Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - December 16-22, 2002

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Smallpox/smallpox vaccine

E-News: Nurses Asking Questions (NVIC)

Smallpox Vaccine Transmission Raises Liability Issue

Millions May Need New Smallpox Vaccines - Researchers Study if Millions Already Inoculated Against Smallpox Need New Vaccinations

Smallpox vaccine costs raise questions

Law Limits Smallpox Vaccine Compensation

Tom Mack Blows The Joint Apart - paid subscription necessary to read entire article

A Distant, Troubling Echo From an Earlier Smallpox War

Pentagon Faces Difficulties in Smallpox Shots for Troops

Company Says It Will Test a Safer Smallpox Vaccine

2 Hospitals Refuse Call To Vaccinate Workers

2 state hospitals won't give staff smallpox vaccine

Official: Vaccinations would take four days

Smallpox Victim Urges Polio Vaccine Use (Note, however, that this person had close contact with the smallpox victims from who he acquired the disease.)

Few Side Effects Seen in Israeli Smallpox Vaccine Drive

Study: Americans would refuse smallpox vaccination if doctors rejected it

Treating Vaccine Reactions: Two Lifelines, But No Guarantees

1-in-3 troops ineligible for smallpox shots - Soldiers exempted due to health conditions (Note that even the "mandatory" military vaccines are not without exemptions.)

Smallpox Vaccine Reintroduced to Officials - After 30 Years, State Health Officials Getting Reacquainted With the Smallpox Vaccine

Coverage of illness from smallpox vaccine worries workers

Scientists Favoring Cautious Approach to Smallpox Shots

Smallpox and Smallpox Vaccination - New England Journal of Medicine early release of January 30, 2003 issue

Medical Groups Criticize Bush's Smallpox Vaccine Plan

Smallpox response might include quarantine

US focuses on details of smallpox vaccine rollout 

Ducking Smallpox Vaccinations

A Smallpox Shot? The vaccine works but carries real risks. How to tell if you should take it.

Drug/Vaccine Manufacturers re: Homeland Security Bill

Bush Admin. Withdraws Motion to Seal Thimerosal Documents in Current Cases

Reward! For Information Leading To The Identification Of The Eli Lilly Bandit

(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on 12/22/02)  http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm

Autism

Autism/mercury

Autism/MMR

AIDS/AIDS vaccine

Alzheimer's disease/vaccine

Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome

Gulf troops applaud appeal ruling

Antibodies to squalene in recipients of anthrax vaccine.

Vaccines May Be Linked to Gulf War Syndrome

Mystery surrounds secret 1991 vaccines

Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine

Questions about a vaccine (This vaccine allegedly prevents severe complications 86% of the time, but in the unvaccinated supposedly 10% have severe complications.  Doesn't this suggest the possibility that the vaccinated have more serious complications than the unvaccinated?)

Flu/flu vaccine

E-News: Flu Mist Vaccine (NVIC)

Divided FDA advisers call first pain-free flu vaccine useful

Doubts Raised On Pain-Free Vaccine

Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine

MMR/measles,mumps,rubella

Hospitalizations during a measles epidemic in the Netherlands, 1999 to 2000

Pet vaccines

Polio/polio vaccine

Whooping cough/DPT vaccine

Other vaccines

E-News: Meeting on 5 in 1 vaccine (NVIC)

Vaccines in general

Vaccines Need a Closer Look

Vaccines: Are they worth risk? As military prepares to receive smallpox shots, debate over benefits and side effects of vaccines grows

Adverse reactions

"The Condition Our Condition Is In" (The State of Medicine)

One in five has been victim of medical mistake

Errors That Kill Medical Patients

Conflict of Interest

The controlling interests of research

Ethics

Government/science clearly run amok

Legal

Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory

Mexico more effective than U.S. at immunizing children

Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight

The Hungry Physician

Are drug makers buying FDA approval?

Diuretics' Value Drowned Out by Trumpeting of Newer Drugs

Politics

Pediatrics and the legislature: Suggestions for lobbying your legislature

Research

New Premise in Science: Get the Word Out Quickly, Online

Scientists exposed as sloppy reporters

Groups to Appeal Ruling on Drug Tests in Children

Adverse drug reactions and off-label drug use in paediatric outpatients

Letters From Parents

Miscellaneous

FDA Says Red Cross May Have Released Unsafe Blood to Hospitals

Children face 'epidemic' of behavioural problems

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