons was killed by a House subcommittee...A House
Health and Human Resources subcommittee voted 6-1 to postpone indefinitely
consideration of the proposal, preventing further legislative action on it this
year."
►March 5, 2004 - Bill
seeks to broaden druggists' powers - Measure would let them administer flu
vaccine - The Baltimore Sun
►March 5, 2004 - Attorney
disbarred - The Journal News - "Filenbaum also represented clients in a
private practice, taking on several cases defending parents' rights not to have
their children vaccinated. He was considered an expert on immunization law,
lecturing on the laws and testifying in other courts on the issue...F. Hollis
Griffin, a longtime public defender who has worked with Filenbaum since 1986,
said many of the cases involving vaccinations were handled by Filenbaum. Griffin
said he lost one Justice Court case as a prosecutor and it was to Filenbaum."
►March 5, 2004 - Rumours
and vaccines - The Globe And Mail - "So much is riding on northern Nigeria's
verdict on the polio vaccine that any delay is frustrating. It had been expected
that the government and Islamic religious leaders in Nigeria's Kano state would
announce this week whether vaccinations against polio would resume. On
Wednesday, officials with the United Nations World Health Organization said the
state had postponed any decision until March 15."
►March 3, 2004 - Emerging
Illnesses "The New Normal" - The Cox News Service via
www.intelihealth.com - "The numerous
outbreaks of previously unrecognized diseases that occurred during the past two
years were no anomaly, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention warned Sunday evening: They are a 'new normal' for which governments
are not yet prepared."
Comment: What, if
any, role my vaccination play in the emergence of new diseases? For more
on this, go to
Scandals:
Changing Disease Epidemiology Via Vaccines - Are We "Robbing Peter To Pay Paul"?
►February 2004 - Drug
Approval Highlights for 2003 - Nurse Practitioner via
www.mhnet.org
►March 6, 2004 - DNR,
hunters oppose attempt to expand deer farming - AP via The Charleston
Gazette
►March 5, 2004 - Promise,
peril and progress - The Washington Times - "Ever since they were discovered
by scientists, embryonic stem cells have been thought to hold both distinct
moral peril and great medical promise — that they might one day be used to cure
diseases like Parkinson's and juvenile diabetes — but at the cost of devaluing
the sacred gift of life. Those dilemmas framed President Bush's August 2001
decision to restrict federal funding of such research to a limited number of
stem-cell lines. However, the policy needs re-evaluation in the light of recent
circumstances."
►February 2004 - Hospital
Mortality for Patients With Bacteremia Due to Staphylococcus aureus or
Pseudomonas aeruginosa* - Chest via
www.pharmacytimes.com
►February 2004 - Pulmonary
Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma*: An Unusual Case and a Review of the
Literature - Chest via
www.pharmacytimes.com
►February 2004 - Prospective
Multicenter Study of Relapse Following Emergency Department Treatment of COPD
Exacerbation* - Chest via
www.pharmacytimes.com
►March 4, 2004 - Cigarette
Smoking Increases Lupus Risk - Risk of Autoimmune Disease Higher Among
Smokers - WebMD Medical News
►March 4, 2004 - Scripps
scientists describe dangerous cocktail of alcohol, brain peptides, and
neurotransmitters - Scripps Research Institute via
www.eurekalert.org
►March 7, 2004 - CVO
holds ‘chicken fest’ -
www.sunstar.com.ph
►March 5, 2004 - Louisiana:
Fourteen Elementary Students Test Positive for TB - AP via
www.aegis.org
►March 5, 2004 - Safeguarding
science - A new government panel will attempt to prevent research data from
falling into the hands of terrorists - Newsday
►March 4, 2004 - Researcher
is healthy, leaves isolation - The Baltimore Sun
►March 4, 2004 - U.S.
extends restrictions on Canadian exports, welcomes Mexico's acceptance of
American beef - AP via The San Diego Union-Tribune
►March 7, 2004 - Juniors
get a taste of Special Olympics - The Journal News
►March 5, 2004 - Parents
furious as strike chiefs snub talks plea - The Scotsman
►March 6, 2004 - Move
to Florida Began Tailspin for Mother and Daughter - The Ledger - "It was the
frigid weather and high rent in New Jersey that got Valerie Lowe thinking about
a move to Florida...As a single mother caring for a daughter with profound
cerebral palsy, Lowe, 41, said she couldn't afford $850 a month for a
two-bedroom apartment in a decent part of town...Not while working as a sales
associate for Old Navy...Lowe loved her job, so after asking her employer to be
transferred to a sunny, Florida location, she wound up at Lakeland Square
mall...That was August 2002, and the beginning of Lowe's tailspin into
joblessness and welfare."
►March 7, 2004 - Single
MMR jag demand soars despite claims - The Scotsman - "Accusations
that research linking the triple jag to health risks was 'fatally flawed' has
only served to further entrench public scepticism over the jag’s safety,
according to doctors providing single-vaccine alternatives."
►March 3, 2004 - Health
Highlights: - Here are some of the latest health and medical news
developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay via
www.lifeclinic.com
►March 3, 2004 - Polio
Immunisation: Debating Against Life - This Day (Lagos) via
www.allafrica.com
►March 3, 2004 - Analysis:
More vaccine makers needed - UPI via
http://interestalert.com - "Health officials say the recommendation that
doctors withhold doses of a childhood vaccine because of shortages underscores
the need for more pharmaceutical companies to enter the vaccine-making
field...In a hastily assembled news briefing during the 4th International
Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, officials at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention advised U.S. doctors to hold off administering the third
and fourth doses of the popular and effective vaccine that had slashed
incidences of pneumococcal disease in children."
►March 3, 2004 - Elk
River Clinic Announces Chickenpox Vaccine Recall - PRNewswire via
http://interestalert.com - "The RiverWay
Clinic in Elk River today announced that it is contacting approximately 1,200
patients who received immunizations with varicella (chickenpox) vaccine at the
clinic between Dec. 1998 and Dec. 2003 to ensure that they are adequately
protected from the chickenpox...An audit of vaccine freezers at the clinic in
January found a temperature variance in one freezer containing varicella
(chickenpox) vaccine that may have resulted in the loss of effectiveness of the
vaccine stored inside."
►March 2, 2004 - Dolls
help comfort children - AP via
www.news-star.com
►February 2004 - Drug-Endangered
Children - FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin via
www.mhnet.org
►March 4, 2004 - Camco is
6th in asbestos deaths - Courier-Post via
www.ewg.org
►March 3, 2004 - Foot-And-Mouth
Disease Eradication Urged By Governments, Private Sector - PAHO
►March 3, 2004 - Health
officials alarmed by increase in syphilis cases -
www4.fosters.com
►March 1, 2004 -Urticaria
and Angioedema: A Practical Approach - University of Iowa
www.aafp.org
►March 4, 2004 - As
wave of veterans rolls home, VA hospitals prepare to treat all symptoms -
Knight Ridder Newspapers via www.kentucky.com
►March 4, 2004 - HHS
Will Lead Government-Wide effort to Enhance Biosecurity In "Dual Use" Research
- New Advisory Board Established To Provide Guidance - HHS News U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
►March 4, 2004 - Study:
Virus extends life in some HIV men - UPI via
http://interestalert.com
►March 3, 2004 - Old
Diseases Fall Off Public Health Radar; Complacency Allows Malaria, TB To
Flourish - USA Today via
www.intelihealth.com - "Microbial killers such as drug-resistant malaria,
tuberculosis, HIV and syphilis continue to ravage the world. Health experts say
they know how to prevent and treat these diseases, but first they need to
overcome a different kind of public health enemy: complacency...Public attention
in the past two years has focused on new diseases, such as SARS, and new
threats, such as bioterrorism, but scientists here at the International
Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases say the lack of attention to older
diseases is allowing them to flourish."
►March/April 2004 - The
Next Worst Thing - Is the federal government's expansion of biodefense
research paving the way for the bioweapons of the future? -
www.motherjones.com - "It has been
called a modern-day Manhattan Project—a spending spree so vast and rapid that it
might change the face of biological science. In the wake of 9/11, the U.S.
government is funding a massive new biodefense research effort, redirecting up
to $10 billion toward projects related to biological weapons such as anthrax.
The Pentagon's budget for chemical and biological defense has doubled;
high-security nuclear-weapons labs have begun conducting genetic research on
dangerous pathogens; universities are receiving government funding to build
high-tech labs equipped to handle deadly infectious organisms; and Fort Detrick,
Maryland, once the home of America's secret bioweapons program, is about to
break ground on two new high-tech biodefense centers."
►March 3, 2004 - Britons
urge tighter meat imports - The health of people in the UK could be at risk
from bushmeat imports and other forms of "food crime", campaigners say. - BBC
►March 1, 2004 - SARS
distress hit nurses hardest: survey - www.cbc.ca
►March 2, 2004 - CDC
Searches For Cause To Mystery Deaths - AP via
www.intelihealth.com
►March 2, 2004 - Analyst
stands behind MedImmune -
http://moneycentral.msn.com
►March 2, 2004 - Vaccinating
children protects adults as well - American Society for Microbiology via
www.eurekalert.org - "Since the approval
of a vaccine against pneumococcal bacteria for young children in 2000, there has
not only been a drop in the incidence of severe disease caused these bacteria in
children but also a significant decline in the disease in adults. Researchers
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report their results today
in two studies at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious
Diseases...'We were pretty confident when we recommended this vaccine for
children it would help them,' says Cynthia Whitney, a researcher on both
studies. 'What was a pretty pleasant surprise was the amount of benefit we've
seen in unvaccinated populations.'"
►March 2, 2004 - Study
suggests better use of web could improve infectious disease reporting - Penn
State via www.eurekalert.org
►March 1, 2004 - Marshfield
Clinic gives name to newly-found bacterium - Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune
via www.wisinfo.com
►March 5, 2004 - Men,
Empathy, and Autism - A British researcher offers a new theory about the
developmental disorder that has skyrocketed among children -
http://chronicle.com
Comment: For some
insight into the furor that this theory has caused, go to
Scandals:
Adding Insult to Injustice to Injury Redux.
►March 4, 2004 - Changing
rules for the disabled - It is an uphill battle but parents and caregivers
are supporting the Bar Council’s ongoing signature campaign to end
discrimination against the learning disabled in the education system, writes
Pang Hin Yue. - http://thestar.com.my
►March 3, 2004 - Acambis
Hopeful of Smallpox Vaccine - Financial Times via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 3, 2004 - Animal
Diseases Threaten Humans - Atlanta Journal-Constitution via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 3, 2004 - U.S.
Further Rations Meningitis Vaccine - Wall Street Journal via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 2, 2004 - Diluted
Smallpox Vaccine Dose Equally Effective - Central News Agency via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 2, 2004 - Even
With Vaccination, the 'Whoop' Is Back - New York Times via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 2, 2004 - Flu
Season Seems Over, Officials Say - New York Times via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 2, 2004 - MedImmune
Flu Vaccine Will Not Help Profits Until 2007 - New York Times via
www.immunizationinfo.org(abstract)
►March 2, 2004 - New,
Deadly Flu Pandemic 'Inevitable,' Experts Warn - USA Today via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
Comment: How do they know it is
"inevitable"? Do we really know why the 1918 flu pandemic occurred and
that it is a repeatable event? If so, how do we "know" that?
►March 2, 2004 - Non-Profit
Experiment Tests Drug Industry's Assumptions - Financial Times via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract) - "Volunteers who enrolled at St. Louis University for a clinical
trial of an experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccine are among the first in a new
attempt at nonprofit drug and vaccine development in the industrialized world,
with not-for-profit organizations challenging the dominance held by
pharmaceutical companies over the world of medicine."
►March 1, 2004 - China
More Forthcoming on Infectious Diseases--WHO - Reuters via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 1, 2004 - Parents
Lobby to Ease Immunization Laws - St. Louis Post-Dispatch via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 1, 2004 - Uganda:
New AIDS Vaccine Coming for Trials - Africa News Service via
www.immunizationinfo.org
(abstract)
►March 5, 2004 -
In Texas, Hire
a Lawyer, Forget About a Doctor? (requires registration or subscription) -
The New York Times - "As domestic security director for 16 north Texas counties,
Greg Dawson of Fort Worth has many dealings with doctors and hospitals,
preparing for a terrorism emergency he hopes will never come...So, Mr. Dawson
said, he was stunned this week to find that his name had been added to a
little-known Internet database for doctors attacking "litigious behavior." His
offense: filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against a Fort Worth hospital and
doctor over the death of his 39-year-old wife, whose brain tumor was missed, and
winning an undisclosed settlement."
►March 4, 2004 -
Group Seeks Ban of Anti-Cholesterol Drug - AP via Yahoo!
►March 5, 2004 -
Companies
Facing Ethical Issue as Drugs Are Tested Overseas (requires registration or
subscription) - The New York Times -
►March 4, 2004 -
4 subjects
challenge Lilly over drug trial - Outside overseer says he found no
indication that suicide victim was depressed - Indianapolis Star via
www.indystar.com - "Four participants in
an Eli Lilly and Co. drug trial in California said the clinic's staff told them
that Traci Johnson, who committed suicide last month during the same study in
Indianapolis, had a history of depression...But Dr. Rafat Abonour, chairman of
the institutional review board that reviews all Lilly drug trials at Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis, said his review of Johnson's records
showed no such history."
►March 4, 2004 -
U.S. Lawmakers Push for Drug Monitoring Systems - Reuters via Yahoo!
►March 1, 2004 -
IRS Allows Weight-Loss Tax Deduction - AP via Yahoo!
►March 5, 2004 - Will
an Apple a Day Keep the Doctor Away? - Saint Louis University Health
Sciences Center via Newswise
►March 4, 2004 -
Teen Obesity On The Rise, Study Shows - Obese Teens Face Potential Health
Problems - www.nbcsandiego.com
►March 5, 2004 -
Another bird flu suspect found in Thailand - Xinhuanet via China View
►March 5, 2004 -
GSDF get
bird flu cleanup duty - Kyodo News via Japan Today
►March 5, 2004 -
Canada to set up bird flu vaccine centers - Xinhuanet via China View
►March 5, 2004 - 10 scientists
retract conclusion on autism - International Herald Tribune
►March 5, 2004 -
Acambis' Springboard: Smallpox - The little biotech has done well supplying
a vaccine to the U.S. CEO Gordon Cameron discusses how it plans to sustain its
success - Business Week
►March 4, 2004 -
NYU student had meningitis, recovered - New York Newsday
►March 4, 2004 -
Minnesota DNR finds no deer with chronic wasting disease - Star Tribune
►March 5, 2004 -
Students to receive Boostrix vaccine - Stawell Times News via
www.yourguide.com.au
►March 5, 2004 -
New rattlesnake vaccine available - Sierra Star
►February 18, 2004 -
U.S. Experts Struggle with Next Year's Flu Vaccine - Reuters via Yahoo!
►March 3, 2004 -
Mysterious
virus may thwart HIV - New England Journal
of Medicine via New Scientist
►March 4, 2004 -
Ancient virus
may be HIV help (requires subscription) -
www.health24.co.za
►March 4, 2004 -
Persistent
HIV/hepatitis G co-infection provides significant survival benefit -
www.aidsmap.com
►March 5, 2004 -
Traces of Bt
toxin found in lumads blood samples - Mindanao News via
www.mindanaotimes.com.ph
►March 4, 2004 - Johns
Hopkins Team Successfully Transplants 3 Kidneys - New Procedure Eliminates
Risk Of Refusal After Transplant Operations -
www.nbc17.com
►March 4, 2004 - "Triple
Swap" Kidney Transplant Operation a Success - Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions via Newswise
►March 4, 2004 -
MMR
Doctors Reject Own Autism Link Report - Ten doctors who co-authored a
controversial study in Britain that suggested a link between childhood
vaccinations and autism said this week there was not enough evidence to draw
that conclusion. - Reuters via Planet Ark
►March 4, 2004 -
Scientists retract earlier MMR-autism tie - UPI via The Washington Times
►March 4, 2004 -
Autism? Dyslexia? Try Mozart - www.wnep.com
►March 4, 2004 -
BioPort Supplies FDA-Licensed Anthrax Vaccine to Taiwan - BioPort via
Business Wire
►March 5, 2004 -
Australia to help RI with flu, dengue - The Jakarta Post
►March 4, 2004 -
State: Bird flu isn't a threat - Found in 4 markets none are in Hudson
(requires registration) - The Jersey Journal via
www.nj.com
►March 5, 2004 - New
vaccine means fewer jabs for babies - Today Online
►March 5, 2004 -
100 Years Ago: Today: 5 March 1904 - The Statesman
►March 4, 2004 -
Vitamins Don't Prevent Pneumonia in Male Smokers - Reuters
►March 4, 2004 -
Multiple
sclerosis: Taming of a shrew - UPI
►March 4, 2004 - Authors of
MMR study retract findings - The Herald, UK
►March 3, 2004 -
House
debates malpractice bill (requires registration) - The Kansas City Star
►March 4, 2004 -
Bills seek to allow greater access to flu shots - Legislation would expand
pharmacists' powers to give vaccinations - Baltimore Sun
►February 2004 -
Antibodies to infectious agents in individuals with recent onset schizophrenia
- journal article (European Archives of
Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience)
►February 2004 -
Immunological and infectious aspects of schizophrenia - journal article
(European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical
Neuroscience)
►February 2004 -
Childhood central nervous system infections and risk for schizophrenia -
journal article (European Archives of
Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience)
►February 2004 -
Childhood meningitis, brain maturation and the risk of psychosis - journal
article (European Archives of Psychiatry and
Clinical Neuroscience)
►March 3, 2004 -
Pest
control company faces brain-damage lawsuit - Did residential pesticide
spraying cause child's autism brain injury? - Inman News via
www.mortgage101.com
►March 5, 2004 -MMR
doctors disown jab study - Daily Mail via
www.femail.co.uk
►March 4, 2004 -
Controversial
MMR and autism study retracted - The Lancet
via New Scientist
►March 2004 -
Neurodevelopment in Children Born Small for Gestational Age: A Randomized
Trial of Nutrient-Enriched Versus Standard Formula and Comparison With a
Reference Breastfed Group -journal article
(Pediatrics)
►March 2004 -
Incidence of Outpatient Visits and Hospitalizations Related to Influenza in
Infants and Young Children - journal article
(Pediatrics)
►March 2004 -
Patterns of Injury in Children: A Population-Based Approach - journal
article (Pediatrics)
►March 2004 - The
Multi-Country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
Strategy: Lessons for the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions -
journal article (American Journal of Public
Health)
►March 1, 2004 -
Prevalence of Chemokine and Chemokine Receptor Polymorphisms in Seroprevalent
Children With Symptomatic HIV-1 Infection in the United States - journal
article (Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndromes)
►March 5, 2004 -
Only 14 viral pneumonia patients remain in hospital - Vietnam News Agency
►March 5, 2004 -
Rubella Dangers - Medstar via www.wsoctv.com
Comment:
For a perspective on rubella vaccine dangers, go to
Scandals:
Is Rubella
Vaccination Playing A Role In The Rise In Autism?
►March 5, 2004 -
Liberia: New Vaccine Storage Facility to Support Immunisation Programmes -
IRIN via www.allafrica.com
►March 5, 2004 -
Vaccine For Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Shows Immunologic And Clinical Activity
- Journal of the National Cancer Institute
via Doctor's Guide
►March 5, 2004 -
New animal model for Alzheimer's vaccine - Alzheimer's Association via
www.scienceblog.com
►March 5, 2004 -
Researchers: Alzheimer's vaccine shows promise in animal model - AP via
www.wstm.com
►March 5, 2004 -
Monkeys May Speed Alzheimer's Vaccine - Animal Model Shows Promise to Speed
Plaque-Removing Vaccine - Alzheimer Disease and
Associated Disorders via WebMD
►March 5, 2004 -
Presence of Anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibodies Highly Suggestive of
Elderly-Onset Rheumatoid Arthritis -
Rheumatology via Doctor's Guide
►March 5, 2004 -
Student diagnosed with meningitis at Poplarville Lower Elementary - Picayune
Item
►March 5, 2004 -
School meningitis case worries mom - Sun Herald
►March 5, 2004 -
Injection
of sense (requires subscription) - Times Online, UK
►March 5, 2004 -
BI Vetmedica Launches New Form of Vaccine - Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica
Inc. via www.cropdecisions.com
►March 2004 -
Gumming Up Your Heart - Better Dental Care Can Prevent Disease and Keep You
Healthier From Head to Toe - AARP Bulletin
►March 5, 2004 -
NIU receives
anthrax threat - UP still seeking information on Wednesday's bomb threat -
Northern Star Online
►March 5, 2004 -
UNICEF
to use horses to reach children in anti-measles campaign in Chad - UN
►March 5, 2004 -
Researchers Reject Famous MMR-Autism Study - Experts Say Likely to Close the
Door on MMR Vaccine Controversy - WebMD
►March 5, 2004 -
Grab the tissues: Warm spell brings early allergy season - AP via San
Francisco Chronicle via www.sfgate.com
►March 5, 2004 -
Medtronic Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Art Collins to Serve as Chairman
of AdvaMed - Collins Calls Upon Industry to Join in Concerted Effort to
Improve Patient Access to Breakthrough Medical Technologies - Medtronic via
Business Wire
►March 5, 2004 -
Meningitis Warning Issued After Death of Student Who Visited UCD -
www.kxtv10.com
►February 2004 - Do We Spend Too
Much on Immunizations? - Health Care Policy Center, Independence Institute
►Registry
Standards of Excellence in Support of an Immunization Program (pdf) -
American Immunization Registry Association
►February 20, 2004 -
Researchers Find a Type of Stem Cell May Have the Ability to Repair the Brain
(requires subscription) - The New York Times
►Sixth
Annual Celebrity Golf Challenge - The Autism Coalition
►First
Annual L.A. Celebrity Golf Challenge - The Autism Coalition
►March 3, 2004 -
Commission to investigate complaints over autism funding - CBC Ottawa
►Immunization
Tracking - Source Code and Application - Item number: 3664884194 - Starting
bid: US $5,000.00 - Ends Mar-11-04 18:40:11 PST -
www.ebay.com
►Treating the
Biology of Autism: an approach to interventions for spectrum disorders (pdf)
- conference alert - ASA/OCC Biology of Autism
Treatments - April 3 & 4, 2004 in Pontiac, Michigan
►March 5, 2004 -
MMR: the
controversy continues - Even though Dr Andrew Wakefield, the leading
protagonist of the MMR-autism link, has been discredited, and the Lancet paper
that launched the scare in 1998 has been repudiated by 10 of its 13 co-authors,
the controversy continues. This suggests that the key factor in the scare is not
Dr Wakefield's flawed science, but the wider climate of fear of environmental
dangers and suspicion of scientific, medical and political authority. -
www.spiked-online.com
►Healthy Skepticism -
Improving health by reducing harm from misleading drug promotion -
www.healthyskepticism.org
►December 1997 -
MaLAM, a medical lobby for appropriate marketing of pharmaceuticals - We can
protect scientific medicine from misleading promotion - journal article
(Medical Journal of Australia)
►March 2004 -
Predictors of Future Fight-Related Injury Among Adolescents - journal
article (Pediatrics)
►March 2004 -
Effectiveness of an Herbal Preparation Containing Echinacea, Propolis, and
Vitamin C in Preventing Respiratory Tract Infections in Children - A
Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter Study - journal
article (Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent
Medicine) - "Conclusion A preventive effect of a
product containing echinacea, propolis, and vitamin C on the
incidence of respiratory tract infections was observed."
►March 2004 -
The Impact
of Reminder-Recall Interventions on Low Vaccination Coverage in an Inner-City
Population - journal article (Archives of
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)
►March 2004 -
Childhood
Immunization Rates Before and After the Implementation of Medicaid Managed Care
- journal article (Archives of Pediatrics and
Adolescent Medicine)
►March 2004 -
Effects of
an Advocacy Intervention to Reduce Smoking Among Teenagers - journal article
(Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent
Medicine)
►March 3, 2004 -
Ancient
Virus May Help HIV Patients Live Longer - HealthDay via Yahoo!
►March 3, 2004 -
School
Program Curbs Teen Suicide Attempts: Study - Reuters via Yahoo!
►March 2, 2004 -
Children in
Shelters Hit Hard by Asthma (requires registration or subscription) - The
New York Times
►March 4, 2004 -
Antibacterial Products Don't Reduce Infection Symptoms -
Annals of Internal Medicine via Ivanhoe
►March 3, 2004 -
Shortage forces cutback in infant vaccine - Health officials asked doctors
to further reduce the number of vaccine doses given to protect infants against
meningitis and deadly blood infections, in order to stretch out a short supply.
- Reuters via CNN
►March 1, 2004 - Effect
of Otitis Media and Tympanostomy Tubes - journal article
(American Family Physician)
►March 2004 -
Determinants of Insulin Sensitivity and Secretion in Very-Low-Birth-Weight
Children - journal article (Journal of
Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism)
►March 2004 -
Short
Children Born Small for Gestational Age and Treated with Growth Hormone for
Three Years Have an Important Catch-Down Five Years after Discontinuation of
Treatment - journal article (Journal of
Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism)
►March 2004 -
Normative Neurobehavioral Performance of Healthy Infants on the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioral Scale - journal article
(Pediatrics)
►March 2004 -
Use of
Safe Cribs and Bedroom Size Among African American Infants With a High Rate of
Bed Sharing - journal article (Archives of
Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)
►March 2004 -
The epidemiology of extrahepatic biliary atresia in New York State, 1983-98
- journal article (Paediatric and Perinatal
Epidemiology)
►March 4, 2004 -
Web
Program Helps Kids With Diet, Exercise - HealthDay via Yahoo!
►March 4, 2004 -
Vitamins
Don't Prevent Pneumonia in Male Smokers - Reuters via Yahoo!
►March 4, 2004 -
Dairy May
Lower Risk of Kids Obesity - AP via Yahoo!
►March 4, 2004 -
Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreement -
BMJ via
www.eurekalert.org
►March 4, 2004 -
Kids Who Eat Too Much Fat, or Too Little, Prone to Weight Gain - And too
many aren't eating enough dairy products, study finds - HealthDay via USA Today
►March 5, 2004 -
New
Children's Heart Pump May Save Lives - AP via Yahoo!
►March 6, 2004 -
High IQ in
childhood may protect from cognitive decline - journal article
(BMJ)
►March 6, 2004 -
Prognosis
for teenagers and young people with cancer fails to improve - journal
article (BMJ)
►March 6, 2004 -
Retraction of an interpretation (requires registration) - journal article
(The Lancet)
►March 6, 2004 -
A statement by the editors of The Lancet (requires registration) - journal
article (The Lancet)
►March 6, 2004 -
A statement by Dr Simon Murch (requires registration)- journal article
(The Lancet)
►March 6, 2004 -
A statement by Professor John Walker-Smith (requires registration) - journal
article (The Lancet)
►March 6, 2004 -
A statement by Dr Andrew Wakefield (requires registration) - journal article
(The Lancet)
►March 6, 2004 -
A statement by The Royal Free and University College Medical School and The
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust (requires registration) - journal article
(The Lancet)
►March 6, 2004 -
Watchdog keeps drug firms true - The Australian -
"PETER Mansfield is an unlikely
revolutionary...Sitting in his 'office' in his southern Adelaide home, the
quiet, bespectacled man seems more like a university lecturer than a man who has
spent 20 years fighting an unequal battle against drug companies around the
world...His chosen fight?...Targeting the elimination of inappropriate marketing
of drugs by pharmaceutical companies...Dr Mansfield, a part-time GP, leads
Healthy Skepticism, an organisation with core funding of $8000 a year, facing an
industry whose annual Australian promotional budget is believed to be more than
$1 billion."
►March 6, 2004 -
Coaches
to get immunity from prosecution - The Guardian, UK
►March 6, 2004 -
GSDF sent to
Tanba for bird-flu cleanup - The Ashai Shimbun
►March 6, 2004 -
Parents make bone marrow plea to save lives of four sons - Telegraph, UK
►March 6, 2004 -
Hundreds pledge to help brothers - More than 1,000 people have offered to
become bone marrow donors after hearing of the plight of four brothers who have
one of the world's rarest diseases. - BBC
►March 6, 2004 -
Bacterial
meningitis may have killed student - Porterville Recorder
►March 6, 2004 -
Kyoto pref. govt's
bird flu leaflets faulted - Yomiuri Shimbun
►March 6, 2004 - Govt
must do more to fight bird flu - Yomiuri Shimbun
►March 6, 2004 -
Ranbaxy Launches Branded Drug In UK - The Financial Express
