Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - December 30, 2002 - January 5, 2003

Note: link to previous newsletters at the bottom of the page

Smallpox/smallpox vaccine

The Health Workers Pledge

Challenges lie in details of smallpox plan - Health professionals are being asked to step up to be vaccinated, but physicians and other experts worry about putting immune-compromised patients at risk.

European test shows smallpox shots' effectiveness

UF professors dispute need for vaccinations

Vaccine Test For Children Unlikely - Debate clouds chance for smallpox trial

Smallpox Fact Sheet - Smallpox Overview

Blood-Giving Advice After Vaccination

Consider Vaccine's Risks, Experts Say

Campaign of Vaccination.  (1903 JAMA article)

Reports: Israeli gas masks, smallpox vaccine are defective

Poll: Voters support invasion of Iraq; lukewarm on smallpox vaccination

Hospitals weigh smallpox shots for their staffs

Smallpox Vaccine Policy Is Bad Science (by dean of the UCLA school of Public Health)

Volunteers line up for smallpox vaccine

Health Officials Fear Local Impact of Smallpox Plan

Compensation plan needed to offset smallpox vaccine risks

Drug/Vaccine Manufacturers re: Homeland Security Bill

Perverse "Philanthropy"

Families of Autistic Kept Out of Court

Debate over vaccine amendment -  Last-minute addition to homeland security bill shields makers

Family blames vaccine additive for son's autism - Homeland Security rules hamper lawsuit - excellent article

(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on January 4, 2003)  http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm

Autism

Autism in Rhode Island

Prevalence of Autism in a US Metropolitan Area

Atlanta Study Finds Rise in Autism Diagnoses 

Our Stolen Future: Autism rates up in Atlanta area

The Secret Sharer -  A medical wonder, Tito Mukhopadhyay stuns doctors by explaining how autism feels.

UC Davis scientists to study potential causes of autism - Researchers hope to understand possible roles of environment, genetics

Study Confirms Marked Rise in Autism (I think they are wrong when they report the Davis study "found no evidence linking the vaccine to the condition".)

Politicians unite in fight for autism unit - Cases rise 1600% in 10 years

Autism/mercury

Letter spotlight: Dan Burton - Questioning a mercury link to autism

Questioning the quicksilver cure

Autism/MMR

These Researchers Seem Never Finish-ed

AIDS/AIDS vaccine

Alzheimer's disease/vaccine

Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome

Our veterans were abandoned

Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine

Flu/flu vaccine

Autism fears over mercury in flu jabs (Click here to read what the IOM actually said)

Dose of danger dressed up as protector - much better, in fact, excellent article

Calls for mercury in vaccines inquiry

PowderJect Dismisses Flu Vaccine Concerns

Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine

Meningitis/meningitis vaccine

MMR/measles,mumps,rubella

Doctors call for MMR campaign

Pet vaccines

Polio/polio vaccine

State govt alarmed by fresh polio cases

Whooping cough/DPT vaccine

Other vaccines

Local clinics hold on new shot - Clinics will wait before using infant vaccine

Vaccines in general

Breathable Vaccines May Replace Shots

Adverse reactions

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

Conflict of Interest

Ethics

Government/science/industry/medicine clearly run amok

Rat Poison Killed Yurko "Shaken Baby"

The making of a disease: female sexual dysfunction

Manufacturer, psychiatric group accused of overdiagnosing to sell Ritalin

Legal

No-Fault Vaccine Plan Under the Microscope - U.S. makes it hard to collect, critics say

Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory

Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight

Politics

Research

Letters From Parents

Miscellaneous

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