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E-News: Your comments needed on smallpox vaccine for children (NVIC)
Smallpox, Ethics And Children - CBS News
Feds Seek Public Input on Vaccine - AP via NIH
Logical Images Develops Nation’s Principal Smallpox Vaccination Resource For CDC - CDC Website First of Several Programs to Education Physicians and Public - Logical Images, Inc.
Feds Want to Begin Smallpox Study - AP via Las Vegas Sun
Second-Year Follow-up Evaluation of Live, Attenuated Human Rotavirus Vaccine 89-12 in Healthy Infants - journal article
UK researchers testing possible diabetes vaccine - www.myinky.com
Iraq Red Crescent volunteers mobilized to eradicate polio - www.reliefweb.int
New Role For Immune System Player May Help Improve Cancer Vaccines - NIH via www.sciencedaily.com
CLARIFICATION - "New Measles Strain Strikes High School Students." - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"EU May Be Ill Equipped to Handle Epidemics" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"13 Die of Cholera in S. Philippines" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"District Bhakkar: Health Department Finalizes Arrangements for Second Phase of Immunization Program Against Tetanus" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Rwanda: City-Wide Meningitis Vaccination Campaign Under Way" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Five Million Iraqi Children Vaccinated Against Polio" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"More Polio Cases Registered in Northern Afghan Province" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"UN Says Disease Outbreak Kills 61 Afghan Children" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Smallpox Statutes From 1903, Though Outdated, Still Apply" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Government Considers When Smallpox Vaccine Study Should Begin for Children" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
VA shifts on Gulf War illness - www.al.com
E-News: UK Baby Gets Unique ID Chip (NVIC)
Medical Empowerment: People In The UK Who Suffer Severe Side-Effects From Drugs Will Be Able To Phone In Reports. A Model For Other Countries? - The Guardian, UK via www.redflagsweekly.com
How polio transformed family's life - www.thehollandsentinel.net
Fonterra says patent linking to autism is being allowed to lapse - www.stuff.co.nz
Infectious link to Alzheimer's disease - BioMedNet
New team shoots for seamless flu surveillance - BioMedNet
Pandemic preparations in place - BioMedNet
Molecular Epidemiology of Pneumococcal Carriage among Children with Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Hanoi, Vietnam - journal article
High Rate of Transmission of Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae between Parents and Children - journal article
National Autism Calendar Of Events - November 2002
When to act on evidence? - BMJ
Epilepsy is linked to social deprivation - BMJ
Planned caesarean delivery may prevent deaths of twins - BMJ
Used mattresses may increase risk of cot death - BMJ
Smoke detectors and house fires - BMJ
Mattresses, microenvironments, and multivariate analyses - BMJ
A theme issue for medics and an increasingly health informed public - BMJ
Simple measures could increase life expectancy by 5-10 years - BMJ
Better standards needed for industry sponsored clinical trials - BMJ
Wellcome Trust promotes ethical research in developing world - BMJ
Second long term HRT trial stopped early - BMJ
US mammography programme beset by flaws - BMJ
MEPs reject US-style direct advertising of drugs - BMJ
Aspirin use to be banned in under 16 year olds - BMJ
Raised homocysteine levels not as risky as once thought - BMJ
A third of Europeans and almost half of Americans use internet for health information - BMJ
Indian scientists object to export of human biological material for research - BMJ
Intensity of exercise reduces cardiovascular risk - BMJ
Californian authorities want ban on cleaning fluid to reduce smog - BMJ
Three out of four Germans have used complementary or natural remedies - BMJ
Used infant mattresses and sudden infant death syndrome in Scotland: case-control study - BMJ
Stress-Induced Behaviors and Cancer - Ivanhoe
Normal Cancer Rate Found Near Three Mile Island Plant - The New York Times
Syphilis Reported Increasing for First Time in a Decade - The New York Times
Schafer Autism Report 11-01-02
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