Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - June 16-22, 2003
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Picks of the week - updated 9/25/03
Smallpox/smallpox vaccine
Coroner rules vaccinations contributed to reservist's death - "A Minnesota coroner has determined that smallpox and anthrax vaccines contributed to the death of a Lynwood reservist this spring."
Smallpox Vaccine Program for Monkeypox Attracts Few Volunteers
Panel Warns on Danger of Smallpox Vaccine
Panel Urges Caution on Smallpox Inoculation
Few Health Workers Get Smallpox Vaccine
After The War: Biological Defenses; 2 Programs To Vaccinate For Smallpox Come to a Halt - I'm not sure everyone believes the "rate of dangerous side effects was lower than anticipated". Might failure to associate adverse reactions to the vaccine(s) be responsible for the lower rate? - SM
Frist bills/Eli Lilly et al protection/VICP - for more, click here
Other Bioterror-related
D.C. gearing up for a bio-defense - $5.6B. aimed at new vaccines
(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on July 17, 2003) http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm
Autism
Autism now diagnosed early Therapy for toddlers makes 'huge difference' - "A baby headed for autism, Landa says, often lacks that basic ability to connect. And there may be other signs. For example, instead of burbling and babbling with a variety of sounds, a baby in trouble may produce nothing but high-pitched squeals."
Autism/mercury
Product Approval Information - Department Of Health And Human Services - "The Supplement to your Biologics License Application for Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids Adsorbed (DT), for Pediatric Use, to include addition of a preservative-free, single dose vial presentation has been approved." - FDA
Toxic metal clue to autism - important article
Autism/MMR
Autism and vaccines
AIDS/AIDS vaccine
AIDS Vaccines Worse Than Useless? - And what if, as Dr. Peter Duesberg and others claim, HIV has NOTHING to do with AIDS? - SM
Don't Expect AIDS Vaccine Before 2009, Experts Say - "Scientists were stumped by the virus, as unlike most illnesses it leaves no survivors." - ????
Alzheimer's disease/vaccine
Mind games may keep the brain sharp - Mental stimulation wards off dementia, says 21-year study
Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome
Coroner rules vaccinations contributed to reservist's death - "A Minnesota coroner has determined that smallpox and anthrax vaccines contributed to the death of a Lynwood reservist this spring."
Court stands by decision on Gulf war syndrome
Autoimmunity/autoimmune disease
Cancer/cancer vaccines
Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine
Varicella-Related Deaths Are 'Tragic Reminder' of Failure to Vaccinate - But how many deaths and other injury are caused by the vaccine? And is the disease, once considered benign, now more serious than it used to be, and if so why? And what about the vaccine's apparent ineffectiveness. And the fact that its use may cause shingles in adults who had chickenpox as children? - SM
Diabetes/diabetes vaccine
Vaccine Slows Progress of Type 1 Diabetes--Study - On the other hand, vaccination may be a CAUSE of type 1 diabetes....
Preventing Type 1 Diabetes Eludes Researchers - What, no mention of vaccines (and avoidance of them) as a possible means to prevent type 1 diabetes? - SM
Diphtheria/diphtheria vaccine
Flu/flu vaccine
Spray Vaccine For Flu Wins FDA Clearance - "But doctors warn that the initial impact of the vaccine will be limited because FluMist is not approved for use in children under 5 and adults over 49, two populations with the highest risk of developing flu-related health complications. People with asthma or respiratory diseases also should not use the spray, the FDA said."
Haemophilus Influenza/Hib Vaccine
Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine
Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine
Shot forced on newborn over parents' objections - Orwellian nightmare for 'persecuted' couple - "What was supposed to be a joyous occasion – the birth of their first child – turned out to be an Orwellian nightmare for a young Colorado couple whose newborn was vaccinated for hepatitis B over their religious and philosophical objections, while armed guards stood by to prevent them from intervening." - Friend or Foe? Forced Vaccination - Baby M website
Hepatitis C
Lyme disease/lyme disease vaccine
Meningitis/meningitis vaccine
Monkeypox/smallpox vaccine for monkeypox
Smallpox Vaccine Program for Monkeypox Attracts Few Volunteers
Officials Say Monkeypox Milder in U.S.
MMR/measles,mumps,rubella
Parents should have the final word on MMR - good article
gps call
for resignation of chief medical officers over unfair mmr incentives -
"Dr Love added:
'GPs want patients to make an informed choice about
whether they would like to have their children immunised with MMR. However there
is a danger that patients will think doctors are 'promoting' the triple vaccine
in order to make money. Removing the target will remove that doubt.'"
Mother contests multiple jab order
Mumps outbreak fear as single jab runs out
Pet vaccines
Pneumonia/prevnar
Pneumococcal Vaccine May Be Cost-Effective For People 50 To 64 - ????
Invasive pneumococcal disease reduced after vaccine introduction - Study also demonstrates significant decline in rates of resistant disease. - "The rate of disease caused by vaccine and vaccine serotypes declined by 78% and 50% respectively." - But have serotypes changed? - SM
Polio/polio vaccine
Rabies/rabies vaccine
RECALLS
SARS
E-News: Problems With Quarantines (NVIC)
Isolation, an Old Medical Tool, Has SARS Fading
Study Faults WHO Guidelines on SARS & Return of SARS would pose new challenges - Diagnoses in winter would be hard, WHO says & WHO warns that SARS is mutating W.H.O. and what to believe? - SM
SBS (Shaken Baby Syndrome)
West Nile virus/vaccine
Whooping cough/DPT vaccine
Other vaccines/screening
“Vaccine ‘Reduces Euphoric Effect of Cocaine’“
Rotavirus vaccines on the horizon offer some hope - Future vaccines may include bovine and attenuated human rotavirus strains. - What's the chance they are concerned with transmission of bovine disease via vaccine cell cultures? - SM (Also see Infections Now More Widespread - Animals Passing Them to Humans)
Vaccines in general/vaccine research
(Vaccine) additives & contaminants
Vaccine testing
Adverse reactions/VAERS/VICP
Vaccine Induced Demyelination - Note: This site is run by an MD/PhD.
Alternative Treatments/prevention
Acupuncture helps kids handle pain
Potentially Deadly Blend - Mixing Herbal Supplements, Migraine Medications Can Be Dangerous
Mind games may keep the brain sharp - Mental stimulation wards off dementia, says 21-year study
Vitamin D Wipes out Cancer Cells
Breastfeeding (vs. formula)
Breastfeeding may Counter Harm of Smoking in Pregnancy
"The Condition Our Condition Is In" (The State of Medicine/Science)
Conflict of Interest
BMJ: Readers want transparency in link between doctors and drug firms
Death and Disease
Infections Now More Widespread - Animals Passing Them to Humans - Oh, but I thought we couldn't get diseases from animals. Wasn't that why they decided to use animal cell cultures for vaccines? Could that assumption, perchance, have been incorrect? Might it even have been dangerous? - SM
Children's Health Declining, Says American Chemical Society - I haven't read this yet, but it looks quite interesting. - SM
Why are we all getting hay fever? - "The affliction is hay fever and, says a new report, it is affecting more of us than ever before. Experts in immunology and allergies have calculated that more than one in four Britons is a sufferer - compared with one in eight in the early Eighties...More surprisingly, it seems that not only is hay fever on the increase now, but 200 years ago the illness was unheard of."
Diseases can affect the power in our cells
Effectiveness/herd immunity
Cellular and humoral immune responses to measles in immune adults re-immunized with measles vaccine - This is one more example of how iffy and complex vaccine-induced immunity and revaccination may be. - SM
Ethics
gps call
for resignation of chief medical officers over unfair mmr incentives -
"Dr Love added:
'GPs want patients to make an informed choice about
whether they would like to have their children immunised with MMR. However there
is a danger that patients will think doctors are 'promoting' the triple vaccine
in order to make money. Removing the target will remove that doubt.'"
Senate considers Pediatric Rule - The AAP is against an amendment added to the Rule that would allow the legislation to expire by the end of 2007. - In my opinion, this is a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. - SM
Funding
Government/science/industry/medicine clearly run amok
Shot forced on newborn over parents' objections - Orwellian nightmare for 'persecuted' couple - "What was supposed to be a joyous occasion – the birth of their first child – turned out to be an Orwellian nightmare for a young Colorado couple whose newborn was vaccinated for hepatitis B over their religious and philosophical objections, while armed guards stood by to prevent them from intervening." - Friend or Foe? Forced Vaccination - Baby M website
Supreme Court Rules - AAPS Helps Overturn Forced Drugging Order - Good news, for once, although so much damage has already been done. - SM
AMA: Drug Company Should Not Sit in Exams - No kidding. - SM
FDA Statement Regarding the Anti-Depressant Paxil for Pediatric Population - "ADVISORY: DESPITE THE NEW POSSIBLE SAFETY CONCERNS ABOUT USE OF PAXIL IN CHILDREN, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT PATIENTS TAKING PAXIL (paroxetine hydrochloride) DO NOT SUDDENLY DISCONTINUE USE OF THE DRUG. ANY CHANGES MUST TAKE PLACE UNDER MEDICAL SUPERVISION." - Talk about a catch-22. - SM
Legal/lawsuits/legislation
Mother contests multiple jab order
*Pending Immunization Legislation - bookmark this link
Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory/privacy/health freedom/forced quarantines
Shot forced on newborn over parents' objections - Orwellian nightmare for 'persecuted' couple - "What was supposed to be a joyous occasion – the birth of their first child – turned out to be an Orwellian nightmare for a young Colorado couple whose newborn was vaccinated for hepatitis B over their religious and philosophical objections, while armed guards stood by to prevent them from intervening." - Friend or Foe? Forced Vaccination - Baby M website
Parents should have the final word on MMR - good article
E-News: Problems With Quarantines (NVIC)
Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight
Politics
Pregnancy/childbirth
Caesarean section increases the risk of hospital care in childhood for asthma and gastroenteritis
Research/publishing/funding/other research results
Study on Moderate Exercise Questioned - "New research labels as an 'illusion' a major study's conclusion that couch potatoes who take up at least moderate regular exercise can reduce their risk of dying early...The apparent benefit 'can be entirely attributed to measurement error,' said researcher Paul T. Williams, a biostatistician in the Life Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif."
Cell phones may cause heart failure
The way to Help a Man’s Heart - unexpected results
Letters From Parents &others
Miscellaneous
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