►April 21, 2008 - Attacking Alzheimer's - The drug industry has bet heavily on one theory about the disease. What if that theory is wrong? - Forbes

* ►April 7, 2008 - Avant Gets $11.5M Payday with FDA OK of Rotarix - BioWorld Today

* ►April 5, 2008 - Wakefield tells GMC he was motivated by concern for autistic children - Recognising and targeting differences between population groups are the priorities - journal article (BMJ) - "He read out a letter that he had sent in 1997 to John Walker-Smith, now also accused of misconduct by the GMC, in which he wrote: "If these diseases are found to be linked to the MMR vaccine, these children are the few unfortunate who have been sacrificed to protect the majority."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Factors associated with uptake of measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (MMR) and use of single antigen vaccines in a contemporary UK cohort: prospective cohort study (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Improving uptake of MMR vaccine - Recognising and targeting differences between population groups are the priorities - journal article (BMJ)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Academic freedom is at risk in dispute over Gardasil, lecturers say - journal article (BMJ) - "The programme dealt with the general issue of pharmaceutical marketing and briefly mentioned Gardasil, whose development has reaped millions of dollars for the university as well as public and political kudos."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Research into HIV vaccines needs to change direction - journal article (BMJ)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Rethinking global access to vaccines (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Continuing education should no longer be funded by drug industry, says CMAJ - journal article (BMJ)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Only Connect Don’t just blame the system - journal article (BMJ) - "The problems of medical error and poor quality are felt to originate in breakdowns in complex healthcare systems, in suboptimal communications between providers, or in failures of equipment, processes, or institutions."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Australian drug industry gives details of money spent courting doctors - journal article (BMJ)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Avian flu strain has the potential to infect humans - Ministry confirms the outbreak, but Koreans have never been infected - JoongAngDaily

* ►April 5, 2008 - Psychiatrist is struck off for wide ranging dishonesty and lack of insight - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - Do we neglect patients with multiple health problems? - Individual doctors do their best not to - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - Trial participants need to be more representative of patients - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - Research funding An unlikely benefactor - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - Government offers reassurance about funds for proposed research centre - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - A crisis of confidence Failing to explain basics can only undermine confidence - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - A diverse profession (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - Effects of gender on performance in medicine - journal article (BMJ)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Alzheimer's Vaccine Clears Plaque But Has Little Effect On Learning And Memory Impairment - University of California - Irvine via ScienceDaily

* ►April 4, 2008 - David Kirby: CDC Has Lost Control of the Autism Argument - The Huffington Post - "On Wednesday, CNN's Larry King hosted Jenny McCarthy, myself, and several others to discuss the growing evidence of a link between childhood vaccines and autism. The CDC refused to send someone to appear on the show. Instead, on Thursday, the agency issued a statement meant to reassure the American public that all vaccines are safe for all kids."

* ►April 4, 2008 - CNN Helps Autism Debacle Blow Up In Government's Face - www.newswithviews.com

* ►April 4, 2008 - Olmsted on Autism: The Head of HHS Said What? by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism

* ►April 4, 2008 - Why the Autism Speaks Blackout on Jenny and Dan!? by Katie Wright - Age of Autism

* ►April 4, 2008 - Higher Rates Of Autism In Preterm Babies No Surprise At All - letter in response to Positive Screening for Autism in Ex-preterm Infants: Prevalence and Risk Factors - journal article (Pediatrics) - "Preterm babies having higher rates of autism should not be surprising to anyone. Whether a baby weighed 3 lbs. or 12 lbs. they were both exposed, at birth, to 25,000 parts per billion of mercury via the Hepatitis B vaccine. Anyone with common sense would realize that the small baby would be much more at risk from this. Just based on weight alone, they would be exposed to 4 times more mercury per lb. of body weight. In addition, this vaccine contains 250 micrograms of aluminum. Aluminum is especially dangerous for people with poor kidney function. Preterm babies have very limited kidney function. Aluminum in vaccines has now been linked to gulf war illness (1). If it causes injury to a healthy adult soldier, what is it doing to a newborn, preterm baby."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Autism, Birth Weight & Heavy Metals - letter in response to Positive Screening for Autism in Ex-preterm Infants: Prevalence and Risk Factors - journal article (Pediatrics) - "There has been a global lack of knowledge and appreciation, by those that both created many of the vaccines and especially those that mandated the vaccines, of the untoward effects heavy metals (found in vaccine) can and have played on mitochondrial function in infants and young children. This is what happens when those that are in charge of promotion & distribution are also in charge of safety & risk assessment. This iatrogenic catastrophe was most certainly avoidable."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Meet Dr. Minshew at Penn Brewery! - Age of Autism

* ►April 4, 2008 - Harvey Karp: DVD Salesman by J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

* ►April 4, 2008 - CDC Has Lost Control: David Kirby - Age of Autism

* ►April 4, 2008 - Commentary: A view from the CDC on autism - Rear Adm. Anne Schuchat, MD, is assistant surgeon general at the U.S. Public Health Service and director at the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Edwin Trevathan, MD, MPH, is director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the CDC. - CNN

* ►April 4, 2008 - UK New Labour Government Legally Fails MMR Children - The One Click Group

* ►April 4, 2008 - Vaccines for kids need more study - Asbury Park Press - "A bill in Congress, HR-2832, the Comprehensive Comparative Study of Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Populations Act of 2007, would direct the National Institutes of Health to do this. When the Centers for Disease Control's schedule had a total of 10 shots in 1983, the risk of autism was 1 in 10,000. Now that it's 36 shots, the risk is 1 in 150, with boys three to four times more likely to be autistic."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Vaccination still on parents' minds - The Salem News - "Hib is but one example. Before the Hib (haemophilus influenza) vaccine became available, 20,000 children under the age of 5 in the United States contracted Hib meningitis each year, and 1,000 of them died. Today we rarely encounter this disorder. However, there is currently a small outbreak of measles in San Diego, and, as physicians, we worry that if vaccination rates fall, the entire country will be at risk."..."Dr. Edward Bailey is chief of pediatrics at NSMC North Shore Children's Hospital, on staff at MassGeneral Hospital for Children and a father of three. You can contact him at [email protected]"

* ►April 4, 2008 - Ten volunteers given second bird-flu injection - Viet Nam News

* ►April 4, 2008 - Bitter Pill - A Portland doc flips on big pharma and reveals its “dirty little secret.” - Willamette Week - "Lilly approached Turner around the time the FDA was set to approve a new Lilly antidepressant named Cymbalta. He was an especially good catch for the company because, in addition to his academic appointment at OHSU, Turner had spent seven years as a researcher at the prestigious National Institute of Mental Health and another three years as a clinical trials reviewer at the FDA. “They’re using your reputation and political capital, as it were, as sort of a frontman for the drug,” says Turner, 54."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Federal Agents Seize Nearly $1.3 Million of Illegal Dietary Supplements - Products alleged to be adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act - FDA - "At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, on Wednesday U.S. Marshals seized more than $1,301,712 of dietary supplements from LG Sciences, LLC, of Brighton, Mich., because the products contain unapproved food additives and/or new dietary ingredients that cause the products to violate the law. Labeled as dietary supplements, the products are marketed for use by body builders."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Blogger ensnared in hotly contested autism-vaccine lawsuit - Ars Technica - "One of those lawsuits has now embroiled an autism blogger, Kathleen Seidel, and her attempts to stay out of it may wind up testing constitutional issues and the role of citizen-journalists."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Mom Jenny Slam Dunks AAP Docs on Larry King by Barbara Loe Fisher - Vaccine Awakening

* ►April 4, 2008 - Chemical Industry's Influence at EPA Probed (requires registration) - Washington Post - "Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the oversight and investigations subcommittee, have demanded documents from the EPA and the American Chemistry Council to probe the roles of nine scientists who are serving on EPA panels or have done so in the past."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Pregnant vets 'in danger' warning - Female vets are twice as likely to miscarry as a result of exposure to anaesthetic gases, radiation and pesticides. - The Australian - "'Female veterinarians, particularly those of childbearing age, should be fully informed of the possible reproductive effects of ionising radiation (X-rays), unscavenged anaesthetic gases and exposure to pesticides,' the researchers said in a report published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Father credited for acquittal in baby's death - Dad dove into research on Shaken Baby Syndrome, sold house to prove disgraced pathologist wrong (requires registration or subscription) - Toronto Star - "He knew it had to be a mistake. His 12-year-old daughter was charged with manslaughter, accused of causing the death of a toddler she was babysitting. A renowned pathologist, Dr. Charles Smith, had said it was a case of Shaken Baby Syndrome."

►April 4, 2008 - A Shot in the Arm To Fight Measles (includes video) - KOLD-TV

►April 4, 2008 - Product Approval Information West Nile Virus / Nucleic Acid, Pooled Testing/Synthetic Package Insert - FDA/CBER

►April 4, 2008 - Citizens and the art of maintaining science - The Scientist

►April 4, 2008 - Antibiotics feed bacteria - The Scientist

►April 4, 2008 - Alzheimer’s Treatments Advance in Clinic - The Wall Street Journal

►April 4, 2008 - Antibiotic-Eating Germs Could Be Bad News for Immune System - Harvard Medical School via redOrbit

* ►April 3, 2008 - Vaccinations, Drugs And The Side Effects Of Public Harm - The Post Chronicle - "Suicide. Seizures. Fainting. The list goes on and on. Are those the sort of side effects you would want associated with your medicines or a vaccination? The drug companies that make many drugs on the market today are not concerned with side effects; they are not concerned until they are sued by a victim of a drug. The number of people harmed by vaccinations and "recommended" drugs is larger than is reported."

* ►April 3, 2008 - "It's Bulls**t!" Jenny McCarthy Takes None Of It Where Autism Is Concerned, Even If She Is On TV (includes video) - The Huffington Post - "Give my son the measles! I'll take that over autism any day." It was also around that point that she called the standard vaccination program "bullshit" without missing a beat. CNN deleted the expletive in the transcript but not on air, because they don't call it "Larry King Live" for nothing. Watch it below: The whole show was riveting and so is the read, if you want to check out the transcript here. I'm with Jenny, 1 in 150 is a staggering number and these dots don't connect any other way."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Rockville biotech Novavax envisions a world of vaccine plants - Company set to open demonstration site of facility for global network - Gazette.Net

* ►April 3, 2008 - Genvec wins $600,000 grant - Washington Business Journal - "The two-year grant will be used to develop enhancements to Genvec's adenovector technology for vaccine applications against malaria."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Vical $2 Million NIH Grant For Herpes Vaccine (VICL) - Vical via 24/7 Wall St.

* ►April 3, 2008 - The Forest Grove School District considers a school-based clinic - Contraceptives, a flash issue in other districts, will not be made available - The Oregonian - "Exactly what services Forest Grove will offer, and the extent of parental involvement, will be decided after school board approval. Typically, clinics treat students for minor health issues and offer sports physicals, routine physical exams, immunizations and mental health assessment and services, as well as vision, dental and blood pressure screenings."..."Nationally, more than 1,000 school-based health clinics, 45 of them in Oregon, have sprouted in the past 30 years. Healthy children learn better, say advocates who work to persuade sometimes skeptical parents and school boards that campus health centers are in the best interests of children."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Daily Dose: Agency, schools working on vaccinations - The Capital-Journal - "A quick puff of flu vaccine to the nostrils or a shot to the arm provided Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 students a little extra protection."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Spokane health officials worry about 7 meningitis cases - The Seattle Times - "Eastern Washington University spokesman Dave Meany says the Eagles coaches and players were immunized after one football player was hospitalized. The player was released from the hospital and returned to classes."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Huge demand leads to expanded vaccine program - Board of Health ordered 1,500 adult doses in preparation for follow-up clinic, P.F. Chang's expands support to four more clinics - Journal-News

* ►April 3, 2008 - Drug maker plans deeper cuts - The News & Observer

* ►April 3, 2008 - Corporate Welfare Helped Pharma, But Not NJ - Pharmalot - "Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer and Novartis collectively received more than $65 million in subsidies from New Jersey, but are now laying off employees and reducing their business. And so in an editorial in The Star-Ledger of New Jersey, Sarah Stecker of New Jersey Policy Perspective wonders why the state doesn’t ask key questions before writing checks."

►April 3, 2008 - The Vytorin Saga Continues: Krumholz Strikes Back - Pharmalot

►April 3, 2008 - India Would Break Patents Only For Epidemics - Pharmalot

* ►April 3, 2008 - Two million immunised in Cameroon after polio case - Reuters Health - "The 3-day immunization campaign will target 2 million children in the western Littoral province where the case was discovered, and in the South-West and Far North provinces which border regions in Nigeria and Chad where the virus is prevalent. 'Today, just one case of confirmed poliomyelitis is considered an epidemic,' said a ministry statement."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Tainted Science: Cornell Cancer Study - Alliance for Human Research Protection

►April 3, 2008 - Premature babies at higher risk of autism: study - Reuters Health

►April 3, 2008 - FDA clears Glaxo diarrhea-virus vaccine - AP via Yahoo!

►April 3, 2008 - Stephen Wiltshire, the human camera who drew London from memory - The Telegraph, UK

►April 3, 2008 - Mitochondrial Mutations Make Tumors Spread - ScienceNOW Daily News

►April 3, 2008 - Lawless Gene-Testing Industry Needs a Sheriff - Wired

* ►April 2, 2008 - Vaccine Court Decision Does Not Change Vaccination Practice - journal article (Journal Watch Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine) - "Comment: This recent news story has created many headlines, but it does not and should not change our vaccination strategies and practices. Many mitochondrial disorders have underlying neurologic signs and symptoms that might have been precipitated or uncovered by the vaccines or by fever induced by the vaccines. Although compensating this family for events that fall within the purview and injury definitions of the NCVIA is appropriate, the court’s decision only reflects the fact that an injury occurred and not evidence of a link between vaccination and autism."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Testing "Tamiflu" for Oseltamivir Content - Using colorimetric and chromatographic methods that they developed, researchers found all tested Tamiflu samples obtained through the Internet to contain an acceptable concentration of oseltamivir. - journal article (Journal Watch Infectious Diseases)

►April 2, 2008 - STIs in Teenage Girls: Still a Hidden Epidemic - One fourth of U.S. teenage girls tested positive for at least one STI. - journal article (Journal Watch Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine)

►April 2, 2008 - Irritable Heart Syndrome: Zelnorm Use Curbed Again - Pharmalot

* ►April 2, 2008 - IAC Express Issue number 721 - Immunization Action Coalition - "Last chance--Thursday, April 3, is new deadline to ask your U.S. senators to sign the immunization appropriations letter"

►April 2008 - Synaptic NMDA receptor activity boosts intrinsic antioxidant defenses - journal article (Nature Neuroscience)

* ►April 1, 2008 - Poling Vaccine/Autism Case-Implications for ME/CFS Patients - The One Click Group

►March 31, 2008 - Researchers Identify a Gene Responsible for Cases of Lou Gehrig's Disease - Canadian-French discovery published Nature Genetics - University of Montreal via Biocompare

►March 31, 2008 - 'Alien'-Type Viruses to Treat MRSA - Society for General Microbiology via Biocompare

►March 31, 2008 - ME, the crippling illness you can catch just by going for a walk - Daily Mail, UK

►March 30, 2008 - Neurons Hard Wired to Tell Left from Right - BioMed Central via Biocompare

►March 28, 2008 - Medical Mistakes Throughout the Ages - Kim Stagliano

►March 17, 2008 - Testing a Worm Egg Cocktail to Treat MS - Small Trial Planned for Unorthodox Therapy - ABC News

►March 13, 2008 - Breast-feeding seen to curb type 2 diabetes later - Diabetes Care via Reuters

* ►March 9, 2008 - ESBL killing people, swine - WebIndia123.com - "An antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase is killing people and swine in Denmark."

►March 2008 - Management of peripheral facial nerve palsy. - journal article (European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology) - "The most prevalent causes of secondary FNP are systemic viral infections, trauma, surgery, diabetes, local infections, tumor, immunological disorders, or drugs."

* ►March 2008 - Use of vitamin D in clinical practice. - journal article (Alternative Medicine Review) - "In those with serious illnesses associated with vitamin D deficiency, such as cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, autism, and a host of other illnesses, doses should be sufficient to maintain year-round 25(OH)D levels between 55 -70 ng per mL."

►March 2008 - Breast-Feeding and Type 2 Diabetes in the Youth of Three Ethnic Groups - journal article (Diabetes Care)

* ►February 23, 2008 - Doctors’ education: the invisible influence of drug company sponsorship - journal article (BMJ)

►February 2008 - Genetics of motor neuron disorders. - journal article (Revue Neurologique)

►Volume 31 Issue 4, 2008 - Hepatic events associated with atomoxetine treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. - journal article (Drug Safety)

►2002 - An aetiological study of 25 mentally retarded adults with autism - journal article (Journal of Medical Genetics)
 

►HealthChapter.com - A Friendship & Social Networking site for People who wants to stay HEALTHY..... - website

►Autism: A Compelling Neuroscience Window on Brain Circuitry & Human Function - Nancy Minshew, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine - Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7 pm Penn Brewery Pittsburgh, PA 15212 - Café Scientifique Pittsburgh - "She will talk briefly about the basis for the expansion in recognition rate of autism, and show that co-occurrence with vaccination is a very poor basis for considering vaccination to be a cause of autism."

* ►Top 5 Verdicts & Settlements - Karney Law Firm - "2. Medical Malpractice/Negligent Administration of the DPT Vaccine $3,500,000 Jury Verdict, May 1, 1985 - The Minor Plaintiff, Bernard Forehand, Jr., was seriously injured when the Defendant Pediatrician's Nurse failed to communicate to the Defendant Pediatrician, David Tayloe that the Minor Plaintiff had an adverse reaction to the first vaccination shot. The administration of the second shot left the Minor Plaintiff with a significant brain injury. The Defendant Pediatrician, David Tayloe, who at that time was the President of the National Pediatric Association, strenuously fought this case all the way to a jury verdict. On May 1, 1985, the jury handed down what was at that time the largest jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in the State of North Carolina, in the sum of 3.5 million dollars."

►April 5, 2008 - Will a pandemic bring down civilisation? (requires subscription) - New Scientist

►April 4, 2008 - Transplantation-Transmitted Tuberculosis --- Oklahoma and Texas, 2007 - MMWR/CDC

►April 4, 2008 - Nonfatal Maltreatment of Infants --- United States, October 2005--September 2006 - MMWR/CDC

►April 4, 2008 - Surveillance for Community-Associated Clostridium difficile --- Connecticut, 2006 - MMWR/CDC

* ►April 4, 2008 - Updated Recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for Use of 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7) in Children Aged 24--59 Months Who Are Not Completely Vaccinated - MMWR/CDC

►April 4, 2008 - QuickStats: Life Expectancy Ranking* at Birth,† by Sex --- Selected Countries and Territories, 2004 - MMWR/CDC

►April 4, 2008 - Notice to Readers: National Child Abuse Prevention Month --- April 2008 - MMWR/CDC

►April 4, 2008 - Notice to Readers: National Public Health Week --- April 7--13, 2008 - MMWR/CDC

►April 4, 2008 - Notifiable Diseases/Deaths in Selected Cities Weekly Information - MMWR/CDC

►April 4, 2008 - S.Korea reports bird flu outbreak, culls poultry - Reuters

* ►April 4, 2008 - Report Cites Abuse of 91,000 Babies Under 1 (requires registration) - Washington Post

►April 4, 2008 - Autism awareness - Searchlight Newspaper

* ►April 3, 2008 - An All Time Ass-Whooping by J.B. Handley - Age of Autism - "We’re moving at light speed now, and it couldn’t happen soon enough. I just checked the poll at Larry King’s website, and 85% of respondents believe vaccines can cause autism. If you think pediatricians were hating life last week, wait until their patients start showing up today."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy treating vaccine injury, not autism; will lead rally with Jim Carrey (includes video) - CelebFace - "Jenny McCarthy was on Larry King Live last night and she was very clear that she thinks her nearly six year old son, Evan, would not have suffered from autism if it wasn’t for vaccinations. She said that autism is a global epidemic, and that she and the autism community are not anti-vaccination, but that they’re anti-toxin and anti-schedule. She’s says 'we’re not treating autism, we’re treating vaccine injury.'"

* ►April 3, 2008 - Transcript: Larry King Live - Age of Autism

* ►April 3, 2008 - AAP'S Tayloe: Tyrannosaurus Infex? - Age of Autism

* ►April 3, 2008 - Register for Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey's Rally - Age of Autism

* ►April 3, 2008 - NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter
 
Mom Jenny Slam Dunks AAP Docs on Larry King by Barbara Loe Fisher

In what can only be described as a brilliant turn last night on Larry King Live, young celebrity Mom Jenny McCarthy stood her ground with a defiant "anecdotal evidence IS scientific evidence" in calling on the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to back away from one- size-fits-all vaccine policies that recommend all babies get dozens of doses of vaccines. Describing what happened to her son, who suffered convulsions and nearly died after a round of vaccinations and then regressed into autism, Jenny was accompanied by her pediatrician, Jay Gordon, M.D., and journalist David Kirby in a face-off with AAP pediatricians Harvey Karp, M.D. and David Tayloe, Jr. M.D.. It was a ground- breaking television debate about vaccine risks that highlighted the soft underbelly of a medical community unwilling to deal with the reality that regressive autism is part of the vaccine injury spectrum.

Watching Jenny talk about how she recovered her son from autism using diet and alternative healing therapies while resolutely rejecting the tired old platitudes offered up by the two pediatricians trying to defend the indefensible vaccine schedule promoted by the AAP, I smiled as I remembered how it was when I was a young Mom in the 1980's and 1990's and debated doctors on TV. Those were the days when the vast majority of Americans had no idea vaccines could brain injure children and the U.S. media was often bullied by AAP and CDC officials into downplaying reports by mothers that their children died or were brain damaged after vaccination.

The AAP and CDC leadership have essentially joined with the pharmaceutical industry and stuck their heads in the sand for three decades, refusing to take action even though parents and a few courageous doctors have repeatedly come to the table at the CDC, FDA, NIH and Institute of Medicine and pleaded with them to responsibly investigate the clear pattern of regression into poor health after vaccination that so many children are suffering. Pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers have hidden behind the protection offered by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, which Congress gave to them as a gift in an exchange that was supposed to make the vaccine system safer and more trustworthy.

The sad truth is that the public trust has been betrayed by those operating a mass vaccination system now crumbling precisely because there was a refusal to listen to the calls by mothers of vaccine injured children to take constructive action in the 1980's and 1990's.

Today, those responsible for the betrayal of the public trust will be forced to deal with a new generation of Moms, exemplified by Jenny McCarthy, who are not starting from ground zero like we did. These Moms are holding their broken children in their arms and looking back in anger and disgust at the long, tragic history of denials by those operating the mass vaccination system. This generation of mothers and fathers, many of whom will spend a lifetime trying to heal their vaccine injured children, are standing on a platform of knowledge built brick by brick by those who have gone before and shouting: "It ends here and now with me."

During the Larry King show, Jenny announced that she and Jim Carrey will be leading a march for autism awareness in Washington, D.C. on June 4.

For more information, go to Jenny's page on the Generation Rescue website at
http://generationrescue.org/vaccines.html

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"In light of the recent Hannah Poling decision, in which the federal court conceded that vaccines could have contributed to her autism, we think the tide is finally turning in the direction of parents like us who have been shouting concerns from our rooftops for years. Autism is a debilitating disorder, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is suffered by 1 in 150 kids, making it more common than childhood cancer, diabetes and AIDS combined. Recently, England and Ireland reported that autism is affecting one in 58 individuals. Is it any wonder that autism has become many new parents' No. 1 fear? We've met some of the most amazing moms and dads who are forging their own path to prevention and recovery. When our son, Evan, was diagnosed with autism we were lucky enough to benefit from their knowledge and experience. Evan has been healed to a great extent by many breakthroughs that, while perhaps not scientifically proven, have definitely helped Evan and many other children who are recovering from autism." - Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey, CNN - Larry King (April 2, 2008)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/02/mccarthy.autsimtreatment/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

* ►April 3, 2008 - New Autism Film: Beautiful Son on PBS - Age of Autism

►April 3, 2008 - Deidre Imus on CDC's Downward Spiral - Age of Autism

►April 3, 2008 - Life with autism - guest column - Akron Leader Publications

* ►April 3, 2008 - Different routes - Northwest Herald - "Recovery for Amanda was attained through biomedical treatment supplements that included a controversial procedure called chelation, which is said to extract metals, such as mercury and aluminum, from the bloodstream. DiFucci concedes that some mainstream physicians deemed chelation therapy to be 'quackery,' and she knows of autistic children who had chelation that didn’t work. But DiFucci said her daughter’s case was an example that it could work. DiFucci urges parents to consider different treatments to solve their own child’s 'autism puzzle.'"

* ►April 3, 2008 - California Democrats push 8 bills to fight spread of autism (requires registration) - Sacramento Bee

* ►April 3, 2008 - Vaccines' worth - letter - News & Observer - "My fellow pediatricians continue to inform some of our now very worried families that there is no scientific evidence linking autism to vaccines."

►April 3, 2008 - Rise in autism is concern - letters - The Columbian

►April 3, 2008 - Raising Autism awareness - Wayne Independent

►April 3, 2008 - Vaccines Deal To Help Poor States - World Bank

* ►April 3, 2008 - UW students star as directors in film fest - The Daily Cardinal - "As a Ph.D. student working toward a degree in the History of Science, Amyrs Williams is not your typical filmmaker. Last semester, Williams took a documentary production class, her first experience with filmmaking. She created “I Have a Sister” as her final project for the class and was encouraged by her instructor to enter it in the Wisconsin Film Festival....Williams described the film as a 13-minute documentary about her sister, who experienced an adverse reaction to the DPT vaccine as an infant, suffered severe brain damage as a result and died at age 16. The film juxtaposes medical facts with photographs and memories of her family’s emotional experience."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Vaccines: Make informed decision - guest column - Community Press

* ►April 3, 2008 - Decision may undermine years of vaccine progress - The Denver Post - "It wasn't so long ago that Colorado had the shameful distinction of being last in the nation in childhood immunization rates. Thankfully, much has improved since then. But a recent decision by the nation's so-called vaccine court has motivated the nation's anti-vaccination contingent and has the potential to undo the good progress that has been made."

* ►April 3, 2008 - FDA Approves New Vaccine to Prevent Gastroenteritis Caused by Rotavirus - FDA

* ►April 3, 2008 - FDA Approves ROTARIX(R) [Rotavirus Vaccine, live, oral], The First Vaccine licensed to Complete the Rotavirus Immunization Series by Four Months of Age - Vaccine Offers Early Protection with Only Two Doses Against the Most Commonly Circulating Rotavirus Types in the U.S. - press release - GlaxoSmithKline via PRNewswire-FirstCall

* ►April 3, 2008 - New vaccine against rotavirus approved for US children - Philadelphia Inquirer

* ►April 3, 2008 - Glaxo's Rotarix Shows Benefit In Latin American Infants-Study - The Lancet via Dow Jones via CNNMoney

* ►April 3, 2008 - Crucell Announces First in Man Study with New Adenovirus Vector - Recombinant adenovirus 26 vector avoids pre-existing immunity and is used in new HIV vaccine - press release - Crucell N.V. via EarthTimes.org - "Jaap Goudsmit, Chief Scientific Officer at Crucell: 'The rAd26 vector, as part of our AdVac® technology program, is designed to overcome the problem of pre-existing immunity in humans against the most commonly used recombinant vaccine vector, adenovirus serotype 5.' Antibodies to Ad5, a common cold virus, are widespread among people of all ages and are known to lower the immune response to Ad5-based vaccines, thereby impairing the efficacy of these vaccines."

* ►April 3, 2008 - GenVec Receives Grant for Malaria Vaccine Program - press release - GenVec, Inc. via Business Wire - "This grant, valued at approximately $600,000 over two years, will be used to develop enhancements to the company’s vectors for vaccine applications against malaria."
 
* ►April 3, 2008 - Vical Receives NIH Grant for an Immunotherapeutic Herpes DNA Vaccine; Herpes Experts at University of Washington and University of Texas to Conduct Preclinical Development - press release - Vical Incorporated via PRNewswire-FirstCall via EarthTimes.org - "Vical Incorporated  today announced that it has been awarded a two-year, $2.0 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant will fund the ongoing development of Vical's immunotherapeutic plasmid DNA (pDNA) vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), a sexually transmitted virus which is the leading cause of genital herpes. The HSV-2 vaccine will also be evaluated with Vical's novel Vaxfectin(R) adjuvant."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Iomai and Merck & Co., Inc. Evaluate Use of Iomai Immunostimulant Patch - Merck to Conduct Preclinical Proof-of-Principle Studies - press release - Iomai Corporation via PRNewswire-FirstCall - "The Iomai approach uses a potent adjuvant, applied to the skin through a patch that is affixed over the site of the injected vaccine. Once the patch is applied, the adjuvant passes into the skin, targeting cells called Langerhans cells. Those specialized skin cells carry the adjuvant into the lymph nodes, where it works to boost an individual's immune response to the vaccine. This proprietary approach is known as transcutaneous immunization (TCI)."

* ►April 3, 2008 - Removing barriers to the distribution of life-saving vaccines - Analysis: Rethinking global access to vaccines - BMJ-British Medical Journal via www.eurekalert.org

* ►April 3, 2008 - Experimental vaccine seen as hope against MRSA - Newsday - "MRSA is a notorious cause of hospital infections, but Long Island doctors who are beginning tests of an experimental vaccine for open-heart surgery patients say they hope the shot will keep the superbug at bay."

►April 3, 2008 - Breakthrough made with Norwalk virus - University of Calgary Gauntlet News

* ►April 3, 2008 - Aspartame is neurotoxic genotixic molecular food and vaccine pharmaco-genocide by Dr. William Deagle - OpEdNews

►April 3, 2008 - The Speech That Maimed Schering And Merck - transcript - Forbes

►April 3, 2008 - Cleveland Biolabs gets $8.9 million contract to develop radiation treatment drug - AP via International Herald Tribune

* ►April 3, 2008 - Flu takes mixed toll on health-care companies - Wall Street Journal via Post-Bulletin

►April 3, 2008 - Miss Beloit pageant scheduled for Saturday - Beloit Daily News - "Platform: 'Public Awareness of the HPV Virus'...She also would like to provide information about the HPV vaccine and how young women can get vaccinated."

►April 3, 2008 - Free HPV Vaccine to Missouri Girls, Women - Heartland News KFVS 12

►April 3, 2008 - CDC issues health advisory about measles outbreak in United States - RDH Magazine

* ►April 3, 2008 - Measles outbreak in Salzburg spreads; some 180 cases reported - International Herald Tribune

►April 3, 2008 - Region issues measles alert - Oakville Beaver

►April 3, 2008 - County leads state in number of meningitis infections - Bakersfield Californian

►April 3, 2008 - Limited bird flu spread among Pakistan brothers: WHO - Reuters

* ►April 3, 2008 - China approves its first H5N1 vaccine - CIDRAP News

►April 3, 2008 - Huge demand leads to vaccine clinic Saturday - Board of Health ordered 1,500 adult doses in preparation for follow-up clinic, P.F. Chang's expands support to four more clinics - Middletown Journal

* ►April 3, 2008 - Foetal test rules out rhesus jab - A test for spotting a mismatch between the blood of a pregnant woman and her baby could prevent thousands from undergoing unnecessary treatment. - BBC

* ►April 3, 2008 - Eating Less May Hinder Immune System - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report - "Martin and fellow researchers cited previous studies that had found that infections were 'more frequent and tend to be chronic in malnourished children.' Previous studies have also found that vaccines that provoke B cells to protect the body long-term, such as the vaccine for measles, are less effective among the malnourished."

►April 3, 2008 - Coffee may help ward off dementia, study suggests - USA Today

►April 3, 2008 - CDC Finds 91,000 Infants Abused or Neglected in One Year - MedPage Today

►April 3, 2008 - Blame pollutants for hike in breast cancer: scientist - Culprits could be in water, air, detergents, pesticides, plastics, epidemiologist says - Edmonton Journal

►April 3, 2008 - Get ready for Bluetongue vaccination! - Farming UK

►April 3, 2008 - Poultry vaccine holds promise for mankind - Arizona State University

* ►April 2, 2008 - Larry King Live: Autism - Larry King talks with Jenny McCarthy about her son's battle with autism. Plus, a panel weighs in on the autism debate - video - CNN

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 1 - video - RedLasso

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 2 - video - RedLasso

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 3 - video - RedLasso

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 4 - video - RedLasso

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 5 - video - RedLasso

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 6 - video - RedLasso

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy on Larry King Live 4/2/08, Part 7 - video - RedLasso

* ►April 2, 2008 - CNN Larry King Live - Jenny McCarthy's Autism Fight - transcript - CNN

* ►April 2, 2008 - CDC Under Siege - by Deirdre Imus - The Huffington Post - "The CDC is in the vaccine business. Under a 1980 law, the CDC currently has 28 licensing agreements with companies and one university for vaccines or vaccine-related products. It has eight ongoing projects to collaborate on new vaccines. Those are some very serious conflicts. So when Dr. Gerberding or any official rushes to the microphones to tell us vaccines don't cause autism we should consider the source and the implication for the agency if shown to be wrong. If the CDC were capable of suppressing and minimizing the health risks associated in formaldehyde trailers or pollutants in the Great Lakes, why wouldn't they do the same with vaccines and their association with autism? Why should we trust an agency to tell us the truth about a public health disaster that they may have created?"

* ►April 2, 2008 - World Autism Day special for Wellington mom, 8-year-old son - Wellington family joins in event highlighting brain disorder - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

* ►April 2, 2008 - Autism Is Not Merely Behavioral - American Chronicle

►April 2, 2008 - Autistic teenager admits creating $26m web virus - A teenage hacker accused of creating a computer virus that cost the economy more than $26 million has pleaded guilty and is likely to avoid being jailed. - The Dominion Post

►April 2, 2008 - Parents of Autistic Kids Take Income Hit - Study Shows 14% Lower Income Among Families Facing Autism - WebMD

►April 2, 2008 - New and deadly viruses passed through sweet food and domestic animals - Society for General Microbiology via www.eurekalert.org - "Nipah virus is a new and deadly brain and lung disease that emerged from Singapore and Malaysia ten years ago."

* ►April 2, 2008 - PharmAthene Closes Acquisition of Avecia Biodefense Vaccines Business Unit - Strategic Acquisition Creates Expanded Biodefense Pipeline - press release - PharmAthene,
Inc. via PRNewswire-FirstCall

* ►April 2, 2008 - Catastrophic Setback: "The hopes of an AIDS vaccine are dashed" - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►April 2, 2008 - Video sets GlaxoSmithKline Hounds to Intimidate British Blogger - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►April 2, 2008 - Lilly-Alaska Settle Zyprexa lawsuit for $15 Million - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►April 2, 2008 - Warning for parents to avoid controversial chemical - Tampa Bays 10 - "The non profit, Center for Science in the Public Interest is recommending pregnant women and parents look for products that don't contain a controversial chemical called Bisphenol A or BPA."

* ►April 2, 2008 - EPA feels heat over flame retardant - Dismissal of toxicologist raises concerns over delayed safety report. - Nature News via www.nature.com

* ►April 1, 2008 - Accusations of Delays in Releasing Drug Results (requires registration) - The New York Times - "The lead outside investigator on a crucial trial of two widely used heart drugs said in an e-mail message last July that Merck and Schering-Plough, the companies that make the drugs, were deliberately delaying the release of the trial results 'to hide something.'"

* ►April 1, 2008 - The Dangers of Excessive Childhood Vaccinations by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. - New Research Findings Blog

►April 1, 2008 - Deadly Frog Fungus Spreads in Virus-Like Waves - A frog-killing fungus in Central and South America spreads in waves like other infectious diseases, challenging a theory that climate change is to blame, a new study says. - National Geographic

* ►March 28, 2008 - Three Mile Island at 29: Reactors and Infant Health - CommonDreams.org

►March 28, 2008 - Go to the Fridge and Fix Yourself a Superbug Sandwich - Canadian pork imports may be laced with antibiotic-resistant Staph. - DISCOVER Magazine

* ►March 27, 2008 - In the United States Court of Federal Claims - Office of Special Masters (Filed: March 27, 2008) - In Re: Claims for Vaccine Injuries Resulting in Autism Spectrum Disorder or a Similar Neurodevelopmental Disorder (pdf) - http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov

►March 26, 2008 - CV Technologies Is Set for Growth, Says CEO - CV Technologies Inc. via Marketwire - " They also indicate the potential of CVT-E002 to boost the effectiveness of the flu shot and other vaccines."

* ►March 25, 2008 - Lynne McTaggart: MMR and mercury detox: how to protect your child - WDDTY What Doctors Don't Tell You

* ►March 25, 2008 - AJ's Special Story - Mark Schultz - He's My Son - video - Five for Fighting via www.whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com

* ►March 25, 2008 - Rabies warning for Aiken County - WRDW.com

►March 21, 2008 - Thawing the World’s Freezer - What global warming means for preserved microorganisms. - Scienceline

►March 18, 2008 - 10 Million Baby Boomers Face Alzheimer's, Report Predicts (requires registration) - HealthDay via Washington Post

►March 4, 2008 - Harvard researchers skeptical about multivitamins - Natural Foods Merchandiser

►February 27, 2008 - A randomized placebo-controlled trial of ginkgo biloba for the prevention of cognitive decline. - journal article (Neurology)

►February 27, 2008 - Ginkgo biloba may protect memory: study - Reuters

►February 23, 2008 - Cellphone radiation affects cells in living humans - New Scientist

►February 11, 2008 - Mobile phone radiation might alter protein expression in human skin - journal article (BMC Genomics)

►October/November 2007 - The Dirty Dozen Chemicals in Cosmetics - The Green Guide

►October 7, 2007 - Interview with Dr. Andrew Maniotis, PhD, Assistant Research Professor Program Director Cell and Development Biology of Cancer, Departments of Pathology and Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Chicago (pdf) - Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society - "This interview was published by the Greek Newspaper of Athens, Greeze, 'PARASKEVI+13', December 7, 2007 under the title 'AIDS: A WORLD SCANDAL!', and the subtitle: 'DRUGS AND VACCINES DO NOT CURE!'"

* ►Symptoms/Associations - FLUORIDE POISONING / THYROID DYSFUNCTION (Iodine Deficiency) - “Though apparently vague and non-specific, most of the symptoms of fluoride toxicity point towards some kind of profound metabolic dysfunction, and are strikingly similar to the symptoms of Hypothyroidism.” - Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children (PFPC)

* ►Autism: News & Videos about Autism - Special Reports - CNN

►April 20, 2008 - Recommendations on risk-based strategies for detection and characterization of antibodies against biotechnology products - journal article (Journal of Immunological Methods)

* ►April 3, 2008 - Regulating Off-Label Drug Use — Rethinking the Role of the FDA (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►April 3, 2008 - Full Disclosure and the Funding of Biomedical Research (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►April 3, 2008 - Gene Identification for the cblD Defect of Vitamin B12 Metabolism - journal article (NEJM)

►April 3, 2008 - Genetic variation in human NPY expression affects stress response and emotion - journal article (Nature)

►April 3, 2008 - Atopic Dermatitis - journal article (NEJM)

►April 3, 2008 - Options for Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs - journal article (NEJM)

►April 3, 2008 - The Interface of Neurology and Internal Medicine (book review) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►April 3, 2008 - Greens worried over possible bid to approve horse flu vaccine - Horsetalk, New Zealand - "The Green Party has said it will oppose any moves to seek approval for a genetically engineered live equine flu vaccine in New Zealand....'These types of vaccines are normally a GE virus or a bacterium; they cannot be seen and are impossible to recall if they turn out to have dangerous effects.' 'They also may be able to live outside their intended host, or in another host. There may be no way to know what other animals might be infected with this organism."

* ►April 3, 2008 - An Enquiry Into The Politics of the Governed - Polio Day in Murshidabad became an occasion to register protest against the skewed development policies of the government, writes Rohini Chaki - The Telegraph, India

* ►April 3, 2008 - US set to spend $50bn against HIV - The US is set to spend $50bn to battle HIV/Aids in the next five years. - BBC

►April 3, 2008 - Document causes controversy at horse flu inquiry - www.abc.net.au

►April 3, 2008 - Dogs catch flu directly from birds, study finds - Reuters India

►April 3, 2008 - Anti-measles drive to continue - The Post

►April 3, 2008 - Health Department encourages vaccinations - Gulf Breeze News

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy and David Kirby on Larry King - Tonight was another hallmark in the national vaccine/autism debate. - Adventures in Autism

* ►April 2, 2008 - Quick Vote - Do you think vaccines cause or contribute to autism? - Larry King Live via CNN

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy & Autism on CNN - Age of Autism

* ►April 2, 2008 - World Autism Day: Larry King Live - Age of Autism

* ►April 2, 2008 - On World Autism Day: A Plea For Better Journalism by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism

* ►April 2, 2008-  A Little Perspective by Julie Obradovic - Age of Autism - "Was it really just one year ago that we were jumping out of our seats because Oprah actually let Katie Wright SAY the word vaccine? Does anyone else remember that? Just the WORD being on television as something related to Autism was cause for a celebration! My how far we've come in such a short time!"

* ►April 2, 2008 - Vaccine-autism question divides parents, scientists (includes video) - CNN - "At 13, Michelle Cedillo can't speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring in case she has a seizure....Theresa and her husband, Mike, say their only child was a happy, engaged toddler who responded to her name, said 'mommy' and 'daddy' and was otherwise normal until she received a measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine at 15 months....Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says the connection between vaccines and autism is nothing more than a sad coincidence. "

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy: My son's recovery from autism By Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey Special to CNN (includes video) - CNN - "Many people aren't aware that in the 1980s our children received only 10 vaccines by age 5, whereas today they are given 36 immunizations, most of them by age 2. With billions of pharmaceutical dollars, could it be possible that the vaccine program is becoming more of a profit engine then a means of prevention?"

* ►April 2, 2008 - Hope and heartbreak of autism - CNN's Alina Cho brings us the very different stories of two families coping with autism. - video - CNN

* ►April 2, 2008 - Autistic children linked to same sperm donor (includes video) - CNN

►April 2, 2008 - 'You get a slice of heaven and a pure love in your home' (includes video) - CNN

►April 2, 2008 - Autism: Shattering stereotypes - Austin Cooper 360 Blog via CNN

* ►April 2, 2008 - Asking for Heroes by Kent Heckenlively, Esq. - Age of Autism - "The medical professionals we need won’t help for the promise of money or glory.  They’ll help because of a tiny voice inside which tells them to do what’s right. They’ll help us because they came from families where integrity and honesty were paramount.  These are values they’ll want to pass down to their children.  They’ll help us because they see the values of their own profession at stake.  They’ll help us because they took an oath to be healers."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Autism Treatments Lagging Awareness - Experts, Parents: Battle Only Beginning (includes videos) - The Early Show via CBS News

* ►April 2, 2008 - A Global Fight Against Autism - It's World Autism Awareness Day and the organization Autism Speaks seeks a global effort to fight autism. Maggie Rodriguez speaks with the organization's founders Bob and Suzanne Wright. - video - The Early Show via CBS News

* ►April 2, 2008 - Families Struggle With Autism - Families with autistic children face tremendous emotional and financial burdens and find little educational support. Dr. Jon LaPook reports. - video - The Early Show via CBS News

* ►April 2, 2008 - Study Links Preemies With Autism Signs (requires registration) - AP via Chicago Tribune - "The study, released Wednesday and published in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics, involved 91 children aged 18 months to 2 years old. On average, they were born 10 weeks early weighing less than 4 pounds. Screening results found suspected autism in 23 children, or 25 percent."

►April 2, 2008 - Study Suggests Preemie, Autism Link - WebMD

►April 2, 2008 - Study links preemies with autism signs - AP via Yahoo

* ►April 2, 2008 - Local group raises autism awarness - April 2, 2008 is the first world Autism Awareness Day. - WTVD ABC 11 Raleigh - "In the Triangle, there's a group leading the effort for change. They're pushing lawmakers on the state and federal level to raise awareness about autism. Amy Carson is co-founder of the group, Moms Against Mercury. Carson divides her time caring for her 11-year-old son, Kit, who has autism, and rallying lawmakers for safer vaccines. 'I am 100 percent convinced my sons autism was vaccine induced,' said Carson. 'I believe the mercury was the catalyst and the live viruses in the vaccines pushed him over the edge.'"

* ►April 2, 2008 - Lawmaker seeks ban on thimerosal - Warren Times Gazette - "Joining a wave of concern over the use of mercury-based preservatives in vaccines, Rep. J. Russell Jackson (D-Newport) has introduced legislation that would ban the use of thimerosal in childhood vaccines. House Bill-8077 would, with certain exemptions, set limitations and prohibitions on or after July 1, 2009 regarding the administration and injection of mercury-containing vaccines. It is the fourth year the Newport representative has submitted the legislation."

* ►April 2, 2008 - International Autism Day: One Family's Decision - Medical community weighs in - WRDW-TV - "Health team 12 has a closer look at one family's decision to wait on vaccinating their child -- just in case."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Area couple: 'Our son is autistic -- and it's OK' - Gary Post Tribune - "Today, Toni and Chad Modglin will explain why their 6-year-old son, Chase, isn't part of the 'epidemic' of autism in this country. Today, on National Autism Awareness Day, they want to defend autistic children and the families who don't want to be caught in the crossfire between the 'mercury militia' and the 'vaccination vampires.'"

* ►April 2, 2008 - Parents At Odds About What Causes Autism - Today's THV - "Carrie Elsass still remembers the days she says her healthy baby took a drastic turn. Elsass says, 'My son’s six and a half now, but immediately falling his MMR and his chicken pox vaccine at 13-months he kind of within a week or so feel apart physically.' He was later diagnosed with a mild case of Autism; Elsass is President of the local National Autism Association and blames vaccinations. She adds, 'If you look at vaccinated verses completely unvaccinated children you find that not only is there a dramatic increase in autism there is also a dramatic increase in asthma juvenile diabetes ear infections.'"

* ►April 2, 2008 - Autism study shows increased rates - Autism Queensland says a recent study into autism showed the diagnosis rate is increasing, with one in 160 children affected. - www.abc.net.au

* ►April 2, 2008 - Living with autism (includes videos) - iReport.com

►April 2, 2008 - Living with autism in the UK - Increasingly common, yet often misunderstood, autism is now being discussed in the international corridors of power with the first UN-sponsored World Autism Awareness Day - but what issues face those with the condition in the UK? - BBC

►April 2, 2008 - Autism Goes to College - Some Schools Have Programs to Help Autistic Students (includes video) - Good Morning America via ABC News

►April 2, 2008 - UN chief salutes courage of children, families battling with autism - Xinhua via China View

►April 2, 2008 - World Autism Awareness Day - Medical News Today

►April 2, 2008 - FORUM: The anniversary of autism - editorial - Washington Times - "As the poet Andres Blanco wrote, 'He who has a child, has all the children in the world.' Sixty-seven children will be diagnosed with autism today in the United States, and in the faces of those children, I see my son."

►April 2, 2008 - Autism day gives insight into families' lives - Southtown Star

* ►April 2, 2008 - 'Autistics don't want to be cured' (requires registration or subscription) - Julie's Health Club via Chicago Tribune

►April 2, 2008 - Autistic and Overlooked (requires registration) - Washington Post

►April 2, 2008 - Being a Teen is Hard Enough (includes video) - Central Illinois Proud

►April 2, 2008 - Autism's crucial window - Experts are working to detect the disorder sooner, because early intervention can make all the difference (requires registration or subscription) - Globe and Mail

►April 2, 2008 - Autism Awareness Day: One Boy, 3 Dogs, 27 Years - Seattle Post-Intelligencer Blog

►April 2, 2008 - In our view: Decide in Court - The Columbian - "Who wins in a battle between parental rights and the criminal justice system? The child, at least in cases where solid science is used to prove that routine medical treatment was withheld from a child by the parents."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Hands full for school nurses - Novato Advance - "'We have 21 diabetics. We have hundreds of kids with seizures. We have scores of kids with food allergies,' Marin noted."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Vaccinations and Drugs are being forced on the Public, Part II - American Chronicle - "It is truly a battle. Doctors will defend to the death the reason they believe vaccines pose no dangers, even when children are having severe reactions.  This is a CRISIS for our country! Are our children lab rats that we should willingly subject them to vaccinations without further tests done to find out if they are safe? As a people, Americans are allowing their doctors to prescribe prescription drugs one after another for us... and for our children, they are getting inundated with vaccines."

* ►April 2, 2008 - CDC Vaccine Price List - Prices last reviewed/updated: April 2, 2008 - CDC

* ►April 2, 2008 - Democratic lawmakers blast CDC on FEMA trailers - Reuters - "'The Science and Technology Committee consider Dr. DeRosa a whistle-blower. He sought to repeatedly raise the alarm within the corridors of the CDC that a public health disaster was unraveling before them,' committee chairman Rep. Bart Gordon, a Tennessee Democrat, said in a statement. The lawmakers asked Gerberding to personally explain what happened."

* ►April 2, 2008 - CDC funding varies widely by state, report says - CIDRAP News

* ►April 2, 2008 - Drug Ads on TV Should Include US FDA Phone Number, Group Says - Bloomberg

►April 2, 2008 - New HPV vaccine launched in SA - Health24.com

►April 2, 2008 - Waiver for Vaccine Extended - AP via WTOK - "State health officials are extending an immunization waiver of the two-dose chickenpox vaccine requirement for children entering Mississippi schools this fall. The original waiver for the varicella vaccine was issued in November 2007. It was issued due to delays in vaccine availability."

* ►April 2, 2008 - AAFP, ACIP, AAP Recommend Massive Expansion of Influenza Vaccine Coverage - AAFP News Now

* ►April 2, 2008 - China authorizes commercial production of human bird flu vaccine - Xinhua via China View - "China's food and drug regulators on Wednesday authorized a domestic pharmaceutical firm to begin commercial production of a human bird flu vaccine, following more than two years of clinical trials. The firm, Beijing-based Sinovac Biotech Co., Ltd. will produce vaccines to defend humans against the H5N1 virus and its epidemic variety, making China the world's second country with the technology and industrial capacity to produce human bird flu vaccine."

* ►April 2, 2008 - New Warnings for Flu Drug Relenza - Rare Reports of Seizures, Hallucinations, Delirium, Abnormal Behavior Now Noted on Drug's Warning Label - WebMD

►April 2, 2008 - County issues alert over high number of meningitis cases - Bakersfield Californian

►April 2, 2008 - Clint High School Parents Concerned Over Meningitis Mix Up - KTSM-TV

►April 2, 2008 - UMass confirms meningitis case - Worcester Telegram

* ►April 2, 2008 - WMU takes measures to prevent meningitis - WMU News - "A 19-year-old Western Michigan University freshman died today at his home in Holland, Mich., following a brief illness."

►April 2, 2008 - Survivor Talks About Anniversary of the Polio Vaccine - First Coast News

►April 2, 2008 - No Development, No Polio Drops: Bihar Villagers - News Post India

►April 2, 2008 - PAKISTAN: Lack of awareness handicaps anti-measles drive - IRIN Asia

►April 2, 2008 - Austria City Is Hit by Measles Outbreak - The Associated Press via Google

►April 2, 2008 - 300 People Vaccinated in Hepatitis A Scare - Fox 12 Boise

►April 2, 2008 - Crowds swarm for hepatitis A vaccine - Cincinnati Enquirer

* ►April 2, 2008 - Five at Carmel Valley school diagnosed with chicken pox - San Diego Union-Tribune - "Four of the students had at least one dose of chicken pox vaccine and the fifth student had two doses, said Dr. Wilma Wooten, county public health officer."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Seven Charged In $11 Million Medicare Fraud Linked To Fake HIV Clinic - All Headline News - "Seven people, including a physician, have been indicted on federal charges alleging they set up a fake south Florida health clinic to bill Medicare for $11 million in HIV treatments that never actually administered, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced Wednesday."

* ►April 2, 2008 - PEPFAR: An Unprecented Commitment to Fighting HIV/AIDS - Congress Should Continue The American People's Historic Commitment To Combat HIV/AIDS Around The World - press release - The White House

* ►April 2, 2008 - Pelosi on Global HIV/AIDS Bill: 'There is a Moral Imperative to Combat This Epidemic' - press release - Office of the Speaker of the House via PRNewswire-USNewswire via EarthTimes.org - "Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this afternoon in support of the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, which provides $50 billion over five years for programs to combat those diseases around the world."

►April 2, 2008 - FDA Tobacco Regulation Heads to Full House - Media General News Service

►April 2, 2008 - Express vaccines now USDA-approved for use in whole-herd vaccination programs - Dovers

►April 2, 2008 - Plague Found In Boulder - Prairie Dog Colony Fleas Test Positive - TheDenverChannel.com

* ►April 2, 2008 - You Can Report Side Effects To The FDA? - Pharmalot - "In 2004, about 423,000 adverse events were collected by the FDA, even though drug reactions account for nearly 700,000 emergency room visits each year, according to Consumers Union, which notes that drugmakers are required to report adverse events to the FDA, yet docs and patients do so voluntarily. An Institute of Medicine report found that in 2004, only 21,500 of the more than 422,000 reports that year came from docs and patients."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Vietnam Moves To Give 5-in-1 Vaccines By 2009 - Bernama

* ►April 2, 2008 - Glaxo Adds Warnings to Flu Drug - Glaxo Adds Warnings of Reported Seizures, Psychiatric Problems to Flu Drug Relenza - AP via Yahoo!

* ►April 2, 2008 - Who Is Excluded From Clinical Trials? Who Isn’t? - Pharmalot

* ►April 2, 2008 - Bird flu shows signs of abating - Nhan Dan, Vietnam

* ►April 2, 2008 - Drug Maker Cuts Risk By Buying Others' Pills (free content) - The Wall Street Journal

* ►April 2, 2008 - Protein discovery sheds light on autoimmune diseases - The immune system is made up of a collection of mechanisms that protect our bodies from disease and infection. But if you have an autoimmune disease, your own immune system attacks itself by mistake. Many parts of the body can be affected by these diseases, including nerves, muscles, and the endocrine and digestive systems. Autoimmune diseases are the third leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the industrialised world and are only surpassed by cancer and heart disease. Now scientists working on an EU-funded project have identified a protein, which they say will lead to new ways of understanding and treating these autoimmune diseases. - European Research (europa)

►April 2, 2008 - The Provenge Anniversary: A Plea From A Patient - Pharmalot

►April 2, 2008 - Shire CEO Focuses His Attention On Buying Drugs - Pharmalot

►April 2, 2008 - Schering-Plough CEO Implies Vytorin Critic Is Biased - Pharmalot

►April 2, 2008 - Equal Time for Mental Health Care (requires registration) (opinion) - The New York Times

►April 2, 2008 - Study Is Setback for Some RNA-Based Drugs (requires registration) - The New York Times

►April 2, 2008 - Bugs provoke the immune system into fighting cancer - NewScientist - "US vaccine company Advaxis chose Listeria monocytogenes because of its ability to stow away in immune cells called antigen-presenting cells (APCs). These cells prime the rest of the immune system to attack a given strain of microbe, say, by showing fragments of antigen from that microbe to the appropriate cells."

►April 2, 2008 - Deadly disease mutates - University of California San Diego via News24 - "A new strain of a deadly water-borne disease has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon, researchers said on Tuesday."

►April 2, 2008 - Asperger's and IT: Dark secret or open secret? - Asperger's Syndrome has been a part of IT for as long as there's been IT. So why aren't we doing better by the Aspies among us? - Computer World

►April 2, 2008 - Novartis further curbs Zelnorm use in U.S. -FDA - Reuters

* ►April 1, 2008 - Silent epidemic HPV is now the No. 1 sexually transmitted infection, yet the majority of those infected don't even know it - Minnesota State University, Reporter

* ►April 1, 2008 - Needles out again for Albertans - The Canadian Press via C-Health Canoe - "Since last September, 439 cases of the mumps have been reported in Alberta, with 279 of them reported in the Chinook Health Region."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Notable Impact On Autism Research In Opening Year Shown By First National Autism Registry - Kennedy Krieger Institute via Medical News Today

* ►April 1, 2008 - National Standards to Rank Physicians Planned (requires registration) - The New York Times

* ►April 1, 2008 - Contractors will have to take new precautions - Star-Telegram - "In an effort to reduce children's exposure to lead, the Environmental Protection Agency will require building contractors to undergo training before they can renovate homes, schools or day-care centers built before 1978, when lead-based paint was outlawed."

►April 1, 2008 - Novartis and FDA Complete Two-year CRADA to Define and Test a Process for Qualifying Preclinical Safety Biomarkers - Novartis via Compliance Home

►April 1, 2008 - Bill would reduce state research funds - A proposed bill would cut the state investment in biotech and research centers while increasing oversight of institutes receiving funds from the Scripps Florida Funding Corp., which has just one employee. - Palm Beach Post via Miami Herald

►April 1, 2008 - Internet's importance in health education - Irish Health

* ►April 1, 2008 - Vaccine-autism test case - An Arizona girl has become the test case over whether there is a vaccine-autism link. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports. - video - CNN - "At 13, Michelle Cedillo can't speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring in case she has a seizure."

* ►April 1, 2008 - The American Academy of Pediatrics to Work With Defeat Autism Now in Treating Autistic Children! - Adventures in Autism

* ►April 1, 2008 - World Autism Awareness Day - press release - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services - "Although we continue to evaluate vaccine safety to ensure we are providing the safest immunizations for our children, there is no credible scientific evidence to date that links vaccines to the development of autism, Therefore, we recommend that parents continue to have their children vaccinated."

►April 1, 2008 - New device gives voice to children with autism - CTV

►April 1, 2008 - Carmi native talks of son's diagnosis with autism as first World Autism Awareness Day approaches - The Carmi Times

* ►April 1, 2008 - It's Groundhog Day for bullying by GlaxoSmithKline over Seroxat (includes video) - Scientific Misconduct Blog - "It seems that attorneys representing GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in the UK have sent a letter threatening a patient (Bob Fiddaman). Fiddaman writes the "Seroxat (Paxil) Sufferers blog". As a result of the letter, Fiddaman felt intimidated to remove a video he created and posted to his website in February."

►April 1, 2008 - Paxton child has bacteria that can cause meningitis - The News-Gazette

►April 1, 2008 - Hepatitis May Be Ally Against HIV - A part of one of the proteins of the Hepatitis C virus shows anti-HIV activity in cell cultures. Cynthia Graber reports. (includes podcast) - Scientific American

►April 1, 2008 - Spotlight on the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative - European Public Health Alliance

►April 1, 2008 - Intermune shares jump on hepatitis C drug data - Reuters via The Guardian, UK

►April 1, 2008 - Benefits Of Ultrasound Contrast Agents Outweigh Potential Risk To Heart Patients, Research Suggests - Saint Louis University via ScienceDaily

►April 1, 2008 - Current Vaccine Shortages & Delays - Last Updated April 1, 2008 - CDC - "On March 26, CDC's Travelers' Health web section announced that yellow fever vaccine is now available in single-dose vials."

* ►April 2008 - Media Coverage of the Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autism Controversy and Its Relationship to MMR Immunization Rates in the United States (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics) - "There was a significant increase in selective MMR nonreceipt that was temporally associated with the publication of the original scientific literature, suggesting a link between MMR and autism, which preceded media coverage of the MMR-autism controversy. This finding suggests a limited influence of mainstream media on MMR immunization in the United States."

* ►April 2008 - Vaccination Coverage by Special Health Care Needs Status in Young Children (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics) - "There is some evidence that children with special health care needs are at risk for underimmunization if they are non-Hispanic white or live in an affluent household and are more likely to be immunized if they are Hispanic, poor, publicly insured, or if their mothers did not complete high school."

* ►April 2008 - Association of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders and Loss of Family Income (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

* ►April 2008 - Prevention of Influenza: Recommendations for Influenza Immunization of Children, 2007–2008 (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

* ►April 2008 - Guidelines for Early Identification, Screening, and Clinical Management of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders - journal article (Pediatrics)

* ►April 2008 - Positive Screening for Autism in Ex-preterm Infants: Prevalence and Risk Factors - journal article (Pediatrics)

* ►April 2008 - Direct and indirect cellular effects of aspartame on the brain - journal article (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition) - "The aim of this study was to discuss the direct and indirect cellular effects of aspartame on the brain, and we propose that excessive aspartame ingestion might be involved in the pathogenesis of certain mental disorders (DSM-IV-TR 2000) and also in compromised learning and emotional functioning."

* ►April 2008 - Very low lead exposures and children's neurodevelopment. - journal article (Current Opinion in Pediatrics) - "No level of lead exposure appears to be 'safe' and even the current 'low' levels of exposure in children are associated with neurodevelopmental deficits. Primary prevention of exposure provides the best hope of mitigating the impact of this preventable disease."

* ►April 2008 - Variability in Expert Assessments of Child Physical Abuse Likelihood (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics) - "Assessments of child abuse likelihood often show broad variability between experts. Although a rating scale with patient examples and standard reporting language may decrease variability, clinicians and researchers should be cautious when interpreting abuse likelihood assessments from a single expert. These data support the peer-review or multidisciplinary team approach to child abuse assessments."

* ►April 2008 - Development, Testing, and Findings of a Pediatric-Focused Trigger Tool to Identify Medication-Related Harm in US Children's Hospitals (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - First, Do No Harm - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Characteristics of General and Subspecialty Pediatricians Who Choose Not to Recertify - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2006 - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Importance of Early Neglect for Childhood Aggression - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Food-induced Anaphylaxis and Oral Allergy Syndrome - journal article (Pediatrics in Review)

►April 2008 - Growth in Stimulant-naive Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Using Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Approaches (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Therapeutic cleavage of IgG: new avenues for treating inflammation - journal article (Trends in Immunology)

►April 2008 - The simultaneous presence of IL-1B and TNFA two-positions risk haplotypes enhances the susceptibility for celiac disease - journal article (Cytokine)

►April 2008 - Neonatal Antibiotic Treatment Is a Risk Factor for Early Wheezing - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Prospective Multicenter Study of Bronchiolitis: Predicting Safe Discharges From the Emergency Department - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - One-Month Adherence in Children With New-Onset Epilepsy: White-Coat Compliance Does Not Occur (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Adverse Events From Cough and Cold Medications in Children (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Age Inconsistency in the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines for Acute Otitis Media - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Valuing Reduced Antibiotic Use for Pediatric Acute Otitis Media - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Trends in Otitis Media Treatment Failure and Relapse - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Growth and Nutrient Intakes of Human Milk–Fed Preterm Infants Provided With Extra Energy and Nutrients After Hospital Discharge - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Probiotics for Primary Prevention: No Clinical Effects of Lactobacillus GG Supplementation (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Financing Graduate Medical Education to Meet the Needs of Children and the Future Pediatrician Workforce (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Prevention of Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding in Breastfed Infants: Lessons From the Dutch and Danish Biliary Atresia Registries (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Differences in Rates and Short-term Outcome of Live Births Before 32 Weeks of Gestation in Europe in 2003: Results From the MOSAIC Cohort - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Readmission for Neonatal Jaundice in California, 1991–2000: Trends and Implications (full text) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Amino Acid Cerebrospinal Fluid/Plasma Ratios in Children: Influence of Age, Gender, and Antiepileptic Medication (full test) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Selective Provision of Asthma Self-Management Tools to Families (full test) - journal article (Pediatrics)

►April 2008 - Major dietary patterns in pregnancy and fetal growth - journal article (European Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

►March 31, 2008 - FDA Deadlines may Hurt Patient Safety - NEJM via Ivanhoe

►March 31, 2008 - American Medical Association Celebrates National Doctors' Day - AMA via Medical News Today

* ►March 31, 2008 - Leila Simon, aided son, state's disabled - obituary - The Star-Ledger via NJ.com - "In 2002, Ms. Simon was interviewed as part of an ongoing debate over whether developmental centers were suitable for the mentally disabled. She told The Star-Ledger that although David Simon had appeared a normal, healthy baby when he was born, he had suffered an adverse reaction after a vaccination when he was 18 months old. There was little he could do for himself, and Ms. Simon credited the staff of Hunterdon Developmental Center in Clinton, who have cared for her son for more than 30 years, with having 'made me able to sleep at night.'"

* ►March 31, 2008 - Autism-Vaccine Link: Evidence Doesn't Dispel Doubts - Many major medical groups say vaccines don't cause autism. Many parents say they do. So who's right? - WebMD

►March 27, 2008 - FDA Panel Vote on CAP Studies Could Affect Pending NDAs - BioWorld Today

►March 25, 2008 - Fluoroquinolones compared with β-lactam antibiotics for the treatment of acute bacterial sinusitis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (full text) - journal article (Canadian Medical Association Journal)

* ►March 25, 2008 - Baby boys have higher mortality rate than girls in their first year of life - Researchers in the United States have revealed that baby boys are much more likely to die in the first year of life than baby girls. - News-Medical.net

►March 25, 2008 - Senate to debate lifting ban on HIV-positive visitors to US - San Francisco Chronicle

►March 24, 2008 - AIDS Vaccine Testing on Humans Halted Because of Risk - Scientists who have worked for decades to find a vaccine for the HIV and AIDS infections will meet next week at the U.S. National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to chart a future course for research.  A few months ago, two human trials of a potential vaccine were halted when it appeared the drug was ineffective, and in some cases, increased the risk of getting the disease.  VOA's Melinda Smith spoke Friday with Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading international expert on HIV and AIDS. - Voice of America

►March 24, 2008 - HIV/AIDS drug tested here 'saved their lives' - El Rio center base for worldwide study that shows great promise - Tucson Citizen

►March 24, 2008 - Dr. Debbie Hagins is excited about new HIV drug INTELENCE™ - Baltimore Times

►March 24, 2008 - Endoscopy Hepatitis C: Tragic Stories Are Emerging - Lawyers and Settlements

►March 24, 2008 - As Use of Biologicals Rises, So Too Will Cutaneous Reactions to Them: Presented at AAAAI - Doctor's Guide

* ►March 21, 2008 - Immunisation director urges parents to vaccinate children - Viet Nam News - "The National Expanded Programme for Immunisation (EPI) urged parents to get their children vaccinated at a press conference yesterday in response to the drop in vaccinations following the supposedly vaccination-related deaths of 11 infants since the beginning of 2007. 'There is no evidence that the Hepatitis B vaccine and other vaccines are the reasons behind the deaths of those children,' said EPI director Nguyen Tran Hien."

* ►March 18, 2008 - Loren Martin is working to find causes of autism. - Oskaloosa Herald - "Martin was the lead author of a study that examined whether a mother’s antibodies could influence whether a child will become autistic. The study, titled 'Stereotypies and hyperactivity in rhesus monkeys exposed to IgG from mothers of children with autism,' was recently published in the science journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity."

►March 14, 2008 - Does Airborne work? And should 30 million more kids get a flu shot? - Slate Magazine

* ►March 13, 2008 - MMR vaccine may raise blood disorder risk - Foodconsumer.org - "The altered immune response may not be limited to MMR vaccine, according to Dr. Joe Mercola, a conventional physician who promotes natural health, who suggests that all vaccines reduce the natural capability of immune defense system."

►March 10, 2008 - Autism no longer an obstacle for students seeking college degree - Mentors, trained teachers help students to see success - Detroit Free Press

►March 10, 2008 - Protect the babies - Maryland must not allow parents to opt out of crucial health screenings for newborns - opinion - Baltimore Sun

►March 10, 2008 - WHO Develops Long-Lasting, Low-Cost Meningitis Vaccine - With more than three months remaining in the peak meningitis season, outbreaks in Burkina Faso and Central African Republic have already taken hundreds of lives. But the World Health Organization says a new, low-cost, long-lasting vaccine, possibly available as soon as next year, could help prevent future outbreaks. Naomi Schwarz has more from VOA's West Africa bureau in Dakar. - Voice of America

* ►March 2008 - Dermatological lesions near the smallpox vaccination site after scab detachment. - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►March 2008 - Shaken baby syndrome in New Zealand, 2000-2002 - journal article (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health)

* ►Childhood Vaccination Overview - Dr. Jay Gordon

* ►Green Our Vaccines Rally With Jenny McCarthy & Jim Carrey - TACA Talk About Curing Autism - "When:   June 4, 2008  Where:  Washington, DC  Why:  Demand Congress take action to Green Our Vaccine Supply while reassessing our current vaccine schedule.  Ask Congress to reenact legislation that would eliminate mercury and other toxins from our children's vaccines, study the instance of Autism and other neurological disorders in vaccinated versus unvaccinated children, and to extend the statute of limitations to allow all children affected by vaccine induced Autism to file in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP)."

* ►Delaying Vaccinations Puts Young Children At Risk - North American Press Syndicate

Posted April 1, 2008

* ►April 2, 2008 - Newly Approved Does Not Always Mean New and Improved - journal article (JAMA)

* ►April 2, 2008 - Pesticides: A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst (book review) - journal article (JAMA)

►April 2, 2008 - 21st-Century Primary Care - New Physician Roles Need New Payment Models - journal article (JAMA)

►April 2, 2008 - Study Is Setback for Some RNA-Based Drugs (requires subscription) - The New York Times

►April 2, 2008 - HIV Prevention Studies Yield Mixed Results - journal article (JAMA)

►April 2, 2008 - Grapefruit Compound Battles Hepatitis C - journal article (JAMA)

►April 2, 2008 - Public Health & Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches (book review) - journal article (JAMA)

►April 2, 2008 - Alzheimer Plaques - journal article (JAMA)

►April 2, 2008 - Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When, and What - journal article (JAMA)

►April 2, 2008 - Health workers are in for a jab - MidCentral Health's started a five- week campaign to encourage its staff to get vaccinated against the flu for both their own protection and in the interests of their families and patients. - Manawatu Standard via www.stuff.co.nz - "The low uptake of vaccination among health workers - between 20 and 40 percent around the country last year - is a major concern to the national influenza strategy group, which has provided hospital teams with extra resources this year to boost performance."

►April 2, 2008 - Meningitis Kills 16 in Sokoto - ThisDay

►April 2, 2008 - MMR vaccination provides triple shielding for children - Malaysia Star

►April 2, 2008 - World observes first autism awareness day - Philippine Inquirer

►April 2, 2008 - First World Autism Awareness Day - Manila Bulletin

►April 2, 2008 - World Autism Day Marked Today - Arab News

►April 2, 2008 - Qatar pioneering efforts to help autistic sufferers - Gulf Times

* ►April 2, 2008 - Autism in need of more attention - China Daily - "There are currently more than 1 million autistic people in the country, 100,000 of whom are under the age of 6. Sun Dunke, deputy director of the Beijing Rehabilitation Association for Autistic Children (BRAAC), said Tuesday - the first World Autism Day - that of all the Chinese children suffering from mental disorders, 78 percent are autistic."

* ►April 2, 2008 - High rate of autism signs found in prem children - AP via The West Australian - "About a quarter of babies born very prematurely had signs of autism on an early screening test, a study has found."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Vaccines, autism spark debate - Author Dr. Richard Halvorsen joins CNN to discuss the role vaccines might play in autism. - video - CNN

* ►April 1, 2008 - Autism and the next President - CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at how autism is a hot issue in the presidential campaign. - video - CNN

* ►April 1, 2008 - Autism in South Africa - CNN's Robyn Curnow visits a South African school that attempts to help autistic children flourish. - video - CNN

* ►April 1, 2008 - Autism in China: A mother's journey (includes video) - CNN - "The Chinese government says there are only about 100,000 people with autism in the entire country, but unofficial estimates put the number between 1-2 million people, perhaps even more. Tian says her institute has a list of just 60 doctors nationwide who are capable of diagnosing autism. Fifteen years ago, she says there were just three."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Living with Autism - The world of many Valley families living with an autistic child is often very isolated. (includes video) - KFSN ABC 30

* ►April 1, 2008 - AAP To Work With Defeat Autism Now! on Treatment - Age of Autism

* ►April 1, 2008 - AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS RECOGNIZES WORLD AUTISM DAY - press release - www.aap.org - "Most recently, the AAP met with representatives of Defeat Autism Now! (a program of the Autism Research Institute) in an effort to facilitate communication between pediatricians, parents and researchers about the diagnosis and treatment of children with autism. All advocates for these children agree that further research is needed regarding causes as well as safe and effective treatment."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Mayo Clinic Misinformed: Nutrition Expert Sides with Parents and Science on Autism Diet Issue. - Significant data and overwhelming anecdotal parental experience, including celebrity Jenny McCarthy, indicate a link between Autism symptoms and diet. - press release - NourishingHope.com via eMediaWire

* ►April 1, 2008 - Navigating Emma’s autism - Paging Dr. Gupta Blog via CNN

* ►April 1, 2008 - McCarron sentenced to 36 years - Peoria Journal Star - "Karen McCarron was sentenced to 36 years in prison today for suffocating her autistic daughter in 2006 and a request for a new trial was denied."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Mom wins fight for autism insurance - CNN - "She and her husband are both lawyers; after Ryan's autism was diagnosed five years ago they sold their house, downsized and sacrificed to cover costs. 'It's not like you read your insurance policy and you can see a specific exclusion,' Lorri Unumb says of the early days after Ryan's diagnosis. 'We submitted bills, and we'd get denials back that said 'experimental... denied,' or 'provided by a non-licensed provider... denied.' Or sometimes the insurance companies would say 'this therapy is educational in nature, not medical... denied.' As a lawyer and a law professor, Unumb decided to do something about it, to force insurance companies in South Carolina to cover autism. She wrote a bill, recruited other parents to help her lobby state legislators, and two years later, got the bill passed. Known as Ryan's Bill, it will go into effect as Ryan's Law in July."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Newly Awarded Autism Centers of Excellence to Further Autism Research - PharmaLive - "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on April 1, 2008, the latest recipients of the Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) program. These grants will support studies covering a broad range of autism research areas, including early brain development and functioning, social interactions in infants, rare genetic variants and mutations, associations between autism-related genes and physical traits, possible environmental risk factors and biomarkers, and a potential new medication treatment."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Congratulations! Here's What You've Won! by Jack Russell - Age of Autism

* ►April 1, 2008 - Someday I'm Gonna Die. What Happens To My Kids? by Kim Stagliano - Age of Autism

* ►April 1, 2008 - CNN Devotes Programming to Autism - Age of Autism

* ►April 1, 2008 - Times Online UK: Dr. Wakefield's Story - Age of Autism

* ►April 1, 2008 - CNN Student News Special: Autism - Unraveling the Mystery (includes video) - CNN

* ►April 1, 2008 - Autism Still a Mystery - LiveScience - "All drugs carry risk. If the CDC downplays the vaccination risk, this is because we cannot afford to have parents opting out of vaccination programs."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Tracing autism's roots - Move over vaccines. The most promising research into the disorder is emerging from the quest for the genes that underlie it. - Fortune via CNNMoney

* ►April 1, 2008 - Reps. Smith and Doyle, Autism Society of America Push Landmark Legislation on World Autism Awareness Day - press release - Autism Society of America via PRNewswire-USNewswire via EarthTimes.org - "Members of the House of Representatives are working so that the U.S. will become the first nation to initiate an effort to establish a global autism assistance program. In February 2008, a bi-partisan group of legislators joined Congressmen Smith and Doyle in introducing the Global Autism Assistance Act, (HR 5446)."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Events mark Autism Awareness Day - The News-Herald - "Officials from Autism Speaks will ring the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning. This is just one of the events taking place on World Autism Awareness Day, which was designated by the United Nations General Assembly."

►April 1, 2008 - When Mr. Autism decides to visit (requires registration or subscription) - Toronto Star

►April 1, 2008 - Autism, Awareness, and April Fools Day - http://autism.about.com

►April 1, 2008 - Autistic boy invents game to teach Periodic Table of Elements - The Free-Lance Star via Fredericksburg.com

►April 1, 2008 - Who’s decision is it? - Cadillac News

* ►April 1, 2008 - Scientist: CDC bosses ignored warnings - AP via USA Today - "Christopher De Rosa, a top scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's toxic substances agency, said his bosses told him that his warnings of a 'pending public health catastrophe' could be misinterpreted if publicly released. De Rosa's comments came Tuesday at a House Science and Technology subcommittee hearing on how the CDC and other agencies handled complaints about potentially high levels of formaldehyde in trailers issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Seeking Alternatives to Animal-Derived Drugs (requires registration) - The New York Times - "History has shown that the risk of transmitting disease from animal-based drugs, while small, is not merely theoretical, according to Paul W. Brown, a retired National Institutes of Health senior investigator. 'Any time you take a tissue or an extract process from a tissue from one species and put it into a another species or even another animal, you run the risk of unwanted pathogens that you didn’t know were there; that’s been responsible for repeated problems over the course of time,' Dr. Brown said."

* ►April 1, 2008 - A Federally Funded Institute To Compare Drugs? - Pharmalot - "An analysis by the Lewin Group for the Commonwealth Fund found that comparative effectiveness research, used appropriately by doctors and insurers to guide decisions, could cut national health spending by $370 billion over 10 years. “One of the requirements for a market to work is that you have good information and we don’t have a lot of that right now,” Stuart Guterman, an economist at the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund, tells Reuters."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Judge Quashes Pfizer Bid For NEJM Papers - Pharmalot

* ►April 1, 2008 - Connecticut Sues FDA Over OxyContin Warnings - Pharmalot - “The FDA is disregarding dangers of adverse reactions and side effects, as well as abuse and addiction, by failing to require stronger black box warnings or issue a safety alert or public health advisory. The FDA has a legal and moral responsibility to ensure that providers and patients fully understand the potential dangers of improperly prescribing OxyContin. Inaction by the FDA is completely inexplicable and unacceptable when public health and safety are clearly at risk.”

* ►April 1, 2008 - Glaxo Violated EU Antitrust Law In Greece - Pharmalot

* ►April 1, 2008 - Drug markers questioned - A recent spate of worrying clinical-trial data has researchers questioning drugs approved on the basis of how they affect biomarkers rather than clinical endpoints. Heidi Ledford looks at surrogate markers. - news (Nature)

* ►April 1, 2008 - Human Papillomavirus Infection and Cervical Cytology in Women Screened for Cervical Cancer in the United States, 2003–2005 - journal article (Annals of Internal Medicine)

* ►April 1, 2008 - Results of Pap Smears and Human Papillomavirus Tests during Cervical Cancer Screening - journal article (Annals of Internal Medicine)

►April 1, 2008 - Washington Passes Toy Safety Bill (free preview) - Wall Street Journal - "Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington, following weeks of heated debate, signed into law a bill that places the toughest restrictions in the U.S. on the lead content of children's products. The bill, which goes into effect next July, reduces the allowable level of lead in toys to 90 parts per million, far below the current federal standard of 600 parts per million."

* ►April 1, 2008 - AVANT's Single-Dose Oral Ty800 Vaccine Meets Primary Endpoints in Phase 2 Study - AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc. via Business Wire via FOX Business - "AVANT is advancing its vaccine programs toward creating a "Super Combination Traveler's Vaccine." The "Super Vaccine" is designed to capture the potential of our single-dose oral delivery platforms to provide combined protection against multiple bacterial diseases including cholera, typhoid, ETEC (enterotoxigenic E. coli) and paratyphoid in one convenient and efficient vaccine for world travelers."

►April 1, 2008 - News Digest - Five-in-one vaccine approved by Ministry of Health - Viet Nam News - "The programme was now seeking financial support from the Global Vaccine and Immunisation Alliance to provide the vaccine that protects against diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis-B and influenza type B, free to all of Viet Nam’s children."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Mom's fish intake may boost child's brain power - American Journal of Epidemiology via Reuters - "On the other hand, tests scores were lower among preschoolers whose mothers had relatively high mercury levels in their blood during pregnancy. And mothers who regularly ate fish during pregnancy were more likely to have such mercury levels than non-fish-eaters were, the researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Oregon City parents charged after their daughter’s death - The parents are the first to be tried since law prohibiting religion defense - Oregon City News - "The parents of a 15-month old girl who died in Oregon City two weeks ago will be the first test of parental neglect in the death of a child since the state legislature in 1999 passed a law prohibiting the use of religion as a defense for not seeking basic medical treatment."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Child neglect can come in many shades - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - "One has sympathy for Dale and Leilani Neumann, who say the untreated diabetes that killed their daughter came on swiftly....Was it tragically bad judgment or criminally bad? As of Tuesday, police still were investigating, and I'm willing to wait to see what they decide."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Is size 0 really to blame? - Skinny models may be our favourite culprits when it comes to explaining the exponential rise in eating disorders of recent decades. But research increasingly suggests not everything can be laid at the door of Kate Moss and colleagues. - BBC - "Professor Christopher Gillberg of the University of Strathclyde was among the first to suggest that anorexia may be a sign of an Autism Spectrum Disorder."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Medication 'worsens Alzheimer's' - Anti-psychotic drugs commonly given to Alzheimer's patients often make their condition worse, a UK study suggests. - BBC

►April 1, 2008 - Eli Lilly Ready For IDENTITY Trial For Alzheimer's Drug - eCanadaNow

►April 1, 2008 - New Lilly CEO takes over - WTHR.com 

►April 1, 2008 - "Our Health, Our Future" Exhibit Opens at United Nations 2 April - The exhibit, based on the anniversary theme of "Our health, our future", tells the story of WHO and public health over the last 60 years. It features key public-health milestones and highlights such themes as the development of the first successful polio vaccine, the eradication of smallpox, primary health care, tobacco control, the revision of the International Health Regulations and protecting health from climate change. - press release - UN via Media-Newswire.com

* ►April 1, 2008 - Vaccinate against cervical cancer: council - DutchNews.nl - "Health minister Ab Klink reportedly has doubts about the recommendation, pointing to the €30m annual cost. According to ANP, Klink says the Netherlands already has one of the lowest cervical cancer death rates in Europe so a vaccination programme would not be as cost effective. This is partly due to the national screening system which means all women are tested every five years."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Sanofi Pasteur MSD welcomes the Netherlands' recommendation for free HPV vaccination of adolescent girls - The Netherlands becomes the seventeenth country in Western Europe[*] to recommend HPV vaccination for adolescent girls - Sanofi Pasteur MSD via PharmaLive

►April 1, 2008 - Six Percent Prevalence of Genital Warts: Rates Likely to Decrease with Introduction of Cervical Cancer Vaccine - Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins via Newswise

►April 1, 2008 - TB Declines, but the Toll Is Still ‘Severe’ (requires registration) - The New York Times

* ►April 1, 2008 - Study Shows Rural Alaska Natives without In-Home Running Water Suffer More Disease - press release - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via PRNewswire-USNewswire via StreetInsider.com - "The study is the first to show an association in the United States between lack of in-home running water and prevalence of these diseases. Experts speculate that the association may be due to lack of access to clean water for hand washing and hygiene. Infants, young children, and the elderly were the most affected groups."

►April 1, 2008 - Three PMC patients share rare infection - Appalachian News-Express - "PMC is currently treating the three individuals with the Acinetobacter infection, attempting to find an antibiotic which will take care of the problem."

►April 1, 2008 - Molecular evolution of influenza A viruses circulated in Fujian Province, China - Eurekalert.org via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

* ►April 1, 2008 - Mumps vaccinations restart in southern Alberta - CBC - "In December, five young adults suffered allergic reactions after receiving their mumps shots, leading Alberta to suspend the immunization program pending the Health Canada investigation. The agency has found no connection between the reactions and the vaccines, clearing them for further distribution.  The agency didn't suggest what cause the allergic reactions."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Measles Outbreak in Pima County - KOLD.com - "The old recommendations were that your child get their first measles vaccine shot when they were 12 to 15 months old. Then, their 2nd before kindergarten when they were 4 to 5 years old. The Health Department now recommends your childs first shot at 6 to 12 months old, their second at 12-15 months old and a third four weeks after the second."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Officials: Get babies measles shot now- 9 cases confirmed; infants 6 to 12 months old at greatest risk - Tucson Citizen - "Pima County parents should get measles vaccinations now for children 6 to 12 months old instead of waiting for their 12-month checkup, health officials announced Monday....The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is generally given at the 12- or 18-month well-child visit and again before starting school. McDonald said the first vaccination will not be effective for long, and one or two subsequent doses will be needed."

Comment:  It used to be that mothers who had measles protected their infants via transplacental antibodies during this more dangerous time.  Now, infants of vaccinated mothers, lose their protection earlier.  To read more about this and to better understand some of the possible ramifications of current measles policy, including this new recommendation, go to Scandals:  Measles In The Vaccination Age:  Is It Now Deadlier? and Scandals: What Is Wrong With This Picture?

* ►April 1, 2008 - Measles outbreak hits Pima County - 9 cases raise concerns that disease may spread - The Arizona Republic - "But health officials are concerned about a trend against vaccinating children, which Lewis said is born out of a belief in vaccines' links to other problems, like autism. She said studies have shown no such link. 'People have started to forget how bad of a disease it is and have started listening to people saying vaccines aren't good,' Lewis said."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Measles hits 9 in county; spread leads to concern - Arizona Daily Star - Due to the current threat, officials are recommending that all infants be vaccinated early — at 6 months rather than at 1 year. Two subsequent doses will be needed to ensure lasting immunity."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Measles hits Ariz. after N.M. child gets virus - KOB.com - "The department of health said the 18-month-old in Chaves County did have its first measles vaccine, but the child never received the second vaccine."

* ►April 1, 2008 - Measles kills three children in Sokoto - The Tide

►April 1, 2008 - Decline in Irish measles figures welcomed by specialist - Irish Medical News - "According to new figures released by the HPSC, 14 cases of measles were reported nationally in the first 10 weeks of 2008. This figure compares with 12 cases for the same period last year."

►April 1, 2008 - Campo affected by measles outbreak - www.gibfocus.gi

►April 1, 2008 - Banding together and making music to change the world - USC graduates put together a collaborative album to raise money for measles vaccines in developing nations. - Daily Trojan Online

►April 1, 2008 - Teen Organ Donor's Gift Turns Tragic - When A 15-Year-Old Boy Died Unexpectedly, Organ Recipients Picked Up Rare Form Of Cancer - CBS News

►April 1, 2008 - Nigeria: Somalia Shows Nigeria the Way to Go About Polio Eradication - Vanguard (Lagos) via AllAfrica.com

►April 1, 2008 - Peres: One of my sons was disabled by polio - Jerusalem Post

* ►April 1, 2008 - Bihar villages boycott polio drive over uplift - The Statesman - "Villagers want the local administration to provide a school, water and other facilities before they let their children get immunised. The village has about 150 houses and is dominated by Muslims."

* ►April 1, 2008 - 1948 Polio Epidemic - When Greensboro put aside racial segregation to tackle a health crisis - Yes! Weekly - "Planes sprayed DDT in the streets of Greensboro in the belief that polio might be spread by flies, according to several accounts....'It was so contagious,' said Dr. Bose Ravenel, whose father took charge during the public health crisis, and who now practices as a pediatrician in High Point. 'It was almost like a drive-by window, as my father described it. Doctors would take the child and place them on a table with their parents sitting out in the car. They would do a lumbar puncture to find out if it was viral polio or meningitis, and then hand the child back through the window and they would either get to go home or they would be sent to one of the facilities where polio was treated.'"

Comment:  Some think there might be a connection between pesticides and polio.  (See http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/pesticides_polio.html)   

►April 1, 2008 - All tests so far negative for hepatitis, hospital says - AP via WAVY-TV 10

►April 1, 2008 - 300 People Vaccinated in Hepatitis A Scare - Fox 12 Boise

►April 1, 2008 - How HIV tricks immune system: Study - Times of India

►April 1, 2008 - Flavonoids shown to boost immunity of birds - Scientific findings directly linking flavonoid consumption to increased immunity in birds could pave the way for more research involving mice and humans, say German researchers. - NutraIngredients.com

►April 1, 2008 - Protect Your Overall Health With Good Oral Health - Canadian Dental Hygienists Association marks Oral Health Month 2008 - press release - Canadian Dental Hygienists Association (CDHA) via Marketwire

►April 1, 2008 - InterMune: Trial of hepatitis C therapy showed top-line results - Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex via CNNMoney

►April 1, 2008 - Genitope weighs spinoff or sale of MyVax, antibodies programs - East Bay Business Times

►April 1, 2008 - Schering, Merck Defend Their Drugs As Stocks Suffer (free content) - The Wall Street Journal

►April 1, 2008 - Vytorin Fallout: DTC Ads, Dear Doc Letters And… - Pharmalot

►April 1, 2008 - Making immune memories - U of Penn scientist's discovery of T-cells earns recognition - The BG News

►April 1, 2008 - As diabetes soars, genetics offering new leads - The Philadelphia Inquirer

►April 1, 2008 - Older Antipsychotics Can Worsen Alzheimer’s - Pharmalot

►April 1, 2008 - Immune System Needs Food To Function Well, So Feed That Cold - Researchers studying deer mice have discovered evidence to support what mothers everywhere have long suspected: the immune system needs food to function properly. In a new study Lynn Martin and coauthors find that reduced food intake leads to a decline in immune function in their subjects. The findings could have profound implications for human health. - University of Chicago Press Journals, via EurekAlert! via ScienceDaily

►April 1, 2008 - Immune System Taught To Play Nice With Unrecognized Protein - eMaxHealth

* ►April 2008 - Universal Hepatitis A Vaccination in the United States: A Call for Action. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

Comment:  Here's what I said about hepatitis A and it's vaccine in 2002: "An example of a disease which is really not all that serious, but which our children are now expected to get a vaccination for in order to attend school, is Hepatitis A.  Let me share with you what the textbook 'Vaccines says about Hepatitis A Virus or HAV.   'Infection with HAV may produce a wide spectrum of outcomes from silent or subclinical hepatitis at one end, through typical acute hepatitis with jaundice, to fulminant hepatitis at the other.  The single most important factor in determining the outcome of HAV infection appears to be age.  Whereas greater than 90% of infections acquired before the age of 5 years are silent, the proportion of infected individuals with symptoms increases steadily, reaching approximately 25% by 15 years and 90% or above in adults.  The duration of illness varies but most patients feel better, have lost their hepatomegaly, and have nearly normal liver function test results within 3 weeks.  In the large 1989 Shanghai outbreak, 90% of a subset of 8647 hospitalized patients observed carefully had completely recovered in 4 months and all had recovered in one year.  Relapse consisting of renewed symptoms, elevated liver function test results, and possibly detection of virus in stools has been found in up to 10% of cases, but recovery is universal.  Hepatitis A never becomes chronic.'  Is that a vaccine you feel your child should be required to have?"  The more things don't change, the more they stay the same.

* ►April 2008 - The Effect of Age and Dose Number on the Risk of Collapse (Hypotonic-Hyporesponsive Episode) after Pertussis Vaccination.- journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) - "The reporting rate of collapse or hypotonic-hyporesponsive episode increased from 5.2 [95% confidence interval (CI): 4.8-5.7] to 8.5 (95% CI: 8.0-9.1) and from 1.2 (95% CI: 1.0-1.4) to 2.5 (95% CI: 2.2-2.8) per 10,000 first and second doses, respectively."

* ►April 2008 - Impact of Conjugate Vaccine on Transmission of Antimicrobial-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Among Alaskan Children. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) - "PCV7 vaccination in the first 5 years did not affect overall pneumococcal carriage, but was associated with a shift in serotype distribution from PCV7 types to non-PCV7 types. With persistent pressure of some antimicrobials, reductions in carriage of antimicrobial nonsusceptible PCV7 types may be offset by increases in carriage of nonsusceptible non-PCV7 types."

* ►April 2008 - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Acellular Pertussis and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccines Given Separately or Combined for Booster Dosing at 4-6 Years of Age. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►April 2008 - A Fatal Tick Bite Occurring During The Course of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Vaccination. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►April 2008 - A New Tetravalent Meningococcal Vaccine for Infants - journal article (AAP Grand Rounds)

* ►April 2008 - Growing Up With Autism: Working With School-Age Children and Adolescents - journal article (The American Journal of Psychiatry)

►April 2008 - Single-Dose Pharmacokinetics of Daptomycin in Children With Suspected or Proved Gram-Positive Infections. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►April 2008 - Tympanometric Findings in Young Children During Upper Respiratory Tract Infections With and Without Acute Otitis Media. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►April 2008 - Persistence of Pathogens Despite Clinical Improvement in Antibiotic-Treated Acute Otitis Media Is Associated With Clinical and Bacteriologic Relapse. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►April 2008 - Interferon-[gamma] Low Producer Genotype +874 Overrepresented in Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Nonresponding Children. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►April 2008 - Inpatient Mortality in Children With Clinically Diagnosed Malaria As Compared With Microscopically Confirmed Malaria. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►April 2008 - Etiology and Treatment of Developmental Stuttering - journal article (AAP Grand Rounds)

►April 2008 - Cognitive Problems in Children With Systemic Lupus - journal article (AAP Grand Rounds)

►April 2008 - Progress and prospects: gene therapy for genetic diseases with helper-dependent adenoviral vectors - journal article (Gene Therapy)

►April 2008 - Defining drug disposition determinants: a pharmacogenetic–pharmacokinetic strategy - journal article (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)

►April 2008 - Do Adverse Life Events Trigger Atypical Symptoms? - journal article (The American Journal of Psychiatry)

►April 2008 - Additional Evidence Antibiotics Are Not Helpful for Sinusitis - journal article (AAP Grand Rounds)

* ►April 2008 - Mercury Research Bears Fruit in the Amazon - Women play a key role in helping to protect villagers from the mercury contaminating Brazil's Tapajós River. Now they are set to take on a new foe: Chagas disease - International Development Research Centre

►April 2008 - The Autism Calendar - Schafer Autism Report via www.sarnet.org

►March/April 2008 - Buying Organic - See which of the country's largest food producers are behind your favorite organic snacks - GOOD Magazine

* ►March 31, 2008 - Kim Stagliano: Obituary: Kim Stagliano, 86, Leaves Three Autistic Children Behind - The Huffington Post - "Leila Simon, age 74, died and left behind a son who sure sounds like he has autism. Her obituary made me deeply sad and worried for a man named David Simon, whom I do not know. A child who no longer has a mother to look after him. But the obit also shocked the heck out of me as I read: She told The Star-Ledger that although David Simon had appeared a normal, healthy baby when he was born, he had suffered an adverse reaction after a vaccination when he was 18 months old."

* ►March 31, 2008 - Autism beyond childhood - CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the independent life of an adult with autism. - video - CNN

* ►March 31, 2008 - Life with autism - A look at what it's like for a family living with autism, from the perspective of a CNN producer. - CNN

* ►March 31, 2008 - Audrey Arnold found guilty of child endangerment - NewsChannel 9 WSYR - "Jurors also heard from an emergency room physician from Oswego Hospital.  He said the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome.  Defense Attorney James Eby attacked that opinion, citing the doctor's lack of study in this area for more than a decade. A defense expert witness, Dr. Ronald Uscinski, a neurosurgeon from Washington D.C., said that he found older blood in CT scans of Fajo Edwards and said it's possible there may have been a previous illness or condition that led to his current medical problems.  He disputed the theory of shaken baby syndrome."

* ►March 31, 2008 - Research Brings Hope To Morgellons Patients - CBS 11 - "In 2007, Dr. Stricker and experts in agrobacterium studied skin samples from seven Morgellons patients and found the DNA from the bacteria in all seven samples.  Now the question is, how are people getting the bacteria in their bodies.  Dr. Stricker believes it could be from ticks.  The small insects are well known for carrying the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease.  In fact, in a recent survey of 44 Morgellons patients in San Francisco, 43 of them tested positive for Lyme."

* ►March 31, 2008 - Students must take more shots for school - Times-West Virginian - "Already, Cottrill has received several calls from parents concerned about the possible connection between vaccinations and autism. Cottrill said she has not seen any research that indicates a connection is there. 'There are parents with concerns, and I understand,' she said. 'As far as I know, there is no connection between boosters and autism. Parents are questioning and they should, but their child must have the immunizations.'"

* ►March 31, 2008 - Analysis-US may compare medical products; companies wary - Reuters via Forbes

* ►March 31, 2008 - Secret Vytorin E-Mails Show Kastelein’s Fury - Pharmalot - "Vytorin may not be of much use as a first or second-line therapy, a fact underscored by several prominent docs when the complete Enhance data was dissected at the American College of Cardiology conference this past weekend. And the drugmakers are under a microscope for the way they handled the data - they delayed releasing the study for nearly two years; never appointed an independent board; briefly changed the primary endpoint without consulting Kastelein, and some Schering-Plough execs sold huge amounts of stock."

* ►March 31, 2008 - Medical guidelines seen ailing / Donations from drugmakers call impartiality of research into question - AP via Daily Yomiuri Online

►March 31, 2008 - AIDS May Partly Be the Consequence of an Evolutionary Accident Says Scientist - Society for General Microbiology via Biocompare

►March 31, 2008 - Scientist: “superbugs” resist all drugs, portend pandemic - World Science

►March 31, 2008 - The Immune Tolerance Institute Announces Collaboration with Beckman Coulter Establishing a Multiplatform Immunophenotyping/Immunogenotyping Laboratory - Center for Critical Path Immunology created to discover and develop biomarkers for immune system-related diseases - The Immune Tolerance Institute via PRNewswire

►March 31, 2008 - Lilly trial will test drug for Alzheimer's - Phase III stage is a promising step for treatment of disease - The Indianapolis Star

►March 27, 2008 - Folate Scores Another Win in Animal Studies: Brief, High Doses of B Vitamin Blunt Damage From Heart Attack; Nutrient May Act as Heart Energy Reserve - AScribe via Pharmaceutical Executive

* ►March 26, 2008 - Hidden tobacco cash behind lung cancer study spawns more worry over research integrity - International Herald Tribune

* ►March 25, 2008 - Autism - Vaccinations - Written Answers Tuesday 25 March 2008, The Scottish Parliament - "Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take in light of the judgement by the US Attorney General on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services which found that combined multiple vaccinations received by a child significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder predisposing her to deficits in cellular energy metabolism and manifested as a regressive encephalopathy with features of autism."

* ►March 25, 2008 - Morale at CDC shows healthy improvement (requires registration or subscription) - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►March 24, 2008 - Uniqueness in human brain’s language zone - World Science

* ►March 21, 2008 - Immune System Taught to Play Nice With Unrecognized Protein - Regulatory T Cells Created in Mice Defuse Response to Transplant Antigen - Harvard Focus - "Vaccines are a staple of modern health care. Though each one is complex, the idea behind them is simple: immunity is achieved through exposure to a weak or fragmented bug. The bug rouses the immune system, which, in turn, defeats the invader and fortifies itself in preparation for a later, more vigorous assault. More recently, however, medical science has increasingly aimed at tweaking the immune system in the opposite direction, toward tolerance. This need stems from efforts to control autoimmune diseases and allergic reactions as well as from transplant medicine, in which physicians want patients to tolerate foreign tissue."

* ►February 12, 2008 - Proximity to point sources of environmental mercury release as a predictor of autism prevalence. - journal article (Health Place)

►Issue 1 Volume 18,  2008 - Casein Hydrolysate Formula-Induced Liver Dysfunction in a Neonate With Non-Immunoglobulin E-Mediated Cowʼs Milk Allergy (pdf) - journal article (Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology)

►Issue 1 Volume 18,  2008 - Protein-Losing Enteropathy Associated With Egg Allergy in a 5-Month-Old Boy (pdf) - journal article (Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology)

►Issue 1 Volume 18,  2008 - Screening for Latex Sensitization by Questionnaire: Diagnostic Performance in Health Care Workers (pdf) - journal article (Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology)

►Issue 1 Volume 18,  2008 - Strategies for the Prevention of Asthmatic, Anaphylactic and Anaphylactoid Reactions During the Administration of Anesthetics and/or Contrast Media (pdf) - journal article (Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology)

►Issue 1 Volume 18,  2008 - Severe Immediate Type HypersensitivitymReactions in 105 German Adults: When to Diagnose Anaphylaxis (pdf) - journal article (Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology)

►Issue 1 Volume 18,  2008 - Influence of Atopy on Asthma Severity in Adult Female Patients (pdf) - journal article (Journal of Investigational Allergology and Clinical Immunology)

►November 17, 2007 - Forced Vaccination - YouTube

►June 16, 2007 - Dr. Mark Geier Speaks at Mercury-Free Vaccines Rally - YouTube

►June 16, 2007 - United Methodist Women Speak at Mercury-free Vaccine Rally - YouTube

►June 10, 2007 - MercuryFree Vaccine Rally Atlanta CDC 060807 - YouTube

* ►January 18, 2007 - Glaxo-Affiliated Doctors to Dominate Upcoming NIH Neonatal Herpes Conference - Health Groups, Prominent Physicians Call on NIH to Seek Balance and Prohibit Financial Conflicts of Interest on Guideline-Writing Panels - Center for Science in the Public Interest

►December 22, 2005 - Conflicted Bioethicists - Health Care Renewal

►April 2004 - Doctors Without Borders - Why you can't trust medical journals anymore. - Washington Monthly

* ►May 2000 - Who Owns The Law - CDC Refuses to Deny Conflict of Interest on Vaccine Policy Committee - AAPS News

* ►January 1, 1984 - DTP-Associated Reactions: An Analysis by Injection Site, Manufacturer, Prior Reactions, and Dose - journal article (Pediatrics) - "One hundred children received a half dose of DTP vaccine because of a less serious reaction associated with prior immunization. In all instances, they had significantly less serious local reactions as well as notable differences in temperature, drowsiness, and persistent crying."

►Autism Research at NECC – Looking for answers regarding children with autism and related disorders - The New England Center for Children

* ►Monitoring, Exposing, and Opposing Conflicts - The Integrity in Science Database via Center for Science in the Public Interest - "Search the Database - Do your own conflict of interest research in our database of over 4,000 scientists. You should know that the database is not comprehensive and does not imply that anyone acted improperly or the results of industry-funded activities are invalid. Likewise, exclusion from the database should not be interpreted as the absence of corporate ties."

* ►Non-Profit Organizations Receiving Corporate Funding - he Integrity in Science Database via Center for Science in the Public Interest

* ►Conflict of Interest in Government Science (pdf) - www.tufts.edu - "Drug Company Payments to NIH Scientists - 'In one instance recently uncovered by congressional investigators, a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health, one of NIH’s27 components, was paid $517,000 by the drug company Pfizer over five years; the money wasn’t cleared with agency officials or reported on his financial disclosure form.'"

* ►Vaccines: Conflict of Interest and Vaccine Development - www.healing-arts.org

* ►The Truth Behind The Vaccine Cover-Up - Dr. Russell Blaylock via www.vran.org

►BEAUTIFUL SON - A Documentary About Healing Autism - Coming to Public Television in April 2008 - Please check our website in March for date and time of broadcast on your local PBS station. - www.beautifulson.com

►Freedom for Family Wellness - Extravaganza Schedule - Philadelphia, May 8-11, 2008 - Leading keynote presentations on wellness: Dawson Church, PhD; Barbara Loe-Fisher; Nancy Wainer, CPM; Joe Dispenza, DC; Larry Palevsky, MD; Peter Kevorkian, DC