November 15, 2002
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Vaccine Shocker -Homeland Security Bill Incorporates Expanded Liability
Protection For Vaccine Manufacturers Including The Mercury-Based Preservative
Thimerosal - www.govexec.com via
www.redflagsweekly.com
Burton Statement on Homeland Security Provision
Prohibiting Vaccine-Injury Lawsuits
Oppose the New Homeland Security Bureaucracy! - by
Congressman Ron Paul - www.lewrockwell.com
Senate Eyes Vaccine Liability Reform -
http://apnews.excite.com
Homeland Bill Rider Aids
Drugmakers - Measure Would Block Suits Over Vaccines; FBI Powers Also Would Grow
- The Washington Post
Terror Insurance Stalls in
Senate - www.newsday.com
Smallpox study says
small-scale vaccinations work best - Chicago Tribune
Smallpox shots for targeted
population probably will be sufficient, doctor says - Reuters via
www.sunsentinel.com
Smallpox strategies
simulated - Models call for vaccinations before bioterror attack. - Nature
Controlling Smallpox
- Science Magazine
Bush moving toward approval of
smallpox vaccine plan - USA Today
Ministers criticised
over failure to test smallpox vaccine - The Independent, UK
Smallpox vaccine passes
initial safety tests - www.philly.com
Low mortality after mild
measles infection compared to uninfected children in rural west Africa -
journal article
Airmen vaccinated against
anthrax - Researchers and those going to the Middle East and Turkey get shots
- www.thestate.com
Factors affecting uptake
of childhood immunisation - journal article
Alzheimer's treatment
makes mice brains bleed - Immunization used in halted
human trial may weaken blood vessels. -
Nature
Doubt on potential Alzheimer's
cure - Study finds once-promising vaccine tends to double the risk of stroke
- www.nj.com
MMR jab alternative rejected by
government advisers - The Scotsman
Many seniors failing to get
flu vaccinations - www.nj.com
Malaria vaccine trials make
progress - BioMedNet
West Nile virus vaccine
trials for humans could come by spring -
www.9news.com
"Antibody Persistence
and Immunological Memory at Age 4 Years After Meningococcal Group C Conjugate
Vaccination in Children in the United Kingdom" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Report Criticized French
Hepatitis B Vaccination Campaign" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"New Chicken Pox Vaccine Developed
in China" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"CDC: Seniors Need Flu Shots"
-
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"U.S. May Assume Liability for
Smallpox Vaccine" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Military Smallpox
Vaccinations Planned" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Targeted Smallpox
Vaccination Could be Effective" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Tennessee: Volunteers
Vaccinated Against Smallpox" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Acambis to Seek OK for Human
Trials of West Nile Vaccine" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Doctors Are Ordered to
Stop Using Mumps Vaccine Amid Safety Fears" -
http://www.immunizationinfo.org
Study will explore
digestive ills of autistic children - The Oregonian
A riddle wrapped in an
enigma - www.theage.com.au
Fury over minister's hepatitis C
delaying tactics - The Scotsman
Rubella -
www.health.org.nz
Newborns might help malaria
kids - Blood from umbilical cords could treat anaemia caused by tropical
disease.
Dengue and climate change
- BioMedNet
Killing chronic pain in the
brain - - BioMedNet
UN soldiers prove invaluable in
war against malaria - - BioMedNet
Government:
Mercury in dental fillings still safe - CNN
Prevention Campaign
against Skin Cancer - journal article
Predicting Women's Heart
Problems - Ivanhoe
Drug for Bacterial
Meningitis - Ivanhoe
Screening for aneurysms in men is cost effective - BMJ
Patients with
psychotic illness want to discuss their symptoms - BMJ
Bezafibrate has
limited effects on heart attacks and strokes - BMJ
Parents and
screening tests miss children's language problems - BMJ
Nurse led follow up
of cancer patients is safe and acceptable - BMJ
Patients with IHD
warrant screening for heart failure - BMJ
Iron supplements
don't affect incidence of infections in children - BMJ
Screening men for
aortic aneurysm - BMJ
New BMJ policy on
economic evaluations - BMJ
Improving iron
status in children in poor environments - BMJ
Infection as a
cause of multiple sclerosis - BMJ
Poor team work is
killing patients - BMJ
Long term HRT
may protect women from Alzheimer's disease - BMJ
FBI investigates
cardiac surgeries - BMJ
Controversial
stroke trial is under review following BMJ report - BMJ
Deadly parasitic
disease grips southern Sudan - BMJ
MMR vaccine is
not linked with autism, says Danish study - BMJ
Serious adverse
events associated with perinatal drugs - BMJ
India must change
health priorities to tackle HIV - BMJ
US public health
system needs major overhaul, says report - BMJ
"Telephone
stroke" identified in Canada - BMJ
Multicentre
aneurysm screening study (MASS): cost effectiveness analysis of screening for
abdominal aortic aneurysms based on four year results from randomised controlled
trial - BMJ
Bezafibrate in
men with lower extremity arterial disease: randomised controlled trial - BMJ
Effect of iron
supplementation on incidence of infectious illness in children: systematic
review - BMJ
Nurse led
follow up and conventional medical follow up in management of patients with lung
cancer: randomised trial - BMJ
Engagement of
patients with psychosis in the consultation: conversation analytic study *
Commentary: Understanding conversation - BMJ
Evaluation of a
structured test and a parent led method for screening for speech and language
problems: prospective population based study - BMJ
Prevalence of
left ventricular systolic dysfunction and heart failure in high risk patients:
community based epidemiological study - BMJ
Making regulation
responsive to commercial interests: streamlining drug industry watchdogs *,
includes Commentary: Concern over drug industry's
influence on regulatory policy in Europe * Commentary: Much ado about a good
thing * Commentary: The freedom of informed choice - BMJ
WHO in 2002: WHO's
management: struggling to transform a "fossilised bureaucracy" - BMJ
Undisclosed
payments in research - letters - BMJ
Iron deficiency
is neglected in women's health - letters - BMJ
Schafer Autism Report 11-15-02
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