Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - January 13-19, 2003

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Smallpox/smallpox vaccine

Doctors Are Ironing Out Details for Giving the Smallpox Vaccine

HEALTHWATCH - Vaccine: Risks could outweigh benefits

Little legal recourse for people injured by smallpox vaccine

Caregivers Protected Against Smallpox Lawsuits - Bush Plan Would Not Compensate Patients for Vaccine's Side Effects or Accidental Exposure to Virus

CDC Says Smallpox Plan Ready to Go

States Lag at Start of Smallpox Program

Despite concerns, smallpox vaccination program moving ahead, officials say

Unions Want Delay on Smallpox Vaccine

On the Vaccine Scene

Scientific panel recommends go-slow approach for smallpox vaccinations

CDC plans to proceed with vaccines

Thousands sign up for vaccine - Smallpox shots to prepare health workers for crisis

Officials Press Ahead With Smallpox Shots

Panel Urges Informed Consent on Smallpox Vaccine - Recipients should know medical, financial risks

Smallpox vaccine signup is less than expected

Drug/Vaccine Manufacturers re: Homeland Security Bill

Lilly vaccine issue will get front-door hearing it deserves - good, short overview

He's no aw-shucks doctor - Bill Frist is knee-deep in Big Medicine.

"Senate to Repeal Law Shielding Drug Giants"

Burton vows to reform vaccination laws

Buncombe woman: Rider repeal wonderful, but doesn't end fight for day in court with vaccine makers

Other Bioterror-related

(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on January 25, 2003)  http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm

Autism

Breaking The Silence - 60 Minutes - incredible report - For more on this read:

        A Boy, a Mother and a Rare Map of Autism's World and

        Breaking Through - Boy Sheds Light on Autism Mysteries

Enter the World of Real-Life 'Rain Men'

My Life With Autism: Implications For Educators

Rapid responses to: "US study shows 10-fold increase in autism over the past 20 years" - BMJ

Autism/mercury

Time to banish this threat to our children

Fresh fears over child vaccines

Thimerosal-Free Vaccines May Not Work as Well: UK

Evidence for delayed neurotoxicity produced by methylmercury. Note: ethylmercury, not methylmercury, is the form of mercury in thimerosal.

Autism/MMR

Autism and vaccines

The autism-vaccine disaster - by Bernard Rimland, PhD

Shot down?

AIDS/AIDS vaccine

Alzheimer's disease/vaccine

Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome

GAO: Shots Led to Military Attrition - excellent article

Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine

Flu/flu vaccine

Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine

All children may be given hepatitis B vaccination - For another point of view go to: Scandals -The CDC and “The New Math”, where 1 + 1  does not equal 2

Meningitis/meningitis vaccine

Children get a shot at stopping meningitis - Mom of dead boy urges earlier warnings

MMR/measles,mumps,rubella

'Make mumps vaccine available'

Pet vaccines

Polio/polio vaccine

Whooping cough/DPT vaccine

U.S. Whooping Cough Outbreak Shows Vaccine Need

Other vaccines

Vaccines in general

Vaccine additives & contaminants

Adverse reactions

U.S. Halts Gene Therapy Studies Over Risk

Second Child in French Trial Is Found to Have Leukemia

also see the next group

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

Physicians, Public Not Overly Concerned About Medical Errors

Incidence of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized patients: a meta-analysis of prospective studies. - journal abstract

How many deaths occur annually from adverse drug reactions in the United States? - journal abstract

Drug-related deaths in a university central hospital. - journal abstract

Adverse drug reactions as cause of hospital admissions: results from the Italian Group of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly (GIFA). - journal abstract

Adverse drug events cause hundreds of infant deaths annually

Conflict of Interest

Ethics

Government/science/industry/medicine clearly run amok

Planting Hope - yikes

Drug Sales Reps Sitting in on Exams

California sues grocers over mercury in fish - But, hey, inject mercury into infants?  No problem.

Legal

Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory

Worship Optional: Joining a Church to Evade Vaccine

Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight

Accuracy of pharmaceutical advertisements in medical journals

FDA: Patients get prescriptions when they ask about advertised drugs

Drug Sales Reps Sitting in on Exams

Politics

"Smallpox Tender Rivals Crying Foul"

Research

Letters From Parents

Miscellaneous

Whom do you trust?

Clothes clean drinking water - Filtering with an old sari cuts cholera cases by half.

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