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Bill to Boost Industry Fees That Fund FDA - Critics Fear Conflicts - The Washington Post via www.redflagsweekly.com

E-News: IOM Report Release Date Announced - on Hepatitis B Vaccine and Demyelinating Disease

E-News: Bioterrorism Bill Passes

E-News: Mercury in the Air

A severe episode in a patient with recurrent disseminated acute encephalitis due to vaccination against hepatitis b. For or against vaccination? - journal article

Lack of Antibody Production Following Immunization in Old Age: Association with CD8(+)CD28(-) T Cell Clonal Expansions and an Imbalance in the Production of Th1 and Th2 Cytokines. - journal article

Allergies, Autism Linked To Excess Dietary Iron - www.geocities.com

Aetna will pay California doctors for pricey new vaccines, including Prevnar - www.insure.com

Doctoring Fish - New Vaccines for Aquaculturists - www.ars.usda.gov

New Vaccines Show Promise Against Cancer - www.newsmax.com

Creating Markets for New Vaccines Part I: Rationale - http://papers.nber.org

Proposed double-standard for medical research draws fire - BioMedNet

Biotech focuses on food for health - BioMedNet

Development of New Vaccines for Tuberculosis Recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET) - CDC

Vaccines and Autism Theory - CDC

FAQs (frequently asked questions) about MMR Vaccine & Autism - CDC

Cholera - www.nevdgp.org.au

Sailors Sprayed With Nerve Gas in Cold War Test, Pentagon Says - The New York Times

Workshop on Standards for Inactivation and Clearance of Infectious Agents in the Manufacture of Plasma Derivatives from Non-Human Source Materials for Human Injectable Use - FDA

CDC Immunization Update, September 16, 1999 - Idaho Observer

"Fever Over Camelpox as Bioweapon" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Diagnosis and Management of Smallpox" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Modelling Cost Effectiveness of Meningococcal Serogroup C Conjugate Vaccination Campaign in England and Wales" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Whooping Cough Hits Yet More Kids" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Haiti Begins Polio Vaccinations" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Vaccine Tries to Trick Body Into Attacking Cancer Cells" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Not All Providers Following ACIP Interim Use Guidelines" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"U.S. Children's Lives Improved in 1990s" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Schumer Calls For Stockpiling Vaccines" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

Health bodies defend their right to access patient data - BMJ

WHO calls for countries to shift from acute to chronic care - BMJ

Peer review of statistics in medical research: the other problem - BMJ

Diabetic drug is often prescribed inappropriately, researchers say - BMJ

How whistleblowing cost one doctor £550000 - BMJ

"Shortcomings in care" to blame for avoidable epilepsy deaths - BMJ

Doctor sues company over unethical marketing - BMJ

Australia turns to drug company representatives to cut prescribing - BMJ

Peer reviewers are too hard - BMJ

On things not being what they seem - BMJ

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