►March 2004 - Is it influenza or anthrax? A decision analytic approach to the treatment of patients with influenza-like illnesses. - journal article (Annals of Emergency Medicine)

►March 12, 2004 - The Global Disease-Busters - Financial Times via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 12, 2004 - U.S. to Buy Anthrax Vaccine - Washington Post via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 11, 2004 - First Round of Polio Vaccination Campaign Begins in Northern Afghan Province - BBC News via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 11, 2004 - Flu Shots Program Has A$6m Wastage - Sydney Morning Herald via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 11, 2004 - Flu Vaccines for All? - Christian Science Monitor via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 11, 2004 - Meningococcal Vaccine Trial Reports Success - Wellington Dominion via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 11, 2004 - New U.S Guidelines Stress Flu Shots for Babies - Reuters via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 11, 2004 - Progress Reported on Safer Smallpox Vaccine - Atlanta Journal-Constitution via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 11, 2004 - Report: Conn. No. 1 in U.S. in Childhood Vaccinations - AP via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 10, 2004 - India, Pakistan to Cooperate in Polio Eradication - BBC News via  www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 10, 2004 - Rwanda to Join African Trials for AIDS Vaccine - Reuters via  www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 1, 2004 - Europe Approves Infectious Disease Center - Nature Medicine via  www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►March 12, 2004 - Connecticut No. 1 in child vaccinations - AP via www.wfsb.com

►March 11, 2004 - Flu bug reduces schools' funding - State holds back cash because of absences - Record Searchlight via www.redding.com

►March 4, 2004 - To your child's health - Waltham Forest Guardian, UK

►March 11, 2004 - Insect bite killed holidaymaker - Liverpool Daily Post, UK via http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk

►March 11, 2004 - Healing with Light Moves Beyond Fiction - http://healthlink.mcw.edu

►March 12, 2004 - Interview/ Satoshi Ishikawa: Pesticides more dangerous than believed - www.asahi.com - "Recent studies reveal organophosphates in household pesticides and flame retardants used in building materials and home electrical appliances can cause complex neurological and mental disorders that were not recognized before."

►March 11, 2004 - Study identifies how new neurons grow in the adult brain - University of California Irvine via UC News Wire

►March 11, 2004 - Caring and curing - The Guardian, UK - "The health secretary, John Reid, tackles the most serious challenge facing the NHS at a Guardian conference today in Birmingham. Do not expect his speech to provoke a media frenzy. The issue does not threaten splits within the main political parties or between them. Hence the absence of political debate. Yet how the NHS responds to chronic disease remains the most important issue on the health agenda. Here is one way of putting it in perspective: consider the acres of media space devoted to elective surgery's waiting lists; yet of the 1 million patients waiting for treatment, 70% will be seen within three months. Now consider the 17 million patients suffering from chronic, incurable and debilitating diseases (arthritis, asthma, diabetes, depression, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's) who will not be cured by a one-off operation but who, with good integrated care over many years, can lead productive and fulfilling lives. The challenge is much more than 17 times as large."

►March 2004 - Consent To Clinical Decisions When Capacity Is Absent. Part 1: Making decisions - Nursing Management Harrow-on-the-Hill via http://mentalhelp.net

►March 12, 2004 - Facing the global threat of the influenza virus - Borneo Bulletin via www.brunei-online.com - "Recognising the current serious global threat of the influenza virus, the Institute of Medicine at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD) organised a medical lecture on 'Influenza Infections - Lingering Global Threats'."

►March 11, 2004 - Overnight Killer - Parents Lose Daughter to Fast-Working Disease; Could Vaccine Have Helped? - www.abcnews.go.com - "Sue Koenig says she'll never forget the cold December afternoon when her tortured young daughter turned to her with a simple question...'Why do I feel so sick, Mom?' her daughter asked, Koenig recalled on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America."

►March 11, 2004 - Parents wary of holding off on antibiotics - Chicago Tribune via Knight Ridder Newspapers via www.kentucky.com

►March 11, 2004 - Terrorism is a Medical Matter - www.medicinenet.com

►March 11, 2004 - Isis Pharmaceuticals Forms Strategic Alliance With Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in RNAi Therapeutics - Isis and Alnylam Bring Together Leading RNAi Patent Estates and Expertise to Develop RNAi Therapeutics - PRNewswire-FirstCall via http://interestalert.com

►March 11, 2004 - Visa delays put off start of Swiss-born Scripps director - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

►March 11, 2004 - Chimerix Awarded NIH Grant to Fund Drug Development for Multi-Drug Resistant HIV Infection - PRNewswire via http://interestalert.com

►March 12, 2004 - Lottery cash for childcare - Lottery grants worth more than £100,000 have been awarded to four childcare projects in Belfast and County Tyrone. - BBC News

►March 11, 2004 - Movie Experiment Hints That Our Brains Work Alike - National Geographic News

►March 11, 2004 - Facing a new challenge - State goals put greater burden on special education - Barrington Courier-Review

►March 11, 2004 - Embracing Autism: Story is laborious testament to a mother's love, persistence - The Boston Globe via Sarasota Herald-Tribune - book review - The Boy Who Loved Windows

►March 11, 2004 - How can vaccines cause damage? - letter in response to Pressure mounts for inquiry into MMR furore (BMJ)

►March 11, 2004 - Scots prefer health care near home to centres of excellence - The Herald, UK

►March 11, 2004 - Pfizer probed for marketing of 2 drugs - AP via Newsday

►March 11, 2004 - Let's look at those tests again - Vivienne Parry finds that even classic medical research can be based on a one size fits all attitude - The Guardian, UK - "When scientists from Bristol University questioned the accuracy of risk estimates based on the Framingham heart study, there was a collective intake of breath. As accusations go, it was up there with criticising David Attenborough or saying puppies aren't adorable. For Framingham was the most gilded of gold standard medical data sets. But it now looks as though it has been relegated to that league of greats that once ruled the world but which are now recognised as also being able to bamboozle, mislead and generally misinform."

►March 11, 2004 - A Shameful Episode - letters - Daily Telegraph, UK - "In the current furore over Dr Andrew Wakefield, the parents whose autistic children were treated at the Royal Free Hospital and became subjects of his research have hardly been heard...This shameful episode in modern medical science looks more like a Soviet show trial than scientific scholarship, as personal innuendo gives way to public accusations, retractions and vilification...There is little thought for our children's future, their denial of treatment, and the effect of this undeserved treatment on Dr Wakefield and his family."

►March 11, 2004 - Japan investigates crows as cause of bird flu - AFP via International Herald Tribune

►March 11, 2004 - Asian countries warned not to drop guard against bird flu - www.4ni.co.uk

►March 11, 2004 - First HIV/AIDS Clinical Simulation Training Initiative Made Available To More Than 34 At-Risk Counties - TheraSim(R) via Business Wire

►March 11, 2004 - Effect of Paediatric Rheumatoid Diseases on Immediate or Delayed Bone Disease Needs Further Study - Current Rheumatology Reports via Doctor's Guide

►March 12, 2004 - R.P. gets U.N. agency help to ward off bird flu - www.abs-cbnnews.com

►March 5, 2004 - The Autism Pandemic and the MMR vaccine connection (pdf) - paper by Paul Watson, Past President of the Autism Society of Collin County Texas - http://www.geocities.com/pwatsonascc/

►December 2003 - Savant-like skills exposed in normal people by suppressing the left fronto-temporal lobe. - journal article (Journal of  Integrative Neuroscience)

►January 2004 - Respiratory syncytial virus: The virus, the disease and the immune response - journal article (Paediatric Respiratory Reviews)

►April 2004 - Update on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder - journal article (Current Opinion in Pediatrics)

►April 2004 - Update on sudden infant death syndrome. - journal article (Current Opinion in Pediatrics)

►April 2004 - An update on child abuse and neglect. - journal article (Current Opinion in Pediatrics)

►January 2004 - Current therapy of ulcerative colitis in children - journal article (Expert Opinion in Pharmacotherapy)

►February 2004 - The effectiveness of secretin in the management of autism - journal article (Expert Opinion in Pharmacotherapy) 

►March 5, 2004 - Volunteers test new anthrax vaccine - The Telegraph, UK

►January 2004 - Use of the tuberculin skin test in children - journal article (Paediatric Respiratory Reviews)

►January 2004 - Children and the global tuberculosis situation - journal article (Paediatric Respiratory Reviews)

►January 2004 - Do rhinoviruses cause pneumonia in children? - journal article (Paediatric Respiratory Reviews)

►January 2004 - Pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis related wheezing - journal article (Paediatric Respiratory Reviews) 

►March 9, 2004 - Doctors Groups Issue Ear Infections Guide - AP via Yahoo!

►March 9, 2004 - Study: Obesity an Epidemic in U.S. - AP via Yahoo!

►March 9, 2004 - Obesity Gains on Smoking as Top Cause of U.S. Death - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 9, 2004 - Ads to Target Alarming Obesity Trends - Reuters via Yahoo!

►March 9, 2004 - Which Drug Battles Pneumonia Best - HealthDay via Yahoo!

►March 9, 2004 - Study: Abstinence pledges not reducing rates of STDs - AP via USA Today

►March 11, 2004 - Truth, honesty taking a back seat - Whistler Question - "Of course, just because the tobacco industry or a biotechnology company, or an environmental organization funded a paper, does not make its conclusions invalid. But knowing the source of that funding is crucial to the reader’s ability to judge certain assumptions the researchers may have made. This kind of disclosure is essential for any honest interpretation of the conclusions to occur...Most scientists are honest, as are most journalists, doctors and people in general. But when a few choose to step over the line, there seems to be no shortage of consumers willing to accept the latest news as gospel."

Comment:  It continually amazes to me that few, if any, of the people criticizing Wakefield for an alleged conflict of interest seem to be the least bit concerned about the "studies" clearly conflicted by ties to vaccine manufacturers.  What's that about?

►March 13, 2004 - Mercury risk rising - opinion - People's Weekly World Newspaper

►March 11, 2004 - FAO Warns Against Resurgence of Bird Flu - AFP, AP via Voice of America

►March 11, 2004 - Bird Flu Reappears - www.news24.com

►March 11, 2004 - Vaccines target bird flu virus - China Daily

►March 11, 2004 - PAHO/WHO Ensuring Haiti Health Systems Operate - press release - Pan American Health Organization

►March 11, 2004 - UN-backed global partnership to eliminate polio hails new Canadian donation - UN

►March 11, 2004 - Vaccine program targets chicken pox - CP via The Province via www.canada.com

►March 11, 2004 - Woman Sues Taco Bell Over Possible Hepatitis A Exposure - Lawsuit Accuses Restaurant Of Not Taking Precautions - AP via  www.thewmurchannel.com

►March 11, 2004 - Hundreds may have gotten wrong HIV results - UPI via The Washington Times

►March 11, 2004 - Weapons of sheath destruction - The immune system may not be the culprit in multiple sclerosis (requires subscription) - The Economist

►March 11, 2004 - Increased Clot Risk Found With Bowel Disease - Study says those with the intestinal disorder face three times the risk - HealthDay - "People suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) face a greatly increased risk of developing blood clots in their veins, new research discloses...Most experts, however, are not surprised that the clots, called venous thromboembolisms, are linked to the intestinal disorder. The finding, which show those with IBD have more than triple the risk for clots, will appear in the April issue of Gut."

►March 11, 2004 - Whooping Cough Becomes Epidemic In Clinton County - Disease Quickly Spreads Through Schools - www.thechamplainchannel.com

►March 2004 - SSRIs in children and adolescents: Where do we stand? - journal article (Current Psychiatry)

►February 20, 2004 - Not So Rare: Errors of Metabolism During the Neonatal Period (requires registration) - journal article (Newborn & Infant Nursing Reviews)

►March 11, 2004 - Minister declares avian influenza control area in southern British Columbia - Canadian Food Inspection Agency via Canada NewsWire

►March 12, 2004 - Facing the global threat of the influenza virus - Borneo Bulletin via www.brunei-online.com

►March 12, 2004 - US Plans for Anthrax Terror Attack - PA News via The Scotsman

►March 12, 2004 - U.S. to stockpile anthrax vaccine - report - Reuters via Forbes

►March 13, 2004 - Frequency and natural history of subdural haemorrhages in babies and relation to obstetric factors (requires registration for abstract and subscription to full article) - journal article (The Lancet)

►March 12, 2004 - Birth 'rarely causes head injury' - Brain haemorrhages in babies over a month old are unlikely to be caused by problem births, researchers say. - BBC

►March 10, 2004 - Brain Hemorrhage in Newborns Not Likely Result of Traumatic Delivery - The Lancet via Newswise

►March 13, 2004 - Post-traumatic stress in former Ugandan child soldiers (requires registration) - journal article (The Lancet) 

►March 12, 2004 - Abuse claim mother's fight to keep her injured child - The Telegraph, UK

►March 12, 2004 - Research raises doubt on 'shaken baby' evidence - The Telegraph, UK - "Babies' brains are far more vulnerable to injury during birth than was previously thought, according to research which raises doubts about the safety of shaken baby syndrome convictions...Brain scans on 111 healthy newborn babies disclosed that eight per cent were suffering from undiagnosed brain bleeding."

Comment:  How many lives have been, and continue to be, wrongly and tragically destroyed over false allegations of SBS?  For more on shaken baby syndrome, go to the online SBS conference at www.redflagsdaily.com.

►December 2003 - Water-miscible, emulsified, and solid forms of retinol supplements are more toxic than oil-based preparations (requires subscription for article but not for abstract) - journal article (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) 

►April 2004 - Vitamin D supplementation during the first year of life and risk of schizophrenia: a Finnish birth cohort study (requires subscription for article but not for abstract) - journal article (Schizophrenia Research)
 
►March 10, 2004 - Bill for an Act Concerning Notification to Persons of Immunizations for their Children Under Specified Circumstances - SB 04-139 - House Information & Technology - Bill Summary 03/10/2004 - SB04-139 Final Vote - Postpone SB 04-139 indefinitely.  The motion carried on a 10-0-1 vote. - Colorado Legislative Update

►March 11, 2004 - Medical Services Receives Additional Test Results From China - press release - Medical Services International Inc. via PRNewsire-FirstCall via Yahoo!

►January 12, 2004 - Increasing autism awareness: a role for MMR? - letter - journal article (BMJ)

►July 20, 2002 - Epidemiology research (requires registration) - letters re: journal article (The Lancet)

►March 12, 2004 - Clinton County sees 53 cases of Whooping Cough - www.news10now.com

►March 11, 2004 - Changing season brings in viral - Chandigarh Newsline via http://cities.expressindia.com

►March 12, 2004 - U.S. to Buy Anthrax Vaccine - Stockpile Would Permit Mass Inoculations (requires registration) - The Washington Post

►March 12, 2004 - Bird flu back in Thailand; Japan probes poultry deaths - AP via China Post

►March 12, 2004 - Hospital was told of faulty HIV tests - Ex-Md. General worker sent letter in December; Former employee files suit; Woman says flawed gear infected her with diseases - Baltimore Sun

►March 11, 2004 - UNICEF Nigerian Polio Vaccine Contaminated with Sterilizing Agents Scientist Finds - Scientist says things discovered in vaccines are "harmful, toxic" - LifeSiteNews.com

►March 12, 2004 - Poverty blamed for rising child health problems - Hawkes Bay Today via www.mytown.co.nz

►March 11, 2004 - Report: Conn. No. 1 in U.S. in childhood vaccinations - AP via Newsday

►March 11, 2004 - Child Vaccinations - www.kold.com

►March 11, 2004 - School Told Not to Worry After Teacher Dies From Meningitis - AP via www.katv.com

►March 12, 2004 - Measles Cases in Najran Schools - Arab News

►March 12, 2004 - SARS without pneumonia could be common in outbreak areas - The Lancet via  www.innovations-report.com

►March 13, 2004 - Relative rates of non-pneumonic SARS coronavirus infection and SARS coronavirus pneumonia (requires registration) - journal article (The Lancet)

►March 10, 2004 - Studies Find Bird Flu Not Transmittable by Human to Human - Twenty confirmed deaths, health experts look to see if disease spreads to pigs - CNN, WHO via Fullerton College Hornet

►March 10, 2004 - Natrol and Earvin 'Magic' Johnson Combine Forces to Promote Immune Support Products - press release - Natrol Inc. via www.npicenter.com

►March 11, 2004 - Canada pledges $32 million to fight polio - UPI via The Washington Times

►March 12, 2004 - Political Hot-Dogging in the House (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "all it legis-lite: the Republican leaders of Congress have been running one of the least demanding workloads in decades, politicking most of the year while scheduling only 94 days in session, 40 fewer than four years ago. Yet the House still invested a day's debate in passing what is known as the cheeseburger bill — a supersize sop to the fast-food industry. It's a gift that Republicans love doling out to their friends in big business, namely, immunity from being sued."

►March 12, 2004 - Government Puts Out Call for Anthrax Vaccine (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "The Department of Health and Human Services issued an open solicitation on Thursday for enough anthrax vaccine for 25 million people...The solicitation follows contract awards last September to two biotechnology companies to develop an experimental vaccine. One of those companies, VaxGen Inc., said at the time that the contract, which was for three years, paved the way for a significantly larger contract to develop a national stockpile of the vaccine."

►March 11, 2004 - FDA Allows U.S. Doctors to Continue Use of FBI-Identified 'Terrorist Tool' in Treatment of Children, Finds SafeMinds - SafeMinds via U.S. Newswire - "SafeMinds, America's leading nonprofit scientific organization that investigates and reports on the risks to infants and children exposed to mercury from medical products, is disturbed by the lack of consistency displayed by U.S. government agencies regarding the safety of mercury for humans...'If the FBI considers a small amount of mercury in the hands of a terrorist to be a chemical weapon, then the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) should realize that a medical product containing a concentrated amount of mercury in the hands of a pediatrician is no safer for our children,' responded Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN, NP, to a recent FBI-issued warning that stated terrorists may use 'pen guns' filled with mercury, among other toxins, to harm Americans."

►March 11, 2004 - Vaccine-in-a-patch linked to diabetes and multiple sclerosis - Ingredients called accelerants trigger immune system diseases in mice - The Medical Posting

►March 11, 2004 - The incidence of isle children with autism has increased at an alarming rate in recent years, and nobody knows why - Honolulu Star Bulletin

►March 11, 2004 - Improved care for chronic illness - Diabetes and asthma treatments in Reid's new deal for patients  - The Guardian, UK

►March 11, 2004 - A Touch Of Arthritis - Jamaica Observer

►March 11, 2004 - Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, TB Faces Crunch - The global AIDS fund could soon face a cash crisis, due in part to the likes of Britain, Germany and Canada failing to contribute their fair share to the U.N.-sponsored program, its chief says. - Reuters via www.planetark.com

►March 11, 2004 - Psychology skeptics say 'prove it' - New York Times via International Herald Tribune - "They have been called assassins and parasites. They receive hate mail from the proponents of a variety of popular psychotherapies. The president-elect of the American Psychological Association has accused them of being overly devoted to the scientific method. But the ire of their colleagues has not prevented a small, loosely organized band of academic psychologists from rooting out and publicly debunking mental health practices that they view as faddish, unproved or potentially harmful." 

►March 9, 2004 - Medical board under scrutiny - Legislators examine disciplinary guidelines, need for secrecy - The Denver Post - "State lawmakers are considering changes in the way Colorado regulates its physicians, including giving the Board of Medical Examiners more specific guidelines for discipline and removing some of the secrecy surrounding the board's inner workings."

►March 9, 2004 - Bill holds doctors and lawyers accountable for deceptive ads - The Newark Star-Ledger - "Physicians, lawyers and other professionals who run deceptive advertisements could be sued for consumer fraud under a bill approved yesterday by a Senate committee...The bill would effectively undo last month's decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court that the state's Consumer Fraud Act does not apply to physicians and other "learned professionals." The court said they were never covered by the law because they were not allowed to advertise when it was enacted 40 years ago."  

►March 9, 2004 - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Acute Illness not a Risk Factor - Medical News Today - "The authors of a study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (http://adc.bmjjournals.com) say that advising parents to monitor their child for signs of illness as a way of preventing SIDS is 'fruitless' and leads to unnecessary feelings of guilt if a death does occur."  

►March 9, 2004 - New Guidelines Outline Appropriate Treatment of Ear Infections - American Academy of Pediatrics

►March 1, 2004 - A Timeline of the Thimerosal Controversy - www.motherjones.com  

►March 9, 2004 - Consensus statement tackles newer antipsychotics - The Medical Post - "Due to a constellation of adverse effects associated with second-generation antipsychotics, physicians are now being warned to carefully screen and monitor patients on these medications...The concerns involve an increased risk for obesity, diabetes and dyslipidemia."

►March 11, 2004 - Internet Malpractice Database Shuts Down - AP via The Herald-Sun - "An Internet database that had purported to list patients who sued doctors for malpractice has shut down...Sponsors of www.DoctorsKnow.Us posted a farewell message this week, saying "controversy this site has ignited was unanticipated" but that they hoped it had sparked discussion that would result in changes to malpractice litigation."

►March 11, 2004 - Patients May Have Gotten Wrong HIV Results - AP via The Herald-Sun - "Some patients might have been told they were HIV-negative when in fact they were positive -- and vice versa -- and the hospital failed to notify the patients of the problem, said Nelson J. Sabatini, secretary of the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene..."I think this is unconscionable behavior: People not being told about the status of their tests," Sabatini told The (Baltimore) Sun."

►March 11, 2004 - Panel: Organ Donors Should Know Risks - AP via The Herald-Sun 

►March 11, 2004 - New breast cancer drug promising - Aromatase inhibitor anastrozole showed better results than tamoxifen in several studies - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

►March 11, 2004 - State Senate OKs limit on medical malpractice - Rendell has 'philosophical differences' with cap - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

►March 11, 2004 - Flu bug reduces schools' funding - State holds back cash because of absences - Record Searchlight via www.redding.com

►March 11, 2004 - Organizers change site of seminar on autism to handle more people (requires subscription) - conference alert - Watertown Daily Times

►March 11, 2004 - Health workers test mass vaccination skills - Arizona Daily Sun

►March 11, 2004 - Doc recovering - A county doctor and his wife, also a doctor, were part of a ‘triple swap’ of transplants. - York Daily Record

►March 11, 2004 - FACTIVE, gemifloxacin mesylate, Tablets Receive Marketing Approval from Health Canada; FDA-Approved Fluoroquinolone Being Readied for Launch in U.S. - Genome Therapeutics via Business Wire

►March 11, 2004 - Waning bird flu still hurts China - Recovery slow for small farms - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►March 11, 2004 - Tokyo academic says migratory birds unlikely to be avian flu carriers - CNA via www.channelnewsasia.com

►March 11, 2004 - Patents received Feb. 3, 2004 - The University of Pittsburgh for "Cold-adapted equine influenza viruses, No. 6,685,946." - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

►March 11, 2004 - Rotarian travels to India to immunize children against polio - Clarke Times-Courier via www.zwire.com

►March 11, 2004 - Nine isolated in Durban airport anthrax scare - The Mercury via www.iol.co.za

►March 11, 2004 - FBI at crucial stage in finding source of anthrax attack - Sun-Sentinel

►March 11, 2004 - Health ministry to begin testing for bird flu - Local companies to foot some of the bill - Jamaica Observer

►March 11, 2004 - The Politics of Drug Demonization - Tech Central Station - "The Food and Drug Administration has approved the new drug Avastin, which shrinks tumors. The FDA pushed through the medicine, produced by Genetech, because Avastin significantly aided patients with advanced bowel cancer. Yet in the view of many Americans, not to mention politicians of both parties, the pharmaceutical companies -- which are spending billions on research to produce medicines like Avastin -- are the enemy."

►March 11, 2004 - Saying No to Polio Shots - editorial/op-ed (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

►March 11, 2004 - New Case of Bird Flu Found in Thailand - AP via The Mercury News

►March 11, 2004 - EU suspends poultry imports from Canada over bird flu outbreak - AFP via EU Business

►March 11, 2004 - China develops two new types of bird flu vaccines  - Xinhuanet via China View

►March 11, 2004 - Dead chickens test negative for bird flu in Japan - Xinhuanet via China View

►March 11, 2004 - Md. officials hear USDA assurances on bird flu - Agency tells of aggressive effort to contain disease - Baltimore Sun

►March 11, 2004 - Mumps: 3 struck by brain bug - Daily Record, UK

►March 11, 2004 - City ripe for rabies; vaccinations urged - Portland Press Herald

►March 11, 2004 - Chronic Wasting Disease: New testing finds indicators of deer disease in 14 new counties  - AP via The Pioneer Press via www.twincities.com

►March 11, 2004 - In AIDS, hepatitis C, early diagnosis is vital - It's important to prevent transmission to others - The Baltimore Sun

►March 11, 2004 - 24% of Arizona toddlers lack shots (requires registration) - State's vaccination progress still falls short - The Arizona Republic

►March 11, 2004 - Four-time cancer survivor lives on hope - Heather Warrick has survived breast cancer three times and skin cancer once. - Daily Trojan