Hot Topics - Vaccine-related issues - Genetics (vs. Environment)/includes individual differences

Hot Topics - Vaccine-related issues - Genetics (vs. Environment)/includes individual differences

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Vaccine-related issues - Genetics (vs. Environment)/includes individual differences

March 1-7, 2004

►March 2, 2004 - Women found twice as susceptible to lung cancer - www.newsday.com

 ►February 28, 2004 - Action Urged on Diseases With Dangers for Women - New York Times via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

 ►February 28, 2004 - CDC chief urges better effort to stop diseases that affect women - The New York Times via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

February 23-29, 2004

►February 28, 2004 - Health experts say more needs to be done to protect women against diseases - AP via The CharlestonGazette

►February 28, 2004 - Women more at risk from infections - UPI via http://interestalert.com

February 16-22, 2004

none selected this week

February 9-15, 2004

►February 13, 2004 - Destiny: Is it in the Genes? Battle of the Sexes - Ivanhoe - "When they started to look at women, UCLA psychologist Shelley Taylor, Ph.D., and colleagues found a difference they didn't expect. 'Humans, but especially females, cope with stress in large part by caring for their offspring, getting them out of harm's way, ensuring that nothing bad happens to them and by affiliating with a social group,' Taylor tells Ivanhoe...She calls this 'tend and befriend' and says it may be one reason why women live longer. 'When people give or get social support in response to stress, it down regulates stress hormones. What that means is that there's lesser wear and tear on the body.'"

►February 11, 2004 - Destiny: Is it in the Genes? Does Parenting Matter? - Ivanhoe

►February 16, 2004 - Nothing plain about it: High-tech medicine in a low-tech world - The Amish people are known for shunning technology. But because their closed community has high rates of genetic disorders, they sometimes find themselves tied to sophisticated medical science. - American Medical News

►February 9, 2004 - Study firms up depression, heart risk link in women - Depression in older women is strongly linked with a higher risk of dying from heart disease, according to research on more than 90,000 women. - AP via CNN

January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

none selected this week

January 19-25, 2004

►January 21, 2004 - No Foolproof Way Is Seen to Contain Altered Genes (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "A new report commissioned by the government suggests that it will be difficult to completely prevent genetically engineered plants and animals from having unintended environmental and public health effects."

Comment:  What, if anything, are the implications re: vaccines?  And, if after thoroughly studying the question, adverse vaccine effects are discovered, they should be factored into any risk/benefit analysis of vaccination.

►January 19, 2004 - One dose of 'designer' gene therapy may target specific body area - American Heart Association via www.eurekalert.org

January 12-18, 2004

►January 17, 2004 - The real reason women smokers are at greater risk - The Globe and Mail - "Should cancer of the lung be added to the list of health risks women face just because they are women?...A study presented recently at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago showed that women who smoke are twice as likely to develop lung cancer as their male counterparts. As a risk factor for smokers, female gender appears to outweigh age and amount smoked. Some researchers point fingers at the female hormone estrogen, but there is strong evidence implicating a more likely culprit: the bottling up of emotions, particularly anger."

January 5-11, 2004

none selected this week

December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

►December 29, 2003 - Gender specific medicine - Approach acknowledges differences between women, men - The Courier-Journal - "Put simply, gender-specific medicine is the science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and how those differences affect — or should affect — diagnosis and treatment of disease."

Comment:  While vaccination policy continues to sacrifice untold healthy infants and children to its "one-size-fits-all" approach to "prevention", evidence continues to mount that recognizing and allowing for individual differences is paramount to the success of drugs and other biological products. 

 

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