October 4, 2002                                 search the site

Letter from Lyn Redwood to House and Senate subcommittees re: Frist/Greenwood bills

Vaccines From Aborted Children - by Yvonee Bontkowski - Sierra Times

Pneumovax Effect Weak in High-Risk Patients-Study - Reuters Health via Yahoo!

Province repeals mandatory flu shot law - www.canada.com

Fighting the flu - Experts debunk vaccine myths, urge people to get shots early this year - MSNBC

Your child's health at risk over shortage - http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk

Researchers moving toward new anthrax vaccine with fewer shots - AP via www.stopgettingsick.com

VaxGen one of two firms picked to develop new anthrax vaccine - Mercury News

Influenza vaccination induced leukocytoclastic vasculitis and pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis. - journal article

Molecular Epidemiological Analysis of the Changing Nature of a Meningococcal Outbreak following a Vaccination Campaign. - journal article

Influenza vaccination and chemotherapy: a shot in the dark? - journal article

Consequences of delayed measles vaccination in Germany.

"Pneumovax Effect Weak in High-Risk Patients--Study" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"UN Suspends Anti-Polio Campaign in South Sudan After Flight Ban" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"9/11 Backlash Sparks Polio Panic in West Bengal" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Foreign-Born Children Less Likely to Get Complete Vaccinations" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"Ebola Vaccine Will Enter Human Trials Within Months" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"CDC Expects No Flu Vaccine Shortage This Year" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"CDC: Babies, Toddlers Should Get Flu Shot This Year" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"DNA Decoding Might Aid in Malaria Fight" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

"NIH Is Funding New Generation of Anthrax Vaccine" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org

Parental medication use and risk of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia - journal article

IOM advises on protecting human research subjects - BioMedNet

Spying on nature's drug factories - BioMedNet

What makes emerging viruses emerge? - BioMedNet

Researchers debate the next new thing in antibiotics - BioMedNet

Anthrax a year later: Biothreat wariness now an exam room reality - www.ama-assn.org

National Cancer Institute issues warning on pediatric CTs - www.ama-assn.org

Preparing health system's response to bioterrorism - www.ama-assn.org

Physicians should go back to basics with their patients - www.ama-assn.org

CME providers gear up to comply with PhRMA code - www.ama-assn.org

Recruitment for phase I clinical trials raises issue of patient self-deception - letter - www.ama-assn.org

Physicians should give ultimatum on direct-to-consumer drug ads - letter - www.ama-assn.org

CJD victim asked 'ever eaten pet food?' - BBC

Beating winter's flu misery - BBC

Prostate cancer patients want screening - BMJ

Prostate cancer screening does not reduce mortality - BMJ

Flexible insulin treatment improves diabetic control - BMJ

Qualitative methods improve trial recruitment - BMJ

Obesity treatments are failing - BMJ

Prostate specific antigen testing for prostate cancer - BMJ

Safeguards needed now to prevent unethical genetic selection in future - BMJ

Cheerful children die younger than gloomy classmates, says study - BMJ

Dutch neurologist found guilty of fraud after falsifying 438 case records - BMJ

Canadian universities’ links to tobacco industry shown - BMJ

EU commissioner promises a European centre for disease control by 2005 - BMJ

Blood transfusions may increase the risk of death in critically ill patients - BMJ

Interrupting antiretroviral treatment fails to improve chronic HIV - BMJ

Why men with prostate cancer want wider access to prostate specific antigen testing: qualitative study  - BMJ

Natural experiment examining impact of aggressive screening and treatment on prostate cancer mortality in two fixed cohorts from Seattle area and Connecticut - BMJ

Management of overweight and obese adults - BMJ

Trials are Halted on a Gene Therapy - The New York Times

40 Unknowingly Got Tissue or Organs Tainted With Hepatitis C - The New York Times

AIDS as a Threat to Global Stability - The New York Times

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