Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - April 21-27, 2003

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Smallpox/smallpox vaccine

CDC Says 33,400 in U.S. Given Smallpox Shots

Slow start for smallpox vaccine plan----Some states have inoculated thousands; others, few or none. Gaps in coverage could result, but these rates are not the only measure of preparedness.

Frist bills/Eli Lilly et al protection/VICP  -  for more, click here

The Class Action Unfairness Act

Other Bioterror-related

The new quarantine laws

(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on May 7, 2003)  http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm

Autism

Autistic boy beats the odds

Autism bill nears passage

Many approaches in treatments for autistic children

Mind the gap - When a child is diagnosed as autistic, there is no point wishing for a cure. Acceptance is the only way to cope

Autism/mercury

Are Vaccines Shots in the Dark?

"Acceptable" Lead Level Not Low Enough CME - what might this infer about "acceptable" mercury levels?

Autism/MMR

Autism and vaccines

AIDS/AIDS vaccine

Alzheimer's disease/vaccine

Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome

Concern over anthrax vaccine

Spinach makes a safer anthrax vaccine

Just what is Gulf War syndrome?

Cancer/cancer vaccines

Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine

Flu/flu vaccine

"Increase in Flu Vaccine Shots"

Haemophilus Influenza Vaccine

Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine

Hepatitis  C

Meningitis/meningitis vaccine

Meningitis link to bad behaviour - Having meningitis as a baby can lead to teenage behavioural problems, researchers have suggested.

MMR/measles,mumps,rubella

Pet vaccines

Pneumonia/prevnar

Polio/polio vaccine

Polio cases on the increase - The number of cases of polio rose fourfold last year - a setback for health experts fighting to eradicate the disease.

RECALLS

SARS

SARS Virus Seen as Long-Term Threat - Whether Disease Will Cause Crisis or Sporadic Outbreaks Is Hard to Predict

SARS--Hong Kong Expert Warns Effective Vaccine Will Be Hard to Find"

The SARS Epidemic: The Scientists; Virus Proves Baffling, Turning Up In Only 40% Of A Lab's Test Cases

"Merck Sees Challenges in Developing SARS Vaccine"

"Increase in Flu Vaccine Shots"

West Nile virus/vaccine

U.S.: Virus May Slow Spread Of West Nile

Whooping cough/DPT vaccine

Other vaccines/screening

'Personal vaccine' may fight tumours

Maternal Vaccination Against Nicotine Reduces Nicotine Distribution to Fetal Brain in Rats

`No' in a needle - New vaccines meant to block drug highs could help break a habit or keep one from starting

Vaccines in general

Are Vaccines Shots in the Dark? - Worldnetdaily article by Doctors Glueck and Cihak

"The National Foundation of Infectious Diseases Launches Disparities in Vaccinations Initiative"

"N.M. May Jam 20 Shots Into Babies' First Year"

(Vaccine) additives & contaminants

Hepatitis report is handed to prosecutor

Vaccine testing

Adverse reactions/VAERS/VICP

Alternative Treatments/prevention

New U.N. Report to Be Basis for Chronic Disease Strategy - FAO, WHO call chronic disease "growing burden" in world

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

Hospital Water Systems May Harbor Harmful Molds

Conflict of Interest

Death and Disease

Virulent sepsis infections on the rise

"Dispute Halts Medical Check on Diseases"

Effectiveness/herd immunity

Ethics

JAMA assails halting of study - Company's ending heart-related work called unethical

`No' in a needle - New vaccines meant to block drug highs could help break a habit or keep one from starting

Funding

Government/science/industry/medicine clearly run amok

Study: Thousands Give Up Children to Get Care - Mentally Ill Youths Turned Over to Social Workers, Police Because It Is Only Way to Obtain Treatment

An Interventional Program to Improve Antibiotic Use

Legal/legislation

*Pending Immunization Legislation - bookmark this link

Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory/privacy/health freedom

CDC reviews private records of Atlanta students without telling parents

Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight

JAMA assails halting of study - Company's ending heart-related work called unethical

Politics

Critics: Politicians, public falling for not-so 'sound science'

Research/publishing/other research results

JAMA assails halting of study - Company's ending heart-related work called unethical

Scientists Add New Member to Vitamin B Family

Letters From Parents &others

Miscellaneous

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