October 21, 2002 search the site
Second Opinion: The Bungling FDA The Agency Seizes Taurine Capsules Sold For Autism And Finally Admits To Its Major Life-Threatening Screw-Up On Anthrax Vaccine - by Nicholas Regush - www.redflagsweekly.com
E-News: FDA Halts Old Anthrax Vaccine
Letter from Ray Gallup to NY Times re: "A Mysterious Upsurge in Autism"
Complaint over vaccine trials - http://u.tv/newsroom
Vaccines at Jefferson schools boost compliance rate - Middle-schoolers get required shots that thousands lacked in summer - www.courier-journal.com
Flu vaccine: Too much of a good thing? - Faced with a possible surplus, physicians and public health experts now wonder how to boost lagging demand. - www.ama-assn.org
New meningitis vaccine released - http://abc.net.au
Comparison of the Complete DNA Sequences of the Oka Varicella Vaccine and Its Parental Virus - journal article
Preadolescent non- and hyporesponders following three doses of hepatitis B vaccine need only one more dose - journal article
Aussie HIV vaccine to be trialled - http://abc.net.au
"The Technology of Mega Terror" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Fight Against Disease Ignores Border" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Doctors Cite Shortage in Basic Vaccines" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Doctors: Internet Information Can Help or Harm Patients" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Ugly Side Effects of Smallpox Vaccine Color Terror Plans" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Vaccine Helps Adults Avoid Chickenpox" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Anthrax Vaccine Being Given to Troops Bound for the Persian Gulf" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Who Gets Smallpox Vaccine?" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Influenza Vaccination Is Not Associated With a Reduction in the Risk of Recurrent Coronary Events" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
"Smallpox Vaccination: Risk Considerations for Patients With Atopic Dermatitis" - http://www.immunizationinfo.org
Scream of the Week: Drug Pusher Gifts: More Useless Guidelines To Control A Drug Industry That Is Destroying The Practice Of Medicine - by Nicholas Regush - www.redflagsweekly.com
AHRP on Pediatric Drug Tests - www.ahrp.org
Study Records Elevated Mercury - The Washington Post
Secretin and Sleep in Children with Autism - journal article
Hope for autism comes at a price - Parents of children with disorder think costly new therapy - www.globeandmail.com
Principle guides a mother's battle - She wanted nothing more than to stay at home and raise her babies. - Buck's County Courier Times
A Parent's Nightmare: Losing a Child to Drug-Induced Psychosis - www.eagleforum.org
Gender-bending risk to children - Independent, UK
MEPs to vote on drug 'advertising' - BBC
Seniors Group Continues to Do Bidding of Drug Industry, Sponsor "Issue Ads" to Help Industry Allies in Campaigns - Public Citizen
Alternative Medicine and Asthma - Ivanhoe
Busy ER Leads to Prescribing Errors in Children - Reuters via Yahoo!
Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Threatens Public Health - http://www.organicconsumers.org
A New Organic Era - The New York Times
Schools can often overlook bipolar disorder in children - www.chron.com
Public health funding: Feds giveth but the states taketh away - Public health officials didn't expect budget cuts after government promises to shore up the system following the World Trade Center and anthrax attacks. - www.ama-assn.org
Naturopaths push for greater acceptance - Kansas is the latest state to regulate naturopathy, as public acceptance of alternative practitioners grows. - www.ama-assn.org
WMA meeting: Bioterrorism requires local and global response - The World Medical Assn. emphasizes the role of physician organizations, and physicians themselves, in combating biothreats. - www.ama-assn.org
New findings add to muddled message for effective breast cancer detection - Self-awareness is the new catchword, a change from years of advice to rigorously practice monthly self-exams. - www.ama-assn.org
Seniors Group Continues to Do Bidding of Drug Industry, Sponsor "Issue Ads" to Help Industry Allies in Campaigns - www.ama-assn.org
Schafer Autism Report 10-21-02
RFW Monday Edition - 10-21-02 - www.redflagsweekly.com
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