* ►April 8, 2008 - Survey: 98% Say Parents Should Have Right to Refuse Vaccination of Children - NaturalNews.com - "The survey comes on the heels of the FDA's approval of a vaccine for diarrhea for children and the growing concern by parents that infants are being given far too many vaccines that may cause health problems due to the combination of multiple chemicals being injected."

* ►April 8, 2008 - How About A Thank You? by Julie Obradovic - Age of Autism

* ►April 8, 2008 - Anti-mercury steps sought - Waukesha may make dentists keep fillings out of wastewater - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

* ►April 8, 2008 - Study supports theory that rise in autism is related to changes in diagnosis - Wellcome Trust via www.eurekalert.org

* ►April 8, 2008 - The Puzzling Rise of Autism - Saint Joseph's University via Newswise - "There is no question that autism is on the rise and the statistics speak volumes about this dramatic increase," says Michelle Rowe, Ph.D., a professor of health services at Saint Joseph's University. She reports that this year alone it is estimated that 24,000 children will be diagnosed. 'It's important for people to understand the higher number of diagnoses is not because the criteria for autism has expanded,' explains Rowe."

* ►April 8, 2008 - Doctors 'missed autism in thousands of children' - Daily Mail, UK - "Re-examination of young men and women with severe language disorders showed up to a quarter fitted the current criteria for autism. The Oxford University findings suggest many would have received more appropriate care had they been been treated for autism."

►April 8, 2008 - Documentary on autism offers hope - Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - "'Autism Yesterday,' a new film which gives hope to parents of children with autism and autistic spectrum disorders, will be shown during a free event open to the public at 7 p.m. April 17 at the Jewish Community Center of the Wyoming Valley, River Street, Wilkes-Barre."

►April 8, 2008 - Solving the puzzle of autism - Month of April set aside for awareness - The News-Press - "April is Autism Awareness month and national experts will be in town next week for a free public conference on autism, 'Promising Pathways: The Road to Best Practice in Autism.' The conference will be held at Florida Gulf Coast University on April 19."

►April 8, 2008 - Conference focuses on autism - Uniontown Herald Standard - "Because there are so many families facing the disorder, The Intermediate Unit and California University of Pennsylvania recently co-sponsored their first Autism Conference and P.E.P (parents, educators and providers) Rally."

►April 8, 2008 - Autism hyperbole and national hysteria - opinion - the Retriever Weekly

►April 8, 2008 - So... What Is the Autism/Vaccine Debate About, Anyway? - http://autism.about.com

►April 8, 2008 - HPV vaccine free for Grade 8 girls - NewsDurhamRegion.com

►April 8, 2008 - ‘No compromise on health related issues’ - The Post - "She also sought cooperation of the doctors and community leaders to sensitise the masses about the importance of oral polio vaccination (OPV). 'We also need to strongly dispel the misconception related to OPV', said Nasreen Jalil."

►April 8, 2008 - Polio campaign to start today - The News - International - Pakistan

►April 8, 2008 - China Confirms December Case of Human to Human Bird Flu Transmission - Voice of America

* ►April 8, 2008 - Father 'caught bird flu from son' - Tests on a father diagnosed with bird flu in China show he probably caught the disease from his dying son. - BBC

* ►April 8, 2008 - Flu vaccine concern - letter - Barossa & Light Herald, Australia

►April 8, 2008 - Pharmacies join push to promote flu shots - Manurewa chemist Kerry Oxenham is one of the first in New Zealand to join the campaign to prevent the flu. - Manukau Courier via www.stuff.co.nz

►April 8, 2008 - Bird Flu Creeps Northeast in India - Yesterday Indian officials reported that an outbreak of bird flu has reached the Northeast state of Tripura. - ThePoultrySite.com

►April 8, 2008 - India begins culling chickens in bird flu-hit Tripura - Reuters India

►April 8, 2008 - Bird flu attacks Tibetan village - Shanghai Daily

►April 8, 2008 - Learn From Mistakes Over Bird Flu - editorial - Chosunilbo

►April 8, 2008 - MAF stuff-up over equine flu unacceptable - Press Release: New Zealand National Party via www.scoop.co.nz - "MAF officials have admitted that they got it wrong, after 10 horses imported from the United States in March tested positive in New Zealand despite being cleared of the horse flu when they left the US. 'MAF Biosecurity was forced to conduct a second round of tests on the original samples and it was only then that the initial positive test result was found to be erroneous due to contamination in the laboratory."

►April 8, 2008 - Technique detects fake flu drug '20 times quicker' - Amid fears that a bird flu epidemic could spark a black market of illegal counterfeit antiviral drugs, researchers have found a technique that could screen for fakes 20 times faster than previous methods. - LabTechnologist.com

►April 8, 2008 - Fears over future bird flu strains - Liverpool Daily Post

►April 8, 2008 - Examining the Avian Flu: From Pandemic Planning to Vaccine Development - Huliq

* ►April 8, 2008 - Editorial: Don't let Big Pharma use the FDA as a shield - Consumers need the protection of the courts or the FDA against new drugs of questionable safety. - Roanoke Times

* ►April 8, 2008 - US FDA says Glaxo failed to report Avandia data - Reuters - "In a letter to GlaxoSmithKline Chief Executive Jean-Pierre Garnier, the FDA said an inspection from August through November 2007 found Glaxo did not list multiple post-approval studies as required in various reports dating back to 2001. 'The specific violations in this letter are serious and may be symptomatic of underlying postmarketing safety reporting failures,' the FDA said in the letter, which was dated March 25 and posted on the agency's Web site on Tuesday."

* ►April 8, 2008 - GlaxoSmithKline Confirms Receipt of FDA Letter on Regulatory Reporting - press release - GlaxoSmithKline via PRNewswire-FirstCall

* ►April 8, 2008 - Glaxo Fights Against Public Paxil Trials by Evelyn Pringle - www.scoop.co.nz - "In O’Neal v GlaxoSmithKline, a case involving the suicide of a 13-year-old Sacramento, California boy, Benjamin Bratt, Glaxo recently used the Bush Administration's preemption policy to argue that the child's family should not be allowed to sue Glaxo for failing to warn about the suicide risk."

* ►April 8, 2008 - A dangerous legal shield for drug makers - opinion - TheNewsTribune.com

* ►April 8, 2008 - The Scientific Misconduct Wiki (Procter and Gamble) - Scientific Misconduct Blog

* ►April 8, 2008 - Pediatric Allergists with Corporate Funding Ties: From Foods to Vaccines - American Chronicle

* ►April 8, 2008 - Local biotech firm wins vaccine grant - Hawaii Biotech's dengue vaccine is called the most advanced of its type - Honolulu Star-Bulletin - "Hawaii Biotech Inc. has won grant funding of nearly $1 million over the next year to move it closer to commercial production of the first dengue vaccine. The funding will come from the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative of the Seoul-based International Vaccine Institute, primarily funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."

* ►April 8, 2008 - Iomai Wins Department of Defense Grant to Develop a Stable, Patch-Based Anthrax Vaccine - Grant to Cover Formulation Work, Stability Characterization of Dry-Patch Vaccine - press release - Iomai Corporation via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►April 8, 2008 - Let the FDA oversee tobacco - Congress is closer than ever to bringing tobacco under federal regulation. - Christian Science Monitor

►April 8, 2008 - Cholesterol-Fighting Drugs - letter (requires registration) - The New York Times

►April 8, 2008 - Potential for Harm in Dietary Supplements (requires registration) - The New York Times

►April 8, 2008 - Vaccine Preventable Illnesses - Immunization Basics - http://pediatrics.about.com

►April 8, 2008 - New immunisation handbook released - The long awaited 9th edition of the Immunisation Handbook has been officially released  today, with updated advice on polio, meningococcal, chickenpox, pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines. - 6minutes.com.au

►April 8, 2008 - First Of Its Kind: HPV Resource Created For Adolescents And Parents - The Association of Women' s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) via Medical News Today

►April 8, 2008 - Antigenics Finds That "Russian Roulette" Pays Off - CNBC - "This morning a little biotech company, Antigenics...announced that Russia has approved its kidney cancer drug Oncophage. It's the first so-called therapeutic cancer vaccine to win full-out approval anywhere in the world."

►April 8, 2008 - Kamada protein gets orphan drug status - The FDA has approved the company's aerosolized AAT for the treatment of bronchiectasis. - Globes

►April 8, 2008 - ProtoCol for rapid assessment of the Opka assay - To evaluate novel pneumococcal vaccines, an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Elisa) is commonly used alongside a modified in vitro opsonophagocytic-killing assay (Opka) - Laboratory Talk

►April 8, 2008 - Synthetic genomics: User-friendly or bad virus? - The Retriever

►April 8, 2008 - Toronto Public Health Holding Clinics In Wake Of Possible Measles Outbreak - CityNews

►April 8, 2008 - Routine Blood Donations Reveal 368 HIV Cases - Arab News

►April 8, 2008 - Resistance is terrifying! - book review - MyNews.in - "This shockingly realistic novel explores what could happen if a deadly new 'superbug' was unleashed on an unsuspecting world and was completely resistant to all known antibiotics. And what if its release was intentional? This is the premise for Daniel Kalla’s medical thriller Resistance."

►April 8, 2008 - Hermaphrodite Frogs Found in Suburban Ponds (requires registration) - The New York Times

►April 8, 2008 - My Daughters Are Fine, but I’ll Never Be the Same (requires registration) - The New York Times - "For a parent, there is no sorrow deeper or more encompassing than the loss of a child. But there is another that approaches it, and that, paradoxically, is grief averted — the grief of the narrow escape when a child comes close to death but survives."

►April 8, 2008 - Suit Accuses Pediatrician of Abuse (requires registration) - The New York Times

►April 8, 2008 - What Parents Should Know About Measles - WTMJ-TV

* ►April 7, 2008 - Parents Follow Pediatrician Advice On Administering MMR Vaccinations - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS via ScienceDaily - "News stories about an allegedly harmful link between the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine and the onset of autism had little effect on whether U.S. parents immunized their children, according to a review of immunization records and news stories. Parents' decisions were more likely influenced by recommendations from their child's pediatrician, the researchers said."

►April 7, 2008 - US Physicians Buffer Effect of MMR Vaccine-Autism Debate - Pediatrics via MedPage Today

* ►April 7, 2008 - Gardasil, Other New Products Spur Strong Vaccine Sales in 2007 - press release - Kalorama Information via PRNewswire - "Stronger than anticipated revenues for flu vaccines, and the surprising commercial success of Merck's Gardasil for HPV, which causes most cervical cancers, has led to a healthy $16.3 billion in vaccine sales in 2007. This represents an increase of 38% over 2006 sales of $11.7 billion, according to Vaccines 2008: World Market Analysis, Key Players, and Critical Trends in a Fast-Changing Industry, a new market research study and reforecast of the vaccine market from Kalorama Information."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Holistic Anarchy 11: What’s in Vaccines? - Lawrence Palevsky, MD, discusses the contents of vaccines and the significant lack of knowledge about the lasting impact of injecting these ingredients into the body. - video - Holistic Anarchy

* ►April 7, 2008 - UPMC gets $250K from state to fund autism center - AP via Philadelphia Inquirer - "The site is part of the Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network....The UPMC's Dr. Nancy Minshew says the funding is critical to show the state's support for developing national guidelines for autism assessment and treatment."

* ►April 7, 2008 - UPMC To Create Autism Treatment Network With Donation - Autism Speaks via eMaxHealth - "The new Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network clinic will include evaluations for known genetic disorders and genetic metabolic disorders to identify children with autistic symptoms. There are approximately 100 such disorders that have been associated with a syndrome that resembles autism."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Children's Hospital Contributes Genotype Data to Enhance Autism Research Worldwide - press release - The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia via PRNewswire-USNewswire - "The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia has contributed a large genotype dataset to the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE), a scientific program of the organization Autism Speaks, dedicated to advancing genetic research in
autism. This large genetic dataset will now be broadly accessible to autism researchers worldwide."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Opinion: Autism Headlines Can Confuse if Facts Aren't Considered by Janet Boivin, RN - Nurse.com - "Readers who didn't read beyond the headlines may have assumed that federal officials are now saying vaccines are linked to autism. This is in fact how many vocal anti-vaccine advocates have connected the dots. But that conclusion is wrong. The case involving Hannah Poling and her parents Jon and Terry Poling from Athens, Ga., does not clear up the ongoing public debate about whether vaccines are linked to autism. Indeed, it only adds to the confusion."

* ►April 7, 2008 - One in four premature babies 'faces the risk of autism' - Daily Mail, UK

* ►April 7, 2008 - Autism symptoms less severe after treatment, says U of L research team - WHAS11.com - "People with autism experienced less severe symptoms after researchers pulsed a low frequency magnetic field around their brains, a University of Louisville research team announced today."

 * ►April 7, 2008 - Autism Treatment Center of America CEO, Himself Fully Recovered From Autism, Unleashes Part 4 of Bold 7-Part Challenge for Autism Awareness Month -- Stop Calling Our Children Tragic - press release - The Autism Treatment Center of America via EarthTimes.org

* ►April 7, 2008 - Autism breakthrough might not come from researchers - Chicago Daily Herald - "One specific community, Autism One, is having a large conference May 21-25 at the Westin-O'Hare Hotel in Rosemont. Actress Jenny McCarthy, the keynote speaker, has a vested interest since she has a child with autism. For me, a unique aspect of this conference is a symposium specifically for physicians and clinicians on diagnosis and treatment options for autism. For more information, see www.autismone.org."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Autism - Jenny McCarthy Speaks Out - Daily Dish via SheKnows.com

►April 7, 2008 - Autism: Looking for Clues in the Brain - www.wspa.com

►April 7, 2008 - Autism group feels 'ignored' - N.S. urged to respond to call for care plan - ChronicleHerald.ca

►April 7, 2008 - Living with autism - When Patricia Haddaway’s son was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) 22 years ago, she thought it was a vicious curse. it turned out, however, to be a blessing in disguise. - Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday

 ►April 7, 2008 - Autism is focus in April at ESNH - Nashua Telegraph

►April 7, 2008 - Mum's anger over autistic son's cash blow - Coventry Telegraph, UK

►April 7, 2008 - Premature babies and autism - NHS Choices

►April 7, 2008 - Midlands Family Working Through Autism (includes video) - WLTX.com - "Senter says with lots of vitamins, including Omega-3's, along with traditional occupational and speech therapies, Zack is doing great. She says the treatment may not work for every autistic child, but they've found it to be helpful."

►April 7, 2008 - Autism diagnosis changes shown - The Press Association via Google

►April 7, 2008 - Autism will be subject of FAU conference - Treasure Coast - TCPalm

►April 7, 2008 - World Autism Day forgotten in St Lucia - The St. Lucia Star Online

►April 7, 2008 - Bouncing For Autism In April - Raising Awareness And Having Fun - CBS News

►April 7, 2008 - World autism day - opinion - China Daily

►April 7, 2008 - Bill O'Reilly Takes a Bite of the Vaccine Story. Maybe with encouragement he will sink his teeth in. - The Educated Parent Blog

►April 7, 2008 - Re: No Vaccination, No Autism - Lew Rockwell Blog

►April 7, 2008 - Paul Offit: Autism and vaccines - a careless ruling - A special federal court on vaccines was careless in its ruling on autism - Dallas Morning News

►April 7, 2008 - Clean Wisconsin and Public Voice Need for Strong Mercury Reductions Rule - WisBusiness

►April 7, 2008 - Mothers who eat low-mercury fish have smart kids - Xinhuanet via China View

* ►April 7, 2008 - P&G Taps Oprah, Salma Hayek for Global Vaccination Push - Stars Will Help Publicize Donations Linked to Pampers Sales - AdAge.com - "But in what figures to be its largest public-relations-driven play in P&G history, Pampers is harnessing the star power of both Ms. Winfrey and Salma Hayek for a global giveaway that also benefits a cause. Today on 'Oprah,' the pair endorses a linkup with UNICEF in which the brand will donate one tetanus shot to an expectant mom for every pack of specially marked diapers sold through August."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Actress/Producer Salma Hayek Launches The Pampers(R) 'One Pack = One Vaccine' Program to Benefit UNICEF - Hayek Lends Her Support to Campaign to Help Provide Tetanus Vaccines to Help Save the Lives of Moms and Babies in Developing Countries - press release - Procter & Gamble via PRNewswire

* ►April 7, 2008 - Slumping Drug Stocks Get Some Adrenaline - Wall Street Journal Health Blog - "Wyeth, which has been beset by pipeline problems and generic competition, also gave an encouraging forecast for growth of its vaccine business, which includes pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar, in a recent interview with the Pink Sheet, Merrill Lynch noted today."

►April 7, 2008 - What you need to know about immunizations - Going overseas? Information on vaccination requirements, more - MSNBC

►April 7, 2008 - IAC Express Issue number 722 - Immunzation Action Coalition

►April 7, 2008 - Estimate up on kids' drug errors - New way to detect slips uses 'triggers' on patient charts (requires registration or subscription) - AP via Chicago Tribune - "Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly 1 out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Sen. Grassley Knocks Psychiatrist’s Funding from AstraZeneca - Wall Street Journal Health Blog - "'Today, I am going to report on the actions of one physician to explain how industry payments to medical experts can affect medical practice,' Grassley said by way of introducing his remarks. Grassley then reviewed the funding for Melissa DelBello, who had reported to the University of Cincinnati that she had received $100,000 from AstraZeneca in 2003, the year after the study’s publication in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. She reported another $80,000 in 2004. The payments covered lectures, consulting fees, service on advisory boards and reimbursements for travel-related costs, Grassley said."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Odds Rise for FDA Shield Against Drug Liability - Wall Street Journal Health Blogs - "Johnson & Johnson maintains that it can’t be sued by thousands of women who claim they were injured by the company’s birth control patch because the FDA approved the product as safe and effective."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Doctors demand freeze on use of diabetes drug for heart patients - The Scotsman

* ►April 7, 2008 - Eyeing drug marketing - editorial - Lethbridge Herald - "In response, one physician suggested the writer, CMAJ editor-in-chief Paul Hebert, owes his profession an apology for undermining public confidence and reinforcing the false image of doctors as pill-pushers. But that perception exists, and the profession would be wise not to ignore it."

* ►April 7, 2008 - British Doctors Continue Useless Prescribing of Antibiotics - NaturalNews.com

* ►April 7, 2008 - Schizophrenia Genes: Are We Really Coming Up Blank? - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►April 7, 2008 - FDA Plan to Ease Off-Label Marketing Rules Draws Criticism - Newsinferno.com - "Guidelines are open to public comment through April 21 and lessen the FDA’s already limited authority over the marketing of drugs for off-label uses, according to Stafford, whose editorial is to be published in the April 3 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine."

►April 7, 2008 - Poison pills - It's hard to swallow, but consumers can't be sure of either the provenance or the potency of their medications - Comment is free via The Guardian, UK

►April 7, 2008 - No quick end for cloning product moratorium: USDA - Reuters

►April 7, 2008 - Pro-Life Supreme Court Set to Canonize Deadly Pharmaceuticals - OpEdNews

►April 7, 2008 - Biotech Industry Spent $6.6M on Lobbying - AP via Houston Chronicle

►April 7, 2008 - Hawaii Biotech Receives Funding From the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative - press release - Hawaii Biotech, Inc. via PRNewswire

* ►April 7, 2008 - Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. Accelerates Ampligen as a Potential Adjuvant for Both Avian Influenza and HIV Vaccines - New Approach Produces Robust Immunity to Overcome Therapeutic Obstacles - press release - Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. via PRIME Newswire

* ►April 7, 2008 - Researchers seek anti-virus vaccine - Children's Hospital homes in on CMV and its consequences - Cincinnati Enquirer - "Cytomegalovirus is the latest infectious disease targeted by vaccine researchers at Cincinnati Children's."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Cancer vaccine is dream for Moncton research centre - Scientists looking for ways to help the body's natural immune system to fight cancerous cells - Times and Transcript

* ►April 7, 2008 - Alzheimer's vaccine doesn't help memory - United Press International

►April 7, 2008 - Vaccine labs to be turned into drug-testing units - Times of India - "According to experts, India, with its fast growing pharma industry, is in dire need of central drug testing laboratories. Nearly 2,500 crore vaccines — 35 different types — by nearly 15 pharma companies are produced in India annually."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Males, as well as females, may benefit from HPV vaccination - HealthDay via Jackson Sun - "'There is probably no reason to think it would not be effective in boys, and because HPV is passed back and forth, immunizing a large part of the population would limit (transmission),' said Jonathan Temte, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. 'However, we're still very early in the life span of this vaccine. It's been less than a year since a recommendation was issued. It is premature to discuss giving it to boys until there's proof of its efficacy,' added Temte, who also serves as the American Academy of Family Practitioners' liaison to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices."

►April 7, 2008 - HPV vaccine more available in Humboldt - Times-Standard

►April 7, 2008 - WHO says climate change will spur diseases - CIDRAP News

►April 7, 2008 - Gov't Confirms Virulent Bird Flu Strain Killed Ducks in Jeongeup - Korea Times

►April 7, 2008 - Clams being used to study bird flu - Denver Post

►April 7, 2008 - Labs prepare for flu threat - More facilities can conduct accurate tests for influenza strains - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

►April 7, 2008 - China confirms Tibetan bird flu outbreak - Xinhua via China View

* ►April 7, 2008 - Healthcare workers told to get flu jabs - Doctors have been asked to start practicing what they preach when it comes to flu vaccinations, by making sure they and their staff are fully immunised. - 6minutes.com.au
 
►April 7, 2008 - Douglas H. Frazer: Flu shot shenanigans show insurers not up to snuff - letter - The Capital Times via www.madison.com

►April 7, 2008 - Cancer treatment from a common avian virus under study - Researchers on the Blacksburg and College Park, Maryland campuses of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine have been awarded a major new grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support innovative work that seeks to develop a treatment for cancer from a common avian virus. - News-Medical.net

* ►April 7, 2008 - Rash decisions - Opting out of the MMR vaccine seemed like a good idea at the time but a bout of measles in the house raises doubts - Comment is free via The Guardian, UK - "It may be a total coincidence - three children doth not a scientific study make - but the younger two are, and have always been, fit as fiddles. The doctor who visited Daisy expressed amazement that she had only taken one lot of antibiotics in her 12 years of existence. Solomon, 17, has never been near an antibiotic in his life. They are strong kids with their own immune systems intact. OK, they were beaten by the measles, but that is a tough cookie."

►April 7, 2008 - City Outlines Where Measles Contact Could Have Originated (includes video) - CityNews

►April 7, 2008 - Toronto measles outbreak prompts health warning - CBC

►April 7, 2008 - Case of Measles Reported on Long Island - 1010 WINS

►April 7, 2008 - Young Girl Hospitalized With Measles (includes video) - WISN Milwaukee

►April 7, 2008 - Measles confirmed in toddler - Girl attended day care centers, is expected to recover - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

►April 7, 2008 - Measles, CSM Hit 10 Northern States - Claim 400 lives in 3 months - ThisDay

►April 7, 2008 - Mother's Warning on Meningitis - This is Hull and East Riding, UK - "A mother whose five-month-old baby boy survived meningitis is warning other parents the illness can strike without the appearance of the tell-tale rash."

►April 7, 2008 - Girl Left Disabled by Meningitis Sues Doctor - This is Exeter, UK

►April 7, 2008 - Ford County meningitis case puts officials on alert - Bloomington Pantagraph

►April 7, 2008 - Tuesday Is the Deadline for Vaccine - KATC.com - "Tuesday is the last deadline for parents who want to get their children vaccinated for Hepatitis A by the Lafayette Parish School System."

►April 7, 2008 - Investigators Target Two Specific Dates In Hepatitis C Exposure - KTNV Las Vegas

►April 7, 2008 - Two more patients test positive for hepatitis C at Va. hospital - AP via Houston Chronicle

►April 7, 2008 - Anti-polio drive in Matta, Kabal deferred - The News - International - Pakistan

►April 7, 2008 - New polio Web site! - Rotary International - "Rotary has launched a new "mini" Web site to give the general public an opportunity to help end polio by contributing to Rotary's US$100 Million Challenge from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation."

►April 7, 2008 - West Nile Virus detected in east valley, fogging taking place - The Desert Sun

* ►April 7, 2008 - Van Buren Elementary School Prepares For Possible Chicken Pox Outbreak - www.4029tv.com - "Most of the time, chicken pox is not serious, and cases had been on the decline as vaccinations increased, Clardy said. But a few years ago, doctors noticed a troubling trend. 'You start looking at and following the disease history, [and]you find that chicken pox in kids was going away, but chicken pox in adolescents was coming more,' Clardy said. The solution is a second booster, given around the age of 4, to reinforce the first vaccination, Clardy said."

►April 7, 2008 - Officials look at possible case of rare disease in Portsmouth - The Virginian-Pilot - "One possibility is a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as vCJD, a rare degenerative brain disorder that has been linked to consumption of contaminated beef. The disease is not spread through casual contact from person to person."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Global Challenges | More Than 2M Children Worldwide Living With HIV/AIDS, Report Says - www.kaisernetwork.org

►April 7, 2008 - Oral candidiasis is a reliable marker of low CD4 counts and HIV disease progression in Zimbabwean women - Aidsmap

►April 7, 2008 - Ardea to Present Data on HIV Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor and Two MEK Inhibitors at Upcoming Medical Conferences - press release - Ardea Biosciences, Inc. via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►April 7, 2008 - NanoViricides Commences HIV Drug Animal Trials - Goal is to identify best candidates and optimal dosages for later studies at a major US facility - press release - NanoViricides, Inc. via Business Wire

►April 7, 2008 - What's Going Around: Get Children Vaccinated Before International Trip - Doctors Say It's Easier To Prevent Disease Than To Cure - Channel3000.com

* ►April 7, 2008 - Health problems reported after aerial spraying - San Francisco Chronicle

* ►April 7, 2008 - Americans' safety net frayed as agencies lose personnel - Cleveland Plain Dealer

►April 7, 2008 - Tiny silver particles in clothing may lead to pollution, research suggests (requires registration) - Sacramento Bee - "UC Davis researchers want to explore what happens when such creations are released into the environment, and nanosilver is on the short list of substances the university would target first if it wins the grant, Navrotsky said."

►April 7, 2008 - Fake turf has real concerns behind it - Press of Atlantic City

►April 7, 2008 - Toxin turns up in school buildings, but officials say there's no danger - New York Daily News

►April 7, 2008 - Scientists develop technique to "clean" stem cells - Reuters

►April 7, 2008 - Alligator blood may yield potent antibiotics - Reuters Health

►April 7, 2008 - Treatment For One Drug-Resistant Disease Leads To Second Drug-Resistant Disease - The Lancet via Medical News Today

►April 7, 2008 - Falmouth vet expresses concern over dog vaccinations - Falmouth Penryn Packet, UK - "'Until recently, the disease was being controlled quite effectively through vaccination but we suspect that some owners have now allowed vaccinations to lapse, assuming that Leptospirosis no longer presents a threat,' comments Paul Cockerham."

►April 7, 2008 - Great Lakes shippers take steps to halt deadly fish virus spread - AP via MLive.com

►April 7, 2008 - Uganda: Karamoja - the Mystery of the Vanishing Cows - The Monitor (Kampala) via AllAfrica.com

►April 6, 2008 - Teen's flu research could net her $50,000 scholarship - AP via WBAY-TV

* ►April 6, 2008 - “My Daughter Tried To Kill Herself” - Lawyers and Settlements - "But Emily has developed depression and suicidal thoughts, and she recently tried to kill herself. She is a chronic asthmatic who has been taking Singulair for approximately four years, and Eunice believes that Singulair may be responsible for Emily's psychological deterioration."

* ►April 6, 2008 - One's a tragedy... Three is Murder - http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au - "In 1998, Kathy was accused of deliberately infecting Eve with saliva or dirty water, causing multiple abscesses on her body. No-one had ever seen her do this but the experts claimed this was the only plausible explanation for her daughter’s mysterious illness. Five years after Eve was taken from her, Kathy was criminally charged with attempting to murder her daughter. Then late last year, after lengthy court hearings, the Crown dramatically withdrew its criminal case against her."

►April 6, 2008 - Protecting children's health - Daily Breeze - "And what we know now is this: Despite the vaccine court's decision in the Poling case, there isn't a credible scientific link between vaccines and autism. A victory for this family should not be a defeat for the public health issue of vaccinations."

►April 6, 2008 - Autistic - with honors - West Ranch High student Kevin Chu overcomes autism to get straight As and get into college. - The Signal

* ►April 6, 2008 - Pulling away from the world: The struggle with autism - The Southern - "There is no known single cause for autism. Recently, a link between autism and vaccinations has gotten widespread coverage, though no major study has verified those claims. 'Every avenue has to be explored,' Crystal said. 'It's something that has to be investigated.'"

►April 6, 2008 - Coping with autism, family by family - TheReporter.com

►April 6, 2008 - Raising awareness for autism (includes video) - News 10 Now - "April is Autism Awareness month and to commemorate, Families for Effective Autism Treatment, or FEAT, held its fourth annual awareness party Sunday."

►April 6, 2008 - High-Tech Hospitals Improve Patient Health, Safety - Hospital Room Of Future Cuts Down On Medical Mistakes - KMGH Denver

* ►April 6, 2008 - Training a cold to kill cancer - Scientists testing tweaked virus on tumors - Seattle Post-Intelligencer - "This is often cited as the first scientific report of the possibility that viral infections or vaccinations might somehow work against cancer. There had been earlier anecdotal stories about people with cancer being cured after getting this or that bug, but not much hard evidence. 'It wasn't until the 1950s and '60s that it really took off,' Lieber said. Scientists in the '50s and '60s tried injecting cancer patients with all sorts of live viruses such as mumps or the cold virus, he said, but without really knowing exactly what was going on inside the body."

►April 6, 2008 - Willhite, CC, GL Ball and CJ McLellan. 2008. Derivation of a bisphenol A oral reference dose (RfD) and drinking-water equivalent concentration. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 11:2, 69 – 146. - Our Stolen Future

►April 6, 2008 - Wyeth may rise if Alzheimer's drug works - Barron's - Reuters

►April 6, 2008 - This season's flu likes to hit you twice, or more - Huntington Herald-Dispatch

►April 6, 2008 - Medical missteps touch one in 15 kids, study finds - AP via Denver Post

►April 6, 2008 - Sea salt may be adding to Houston's air pollution - Scientists find the mineral keeps fumes afloat and turbo-charges formation of ozone - Houston Chronicle

►April 4, 2008 - Billboards share message about autism - Faces of local children appear on 10 signs around Greater Akron. Parents hope to raise public awareness about common disorder - Akron Beacon Journal

►April 4, 2008 - Finding answers - opinion - Indiana Statesman

►April 4, 2008 - Mackie wakes up - Little "Mackie" Cooper has woken from a nine-day induced coma after a desperate battle against deadly meningococcal disease. - The Cairns Post

* ►April 4, 2008 - US flu activity continues late-season decline - CIDRAP News - "The season has been marked by a fairly poor match between two of the three viral strains in the vaccine and the dominant strains making people sick. The latest figures continue to reflect that. Only 23% of 144 influenza A/H3N2 virus isolates and 5% of 157 influenza B isolates analyzed by the CDC so far this season were matched well by the vaccine. This season also has seen increased signs of resistance to oseltamivir, one of the two leading flu drugs, in one of the three flu subtypes, A/H1N1."

►April 4, 2008 - Bakersfield family has personal warning about dangers of meningitis - EyeOutForYou.com

►April 4, 2008 - Niger vaccination campaign where malnutrition and measles combines against young children - Medecins Sans Frontieres

►April 4, 2008 - Nigeria: Towards Enhanced Vaccination - This Day (Lagos) via AllAfrica.com

►April 4, 2008 - On Books: The fight for a cure of an American epidemic - book review - Anderson Independent Mail - "Any gaps in my knowledge were more than filled by reading 'Polio: An American Story' by David M. Oshinsky."

►April 3, 2008 - Drug Approval Trends at the FDA and EMEA: Process improvements, heightened scrutiny and industry response - Business Insights via Pharmaceutical Business Review

►April 3, 2008 - More HIV-positive pregnant women getting antiretrovirals, but still much more to do, says report - Aidsmap

* ►April 3, 2008 - Clinical trial will test new HIV/AIDS vaccine - Phase 1 trial begins in Boston - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center via www.eurekalert.org

* ►April 3, 2008 - The Hepatitis Epidemic and Natural Remedies That Can Help - NaturalNews.com - "Nobody knows exactly where it came from. During World War II, an unlicensed yellow fever vaccine was released to immunize our troops who were going to the South Pacific. To stabilize the vaccine, scientists used serum from Australian Aborigines, hoping they were immune to endemic illnesses and that immunity would then be passed to our troops. Years later, it was discovered that 50% of the Aborigines had Hepatitis B and C. A study done by the Veteran's Administration later proved that over 320,000 of our troops were infected."

►April 2, 2008 - Flu shot frenzy hits workers - Rockhampton Morning Bulletin

►April 2, 2008 - Aucklanders being recruited for New Zealand's largest flu clinical trial - New Zealand Doctor Online

►April 2, 2008 - Botox scare: Scientists say the injected toxin can move to the brain - Daily Mail, UK

* ►April 2, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy & David Kirby on Larry King Live (April 2, 2008) - video - FAIR Autism Media

* ►April 1, 2008 - BCG Vaccine SSI –Update - Irish Medical Times - "Further to previous articles on BCG Vaccine SSI1, including the outcome of a retrospective review of suspected adverse reactions associated with its use, this month’s article provides an update on experience of adverse reactions reported during 2007, in the context of overall reporting rates for the preceding years."

►April 2008 - Canadian Adverse Reaction Newsletter Volume 18 • Issue 2 - Health Canada

►April 2008 - Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle? - journal article (Social Science & Medicine)

►March 25, 2008 - The Claim: Grapefruit Can Increase the Risk of Breast Cancer (requires registration) - The New York Times

►March 25, 2008 - Avoid Pills in 7 Common Ills - LiveScience

* ►March 24, 2008 - FDA Harasses Dairy Company Employees - Grand Jury Investigation is Latest Government Tactic against Raw Milk - press release - The Weston A. Price Foundation via ExpertClick.com

►March 19, 2008 - ICEID: Pneumococcal Vaccine Reduces Disease Rate in All Ages - MedPage Today

►March 12, 2008 - Mouse model could provide clues to autistic behaviors - Stanford Report

►March 12, 2008 - Is Our Happiness Preordained? - TIME Magazine

►March 2008 - Happiness Is a Personal(ity) Thing: The Genetics of Personality and Well-Being in a Representative Sample - journal article (Psychological Science)

►November 22, 2007 - Hospital drug errors far from uncommon (requires registration or subscription) - Los Angeles Times

►All of us at Future Horizons are saddened by the death of our President's son, Alex. - He was a valuable member of our team, excellent speaker and loved by many. If you would like to make a contribution to recognize Alex's contributions, please send them to the ASA in his honor. - Future Horizons

►2008 Bounce for Autism - Steve Edelson's Sock Squad - Autism Society of America - "Today, 60 families will find out their child has autism. We recently accepted the challenge to support the Autism Society of America in its efforts to improve the lives of all affected by autism by 'Bouncing for Autism.'"

* ►Autism - The Denial of Harm - A pictorial look at the CDC and others who continue to spin denial regarding autism, Hannah Poling, and the issue of vaccines. - video - Mothering Media

* ►The Educated Parent - A Child's Best Advocate - blog

* ►HolisticAnarchy.com - website/blog

►Reports for Pediatricians - Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists - "Two clinical reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) are designed to help pediatricians recognize autism spectrum disorders (ASD) earlier and guide families to effective interventions, which will ultimately improve the lives of children with ASD and their families."

Posted April 7, 2008

* ►April 15, 2008 - Utilization of Fc Receptors as a Mucosal Vaccine Strategy against an Intracellular Bacterium, Francisella tularensis - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►April 15, 2008 - Immunoproteomic Identification and Serological Responses to Novel Chlamydia pneumoniae Antigens That Are Associated with Persistent C. pneumoniae Infections - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

* ►April 14, 2008 - Who gets the pneumococcal vaccine? - www.ama-assn.org

* ►April 14, 2008 - Reportable events often go unreported - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - WHO finds global rise in drug-resistant TB - Without proper public health funding and vigilant treatment practices, resistant strains of TB could continue to grow worldwide. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Plans sought to curb teen girls' high STD rate - Officials are calling for action to contain this crisis, but physicians say significant barriers block the way. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Pennsylvania House bill expands subsidized plans, phases out liability fund - The Pennsylvania Medical Society objects to a proviso requiring doctors to accept health plans participating in the insurance access program. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Fighting spirit: AMNews interviews Ron Davis, MD - The AMA president is making his battle against pancreatic cancer public and hopes to raise awareness about the need for more funding to research the illness. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Similar drug-name pairs nearly double 2004 tally - Including the indicated use when writing or filling a prescription can reduce look-alike, sound-alike drug mix-ups, experts say. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Expert who changed mind claims immunity, but plaintiffs still sue - Can plaintiffs sue their physician expert witness for medical liability if the doctor changes his opinion during pretrial proceedings and their lawsuit is eventually dismissed? - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Motivating the mediocre: Getting the maximum out of someone who's giving you the minimum - Disruptive or incompetent employees need to be dealt with. But what do you do about a staff member who is settling for average? Experts offer tips on how to spot someone who is in a rut and help kick the employee out of it. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Online tool allows Minnesota patients to weigh cost, perks - The Web site offers comparison shopping for health services based on price and packaging. But critics say its usefulness may be limited. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Most states working toward implementing e-health programs - A national survey found there is significant interest in using technology for health data exchange. But it also found interest doesn't always translate into action. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Latest Medicare projections renew alarm on long-term sustainability - The hospital trust fund will go broke by 2019, and Part B will consume an ever-growing share of federal general revenues. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Ohio mandates clarity in health plan contracts - A new law requires insurers to spell out what physicians will be paid. It also mandates other reforms, including notifying doctors of major changes. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Breathing room on Medicare payment - The American Medical Association backs a bill to replace scheduled physician payment cuts with increases. - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - Letters to the Editor - ADA: There can be even more collaboration between dentists and physicians - In medicine, emphasis should be on compassion and less so on empathy - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - News in brief: Health & Science - Quick drug OK may affect safety - Calcium deposits tied to heart attack? - Kidney disease hospitalizations increase dramatically - Psoriasis patients at increased risk of developing other conditions - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - News in brief: Government & Medicine - Pa. governor establishes electronic health information exchange - Eligibility increasing for public health care programs - www.ama-assn.org

►April 14, 2008 - News in brief: Professional Issues - AMA, Discovery Health offer internship - www.ama-assn.org

* ►April 7, 2008 - 1) General recommendations on immunization: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). 2) Update: recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding administration of combination MMRV vaccine. - CDC/MMWR via www.guideline.gov

* ►April 7, 2008 - 1) Prevention of varicella: recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). 2) Update: recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding administration of combination MMRV vaccine. - CDC/MMWR via www.guideline.gov

* ►April 7, 2008 - American Cancer Society guideline for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine use to prevent cervical cancer and its precursors. - American Cancer Society via www.guideline.gov

* ►April 7, 2008 - Hygiene responsible for reduced diseases (letters) - 2nd letter by Dr. Matthew Horn - Toledo Blade - "As far as safety of vaccines is concerned, nobody knows for sure the details, as the federal Food and Drug Administration estimates that less than 1 percent of serious reactions to vaccines are reported. The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System receives over 11,000 reports each year, which can include hundreds of deaths. There are also many instances of countries suspending vaccination programs. In each case, infant mortality dropped and then rose again when vaccination programs were reintroduced."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. Accelerates Ampligen as a Potential Adjuvant for Both Avian Influenza and HIV Vaccines - Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. via Prime Newswire - "A Company spokesperson said that as Hemispherx pursues regulatory progress on the overall Ampligen(r) commercialization process, it is pursuing a parallel path in therapeutic needs that extend beyond Ampligen(r)'s initial Chronic Fatigue Syndrome application. Specifically, the recent catastrophic failure of the HIV/AIDS vaccine trials and the growing news regarding a potential Pacific-rim avian influenza epidemic are elevating the importance of the broader-based Ampligen(r) development program. The Company's manufacturing facility is capable of addressing requirements of a multifaceted developmental program."

* ►April 7, 2008 - Drug errors hurt children at higher rate - Study finds overdoses, bad reactions in 1 in 15 hospitalized youngsters - AP via The Baltimore Sun

* ►April 7, 2008 - The Man Who Would Overhaul The FDA - Pharmalot

* ►April 7, 2008 - FDA Releases Five-Year Drug Safety Plan - FDA News

►April 7, 2008 - Fear the disease, not the protection - The Roanoke Times - "I want to stand with Kirby and shake my fist at thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative used in vaccines since the 1930s. After all, mercury poisoning shares an alarming number of characteristics with autism: loss of verbal and motor skills, social withdrawal, repetitive movements. Was the vaccine court's concession to Hannah Poling the smoking gun that Kirby and his followers have been waiting for? Unfortunately not. More later, but Poling's is a unique case that merely meets a set of legal criteria for reimbursement."

►April 7, 2008 - Retail health clinics sprout in area; doctors feel threat, have concerns - Crain's Detroit Business - "In addition, many medical concerns handled by a walk-in clinic can either be treated at home by the patient, such as the common cold, or should be something that is handled by a physician, such as vaccinations, Bush said. “Nurse practitioners play an important role in health care, but, in general, they don't have the skill or experience to (properly) diagnosis a patient.”

►April 7, 2008 - Lawsuit Challenges EPA on Four Deadly Pesticides - Beyond Pesticides

►April 7, 2008  - Drug makers turning to nonprofits for cash - Disease foundations hand over millions to boost research - The Boston Globe

►April 7, 2008 - AstraZeneca Investor Questions Big Pharma Model - Pharmalot

►April 7, 2008 - Public access begins (requires registration) - The Scientist

►April 7, 2008 - Today is World Health Day - Jamaica Gleaner

►April 7, 2008 - Potent HIV killer found in alligator blood - McNeese State University in Louisiana via Cosmos Magazine

►April 7, 2008 - Wyeth to Invest $96M in Singapore Plant - AP via Forbes

►April 7, 2008 - Novartis To Buy About 25% Stake In Alcon From Nestle For $11 Bln Cash [NVS] - RTT News

* ►April 7, 2008 - The American Academy of Pediatrics Shows Up in Autism Treatment - Adventures in Autism

* ►April 7, 2008 - Alison Rose Levy: Jenny McCarthy and the Autism Dilemma - The Huffington Post

* ►April 7, 2008 - The China Solution by J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

* ►April 7, 2008 - How April Brought Us Autism Awareness by Monica Bice - Age of Autism

* ►April 7, 2008 - Pharma Bites the Hand It Feeds - Age of Autism

* ►April 7, 2008 - First Report from DAN! On AAP Participation - Age of Autism

* ►April 7, 2008 - Dr. Offit's ROTATEQ: Merck's AVIS of Vaccines! - Age of Autism

* ►April 7, 2008 - Dr.: Diabetes linked to TB vaccine - United Press International - "Dr. J. Barthelow Classen of Classen Immunotherapies of Baltimore proposes a theory that vaccines or other strong immune stimulants may lead to the development of hyperactive immune systems. In the case of type 1 diabetes, this leads to the autoimmune destruction of insulin secreting cells or in the case of type 2 diabetes, the increase of a immune suppression hormone -- cortisol, Classen said. Cortisol secretion -- linked to metabolic syndrome linked to diabetes and heart disease -- increases after immunization more in Japanese children than Caucasian ones, Classen noted."

* ►April 7, 2008 - 3,000 children were given unlicensed anti-psychotic drugs despite safety fears - The Times, UK

* ►April 7, 2008 - Tranquillisers putting children's lives at risk · Anti-psychotics may cause long-term harm, say critics · Youngsters under 6 being given unlicensed drugs - The Guardian, UK

* ►April 7, 2008 - Treatment With An Anti-psychotic Drug Found To Cause Changes In Metabolism Earlier Than Expected - American Physiological Society via ScienceDaily - "Senior study author Dominique Hermier said, 'Based on these findings we concluded that male rats treated with olanzapine experienced an early disruption of energy metabolism. This was a result of the fat tissue we observed and the impairment in blood sugar regulation which are both associated with metabolic syndrome and subsequent risk of diabetes.'"

* ►April 7, 2008 - Mad cow disease kills two in Spain - CNN - "She said the first death occurred December 28 and the next was February 7, in hospitals at undisclosed locations in the sprawling Castilla Leon region, which encompasses numerous provinces north of Madrid. The victims were between 25 and 50 years old, said the spokeswoman, who asked not to be identified."

►April 7, 2008 - Children's sleep disturbances associated with certain parenting behaviors - JAMA and Archives Journals via www.eurekalert.org

* ►April 6, 2008 - MRSA-infected medics allowed to keep working - The Independent, UK

►April 6, 2008 - An open letter to David Kirby and Dan Olmsted about the Kathleen Seidel subpoena - Science Blogs

►April 6, 2008 - States 'Recycle' Meds to Battle Costs - AP

►April 6, 2008 - Tart Cherries May Reduce Inflammation, Lower Risk for Type 2 Diabetes & Heart Disease - New Study Reinforces Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Red Hot 'Super Fruit' - University of Michigan via PRNewswire

►April 6, 2008 - The war on lead - Times-Republican

►April 6, 2008 - Organic compound in household products may make human breast cells cancerous - Asian News International via DailyIndia

►April 6, 2008 - Magpies threatened by West Nile virus - The Sacramento Bee

►April 6, 2008 - NASA scientist presses U.S. on climate - Climatologist 1 of 4 Common Wealth Award winners - The News Journal via DelawareOnline

►April 6, 2008 - Teflon toxin found in W.Va. residents - Screening results show high levels of PFOA in blood of those living near DuPont plant - DelawareOnline

►April 6, 2008 - Yale study shows how rare genes have big impact on blood pressure - Yale University via EurekAlert!

* ►April 6, 2008 - Early findings on air pollution's effects on brain cause concern - The Press-Enterprise

►April 6, 2008 - Alzheimer's blood test 'promise' - A US company is hoping to be the first to market a blood test which can detect early signs of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. - BBC

►April 6, 2008 - 71,500,000 Americans will be 65 and older in 2030, compared with 37 million people in 2006 - Age isn't only factor in seniors' quality of life - Ventura County Star

►April 5, April 11, 2008 - Efficacy and safety of an oral live attenuated human rotavirus vaccine against rotavirus gastroenteritis during the first 2 years of life in Latin American infants: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III study - journal article (The Lancet)

* ►April 5, 2008 - Reform the childhood vaccination schedule - SavannahNow.com - "The Spencers believe Patrick was born with a predisposition for autoimmune issues. They say that genetic deficiency, in combination with an overly aggressive vaccine schedule, caused his autism. The Spencers believe autism is a treatable disease. They've seen significant improvements in their son with biomedical therapies. Their hope is Patrick will recover from autism. As a volunteer with a national autism awareness group Generation Rescue, Kim Spencer is organizing a Savannah showing of the film "Autism Yesterday" about defeating autism. The 30-minute film and Q&A session will be at 7 p.m. April 17 at in the sanctuary at Calvary, 4625 Waters Ave. The film, open to the public, spotlights five families who say their children recovered from autism. Aggressive vaccine schedule As the number of childhood vaccines has increased, so has autism."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Calicivirus delivers vaccines in humans - The Science Show

* ►April 5, 2008 - Egypt reports new bird flu death - AFP

* ►April 5, 2008 - Researcher uncovers what caused Gulf War Syndrome (includes video) - King5.com

►April 4, 2008 - FDA clears Glaxo diarrhea-virus vaccine - AP via Yahoo!

►April 4, 2008 - Measles Outbreak Spreads in Austria - AP

►April 4, 2008 - Injectable Antibiotic Protects Against Lyme Disease in Mice - HealthDay News via WQAD

►April 4, 2008 - What are these chemicals and what do they do? - Quad-City Times

►April 4, 2008 - ADHD is a complex illness to understand - You asked for readers' views on the front-page story regarding the case of a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Here are mine. - Hucknall Dispatch

►April 4, 2008 - Your Brain Is a Mess, but It Knows How to Make Fixes (commentary) - Wired

►April 4, 2008 - Gum Disease, HPV a Double Whammy - University at Buffalo via healthfinder.gov - "In a study of 30 patients newly diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma on the base of the tongue, 63 percent (19 patients) had tumors testing positive for a common type of HPV. In addition, 90 percent of the patients with HPV-positive tumors had periodontitis, and 79 percent of patients whose tumors showed no presence of HPV did not have periodontitis."

►April 4, 2008 - Low zinc levels linked to febrile seizures - Clinical Pediatrics via Reuters Health

* ►April 4, 2008 - Shocking news about the latest combo vaccine - The Douglass Report - "In the wake of the convulsion issue, however, the advisory panel is, according to the article that I read, "no longer voicing a preference for ProQuad over the separate shots." Incredible, isn't it. Here's a vaccine that's statistically proven to cause a greater risk of seizures, and the best the government "advisory panel" - whatever that is - can do is to "no longer voice a preference." Why can't they condemn ProQuad and other combo vaccines until further research is done? Why hasn't the FDA been called in rather than relying on this so-called "advisory panel" and their milquetoast half-retreat from their pro-vaccine stand?"

►April 4, 2008 - Malaria warning from climate change - Irish Health

►April 4, 2008 - Swedish Study Finds GMO Seeds Persist 10 Years After Planting - BBC via Beyond Pesticides

►April 4, 2008 - The changing epidemiology of food allergy—implications for New Zealand - journal article (The New Zealand Medical Journal)

►April 4, 2008 - Mental health services for children and adolescents in New Zealand, outcomes, and the Health of the Nation Outcome Scale for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) - journal article (The New Zealand Medical Journal)

►April 4, 2008 - Is this the end of the old-style GP? - GP services are changing. Saturday and evening opening is set to be rolled out from this month and the spectre of super-surgeries is looming large on the horizon. Are we seeing the beginning of the end for the traditional family doctor? - BBC

* ►April 3, 2008 - Government stakes claim to every newborn's DNA - 'We now are considered guinea pigs, instead of human beings with rights' - WorldNetDaily

►April 3, 2008 - Pesticide Residues Found in European Wines - Beyond Pesticides

* ►April 3, 2008 - Notice: Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing - National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, HHS via www.pharmcast.com - "HPV Virus-Like Particles for Delivery of Gene-Based Vaccines - Avian Influenza Vaccine - Codon Optimized Genes for Subunit Vaccines"

* ►April 3, 2008 - DeGeneres Fights Back Tears Over Autism Story - Actress Archives

* ►April 3, 2008 - California Democrats push bills to fight spread of autism - The Sacramento Bee - "Virtually everyone in California knows a family member, friend, co-worker or neighbor struggling with challenges surrounding autism and its related problems," Sen. President Pro Tem Don Perata said at a Capitol news conference."

►April 3, 2008 - Drug prevents abnormalities that lead to seizures, mouse study shows - Annals of Neurology via Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

►April 3, 2008 - Germs in soil find antibiotics tasty - Harvard Medical School via AP via Yahoo!

►April 3, 2008 - Adding coffee to doughnut protects brain - University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences via UPI - "Adding a coffee to that breakfast doughnut could help protect against Alzheimer's disease, U.S. researchers say."

* ►April 2, 2008 - Safer vaccines are needed - Beaver County Times & Allegheny Times - "Infectious disease experts know that vaccines can overload the immune system. Within 48 hours of birth, newborns are given vaccines containing live viruses, mercury, aluminum formaldehyde and aborted fetal tissue."

►April 2, 2008 - Symposium to Explore Role Nanoparticles May Play in Disease - The American Physiological Society

►April 2, 2008 - More Students With Asperger Syndrome Going to College - Some Schools Have Programs to Help Autistic Students - ABC News

►April 1, 2008 - Doctors Fight Seizures With Electricity - The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via redOrbit

►April 1, 2008 - What parents think may be ADHD, may not - Ivanhoe via News 8 Austin

►April 1, 2008 - Mom's fish intake may boost child's brain power - American Journal of Epidemiology via Reuters Health

►April 1, 2008 - New study shows children benefit from drinking chocolate/flavored milk - Edelman Public Relations via EurekAlert!

* ►April 1, 2008 - FDA Approves Alternative Dosing Schedule for Combined Hepatitis Vaccine - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via American Family Physician

►April 1, 2008 - The Role of Selenium in Chronic Disease - journal article (Nutrition in Clinical Practice)

* ►April 2008 - Acceptance of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine by Gynecologists in an Urban Setting. - journal article (Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease)

* ►April 2008 - Flu Vaccines Are Not A Reliable Answer For Prevention (blog) - Water SANA

* ►April 2008 - Serum urea concentration and the risk of hepatotoxicity after paracetamol overdose - journal article (QJM: An International Journal of Medicine)

►April 2008 - Therapy of suspected bacterial meningitis in Canadian children six weeks of age and older - Summary (full text) - journal article (Paediatrics & Child Health)

►April 2008 - Monitoring and management of antipsychotic-related metabolic and endocrine adverse events in pediatric patients - journal article (International Review of Psychiatry)

►April 2008 - Parental attitudes and involvement in psychopharmacological treatment for ADHD: A conceptual model - journal article (International Review of Psychiatry)

►April 2008 - Beyond the 'typical' patient: Treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in preschoolers and adults - journal article (International Review of Psychiatry)

►April 2008 - A comparison of electronic records to paper records in mental health centers - journal article (International Journal for Quality in Health Care)

►April 2008 - Are family factors universally related to metabolic outcomes in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes? - journal article (Diabetic Medicine)

►April 2008 - Occupational exposure to extremely low frequency electric and magnetic fields and Alzheimer disease: a meta-analysis - journal article (International Journal of Epidemiology)

* ►March 31, 2008 - The Regulation of Biological Products Food and Drug Administration (pdf) - FDA/CBER

* ►March 31, 2008 - Regulation of Biological Products –Review Food and Drug Administration (pdf) - FDA/CBER

* ►March 31, 2008 - Notice: Request for Information: NIH Public Access Policy - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) via www.pharmcast.com

►March 28, 2008 - Study shows why synthetic estrogens wreak havoc on reproductive system - Yale University - Yale University via EurekAlert!

►March 18, 2008 - Title: Cold-adapted influenza virus (patent) - The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) via www.pharmcast.com

►March 18, 2008 - Title: Treatment of hepatitis C in the Asian population with subcutaneous interferon-beta (patent) - Laboratories Serono SA (Coinsins, Vaud, CH) via www.pharmcast.com

►Aware4Autism - website

* ►April 7, 2008 - Free flu jabs for all WA kids - All WA children aged six months to five years can get a free flu jab as part of the State's biggest ever campaign to fight flu. - Perth Now via www.news.com.au - "Two drug companies, Sanofi and CSL, have offered $800,000 worth of free flu vaccines for Perth children. This will form the basis of an Australian-first study to explore whether the vaccine should be made available for free to all children across the country."

►April 7, 2008 - 'Bad blood' victims brace for fresh battle against lawyers - Victims infected with hepatitis C in the bad blood scandal of the 1990s are facing a fresh battle against their lawyers. - The Press via www.stuff.co.nz

►April 7, 2008 - GSK allays fears over Aids drug and heart attack - GlaxoSmithKline says its research shows no link of the HIV/Aids drug to cases of heart attack. - Business Daily Africa

* ►April 6, 2008 - Innoculated Against Facts (Secret Science) - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "In the aftermath of the government concession in a lawsuit brought by the parents of Hannah Poling, a child who following vaccination developed autism, public awareness was heightened as the potential dangers posed by vaccines for some children, is being openly discussed. The debate is in full swing, notwithstanding the brigade of denialists, most prominent among these, Dr. Paul Offit, co-inventor of Merck's rotavirus vaccine, and Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

* ►April 6, 2008 - Vaccines are like Russian roulette - we'd rather take a chance with the diseases, say parents who refuse to give their babies jabs - Daily Mail, UK - "Despite prevailing medical opinion, Dr Richard Halvorsen, a GP in Central London and author of The Truth About Vaccines, shares many parents' concerns about what he considers the most complex vaccination schedule in the world, where by the age of 15 months, babies receive 25 doses of the various vaccines. 'When the diphtheria vaccine was introduced and when the vaccination trials for whooping cough began, those diseases were killing thousands of children every year and it made sense to look at something quite radical to prevent them. What I'm saying is, hang on, let's just stop and think.'"

* ►April 6, 2008 - Wyeth's Alzheimer's Vaccine Could Become World's #1 Drug - Barron's - Seeking Alpha - "The FDA fast-tracked the study after patients seemed to show signs of mental improvement from even moderate doses. Results of the Phase II trial of 240 patients are due in June, and an ongoing Phase III trial, involving 4,100 people and costing an estimated $300 million speaks volumes about Wyeth's outlook for the drug. It's important to note that all existing Alzheimer's treatments (made by NVS, PFE, JNJ and FRX) only ease symptoms. Wyeth's drug "could be the breakthrough the world needs for Alzheimer's. It's not going to be an incremental symptomatic improvement. If it works, it's going to be a huge leap," VP Joe Camardo says."

* ►April 6, 2008 - CDC Admits Vaccines Cause Autism on CNN (includes video) - Age of Autism - "Thank you to Adventures In Autism for this You Tube video of CDC's Dr. Gerberding on CNN."

* ►April 6, 2008 - Letter: Claims about mercury in vaccines seem false - By Heather O'Brien, Advocates for Children's Health Affected by Mercury Poisoning, White Bear Lake - St. Cloud Times - "In her letter 'March is still a good time to protect against the flu' American Academy of Pediatrics' Dr. Marilyn Peitso claims 'some' vaccines contain mercury and the risk is 'theoretical.'"

* ►April 6, 2008 - Drexel gets $14 million grant to research roots of autism - Philadelphia Inquirer - "The grant will allow Drexel's School of Public Health to research risk factors for autism in expectant mothers and their babies. The school plans to set up a national network of research sites, interview expectant mothers and follow their children until age 3. Craig Newschaffer, chair of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics, wants to explore possible environmental and genetic risk factors. He believes that autism begins during fetal development."

►April 6, 2008 - On autism, the political is also the personal - PostStar.com

►April 6, 2008 - Autism Awareness - Parents discuss children’s challenges - There could be more to that child’s tantrum than you realize. - Youngstown Vindicator

►April 6, 2008 - Assembly Republicans host upstate autism forum - AP via WCAX

►April 6, 2008 - In Loudoun Group, Mothers Help Mothers Understand Autism (requires registration) - Washington Post

►April 6, 2008 - Early intervention helps children with autism succeed - The Casper Star-Tribune

►April 6, 2008 - Maia Chung-Smith Battling autism - Jamaica Gleaner

►April 6, 2008 - Sharing awareness of autism - Athens Messenger

►April 6, 2008 - Go deeper on exploring autism - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

►April 6, 2008 - Mom Jenny Exposes AAP Underbelly on Larry King by Barbara Loe Fisher - Age of Autism

►April 6, 2008 - Middle East may be key to pinpointing autism gene - GulfNews

►April 6, 2008 - Violent Video Games Relax You, Game Addiction Compared to Autism - New studies on video game players dispel the violence connection but find neuroticism and lack of extraversion in game addicts. - Nintendo World Report

►April 6, 2008 - UT autism project launches capital campaign - The goal is $4.4 million - Austin American-Statesman

* ►April 6, 2008 - Hazards of preemption - Did Johnson and Johnson fudge data for Evra patch? - Scientific Misconduct Blog

* ►April 6, 2008 - FDA Plans To Reduce Oversight Of Off-label Drug Use Criticized By Medical Researchers - Stanford University Medical Center, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS via ScienceDaily

* ►April 6, 2008 - Health Officials Destroy Explosive Medical Files - The Sunday Post, UK via The One Click Group - "A woman investigating whether the MMR vaccine caused her daughter’s health problems made the shocking discovery after requesting the disclosure of information relating to the jab. Wendy Stephen, a former psychiatric nurse from Stonehaven, was originally told her request for correspondence between medical officials was denied because the documents were unavailable. But it has now been admitted they’ve been destroyed."

►April 6, 2008 - Bad Science's Ben Goldacre: Interview - Public understanding of science is worse now than it was fifty years ago, says Ben Goldacre, scourge of science frauds everywhere. He spoke to Kate Stein about MMR, the "two cultures" of science and the humanities, and Brazil nuts. Additional reporting by Tom Chivers. - The Telegraph, UK

►April 6, 2008 - Bird flu confirmed in Tripura's Dhalai district - DailyIndia.com

►April 6, 2008 - SKorea probes third possible bird flu outbreak, culls poultry - South Korea is investigating its third possible bird flu outbreak in less than a week, with 280,000 chickens and ducks being culled to contain the virus, officials said Sunday. - AFP via PhysOrg.com

►April 6, 2008 - WHO confirms two bird flu deaths in NW Pakistan - Pakistan Times

►April 6, 2008 - Elders speaks out on health issues - Former Surgeon General marks 50th anniversary of MVA Fairmont Clinic - The Times West Virginian - "The vaccine, Gardacil, can protect girls from four types of HPV that cause 70 percent of cervical cancers, but health officials recommend inoculating children starting at age 11, which has upset some parents."

►April 6, 2008 - Student Spotlight - Philadelphia Inquirer - "Gilmore's eight-month project is called 'Teens' Responses to Emergency Contraception and the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Impact Study on the Risk Behavior Resulting in the Transmission of Sexually Transmitted Infections.'"

►April 6, 2008 - Doctor faces baby-death hearing - Wales on Sunday via icWales

►April 6, 2008 - Meningitis victim ‘had so much love to give’ - NewsOK.com

* ►April 6, 2008 - A walk to remember - Gazette Online - "Loras College sophomore Audrey Fitzgerald, 19, of Waukon, died in her dorm room March 2 after contracting the B strain, which is not covered by the vaccine. 'Reactions from this have been — why bother getting vaccinated if you are not protected 100 percent?' Evans asked. 'Our response is: Why would you risk your children's health, isn't eighty-five percent better than zero percent?

►April 6, 2008 - India tops the list of polio-affected patients - India topped the list of polio-affected patients in the world. The report highlights the government’s failure to eradicate the disease. However, officials claimed that additional efforts are being made to fight the menace, in polio affected area. - Merinews

►April 6, 2008 - WHO calls for higher measles vaccination rate in Ireland - Belfast Telegraph

►April 6, 2008 - 65 Stomach Flu Infections At A Medical Convention - eFluxMedia

►April 6, 2008 - MSHD extends chickenpox immunization waiver for school children - AP via Picayune Item

►April 6, 2008 - Kenya to spend millions for AIDS treatment next year: ministry - AFP via Google

►April 6, 2008 - New FDA policy will speed up news about medicine - Greenville News - "Up until now, safety alerts were issued to the media immediately, but they were sent to doctors in the mail. 'A lot of times I hear about products being withdrawn from my patients who've read the paper that morning and I get something in the mail two weeks later,' says Dr. Paul Dillon, who is with Simpsonville Family Practice."

►April 6, 2008 - Valuable blood discarded - 99% of umbilical cord cells, which can be used to treat diseases, thrown out - Akron Beacon Journal

►April 6, 2008 - Consumers should know how to report drug side effects to FDA - Press of Atlantic City

►April 6, 2008 - Drug makers fusing East with West - The News Journal - "Next month, the Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a research and development institution for the modernization of traditional medicine, will apply to conduct clinical trials in Finland for its new antidepressant medicine extracted from herbs."

►April 6, 2008 - Cracking the mystery of the human body's immunity memory - The Philadelphia Inquirer via Bloomington Pantagraph - "Reiner’s ultimate goal is better vaccines. Current vaccines stimulate another kind of germ fighter known as B-cells, which produce antibodies to attack viruses. But vaccines don’t work for some big killers: HIV, malaria and tuberculosis."

►April 6, 2008 - Logic goes up in smoke - editorial (requires registration) - Boston Globe

►April 6, 2008 - Wisconsin Student Short Films at the 2008 Wisconsin Film Festival - The Daily Page - "Easily the most emotional of the selections was I Have A Sister from Amrys O. Williams. She tells the story of ayounger sister who, at two months old, suffered brain damage from an adverse reaction to the DPT vaccine...Although the audience wasn't purposely led down a maudlin path, the idea that such destruction from a simple immunization was quite sobering."

* ►April 5, 2008 - 1 in 7 New Drugs Offer Benefit (and Vytorin is not one) - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "An email made public by Sen. Charles Grassley provides further evidence of how pharmaceutical companies conceal (delay disclosure) of negative clinical trial results for years. Dr. John J. P. Kastelein, principle investigator of the pivotal Vytorin ENHANCE trial (which ended in April, 2006) complained in an email dated July 2007, that Merck and Schering-Plough had not consulted him on the reasons for delaying disclosure of the results, and threatened to resign as the main study investigator."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Psychiatrist Sued in Death of 4- year old Rebecca Riley (includes video) - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "The Pediatric Bipolar Program at Mass General has been in the forefront of aggressive recruitment campaigns for manic-depression studies. A television ad (November, 2001), MGH sought 4 to 18 year old child subjects is an example of disease mongering. The MGH ad made false claims suggesting: 'Your child may be facing a chemical problem that you can't manage without help.' 'We're Mass General, and we can help.' The number given to call is 617-724-4 MGH."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Bloggers discussing the intimidation of a patient, Bob Fiddaman, by GlaxoSmithKline - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►April 5, 2008 - Punishment for CDC officials who ignored "pending public health catastrophe"? - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "It's time for a clean sweep and rid federal agencies of officials who betray the trust of the American people. Public officials who deliberately conceal health hazards linked to government approved drugs, vaccines, medical devices, and even trailors issued to hurricane victims, should be ousted, if not criminally indicted."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Gardasil scandal: University of Queensland exits the civilized scientific community - Scientific Misconduct Blog

►April 5, 2008 - Local doctors don't show much interest in autism - letter - Bloomington Pantagraph

►April 5, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy's son recovering from autism - Foodconsumer.org

►April 5, 2008 - April is Autism Awareness Month - According to the centers for disease control and prevention one in 150 children are diagnosed with autism. - ABC30.com

►April 5, 2008 - Savant artists in New York - an interview with curator and autism advocate, Rosa Martinez. - American Chronicle

►April 5, 2008 - LiSAVIOR enters Bill and Melinda Grand Challengens for Cure HIV -- LiSAVIOR is a new approach to cure HIV. LiSAVIOR stays in the gastrointestinal tract and defeats HIV. Clinical studies will be conducted with the help of Bill and Melinda Gates Gates. -- press release - 24-7PressRelease.com

►April 5, 2008 - Special shot clinic next week to halt spread of measles - Tucson Citizen

►April 5, 2008 - Infant HIV infections down 20% since 2001 - About 25 percent more women given preventive drugs, U.N. agencies say - Bloomberg via Houston Chronicle

►April 5, 2008 - Farmers urged to vaccinate against killer bluetongue - Portsmouth News

►April 4, 2008 - Raising Autistic Kids Focus Of Comedienne's Standup - KNSD San Diego

►April 4, 2008 - Autistic girl connects with animals - video - CNN

►April 4, 2008 - Cameroon: Autism Needs Attention - Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé) via AllAfrica.com

►April 4, 2008 - CARLSBAD: San Marcos man to establish Carlsbad autism school - Project would be in conjunction with a private, Christian high school - North County Times

* ►April 4, 2008 - Merck to Test Iomai Patch for Boosting Vaccine Immunity (requires registration) - Washington Post - "'Merck has a portfolio of vaccines, and some work not as well as they want them to,' Iomai chief executive Stanley C. Erck said. That's where Iomai comes in. The company's business strategy is to use stimulants in patches to make vaccines more effective and also to potentially lessen the amount of substance needed to produce immunity to diseases such as pandemic flu."

►April 4, 2008 - FDA Okays Second Rotavirus Vaccine - MedPage Today

►April 4, 2008 - Horses on Second Farm Suspected of Having Equine Herpes Virus - Saskatoonhomepage.ca

►April 3, 2008 - Death of Holland teen, WMU student may be linked to bacterial meningitis - The Grand Rapids Press via www.mlive.com

►April 2, 2008 - CDC Chief Admits that Vaccines Trigger Autism - video - YouTube

* ►April 2, 2008 - Autism Speaks Spearheads Collaborative Grant with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Leading Autism Expert to Analyze Frontal Lobe Microstructure in Autism - Research May Provide Insight into the Biological Causes of Autism - Autism Speaks

►February 4, 2008 - Anti-metallothionein IgG and levels of metallothionein in autistic families (full text) (pdf) - journal article (Swiss Medical Weekly)

►July 2007 - A Simplified Treatment Approach Based on the Glutathione Depletion-Methylation Cycle Block Pathogenesis Hypothesis for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) by Rich Van Konynenburg, Ph.D. - Phoenix Rising

Posted April 5, 2008

* ►May 1, 2008 - Vaccination in Patients with Chronic Rheumatic or Autoimmune Diseases - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases) - "The accumulated data on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines warrant immunization with the majority of vaccines for patients with chronic autoimmune or rheumatic diseases, especially vaccination against influenza and pneumococci. Vaccination protocols for this population should be better implemented in daily clinical practice."

* ►May 1, 2008 - The Duration of Mumps Virus Shedding after the Onset of Symptoms - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 1, 2008 - Pneumococcal Necrotizing Pneumonia in Utah: Does Serotype Matter? - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 1, 2008 - A Nationally Coordinated Laboratory System for Human Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in Thailand: Program Design, Analysis, and Evaluation - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 1, 2008 - Shingles (Varicella Zoster) Outbreaks in Patients with Hyperparathyroidism and Their Relationship to Hypercalcemia - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 1, 2008 - Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia: New Insights from the German Competence Network for Community Acquired Pneumonia - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 1, 2008 - Preexisting Psychological Stress Predicts Acute and Chronic Fatigue and Arthritis following Symptomatic Parvovirus B19 Infection (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 1, 2008 - Bat Rabies in the United States and Canada from 1950 through 2007: Human Cases With and Without Bat Contact - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 1, 2008 - Clinical Features and Molecular Diagnosis of Chikungunya Fever from South India - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►May 2008 - Sleep Difficulties in Infants at Risk for Developmental Delays: A Longitudinal Study - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Psychology)

►May 2008 - Single Parents of Children with Chronic Illness: An Understudied Phenomenon - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Psychology)

►May 2008 - Quality of life and neuropsychological changes in mild head trauma Late analysis and correlation with S100B protein and cranial CT scan performed at hospital admission - journal article (Injury)

* ►April 6, 2008 - Drug Makers Near an Old Goal: A Legal Shield (requires registration) - The New York Times - "The Supreme Court is to rule on a case next term that could make pre-emption a legal standard for drug cases. The court already ruled in February that many suits against the makers of medical devices like pacemakers are pre-empted."

* ►April 6, 2008 - Teenage girls to get anti-cancer vaccine jab - Scotland on Sunday - "Around 90,000 teenage girls will receive a new vaccine to block the onset of cervical cancer, ministers will announce this week. The scheme represents Scotland's largest ever immunisation programme and will be available to all girls aged between 12 and 17."

►April 6, 2008 - CDGL still seeking private schools' consent for vaccination - Around 10,000 students studying in elite schools not vaccinated yet | Schools' administrations say that they were not intimated timely about the drive | EDO claims they were informed repeatedly - The Post

►April 6, 2008 - Food colour making children hyper - Times of India

►April 6, 2008 - Ambo calls soar - The number of ambulances being called to Victorian schools has jumped 52 per cent in the past five years. - Melbourne Herald Sun - "'What we may be seeing is the result of better education on anaphylaxis and asthma and awareness by teachers to respond quickly to these situations,' Metropolitan Ambulance Service operations Manager Ron Eke said."

►April 6, 2008 - South Korea Reports Second Bird Flu Outbreak - Voice of America

►April 6, 2008 - McGinty encourages free flu shots for children - Western Australian parents of children aged from six months to five years are being urged to take advantage of free flu vaccinations. - www.abc.net.au - "Two drug companies are paying for the vaccines this season as part of a trial."

►April 6, 2008 - Vaccine delay for under-65s - At-risk Tasmanians have been waiting up to a month for a flu vaccination because of manufacturing delays. - The Mercury, Tasmania - "Mr Branch said A/Brisbane-like and B/Florida-like strains had low yields which had resulted in longer production times for normal amounts of vaccines."

►April 6, 2008 - Clinic boss in major US health malpractice probe - United States authorities have “flagged” the passport of an Indian-American owner of a Las Vegas clinic chain that is at the centre of one of the country’s biggest malpractice scandals. - Press Trust of India via The Times, South Africa

►April 6, 2008 - Rock festival measles warning - Sun-Herald via Sydney Morning Herald

►April 6, 2008 - Ground Zero of polio again: Govandi - Expressindia.com

►April 6, 2008 - Purnia children get wrong polio drops - Times of India - "Yet, how drops for P1 type instead of P3 type were made available to health officials, despite monitoring and highly focused programme is ming-boggling."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Vaccines, Autism and Our Daughter, Hannah - letter (requires registration) - The New York Times - "Re 'Inoculated Against Facts,' by Paul A. Offit (Op-Ed, March 31): Our daughter, Hannah, developed normally until receiving nine vaccines at once. She immediately developed a fever and encephalopathy, deteriorating into what was diagnosed, based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M. IV, as autism. The federal government, not an “unusual court,” made the concession. The decision wasn’t 'careless,' as your subheading called it. It was based on a thorough review of Hannah’s records by Health and Human Services doctors....Dr. Offit’s assertion that 'even five vaccines at once would not place an unusually high burden on a child’s immune system' is theory and risky practice for a toddler’s developing brain. No one knows if Hannah’s mitochondrial dysfunction existed before receiving vaccines. Dr. Offit’s claim that Hannah had 'already weakened cells' is unfounded."

* ►April 5, 2008 - David Kirby is About To Hit CDC Again, With A Triple Punch This Time - Adventures in Autism

* ►April 5, 2008 - CNN'S Dr. Gupta Interview w/ Dr. Jon Poling (includes video) - Age of Autism

* ►April 5, 2008 - My Funny Virologist by Kent Heckenlively, Esq. - Age of Autism

* ►April 5, 2008 - The Polings, MD, PhD, RN, JD, Mom, Dad Respond to Dr. Paul Offit - Age of Autism

* ►April 5, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy Gets Angry About Needless Vaccinations - Starpulse.com

* ►April 5, 2008 - Autism rally puts focus on disorder, treatment - Louisville Courier-Journal - "Researchers at U of L are making strides in understanding and developing new treatments for the disorder. One experimental treatment involves pulsing a low-frequency magnetic field around people's brains. This is showing promise in reducing hyperactivity, sensory overload and repetitive behaviors. The treatment, called transcranial magnetic stimulation, is still in the early testing stages. Ten patients received 20-minute treatments twice a week for five weeks."

►April 5, 2008 - Polings Prove, Once Again, That Paul Offit Does Not Have A Clue - Adventures in Autism

►April 5, 2008 - Armed with a knowledge of autism - The Bay City Times via MLive.com

►April 5, 2008 - Comedy Central Autism Benefit Well Stocked With Celebs - Cinema Blend - "The live charity special, called Night of too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education will air on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. EST."

►April 5, 2008 - Jon Stewart hosts Autism benefit 'Night of Too Many Stars' - Monsters and Critics

►April 5, 2008 - Wiregrass mom learns kids with autism excel with right support - AP via The Dothan Eagle via www.al.com

►April 5, 2008 - Pediatrician offers tips on dealing with autism - Asbury Park Press

►April 5, 2008 - Early diagnosis important in treating autism - Khaleej Times

►April 5, 2008 - The World Is Big Enough for Autism - http://autism.about.com

►April 5, 2008 - 'Epidemic' of autism is subject of forum - PostStar.com

* ►April 5, 2008 - Vaccine Induced Inflammation Linked To Epidemic Of Type 2 Diabetes And Metabolic Syndrome - The Open Endocrinology Journal via Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. via Medical News Today - "Newly published data by Dr. J. Barthelow Classen in The Open Endocrinology Journal shows a 50% reduction of type 2 diabetes occurred in Japanese children following the discontinuation of a single vaccine, a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis."

►April 5, 2008 - Timely Vaccination Is Key To Helping Prevent A Potentially Serious Disease - By Merck - HealthNewsDigest.com - "'New and expecting parents need to realize how important it is to vaccinate their children against rotavirus,' explains Dr. Mary Allen Staat, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases."

►April 5, 2008 - You can't put price on health - Edinburgh Evening News - "But Ms Abbott has just joined a small but growing band of young Lothians women concerned enough about the risk of cervical cancer to pay hundreds of pounds for a vaccination against it."

►April 5, 2008 - Outbreak worries health officials (requires registration or subscription) - Globe and Mail - "Public health officials are concerned the original carrier of a recent outbreak of measles may still be at large after it was determined that none of four reportedly infected people has travelled recently, effectively ruling them out as the source."

►April 5, 2008 - China approves commercial bird flu vaccine production (includes video) - CCTV

►April 5, 2008 - Egyptian man dies of bird flu - WHO official - Reuters South Africa

►April 5, 2008 - Flu preparedness tops Burlingame agenda - County asks its cities to have pandemic illness plans - San Mateo Daily News

►April 5, 2008 - Pandemic flu drill scheduled for today in Bethel - Danbury News Times

►April 5, 2008 - Hawaii's flu testing capability expanded, improved - Honolulu Advertiser

►April 5, 2008 - Fulton County flu cases 8 times higher - Lucas, Ottawa County cases triple - Toledo Blade

►April 5, 2008 - Authorities testing for deadly strain as new bird flu outbreak hits South Korea - AP via International Herald Tribune

* ►April 5, 2008 - Cruelty is alleged in suit over syringe - At least 3 inmates claim they contracted hepatitis - The News Journal via DelawareOnline.com - "In at least one incident in 2006, a prison health care contractor allegedly used the same needle on multiple inmates, perhaps all 15, to draw blood and inject medicine -- exposing all to blood-borne diseases including hepatitis C and possibly HIV/AIDS."

►April 5, 2008 - Hepatitis Outbreak: Endoscopy clinic license hearing set - Owners and employees ordered to attend - Las Vegas Review Journal

►April 5, 2008 - Paoli student dies after meningitis diagnosis - Tulsa World

►April 5, 2008 - Bahrain leads GCC vaccination drive - Trade Arabia - "Gulf countries are to follow Bahrain's example in introducing the rotavirus vaccine."

►April 5, 2008 - Gymnast world champ Diego Hypolito in hospital with dengue symptoms - AP via International Herald Tribune

►April 5, 2008 - Scientists develop test vaccine to prevent prostate cancer in mice - TopNews

►April 5, 2008 - 100 Plus Babies With HIV - Health officials say there are currently 130 babies infected with the HIV virus in The Bahamas. - The Bahama Journal

►April 5, 2008 - Too soon to drop AIDS vaccine effort - letter (requires registration or subscription) - Baltimore Sun

►April 5, 2008 - HIV-positive man given 18 years for unprotected sex - Businessman avoids dangerous-offender status after infecting at least five women - CanWest News Service via Edmonton Journal

* ►April 5, 2008 - Studies that support use of bisphenol A called into question (requires registration or subscription) - The Globe and Mail

* ►April 5, 2008 - Food additives 'could be as damaging as lead in petrol' - The Independent, UK

* ►April 5, 2008 - The Analysis Of Frontal Lobe Microstructure May Provide Insight Into The Biological Causes Of Autism - Autism Speaks via Medical News Today - "This could give us the very first window into brain development in autism, something about which we know virtually nothing." The collaborative effort builds on the discovery by Dr. Courchesne and others that autism involves sudden, excessive brain growth during the first two years of life. The abnormal overgrowth is especially pronounced in brain regions, such as the frontal cortex, that regulate social, emotional and language communication."

* ►April 5, 2008 - Family working to change law - HeraldStar - "It would be several months before the couple learned that Kaya suffered from Lyme disease and encountered the controversy that surrounds its diagnosis and treatment."..."“She could no longer dress or undress on her own, lost complete control of her bladder function and had to return to wearing pull-ups and she was barely mobile at all,” she said. The Higginses said Kaya also underwent an extensive battery of genetic testing and doctors had ruled out various diseases, common and rare, but were unable to determine what had caused their daughter’s condition. Kari said the family began searching the Internet in hopes of finding the cause themselves and it was there they found an article on the neurological impact of Lyme disease."

►April 5, 2008 - Taking the sting out of starting school - Fair helps families navigate complicated process - Record.net

►April 5, 2008 - New law puts NHS trusts at risk of charges of corporate manslaughter - journal article (BMJ)

►April 5, 2008 - What the doctor ordered - Sunday Herald

►April 5, 2008 - Without Substance: ADHD meds don't up kids' drug abuse risk - Science News

►April 5, 2008 - The Costs of Meat and Fish - The animal protein in our diets can have a high environmental cost - Science News

►April 5, 2008 - From the April 2, 1938, issue - Science News

* ►April 4, 2008 - Vaccine Induced Inflammation Linked to Epidemic of Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome - Japanese and Other Ethnic Minorities at Increased Risk - press release - Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. via PRNewswire - "'The current data shows that vaccines are much more dangerous than the public is lead to believe and adequate testing has never been performed even in healthy subjects to indicate that there is an overall improvement in health from immunization. The current practice of vaccinating diabetics as well as their close family members is a very risky practice,' says Dr.
J. Barthelow Classen."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy - McCarthy Rages at Vaccine Doctors - Contact Music

* ►April 4, 2008 - Have Faith - KFYR-TV - "All week we`ve been talking about autism and about efforts to raise awareness about this puzzling disorder. While it`s not clear what causes autism, and there are no known cures for it. Families are finding ways to cope. That is the case for the Richards family. They believe their six-year-old daughter`s autism is a result of immunizations she was given as a baby. But instead of feeling sorry for themselves, the Richards have Faith, literally, that this too shall pass."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Prostate Cancer DNA Vaccine Results in Higher T-Cell Response When Delivered via Inovio Biomedical's Electroporation Delivery System - PR-insider

* ►April 4, 2008 - Officials concerned about measles spread from overseas travelers - AP via Examiner - "The Pima County outbreak was linked to a 37-year-old Swiss woman who was hospitalized in mid-February in Tucson with measles and pneumonia. Five adults and four children who were not immune were infected, including 3- and 5-year-olds whose parents had decided against vaccinations, said Dr. Karen Lewis, a medical director with the Arizona Department of Health Services."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Black Teen STD Rate Needs Our Attention - CDC via redOrbit - "But advice isn't enough. With incidence levels already high among young black women, more emphasis should be placed on STD screening, treatment, and vaccinations at health clinics where contraceptive services are also offered."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Want To Reform CME? Here Are 5 Easy Steps - Pharmalot - “The cat is out of the bag,” she writes, “Powerful factions of the US economy have discovered that the practice of medicine and the commercial interests of pharmaceutical and medical device companies - and opportunistic individual physicians - don’t mix. If there was any doubt whatsoever about the extent of this problem, the recent investigation of the Senate Finance Committee into the dealings of the CME industry - itself a commercial endeavor - forever banished that doubt.  “The Accreditation Council for CME’s policy updates to the Standards for Commercial Support, issued in August 2007, leave a series of gaping holes large enough to drive a snake oil cart through. It’s time for a major change. Here are five ways the CME industry can once and for all free itself from the vagaries of sleeping with commercial interests…"

* ►April 4, 2008 - New task force highlights leaders at odds on how to help autistic kids - Herald Tribune - "Rep. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, was appointed vice chair of the committee. Rubio's move comes two days after he and Gov. Charlie Crist met in the Capitol with former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino, whose is co-chair of Crist's recently formed task force on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Marino has a son with autism. In an interview Thursday Rubio called autism "a middle class tragedy."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Virtual reality study of paranoid thinking in the general population - journal article (The British Journal of Psychiatry)

►April 4, 2008 - Merck Target Of Purported Class-Action Suit - Dow Jones Newswires via CNN Money

►April 4, 2008 - Study Finds Abuse in One of 43 Babies (requires registration) - The New York Times

►April 4, 2008 - Bird flu spreads among dogs - World Poultry Net

►April 4, 2008 - Thalidomide: 50 years on victims unite to seek more compensation - The London Times

►April 4, 2008 - Shots credited for decline in whooping cough here - Kalamazoo Gazette

►April 4, 2008 - FDA Will Take A ‘Balanced’ View Of Enhance: Analyst - Pharmalot

►April 4, 2008 - Sanofi Seeks Research Partners in China - The Wall Street Journal

►April 4, 2008 - To Russia with drugs - Its a fast-growing market, but big drugmakers are getting frustrated with a dysfunctional health care system. - CNN Money

►April 4, 2008 - Wider role planned for high-street chemists - Many with minor ailments would bypass GP surgeries - White paper could save NHS £3bn, say ministers - The Guardian, UK

►April 4, 2008 - Where The Jobs Aren’t: The Latest Layoff Tally - Pharmalot

►April 4, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy's Austistic Son Likened Himself To Cartoon Character Dory - All Headline News

►April 4, 2008 - New aid for autistic children - Society marks partnership with county library (requires registration or subscription) - Baltimore Sun

►April 4, 2008 - Autism: Third most chronic childhood ailment – NGO - The Tide - "Meanwhile, Olg Health Foundation will on Wednesday mark the World Autism Awareness Day and launch 'Defeat Autism in Nigeria' project."

►April 4, 2008 - An Autism Story: Jenny McCarthy, Holly Robinson Peete and Me - Associated Content

►April 4, 2008 - Hollywood stars suggest diet change for autistic kids - Kiddicare

►April 4, 2008 - Vaccines, mercury and autism: 2 letters - Denver Post

* ►April 4, 2008 - More Examples of Junk Science in Medical Journal and London Times - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►April 4, 2008 - Doctor is sued in death of girl, 4 - Her psychiatrist treated her with powerful drugs - The Boston Globe - "A trial date has yet to be set for Michael and Carolyn Riley, who were initially charged with first-degree murder in intentionally overmedicating their daughter and knowing that it would be fatal."

►April 4, 2008 - Vaccination exemptions raise risks for everyone - A small but growing number of parents are choosing to opt out of shots for children - editorial - Corpus Christi Caller Times

►April 4, 2008 - Chickenpox, measles scare grips district - Newindpress

►April 4, 2008 - Five Solana Beach Students Diagnosed With Chicken Pox - None Of Infected Students Hospitalized - NBC San Diego

►April 4, 2008 - Second school hit by chickenpox outbreak - San Diego Union-Tribune

►April 4, 2008 - It's not your imagination: Flu bug really was worse this year in Genesee County - The Flint Journal via www.mlive.com

* ►April 4, 2008 - Prostate Cancer DNA Vaccine Results in Higher T-Cell Response When Delivered via Inovio Biomedical’s Electroporation Delivery System - Phase I/II Clinical Trial Data on 20 Patients to Be Reported at AACR Annual Meeting 2008 - press release - Inovio Biomedical Corporation via Business Wire

* ►April 4, 2008 - Five Years Later, Patient On Vaccine Trial Still Free Of Ovarian Cancer - Roswell Park Cancer Institute via ScienceDaily

* ►April 4, 2008 - Guidelines Revised on Use of 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Children (requires registration) - MMWR via Medscape - "'Concern about limited vaccine supply and cost was the basis underlying ACIP's rationale for limiting the recommendation for routine vaccination to children aged 24 to 59 months who have certain underlying medical conditions or who are immunocompromised. However, there have been adequate supplies of PCV7 since September 2004. Furthermore, the permissive recommendation for healthy children aged 24 to 59 months was perceived as confusing by some healthcare providers. Accordingly, prompted by these considerations, the ACIP Pneumococcal Vaccines Work Group reviewed available data on safety and immunogenicity of PCV7 in children aged 24 to 59 months, current rates of PCV7-type invasive disease and of vaccination coverage, and vaccine effectiveness postlicensure."

* ►April 4, 2008 - Results mixed for student immunization program - Quad City Times - "But the anticipated effectiveness of the immunization program was not reflected in attendance figures for the two schools this winter. There were 3,994 missed days of school at Jefferson/Edison and Sudlow in February and March compared with 2,950 absences during the same two months of 2007, according to health department data. That means 35 percent more students missed class in a year when some of them had received the flu vaccine at school as opposed to a year when they were not inoculated."

►April 4, 2008 - State changes requirements for vaccinations - Wisconsin Dells Events - "If the district does not have proof of a students' vaccinations by the 15th day of school, parents receive a legal notice. On the 30th day the child is reported to the county's health department and district attorney's office. Maley said parents could be fined $25 a day for not vaccinating a child or signing a waiver. Parents in Wisconsin are allowed to exempt their children from the vaccination requirements based on personal preference or religious belief."

►April 4, 2008 - Vaccine should be part of STDs prevention - Mandated use is extreme, but shocking recent statistics do warrant aggressive approach - Dubuque Telegraph Herald

►April 4, 2008 - Congo immunised 677,000 children against measles in 2007 - Afrique en ligne

►April 4, 2008 - Raven biotechnologies and Bioprocessing Technology Institute Announce Collaboration to Advance Discovery of Stem Cell Antibodies - press release - PRNewswire via Raven biotechnologies, inc.; Bioprocessing Technology Institute

►April 4, 2008 - Synthetic Molecules May be Less Expensive Alternative to Therapeutic Antibodies - UT Southwestern Medical Center

►April 4, 2008 - Weeding Out Toxic Pesticides - Franco, Lubarsky Warn of Looming Threats to Kids' Health - Greenwich Citizen

►April 4, 2008 - Norway Becomes First Country to Ban Amalgam Fillings - NaturalNews.com

* ►April 4, 2008 - Fetal DNA Test Identifies Rh Incompatibility - BMJ via MedPage Today

* ►April 3, 2008 - Effect of high throughput RHD typing of fetal DNA in maternal plasma on use of anti-RhD immunoglobulin in RhD negative pregnant women: prospective feasibility study (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

►April 3, 2008 - Information About HPV Critical To College Womens' Health - Athens Exchange

►April 3, 2008 - The Correct Label: PPD — Pathetic Parent Disorder - Hernando Today

►April 3, 2008 - Al Qutami inaugurates 1st Practitioner's Conference on Autism - AME Info

►April 3, 2008 - Officials remind parents to vaccinate after chickenpox outbreak - North County Times

►April 3, 2008 - In the raw - Unpasteurized milk meeting at Capitol to explore health benefits, safety issues - TheUnion.com

►April 3, 2008 - Pneumonia vaccine may help asthma - AAP via Sydney Morning Herald

* ►April 3, 2008 - TV drug ads should list FDA hotline, lawmakers say (requires registration or subscription) - The information would allow consumers to report serious side effects from prescription medication. - Los Angeles Times

►April 3, 2008 - Gene Tests May Be More Confusing Than Illuminating - Bloomberg

►April 3, 2008 - The Prevalence of Neonatal Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Compared with Serious Bacterial Illness in Hospitalized Neonates - journal article (The Journal of Pediatrics)

* ►April 2, 2008 - Off-Label Drug Use Needs Strong Oversight - HealthDay News via The Washington Post

* ►April 2, 2008 - Sirtris wins new orphan status for resveratrol - The Journal of New England Technology - "MELAS syndrome -- or mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes -- is a fatal disease that comes from a DNA mutation that causes mitochondria, which energize cells, to malfunction. Sirtris' formulation of resveratrol, an anti-aging chemical found naturally in red wine, is intended to activate an enzyme that boosts the number and function of mitochondria in cells, according to the company."

►April 2, 2008 - Stanford researcher blasts FDA plan to cut off-label drug use oversight - San Jose Business Journal

►April 2, 2008 - McCarron shows remorse - Ex-doctor apologizes for killing autistic daughter before being sentenced to 36 years in prison - Peoria Journal Star

►April 2, 2008 - CG Therapeutics and University of Washington Announce Formation of Joint Monoclonal Antibody Program - press release - CG Therapeutics via EarthTimes.org - "The new, joint program will develop human monoclonal antibodies against hCG that can be used with the CG201 vaccine to provide a comprehensive cancer treatment."

►April 1, 2008 - Global Update | Torn by Fighting, Two Countries Fall Behind in Campaign Against Polio (requires registration) - The New York Times

►April 1, 2008 - Major Deficiencies in Design; Funding of Clinical Trials Affects Future of Scientific Innovation - Eliminating Disparities in Clinical Trials via PRNewswire-USNewswire via FOX Business

►April 1, 2008 - Pesky Little Bugs: An Interview with Dr. Kevin Myles - Planet Blacksburg

►April 1, 2008 - Eminent ayurveda physician Gopalkrishna Waghralkar dead - IANS via Thaindian.com - "He had developed serious complications since his visit to an African country a year-and-a-half ago, when he was administered the mandatory vaccination for yellow fever. He fell unconscious within hours of taking the vaccination and never recovered after that."

►April 1, 2008 - Effects of pneumococcal vaccine in patients with chronic respiratory disease - journal article (European Respiratory Review)

►April 1, 2008 - Pneumonia research to reduce childhood mortality in the developing world (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Clinical Investigation)

►April 1, 2008 - Enteric infections, diarrhea, and their impact on function and development (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Clinical Investigation)

►April 1, 2008 - Malaria: progress, perils, and prospects for eradication (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Clinical Investigation)

►April 1, 2008 - The spread, treatment, and prevention of HIV-1: evolution of a global pandemic (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Clinical Investigation)

* ►April 2008 - Vaccine partnerships to tackle neglected diseases (requires registration) - Novartis launches a research institute that aims to aid the development of vaccines through public–private partnerships. - journal article (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery) - "Dautry also emphasizes that it is critical to correctly diagnose the infectious disease and feels that diagnosis is another area that has been neglected. Citing an example from the Sahel region in Africa, where there are regularly epidemics of meningitis due to different strains, she notes that misdiagnosis could result in people being vaccinated against the wrong strain, which would lead to lost money, effort and credibility. "Once you have convinced mothers to bring their children and the vaccine does not work, you will not get them back next time — you have lost a generation."

►April 2008 - Etiologies, outcomes, and risk factors for epilepsy in infants: A case–control study - journal article (Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery)

►April 2008 - Effects of selective and combined serotonin and dopamine depletion on the loudness dependence of the auditory evoked potential (LDAEP) in humans - journal article (Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental)

►April 2008 - Caregivers as Money Managers for Adults with Severe Mental Illness: How Treatment Providers Can Help - journal article (Academic Psychiatry)

►April 2008 - Does personality predict mortality? Results from the GAZEL French prospective cohort study - journal article (International Journal of Epidemiology)

►March 31, 2008 - Settlement in Autism Vaccine Case - InjuryBoard.com

►March 31, 2008 - Vaccine Myths Episode 2 - The Great Graph Illusion - YouTube

* ►March 30, 2008 - Sharing of Sabin-IPV Seed Virus by Japan Poliomyelitis Research Institute with Takeda and Grant of Right to Its Commercialization - Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited via Biocompare - "Polio, or acute poliomyelitis, is a viral infectious disease, which is commonly referred to as infantile paralysis due to its high prevalence among children. Although live poliomyelitis vaccination has been used in the immunization, vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis (VAPP) that develops in one of several million vaccine recipients is found, and an inactivated polio vaccine that does not induce VAPP is expected. Sabin-IPV is an only inactivated poliovirus vaccine by attenuated strain, and its safety and efficacy are comparable to the virulent strain-derived inactivated polio vaccine which are being used in Western countries. In addition, the production process of Sabin-IPV offers better safety than those of the virulent strain-derived inactivated one."

* ►March 30, 2008 - Green Tea Helps Beat Superbugs - Society for General Microbiology via Biocompare

►March 27, 2008 - Cortical Brain Development in Schizophrenia: Insights From Neuroimaging Studies in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia (requires registration) (full text) - Schizophrenia Bulletin via Medscape

►March 26, 2008 - Rethinking Is Urged on a Vaccine for AIDS (requires registration) - The New York Times

►March 25, 2008 - TB treatment linked to drug-resistant pneumococci in children - OnMedica

* ►March 25, 2008 - Asthma-Related Medicine Use Common in US Children (requires registration) - Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology via Reuters Health

►March 25, 2008 - Acute Pancreatitis in Infants and Toddlers (requires registration) - Journal of Pediatrics via Medscape Pediatrics

►March 24, 2008 - Once-Daily Oral Amoxicillin Effective for Streptococcus Pharyngitis in Children CME (requires registration) - American Journal of Public Health via Medscape

►March 24, 2008 - Longitudinal Patterns of Health Insurance Coverage Among a National Sample of Children in the Child Welfare System (requires registration) (full text) - Archives of Disease in Childhood via Medscape

►March 24, 2008 - The preventive edge of autism research - Despite the absence of a known cause, University of Washington researchers focus on autism prevention. It's an innovative, if somewhat controversial, approach. - Crosscut Seattle

►March 24, 2008 - Why Drug Lawsuits are Necessary: FDA “isn’t capable of policing” drug safety, says Alaska Judge - TortDeform

►March 24, 2008 - Levofloxacin (Levaquin) Resistance Seen in Pediatric Pneumococcal Disease - MedPage Today
 
►March 21, 2008 - Immunisation exercise in A’Ibom runs into hitch - The Tide

►March 19, 2008 - Barbaric Scene Accurate - HBO miniseries on "John Adams" demonstrates early form of vaccination for smallpox - The Free-Lance Star

►March 17, 2008 - Individual case safety reports in children in commonly used drug groups – signal detection (full text) - journal article (BMC Clinical Pharmacology)

►March 14, 2008 - Carcinogenic 1,4-Dioxane Found in Leading "Organic" Brand Personal Care Products - USDA Certified Products Test Dioxane-Free - Organic Consumers Association

►March 12, 2008 - A Heart Device Is Found Vulnerable to Hacker Attacks (requires registration) - The New York Times

►March 11, 2008 - U.S. Stands to Lose a Generation of Young Researchers and the Cures They Could Discover if NIH Budget Remains Stagnant, Warns New Report (pdf) - Leading Academic Research Institutions Seek Increased NIH Funding To Reverse Effects That Are Threatening Advances in Medicine - BrokenPipeline.org

►February 29, 2008 - Intestinal Permeability and Glucagon-like peptide-2 in Children with Autism: A Controlled Pilot Study - journal article (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)

►February 4, 2008 - MMR and Autism The Andrew Wakefield Story - YouTube

* ►2008 - Discontinuation of BCG Vaccination Precedes Significant Drop in Type 2 Diabetes in Japanese Children. Role of Inflammation and Cortisol Activity as a Cause of Type 2 Diabetes (pdf) - journal article (The Open Endocrinology Journal) via www.vaccines.net

►2008 - Autism and Schizophrenia subgroup related to blockage by toxic exposures of enzymes processing gluten and casein - DAMS International

►November 2007 - Melatonin protects against common deletion of mitochondrial DNA-augmented mitochondrial oxidative stress and apoptosis. - journal article (Journal of Pineal Research)

►May 30, 2007 - Polymorphism of bovine beta-casein and its potential effect on human health (full text) (pdf) - journal article (Journal of Applied Genetics)

►2006 - Interview with Dr. Kenneth P. Stoller: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), Autism, Aspartame and Mercury (full text) (pdf) - Medical Veritas via www.drneubrander.com

►June 2003 - Intestinal Pathophysiology in Autism (full text) - journal article (Experimental Biology and Medicine)

►June 13, 2001 - MMR immunization and autism. - journal article (JAMA)

►March 7, 2001 - Time trends in autism and in MMR immunization coverage in California. - journal article (JAMA)

►September 1996 - Abnormal intestinal permeability in children with autism. - journal article (Acta Paediatrica)

►Lawmaker Looks to Allay Vaccine Fears - A lawmaker hopes to eliminate a vaccine ingredient that has parents concerned - video - KCCO.com

►Nourishing Hope - website

►DAMS International: Your Source for Dental Truth - website

►DAMS International Research Mercury/Amalgam/Toxic Metals - website

►Hypothyroidism during pregnancy as cause of developmental delays, reduced IQs, and autism- the mercury and toxic metal connection. - DAMS International

►Neurological and Immune Reactive Conditions Affecting Kids: The mercury connection to neurological pervasive developmental disorders(autism, schizophrenia, dyslexia, ADD, childhood depression, learning disabilities, OCD, etc.) and developmental immune conditions(eczema, asthma, and allergies) - DAMS International
 
►Diabetes: the Mercury and Vaccine Factor - DAMS International

►Weighing in on the Phthalates Scare: Looking into converns over phthalates in toys - SafeToys.com

►Breast cancer publications - Breast cancer and exposure to hormonally active chemicals: An appraisal of the scientific evidence - CHEM Trust