Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - January 20-26, 2003

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Smallpox/smallpox vaccine

MEHPA: The Bureaucratic Monster That Still Lives

U.S. Spurns Smallpox Vaccine Delays - Shipping to Start Tuesday Despite Concerns of Unions, Medical Experts

Help sought for future victims of smallpox vaccine

Gt-grandpa's true story wins history prize

American Nurses Association Asks President To Delay Smallpox Vaccination Plans

U.S. Starts Smallpox Vaccine Shipment

Health professionals challenge US smallpox vaccination plan

Calibrating the Smallpox Vaccinations

Smallpox vaccine plan starts Tuesday, despite concerns - Some health workers may opt out over risks, compensation issues

Slim turnout for first smallpox shots

National Network for Immunization Information (NNii) Smallpox Vaccination Survey Findings

Critics Concerned About Smallpox Vaccine Policy

State delays smallpox vaccines - Health officials have questions about mass inoculations; hospitals look at safety issues

Smallpox Inoculations Begin With 4 Connecticut Doctors - Note that the reference to Israel's smallpox program did not mention that, as noted in another New York Times article, "Israel uses the Lister vaccine strain, different from the strain used by the United States. Dr. Lev said that Lister was less virulent than the American strain and has fewer side effects."

Smallpox vaccine questions abound - Shots to be given next month; safety an issue for those getting them

Drug/Vaccine Manufacturers re: Homeland Security Bill

Congress gives to Lilly, congress takes away

Trial lawyers, special interests and vaccines

Other Bioterror-related

(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on February 2, 2003)  http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm

Autism

The Many Faces of Autism - photos of beautiful children

Riley Receives $1.86 Million from Federal Appropriations - Secured by Congressman Dan Burton

A New Approach to Autism - MIND Institute Sees Parents as Essential to a Cure

Understanding Autism in Adults

January 2003 - California Autism Epidemic Increasing

Autism in the blood

The causes of autism spectrum disorders - The so-called "good epidemiological evidence" against an autism/vaccination connection is arguably, not definitively, "good".  Also, please note that "genetic factors" often require "triggers", i.e., an environmental cause, and that vaccinations might well provide that trigger.

Trying to touch: A story of autism

Making Their Way - Despite Critics, Autistic Youths Still Typing

Autism/mercury

Parties are united over calls to ban mercury vaccines

Autism/MMR

Autism and vaccines

AIDS/AIDS vaccine

Alzheimer's disease/vaccine

Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome

Troops fear jab more than germ war

Anthrax Vaccine On The Beach

Anthrax Vaccine May Have Been Thrown Overboard, Vets Say

Anthrax vaccine risk row

Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine

Flu/flu vaccine

Influenza A and B Virus Infections in Children

Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine

Meningitis/meningitis vaccine

MMR/measles,mumps,rubella

Alarm bells as measles cases rise

Charity in rubella warning

Mumps vaccine suspended in UK

Measles nearly eradicated in U.S., health officials say

Pet vaccines

Polio/polio vaccine

Whooping cough/DPT vaccine

Other vaccines

Pediatric Combination Vaccine Approved by U.S. FDA - by Sherri Tenpenny, DO

Vaccines in general

Vaccine critics gaining allies at Legislature

Addressing Public Trust in Immunisation - There's a great example of a misleading statement in the following: "16. Simian Virus 40 & Human Cancer The US National Cancer Institute, Sept 23 2002. Clinical investigations show no link between polio vaccine and cancer. More information at WHO"  Well, there are also clinical investigations that do show a link.  To read more, click here.

parents weigh choice of risks - Doctors say treatments are safe

Vaccine additives & contaminants

Adverse reactions

also see the next group

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

Conflict of Interest

Following The Research Money

Industry is deeply involved in funding US research

Drug Sales Bring Huge Profits, and Scrutiny, to Cancer Doctors

Ethics

Funding

Bush Budget Improves Child Vaccine Plan

Government/science/industry/medicine clearly run amok

Legal

Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory

Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight

Politics

Research/publishing

"Author pays" may be the new science publishing model

The market for medical journals is anticompetitive, says expert

Letters From Parents

Miscellaneous

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