* ►August 1, 2008 - Can Specific Heterologous Immunity Boost Hepatitis B Vaccine Responses? (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases) - "A major reason for this slow development may lie in the heated debate regarding the safety of the standard hepatitis B vaccine that occurred during the late 1990s, when concern about an association of the vaccine with multiple sclerosis was raised. Although only trends for such an association had been reported in studies from France and the United Kingdom, it was not until 2001 that a large case-control study from the United States refuted a causal relationship [10]. Manufacturers, however, may have been worried that such allegations could arise again if a more immunogenic vaccine were to be used in the general population, and against this background it may have appeared overambitious and unrewarding to further improve a vaccine that was already 95% effective."

* ►August 1, 2008 - Excellent Response Rate to a Double Dose of the Combined Hepatitis A and B Vaccine in Previous Nonresponders to Hepatitis B Vaccine (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►August 1, 2008 - Prioritization of Influenza Pandemic Vaccination to Minimize Years of Life Lost - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases) - "Our findings shift the focus of pandemic vaccination strategies onto younger populations and illustrate the need for real-time surveillance of mortality patterns in a future pandemic. Flexible setting of vaccination priority is essential to minimize mortality."

* ►August 1, 2008 - Prevention of Symptomatic Seasonal Influenza in 2005–2006 by Inactivated and Live Attenuated Vaccines - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases) - "Potential conflicts of interest: J.C.V. reports receiving consulting fees from Wyeth. A.S.M. reports receiving consulting fees from GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, Solvay, and Novartis, and an unrestricted research grant from Sanofi-Pasteur. No other authors report any potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article."

►August 1, 2008 - Antibodies against PsrP, a Novel Streptococcus pneumoniae Adhesin, Block Adhesion and Protect Mice against Pneumococcal Challenge - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Interleukin-12 and Interleukin-27 Regulate Macrophage Control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Effect of Cervical Cytologic Status on the Association between Human Papillomavirus Type 16 DNA Load and the Risk of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Grade 3 - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Streptococcal Pyrogenic Exotoxin B Cleaves Human S-Adenosylhomocysteine Hydrolase and Induces Hypermethioninemia - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Neutralization of Multiple Staphylococcal Superantigens by a Single-Chain Protein Consisting of Affinity-Matured, Variable Domain Repeats - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections: Risk Factors, Outcomes, and the Influence of Methicillin Resistance in Calgary, Canada, 2000–2006 - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Factors Determining the Heterogeneity of Malaria Incidence in Children in Kampala, Uganda - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Oropharyngeal Shedding of Epstein-Barr Virus in the Absence of Circulating B Cells - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Infection with Bordetella parapertussis but Not Bordetella pertussis Causes Pertussis-Like Disease in Older Pigs - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* August 2008 - As Diseases Make Comeback, Why Aren't All Kids Vaccinated? - The measles, whooping cough and even polio have returned. Why? Because of a new breed of vaccine deniers who are ignoring campaigns for awareness, and ultimately might live shorter—not longer—lives. - Popular Mechanics

* ►July 17, 2008 - RHD issues new vaccination information - The Leader

►July 17, 2008 - Artesunate for Malaria (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►July 17, 2008 - Perinatal Deaths in a Family with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease and a PKD2 Mutation (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►July 17, 2008 - The Antiinflammatory IgG - journal article (NEJM)

►July 17, 2008 - From All Walks of Life — Nontraditional Medical Students and the Future of Medicine (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►July 17, 2008 - Relevance and Rigor in Premedical Education (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►July 17, 2008 - IL-21 and TGF- are required for differentiation of human TH17 cells - journal article (Nature)

►July 17, 2008 - Exclusion of Patients from Pay-for-Performance Targets by English Physicians - journal article (NEJM)

►July 17, 2008 - Medicare Showdown (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►July 17, 2008 - Officials discuss study of Fort Detrick expansion - Source of funding remains elusive - Gazette.net

* ►July 17, 2008 - Pakistan to receive $60m Rotavirus vaccines to check Diarrhea - The Daily Mail, Pakistan - "Pakistan would receive $60 million worth of Rotavirus vaccines from the Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunization (GAVI) for its expanded programme of immunization to check Diarrhea."

* ►July 17, 2008 - Chickenpox strikes late, spreading fast - Times of India - "The unseasonal strike is being attributed to a new antigenic variation by some virologists. 'It needs to be established but the odd timing points to a change of strain. Chickenpox vaccines are responsible for this. They are forcing the virus to adapt,' explained Basu. Experts claimed that vaccines offer immunity till the age of 16. Other than being expensive, they are not always foolproof or tailored for Indian conditions."

* ►July 16, 2008 - Girl, 13, may be paralysed by disease that baffled doctors for six months - but her mother diagnosed on the internet - Daily Mail, UK - "'I came across Lyme Disease and it just seemed to fit. There's a lot of controversy over the treatment of the disease and over diagnosing the disease. 'I took Danielle to see a professor in Newcastle privately and he diagnosed her with Lyme Disease and three core infections. That's why she was so ill. 'If it hadn't have been diagnosed, she could have become paralysed or blind.'"

* ►July 16, 2008 - Legal Bombshell in Autism Omnibus Proceeding! by Kent Heckenlively, Esq. - Age of Autism

* ►July 16, 2008 - Why you’re hearing more about autism - The Hudson Valley Press - "'There is so much Americans need to learn about living in this world with Autistic children,' says Barbara Coppo, mother of an autistic boy and author of 'The Boy In The Window.'"

* ►July 16, 2008 - Governor Jindal To Sign Autism Bill Wednesday - In a ceremony where he’ll be joined by parents of children with autism, Governor Bobby Jindal will sign into law a bill that provides up to $36,000 a year in coverage for treatments of autism. - WJBO.com

►July 16, 2008 - Global Health Trax Admires Jenny McCarthy's Fight Against Autism; Sponsors Generation Rescue - Global Health Trax (GHT) flagship specialty probiotic product, ThreeLac, into her autistic son's nutritional regimen and shared her experience in her recently published book - press release - Global Health Trax via 24-7PressRelease.com

►July 16, 2008 - Running across Canada for Autism Awareness - Kawartha Media Group

►July 16, 2008 - Dogs work 'magic' on kids with autism (includes video) - CNN

►July 16, 2008 - Autism center may receive federal money - TheJambar.com

►July 16, 2008 - Autism advocates praise La. law requiring coverage - AP via KATC.com

►July 16, 2008 - State offering free autism screening - AP via KXMD.com

►July 16, 2008 - WNIN-PBS9 will broadcast autism forum on July 24 - Evansville Courier Press

►July 16, 2008 - Another Girl Stricken Following Gardasil Injection - Newsinferno.com

►July 16, 2008 - Mike McConnell of 700WLW in Cincinnati: Get Your Autistic Kid Out! By Tom Lewis - Age of Autism

* ►July 16, 2008 - Amanda Peet, Paul Offit, Parasites and Biostitutes - Adventures in Autism

* ►July 16, 2008 - Uganda: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Trial On - New Vision (Kampala) via AllAfrica.com - "Nduhuura was addressing journalists yesterday about the two-day 'Stop Cervical Cancer in Africa' conference, which will take place at Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala starting July 21. The conference will be opened by First Lady Janet Museveni. The two-year Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine pilot project is targeting girls aged 10 because they are not yet sexually active. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV, a sexually transmitted virus."

►July 16, 2008 - Province extends HPV eligibility for Grade 8 girls - Stayner Sun

►July 16, 2008 - Cancer vaccine popular with NS girls - TheChronicleHerald.ca

* ►July 16, 2008 - Deciding who gets the vaccine first - IUPUI hosts summit on ethical issues of pandemic diseases - Indianapolis Star - "'The public health power of the state is a very unique power,' Meslin said. 'It's both a police power . . . and a health promotion and disease prevention power.' In Indiana, declaring a quarantine would fall to the governor's office, said state Health Commissioner Dr. Judith Monroe. She has the power to close schools."

►July 16, 2008 - Change In Rules Causes Rush To Immunize Kids - KSNT.com

►July 16, 2008 - A Better Shot at Immunization - A new immunization strategy could reduce the vaccine doses needed to protect a population from disease (and reduce the antivirus updates required to protect a network of computers) by as much as 50%. - PhysOrg.com - "The immunization scheme was developed by a collaboration of physicists from Boston University, Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and Stockholm University. It's similar to previous strategies that focus on immunizing the most highly connected people (or computers) first."

►July 16, 2008 - Immunization update - Tahlequah Daily Press

►July 16, 2008 - Tarrant County gets 5-in-1 vaccine - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - "Sanofi Pasteur’s Pentacel, which arrived in Tarrant County on Tuesday, is the first five-in-one vaccine that protects against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b, or HiB."

* ►July 16, 2008 - Connecticut receiving $2 million drug maker case - Newsday - "Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says Connecticut will be receiving almost $2 million as part of a national settlement with drug maker Bristol-Myers Squibb. The agreement settles allegations that the company and a former subsidiary defrauded state Medicaid programs."

►July 16, 2008 - Measles are Back! - 13WHAM.com - "Dr. Pichichero has researched vaccine safety for over 20 years and is a consultant to the World Health Organization on the topic.  He says you won't find a doctor in Rochester who thinks there is a link between vaccines and autism."

►July 16, 2008 - Teenage Queensland girl victim of meningococcal disease - A teenage girl is in a Brisbane hospital with potentially deadly meningococcal disease. Close contacts of the victim have been offered treatment. - Courier Mail

* ►July 16, 2008 - Indonesia Defends Move to Block Bird Flu Virus Sample Sharing - Reuters via The Epoch Times - "They said the last straw came when Indonesian officials learnt at the end of 2006 that an Australian company was developing a vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus using a strain of the virus from Indonesia. The officials said it was a clear violation of World Health Organization (WHO) rules that a pharmaceutical company would even have access to viruses that were shared with WHO-affiliated laboratories."

* ►July 16, 2008 - Inovio Biomedical’s First Proprietary DNA Vaccine Achieves 100% Protection Against Avian Flu in Pre-Clinical Testing - Results Suggest Experimental DNA Vaccine May Protect Against Multiple Seasonal and Pandemic Influenza Strains - press release - Inovio Biomedical Corporation via Business Wire

►July 16, 2008 - Preparing For A Pandemic Flu In Ardmore (includes video) - KTEN.com

►July 16, 2008 - Over 50 pilgrims quarantined in flu scare - www.abc.net.au

* ►July 16, 2008 - Outbreak sends important message - opinion - PNWLocalNews - "The Island County Health Official in charge of handling such situations, Roger Case, M.D., erred on the side of caution, which is what we should expect of our top health official. He widely warned of the danger of whooping cough and advised unvaccinated people to think twice before attending large gatherings, participating in youth sports, or even coming to the island if they had not had the recommended vaccination. Several Little League tournament games were canceled as a result."

►July 16, 2008 - Polio detected in Pakistani Taliban stronghold: officials - AFP via Google

►July 16, 2008 - ACIP, AAFP in Agreement - Check Out New Rotavirus Vaccine Guidance - AAFP News Now

►July 16, 2008 - Vietnam suspects anthrax in mass food poisoning - AFP via Google

►July 16, 2008 - Georgia joins list of outbreak states, CDC says - AP via Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - "A Midwest E. coli outbreak traced to recalled beef has spawned at least one case in Georgia, health officials said Wednesday."

►July 16, 2008 - Striking At The Heart Of Hepatitis B Virus - A New Drug May Wipe-Out Infection In More Patients - Weill Cornell Medical College via Medical News Today

►July 16, 2008 - Natalie Cole Lucky to Be Responding to Hepatitis C Treatment, Doctors Say - Hepatitis C attacks the liver silently, and most people don’t even know they have it until liver damage shows up decades later. - FOX News

►July 16, 2008 - Politics and Policy | Senate Defeats Two Republican Amendments to PEPFAR Reauthorization Measure - www.kaisernetwork.org

►July 16, 2008 - Congress Considers Lifting 20 Year Ban on HIV/AIDS Visas - ABC News

►July 16, 2008 - Gene variant common in Africa ups HIV risk -study - Reuters Africa

►July 16, 2008 - MSU offers six new antibodies for licensing - Montana State University

►July 16, 2008 - Mechanism behind mind-body connection identified - ANI via DailyIndia.com

* ►July 16, 2008 - Severe food allergies plague local family - Ewing-VanderYacht family holds car wash fund-raiser on July 27 for three-year-old son - Record Journal - "Jayden’s survival and general health depend on one thing: a super-formula, chock-full of essential proteins, amino acids and other nutrients necessary in a child’s daily diet -- basically, a hypo-allergenic protein shake. 'He is one of the top two or three most allergic kids I have seen in 20 years of allergy and clinical immunology,' said Elkayam, who is certified in allergy, immunology, asthma and pediatric practices."

►July 16, 2008 - Mosquito Reduction May Not Reduce Incidence Of Dengue - PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases via Medical News Today

►July 16, 2008 - Ouch! Taking a Shot at Plague: Vaccine Offers Hope for Endangered Ferrets in Plague Outbreak - United States Geological Survey

►July 16, 2008 - FDA Warning Issued…One Year Late - American Chronicle - "It is unbelievable that the FDA can wait five months after they discover a farm is selling illegal adulterated animals as food to warn them. The warning letter was mailed one year after two incidents took place – that adulterated meat is long gone."

►July 16, 2008 - PDA/FDA Conference September 10-12, 2008 to Explore Global Initiatives for Ensuring the Integrity of the Pharmaceutical Ingredient Supply Chain - Parenteral Drug Association via Marketwire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

►July 16, 2008 - Seven years on, no answer from White House on anthrax attacks - Raw Story

►July 16, 2008 - Seven monitored for Hendra virus in Qld - AAP via Sydney Morning Herald

* ►July 16, 2008 - More Parents Send Children To School Without Vaccinations - Team 5 Investigates Obtains New Report Showing Rise In Religious Exemptions - The Boston Channel WCVB 5 - "There are Web sites that instruct parents on how to obtain waivers. And pediatricians like Dr. Janet Levatin support a parent's right to avoid vaccines they consider dangerous or unnecessary, even though the state specifically prohibits exemptions for philosophical reasons. "A parent could hold a religious view that giving medicine on an elective basis that they feel might harm their child, and their religious views include non-harming of their child and perhaps other brings as well," Levatin said. "They could say ethically and religiously say that vaccination conflicts with their religious views."

* ►July 16, 2008 - Six weeks left for girls to get HPV vaccination; - The Belleville Intelligencer.ca - "About 60 per cent of the 1,000 eligible Grade 8 students in Hastings and Prince Edward counties received the shot last year. Similar numbers were registered across the province and health officials had hoped the percentages would be higher."

* ►July 16, 2008 - Massachusetts Gift Ban Is Removed From Bill - Pharmalot - "The hotly-debated ban on gifts and meals provided to doctors by drugmakers was stripped out of proposed legislation a House committee approved late yesterday, The Boston Globe reports."

* ►July 16, 2008 - Indonesia defends move to block virus sample sharing - Reuters

►July 16, 2008 - Combo vaccine to lessen sting of childhood shots - Star-Telegram

►July 16, 2008 - US scientists get closure to a cure for bird flu - The Hindu

►July 16, 2008 - County Health involved in pandemic flu drill - Wahpeton Daily News

* ►July 16, 2008 - Americans Are Cutting Back On Prescriptions - Pharmalot

►July 16, 2008 - Scientists Identify A New Molecular Brake That Can Curb Excessive Immune Activation - PLoS ONE via Medical News Today

►July 16, 2008 - Wyeth settles suit over hormone-replacement drugs (requires registration or subscription) - Bloomberg News via Los Angeles Times

►July 16, 2008 - Wyeth wrestles with Prempro suits - FiercePharma

►July 16, 2008 - Gene variant found in those with African ancestry increases odds of HIV infection - Cell Press via EurekAlert!

►July 16, 2008 - Alnylam Announces Extension of RNAi Therapeutics Collaboration with Novartis - Alnylam Pharmaceuticals via Business Wire via MaketWatch

►July 16, 2008 - Kuwaiti researcher finds cure to chronic sinus diseases - Al Wantan Daily

* ►July 15, 2008 - Improving Practice Performance: HPV Vaccination CME  - Medscape

* ►July 15, 2008 - Doctors eye vitamin D link to autism - UPI - "The problem is especially noticeable in Somalis living in Sweden. Researchers theorize the high incidence of autism in Somali children in Sweden is due to the lower levels of sunlight."

* ►July 15, 2008 - Billy Tauzin: Pharma’s Death By A Thousand Cuts - Pharmalot

►July 15, 2008 - Why do clinical science grants lag (requires registration) - The Scientist

►July 15, 2008 - States claim payout in Bristol-Myers settlement - States claiming multimillion-dollar payouts in settlements for Bristol-Myers fraud allegations - AP via Yahoo!

* ►July 15, 2008 - Congress hears patient and physician voices and overrides presidential veto to stop Medicare physician payment cuts - 18-Month reprieve allows time to replace Medicare physician payment formula - www.ama-assn.org

►July 15, 2008 - APA 2008: New Findings in Adult and Pediatric Bipolar Disorder CME - Medscape

* ►July 15, 2008 - Children with autism have to wait years for assessment - The Fermanagh Herald - "Children here have to wait up to four years to be assessed for the condition and a further five years before receiving treatment according to Northern Ireland Autism."

►July 14, 2008 - DNA testing industry wrestles with California law - The state has ordered 13 gene testing companies to 'cease and desist' while leaving other such firms alone. What does this mean to consumers? Read on for answers. (requires registration or subscription) - Los Angeles Times

►July 14, 2008 - When “investigative reporting” becomes anti-vaccine propaganda - Science-Based Medicine

►July 14, 2008 - Multivitamins Explained: Supplementing Can Help You Reach Optimal Health - NaturalNews.com

►July 14, 2008 - Bored brains shrink faster: study - AAP via The Age, Australia

* ►July 14, 2008 - Children, coal don't mix, China study shows - Sharp drop in developmental problems after power plant was closed - AP via MSNBC - "These findings have major implications for environmental health and energy policy in China and elsewhere," she said. The study tested the development of two groups of about 100 children, one group born before the Tongliang coal plant's closure in 2004 and the other born after it was shut."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Even Toddlers Get It: Data 'Chunks' are Easier to Remember - Johns Hopkins University via Biocompare

►July 13, 2008 - Tony Snow Dies Following Chemotherapy for Colon Cancer (opinion) - NaturalNews.com

►July 13, 2008 - Single Brain Neurons are Smarter Than You Think - NaturalNews.com

►July 13, 2008 - Sara Lee Bakery Manufacturer Sued Over "Misleading" Whole Grains Claims - NaturalNews.com

►July 11, 2008 - U.S. Panel Rejects Strong Epilepsy Drug Warning (requires registration) - Reuters Health via Therapeutics Daily

* ►July 10, 2008 - Genetic heterogeneity of L-Zagreb mumps virus vaccine strain (pdf) - journal article (Virology Journal)

►July 9, 2008 - Lifespan Mental Activity Predicts Diminished Rate of Hippocampal Atrophy (full text) - journal article (PLoS One)

►July 9, 2008 - Cervical cancer toll high in Latin America (requires registration or subscription) - New York Times News Service via Chicago Tribune - "The study, sponsored by the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the Pan American Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others, compiled 15 years of research."

►July 9, 2008 - Hand cyclist raises $250000, reaches midpoint in campaign to end polio - Daily Miner and News

►July 8, 2008 - Dogs were 'risk to community' - Gazette, UK - "A Frenchman who flouted antirabies laws by trying to smuggle his pet dogs through Harwich port 'put an entire community at risk', a court ruled."

►July 8, 2008 - Dubai plans cervical cancer vaccine for women - Gulf News

►July 7, 2008 - Lancaster's key role in new flu pandemic plan - Total Catholic

►July 7, 2008 - Eli Lilly Sued by Insurers, Unions for $7.7 Billion Over Zyprexa - Newsinferno.com

►July 7, 2008 - Scientists warn against closing Navy lab - Indonesia facility is called an asset - Los Angeles Times via Boston Globe

►July 7, 2008 - Cancer, HIV cure nearer - Jamaican plant with properties to control fatal diseases gets preliminary nod from US patent office - To look at, this ball-shaped plant is something you'd ignore, or if actually taken notice of, you might just kick it. Yet the inconspicuous Jamaican ball moss was what Dr Henry Lowe announced two years ago as one of two plants endemic to the island and which he and his American research partner Dr Joseph Bryant found to have anti-cancer properties. - Jamaica Observer

* ►July 3, 2008 - In RE: CLAIMS FOR VACCINE INJURIES RESULTING IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER OR SIMILAR NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER Various Petitioners v. Secretary of Health and Human Services - Order Concerning Theory 2 General Causation Rebuttal (pdf) - United States Court of Federal Claims, Office of Special Masters

►July 2008 - A 2-year-old Male with Developmental Delay, Irritability, and Failure to Thrive (pdf) - journal article (Pediatric Annals)

►July 2008 - Evaluating Children who Seize During Sleep - journal article (Pediatric Annals)

►July 2008 - Disorders of Arousal in Children - journal article (Pediatric Annals)

►June 28, 2008 - Resor found not guilty of murder, child endangering - The Morning Journal - "Resor is accused of shaking Donavan violently while watching the baby as Herber slept in another room of their Norwalk apartment. Medical experts for the state who examined Donavan testified they believe he was fatally injured when he was shaken. Medical experts for the defense argued that the baby had a preexisting medical condition which was the cause of his injuries. Other defense witnesses testified during the two-week trial that the baby's death was likely 'accidental or natural.'"

►June 28, 2008 - Second shaken-baby mistrial for California nanny - Auburn Journal via San Jose Mercury News

►June 27, 2008 - Nanny case ends in mistrial - 2nd jury deadlocks in favor of acquittal in baby's death. - Sacramento Bee

* ►June 27, 2008 - Enerceutical Mediated Activation of the Alternative Cellular Energy (ACE) Pathway: A Clinical Trial Open to Qualified Parents of Autistic Children - Preliminary studies have shown marked improvements in autistic patients using a procedure that activates the body's capacity to suppress a persisting stealth adapted virus infection; the underlying cause of autism. Parents are being recruited to help evaluate this simple, home based procedure. - press release - The Institute of Progressive Medicine via 24-7PressRelease.com

►June 26, 2008 - Anti-Psychotic Drugs Destroy Lives of Dementia Patients - NaturalNews.com

►June 20, 2008 - Pesticide Dangers to Human Health Carry Through Multiple Generations - NaturalNews.com

►June 19, 2008 - Western Medicine Fails Tim Russert - NaturalNews.com

►June 19, 2008 - Helping HANDS for Autism Act Introduced in the House - Bill provides for lifespan autism services and awareness - Autism Society in America

►June 19, 2008 - Defense says nanny not the cause of toddler’s death - Salcedo didn’t shake violently, attorney says - Auburn Journal

►June 19, 2008 - Baby's relatives testify about how Resor handled him - Norwalk Reflector

►June 18, 2008 - Soft Drink Companies Under Increasing Pressure to Halt Marketing to Kids - NaturalNews.com

►June 18, 2008 - Prosecution gives closing arguments in shaken baby case - Father of toddler told he can no longer return to courtroom for remainder of trial - Roseville Press-Tribune

►June 17, 2008 - Osteoporosis Drugs Found to Cause Severe Pain in Muscles, Joints and Bones - NaturalNews.com

►June 13, 2008 - Resor trial starts Monday - Norwalk Reflector

►May 14, 2008 - Autism facts & what you need to know - video - YouTube

►May 2008 - SAFETY OF A FIFTH DOSE OF DIPHTHERIA AND TETANUS TOXOID AND ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINE IN CHILDREN EXPERIENCING EXTENSIVE, LOCAL REACTIONS TO THE FOURTH DOSE. - journal article (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►April 4, 2008 - Intake of Fruit, Vegetables, and Fruit Juices and Risk of Diabetes in Women - journal article (Diabetes Care)

►Mar.-Apr. 2007 - Succimer chelation normalizes reactivity to reward omission and errors in lead-exposed rats. - (Neurotoxicology and Teratology)

►June 2004 - Guidelines for developmental neurotoxicity and their impact on organophosphate pesticides: a personal view from an academic perspective. - journal article (Neurotoxicology)

►USAAA 2008 International Conference Overview - www.usautism.org - "Actress, Singer, and Author Holly Robinson Peete will deliver the Keynote Address at the USAAA 2008 Autism & Asperger International Conference which will also include more than 30 of the world’s leading Autism Spectrum Disorder experts who will discuss new treatment regimes and effective therapies never before presented to the public....On September 4-7 in Austin, Texas, US Autism & Asperger Association launches its third annual conference (fifth overall conference since 2006)."

►Northwest Houston Chapter Autism Society of America Fall Conference 2008 - Friday evening, October 3rd, 2008 - TOPAA Meeting and Special Education Law Speaker Session for Parents, Professionals, and Advocates - Saturday, October 4th, 2008 - for the Autism/Disability Resource Fair & Conference. For the Autism segment of our conference, we are excited to announce that our  Keynote Session will feature Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Dr. Bryan Jepson from Thoughtful House Center for Children!  Contact: [email protected]

* ►Extend Statute of Limitations for Vaccine Injury Claims - petition - PetitionOnline.com - "To:  U. S. Congress  The National Vaccine Injury Compensations Program (NVICP) was designed to protect Vaccine makers from lawsuits, white still allowing families of vaccine injured children to be compensated. The trust fund that was established to compensate vaccine injured children has over $1.7 billion. Lets push Congress to keep the promise they made to give 'Simple Justice for Children'."

* ►August 1, 2008 - Injuries Among US Children With Different Types of Disabilities - journal article (American Journal of Public Health)

►August 1, 2008 - Developmental Needs and Individualized Family Service Plans Among Infants and Toddlers in the Child Welfare System - journal article (Child Maltreatment)

►August 1, 2008 - Behavior Management Training for the Treatment of Reactive Attachment Disorder - journal article (Child Maltreatment)

►August 2008 - Acinetobacter baumannii: a universal threat to public health? - journal article (International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)

►August 2008 - Mental, Emotional, and Social Problems Among School Children with Asthma - journal article (Journal of Asthma)

►August 2008 - Genetic control of pubertal timing. - journal article (Current Opinion in Pediatrics)

►August 2008 - Issues in stinging insect allergy immunotherapy: a review. - journal article (Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

* ►August 2008 - Amanda Peet - The X Files: I Want to Believe star and mother of an 18-month-old speaks candidly about her daughter and the controversy surrounding vaccines. Her comments have sparked a fierce debate. See readers' letters or join our forum discussion. Plus, watch the behind-the-scenes interview of Amanda Peet from our August cover shoot. - CookieMag.com - "Eventually her brother-in-law arranged a series of phone calls between Peet and his own mentor, Paul Offit, M.D., who is chief of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, and a board member of Every Child by Two, a pro-vaccine organization cofounded in 1991 by former first lady Rosalynn Carter."

* ►July 23, 2008 - Timeliness of vaccination and its effects on fraction of vaccinated population - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►July 23, 2008 - Predicted long-term persistence of pertussis antibodies in adolescents after an adolescent and adult formulation combined tetanus, diphtheria, and 5-component acellular pertussis vaccine, based on mathematical modeling and 5-year observed data - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►July 23, 2008 - Residual enzymatic activity of the tetanus toxin light chain present in tetanus toxoid batches used for vaccine production - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►July 23, 2008 - Immunogenicity for 16 serotypes of a unique schedule of pneumococcal vaccines in a high-risk population - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►July 23, 2008 - The measles campaign in West and Central Africa: Remembering the future - journal article (Vaccine)

►July 23, 2008 - Humoral immune response after genetic immunization is consistently improved by electroporation - journal article (Vaccine)

►July 23, 2008 - Evaluation of ISCOMATRIX™ and ISCOM™ vaccines for immunisation against Helicobacter pylori - journal article (Vaccine)

►July 23, 2008 - Cross-subtype antibody and cellular immune responses induced by a polyvalent DNA prime–protein boost HIV-1 vaccine in healthy human volunteers - journal article (Vaccine)

►July 23, 2008 - Intradermal pre-exposure rabies vaccine elicits long lasting immunity - journal article (Vaccine)

* ►July 19, 2008 - Top 25 things vanishing from America: # 5 -- Mumps and measles - This series explores aspects of America that may soon be just a memory -- some to be missed, some gladly left behind. From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. - Wallet Pop - "Despite what's been in the news lately, the measles and mumps actually, truly are disappearing from the United States..."Not that it was a holiday for a schoolkid when they got the mumps or measles -- kids were often quarantined to their bedrooms. Still, it was considered such a non-event when children got measles and mumps that back in the day, as a 1945 Time magazine article reports, at a small Manhattan school, when an eight-year-old student was exposed to mumps, the staff decided to let the exposed students keep coming to class. Then all of the kids could hopefully catch the disease and have it over with."

* ►July 16, 2008 - Physicians’ Duty to Participate in Pandemic Care - journal article (JAMA)

* ►July 16, 2008 - Physicians’ Duty to Participate in Pandemic Care—Reply - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - AIDS Vitamin "Therapy" Ruling - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - Effect of Simvastatin on Cognitive Functioning in Children With Neurofibromatosis Type 1 - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity From Ages 9 to 15 Years - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846-1968 - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - European Practices of Genetic Information and Insurance - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - Empirically Supported Treatments Improve Care of Adolescents With Depression - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - The Making of a Tropical Disease—A Short History of Malaria (book review) - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - Medical Malpractice (book review) - journal article (JAMA)

►July 16, 2008 - The Estrogen Elixir: A History of Hormone Replacement Therapy in America (book review) - journal article (JAMA)

* ►July 16, 2008 - The A in Hepa - Sun.Star, Philippines - "A NINE-year-old child presented with fever, abdominal pain, and yellowish discoloration of skin and eyes. She completed the hepatitis B vaccine series. What else could have caused this? Hepatitis. Yes, it still is hepatitis but of another kind. Not the type we are familiar with and not as fatal. In case you do not know, there are six types of hepatitis virus namely: A, B, C, D, E and G."

►July 16, 2008 - Worker with Hendra virus 'very worried' - Queensland Health is closely monitoring the condition of a south-east Queensland veterinary worker who has been diagnosed with the potentially deadly Hendra virus. - www.abc.net.au

►July 16, 2008 - Pathologists Believe They Have Pinpointed Achilles Heel Of HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions. - University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston via ScienceDaily

►July 16, 2008 - Flu scare: eight sent to hospital - The Canberra Times

►July 16, 2008 - Olympians warned over tattoos, hepatitis - Australian athletes who celebrate Olympic glory by getting a tattoo in Beijing risk bringing home more than a medal, infectious disease experts have warned. - Ninemsn.com.au

* ►July 15, 2008 - Grant would help Lansing police protect vaccine producer - Lansing State Journal - "Within the next couple of months, the city of Lansing could receive a $946,520 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to help protect a Lansing vaccine producer....City officials are staying mum about the specifics of the 'buffer zone protection' grant. But they did confirm it would be used to help secure the 3500 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. operations of Emergent BioSolutions Inc. Emergent produces the nation's only Food and Drug Administration approved anthrax vaccine."

* ►July 15, 2008 - District tells students: No shots, no school - Post-Bulletin - "All students must meet Minnesota Department of Health immunization requirements, which went into effect in 2004, or have an exemption on file."

* ►July 15, 2008 - Thumbs down to the Weekend Australian for one-sided reporting! - Australian Vaccination Network

* ►July 15, 2008 - Amanda Peet gets her shot on - Broadsheet via Salon.com - "This is a celebrity profile, so Peet doesn't get into many details, but she does have some harsh words for parents who choose not to vaccinate their children, since their kids benefit from the 'shield' from disease provided by children who are immunized: 'Frankly, I feel that parents who don't vaccinate their children are parasites.'"

* ►July 15, 2008 - From Dr. Paul Offit's Lips to Amanda Peet's Ears, We're All Parasites By J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

* ►July 15, 2008 - Fitness to Practise Panels weeks commencing 21 July 2008 - General Medical Council Press Office, UK - "Fitness to Practise Panel Hearing dates: 25 March – 15 May 2008 and 15 July – 29 August 2008 ... Dr Andrew WAKEFIELD GMC Reference number: 2733564 Professor John WALKER-SMITH GMC Reference number: 1700583 Professor Simon MURCH GMC Reference number: 2540201"

* ►July 15, 2008 - Autism advocate gives tips to educators for dealing with challenges (includes audio) - The Press-Enterprise - "Grayson-DeJong wonders whether environmental factors triggered autism in Christopher, who was born 19 months after his infant brother died from a heart defect. Grayson-DeJong's husband worked nights testing rocket engines and would often fall into bed without showering, unaware of possible toxic chemicals on his body. The Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Simi Valley where he worked was later determined by the federal government to be contaminated."

* ►July 15, 2008 - Further Evidence For Genetic Contribution To Autism - Some parents of children with autism evaluate facial expressions differently than the rest of us--and in a way that is strikingly similar to autistic patients themselves, according to new research by neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs of the California Institute of Technology and psychiatrist Joe Piven at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. - California Institute of Technology, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS via ScienceDaily

►July 15, 2008 - Caltech Finds Further Evidence of Genetic Autism Link - Some parents of children with autism evaluate facial expressions differently than the rest of us--and in a way that is strikingly similar to autistic patients themselves. - Pasadena News

►July 15, 2008 - What to know: Vaccines and autism - opinion - Meade County Times

►July 15, 2008 - Autism Cures? - Human Events - "Those who diagnose children by running down a checklist of 'symptoms' can find many apparently 'autistic' children or children on 'the autism spectrum.'"

►July 15, 2008 - Treating autism - letters - Las Vegas Review Journal - "Families who have used these therapies and others know they work. Please don't stigmatize us for knowing that there is something more out there for our children that doesn't necessarily follow conventional treatment protocols. Chelation was the main therapy strategy that pulled my son from autism. I know it works."

►July 15, 2008 - Autism — who pays? - Insurers argue they shouldn’t shoulder increased burden for care for autistic children, and our Letters Top Five. - letters (requires registration or subscription) - Los Angeles Times

►July 15, 2008 - Autism keeps parents, schools busy - Visalia Times-Delta

►July 15, 2008 - FEATURE-Riches trump risk for Honduran gold miners - Reuters - "Artisanal miners wielding pickaxes use diesel generators to illuminate narrow mine-shafts in one of Central America's poorest nations. Many then use dangerous amounts of toxic mercury to extract the metal from the rocks they chip out."

* ►July 15, 2008 - New Guide to Childhood Vaccinations Now Available Free to Parents - The What To Expect Foundation via The Earth Times - "GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) provided funding and other support to The What to Expect Foundation for the development and free distribution of the 'What to Expect Guide to Immunizations: What You Need to Know About Your Child's Vaccinations.' Heidi Murkoff is the mom who wrote 'What To Expect,' the bestselling series that has helped over 27 million families from pregnancy through their child's toddler years. Heidi and The What to Expect Foundation are committed to helping every family know what to expect -- which is why she donated her time and services for this program."

* ►July 15, 2008 - Dedicated to the drugging of America´s children? - American Chronicle - "Today, most specialty medical societies receive a large part of their funding from drug companies; in fact, 'approximately 70% of physicians´ continuing medical education is now paid for by the drug' companies, according to Drs. Abramson and Starfield in a 2005 paper in the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice."

►July 15, 2008 - For Parents, an Easier Way to Track Vaccines (requires registration) - Washington Post

►July 15, 2008 - Teen vaccine houses unhealthy side effects - OneNewsNow

►July 15, 2008 - Uganda Health News in Brief: Government to provide cancer treatment to all girls - Uganda Pulse - "The minister of State for Health in charge of general duties, Dr. Richard Nduhura said today that the government will provide a vaccine to help prevent breast cancer to all females aged 12 and above. The minister was today addressing a conference on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer."

►July 15, 2008 - Gardasil for your teen -- yes or no? - Los Angeles Times Booster Shots Blog - "We're wondering what parents think. It would be understandable if some parents who were persuaded by the commercials -- which all but said 'get this vaccine for your kid if you want to be a good parent' -- are now having second thoughts."

►July 15, 2008 - Gardasil: is the HPV vaccine safe? (includes video) - 13abc.com

►July 15, 2008 - PREVIEW: Gardasil - Is It Worth It? (includes video preview) - WXYZ.com - "Watch Carolyn's full Health Edge report Thursday night on 7 Action News at 11pm."

* ►July 15, 2008 - Infant Deaths Disputed In Glaxo Vaccine Trial - Pharmalot

* ►July 15, 2008 - Study Evaluating a 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Administered to Infants in Taiwan - Sponsored by: Wyeth www.clinicaltrials.gov

* ►July 15, 2008 - Evaluation of Pneumococcal Vaccine Formulations in Young Adults - Sponsored by: GlaxoSmithKline www.clinicaltrials.gov

* ►July 15, 2008 - Post-Marketing Study of the Safety of Prevenar (Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine, 7-Valent) - Sponsored by: Wyeth www.clinicaltrials.gov

* ►July 15, 2008 - Safety, Immunogenicity and Reactogenicity of Recombinant Hepatitis B Vaccine (Adjuvanted & New Formulation) and Engerix™-B - Sponsored by: GlaxoSmithKline www.clinicaltrials.gov

* ►July 15, 2008 - Safety Study of HBV-002 West Nile Vaccine in Healthy Adults - Sponsored by: Hawaii Biotech, Inc. www.clinicaltrials.gov
 
* ►July 15, 2008 - Brain Cancer Study: Magnitude of Post-vaccine Immune Response Linked to Clinical Outcomes - Researchers conducting a clinical trial of a dendritic cell vaccine designed to fight malignant brain tumors called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) have found a correlation between the “intensity” of a patient’s immune response and clinical outcome, according to an article in the July 15 issue of the journal Cancer Research. - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center via Newswise

* ►July 15, 2008 - Call to revaccinate hundreds of NYC school kids - Staten Island Advance via Newsday

* ►July 15, 2008 - Senators Join Thousands Of Patients, Doctors, Pharmacists In Supporting Women's Access To Critical Hormone Treatments - International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists via Medical News Today - "For years, Wyeth has waged a self-serving, and at times duplicitous, campaign to restrict patients' access to alternatives to its own products. In its Oct. 2005 petition, Wyeth claimed that estriol posed a "serious threat to public health." At the same time, though, Wyeth was marketing drugs containing estriol as "an ideal therapy" across Europe. The company has also funded many seemingly independent organizations to support its campaign."

* ►July 15, 2008 - Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Investigational New Drugs Intended for Use in Clinical Trials; Final Rule - FDA/CBER

►July 15, 2008 - Inovio Biomedical to Highlight Electroporation-Based DNA Vaccine Delivery at Scientific Conferences - Business Wire via MarketWatch

* ►July 15, 2008 - Unimmunized Kids Less Likely to Get Chickenpox if Vaccinated After Exposure - Health Behavior News Service via Newswise

►July 15, 2008 - Taking another shot at chickenpox - Orlando Sentinel - "Parents, get ready for a few extra tears from your school-age children. The state Department of Health, on recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is requiring that all incoming kindergartners get an additional chickenpox vaccination beginning this coming school year."

►July 15, 2008 - Official: Measles case at LSU not part of outbreak - AP via The Times via WDAM.com

►July 15, 2008 - Measles outbreak in The Hague - DutchNews.nl

►July 15, 2008 - What is Crypto? - Phoenix closes all city pools after discovery of parasite - AZFamily.com

* ►July 15, 2008 - Medicago to evaluate establishment of a pandemic vaccine production facility in France in collaboration with Genopole d'Evry in Paris - press release - Medicago Inc. via CNW Group

►July 15, 2008 - Haiti: World Bank Approves US$1.6 Million Grant to Prevent Avian Flu - The World Bank

►July 15, 2008 - Pilgrims at hospital with flu-like illness - AAP via Sydney Morning Herald - "A flu-like illness has struck down eight World Youth Day pilgrims staying at a Sydney school, the Ambulance Service of NSW says."

►July 15, 2008 - West Bengal not to use anti-flu vaccines for poultry - Zee News

►July 15, 2008 - Flu-hit farm is battling back - Oxford Mail, UK

►July 15, 2008 - Possible pandemic on health officials' minds - Henderson Gleaner

►July 15, 2008 - Detecting flu viruses in remote areas of the world - Science Centric

►July 15, 2008 - Genesis’s TCM Flu Treatment Approved by SFDA - China Bio Today via istockAnalyst.com

►July 15, 2008 - Human Hendra virus case shocks vet - The owner of veterinary clinic on Brisbane's bayside says he is devastated by news one of his workers has been infected with the potentially deadly Hendra Virus. - www.abc.net.au

* ►July 15, 2008 - Number of Illinesses Tied to Nebraska Beef May Grow - AP via Insurance Journal - "The number of cases involved in the E. coli outbreak that prompted Nebraska Beef Ltd.'s recall of 5.3 million pounds of beef could grow. So far 41 illnesses in Michigan and Ohio have been linked to Nebraska Beef's products."

►July 15, 2008 - E. coli linked to beef now reported in 5 states - The Associated Press via Google

►July 15, 2008 - Aerial attack on Delta mosquitoes begins - AP via San Jose Mercury News

►July 15, 2008 - State warns of possible hepatitis A exposure at Burlington bar - Sioux City Journal

►July 15, 2008 - Improved culture system for hepatitis C virus infection - University of California - San Diego via EurekAlert!

* ►July 15, 2008 - Vaccine prevents most strains of meningitis - Longmont Daily Times-Call - "Lynn Bozof, executive director of the National Meningitis Association, said prevention is critical. 'Rather than depending on early and correct diagnosis, it’s just so much better to be vaccinated,' Bozof said, adding that the vaccine is synthetic and contains no live strains of the disease."

►July 15, 2008 - U.S. Ranbaxy Probe Extends to Africa HIV Drugs, WSJ Says - Bloomberg

►July 15, 2008 - 'HIV-contaminated blood victims must sue' - Independent Online

►July 15, 2008 - AbD Serotec Customer Update: MorphoSys and Integrated BioTherapeutics Provide Update Regarding USAMRIID Biodefense Project - PharmaLive via MedAdNews

►July 15, 2008 - Global Warming To Cause 1.6 Million New Kidney Stone Cases By 2050 In Northeastern States - All Headline News

►July 15, 2008 - Consumption of nut products during pregnancy linked to increased asthma in children - American Thoracic Society via EurekAlert!

►July 15, 2008 - Half of kids with peanut allergy don't have Epi-Pen - Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology via Reuters UK

►July 15, 2008 - Childhood Asthma Linked To Lack Of Ancient Gut Bacteria - Medical News Today - "Researchers in the US have found that childhood asthma is significantly less likely in children infected with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), a bacterium that has inhabited the stomach and small intestine of humans for thousands of years."

►July 15, 2008 - The history of medicine in South Dakota: Some elements of frontier medicine haven't changed - Meade County Times Tribune

* ►July 15, 2008 - Diet better than statins in kids' cholesterol control - The prescribing of statins for eight years-olds is tantamount to saying that food and diet have failed, and that children are incapable of changing their eating habits and lifestyle. - Nutraingredients.com - "AAP panel member Dr Nicolas Stettler from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said: 'We know that in adults, decreasing cholesterol and giving some of those drugs decreases risk of heart disease or death. So there's really no reason to think that would be any different in children.' That is not a statement borne of science. One doubts that Dr Stettler will be accountable in 40 years time if something different emerges."

* ►July 15, 2008 - FDA Spends Too Much on Employee Parties, Not Enough on Food Safety - Statement of Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch Executive Director - Food and Water Watch via CommonDreams.org - "According to the documents received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, FDA spent at least $2.2 million over the past eight years on employee award ceremonies. Specifically, the Office of Regulatory Affairs – the field division of FDA that is tasked with investigating the Salmonella outbreak – spent close to $800,000 on award parties, with $695,000 spent on transportation alone.  The total amount spent, however, is on the conservative side since records could not be located on the amount of money spent on plaques and awards issued by the Office of Regulatory Affairs.  If FDA was willing and able to spend over three quarters of a million dollars on awards ceremonies, why didn’t it spend this money on needed inspectors in the field?"

►July 15, 2008 - In Salmonella Outbreak, Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Says: ‘No One to Sue’ - Wall Street Journal Law Blog

►July 15, 2008 - Venezuela Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q2 2008 Out Now - Research and Markets via Business Wire via MarketWatch - " Immunisation forms an important plank in this strategy and in November 2007 the country set a regional record by administering 6.8mn rubella vaccinations in just three weeks."

►July 15, 2008 - Dismissal of Suit Against Times Is Upheld (requires registration) - The New York Times

►July 15, 2008 - KYRGYZSTAN: Nine anthrax cases in south - IRIN Asia

►July 15, 2008 - Kyrgyzstan: Anthrax Spread Close to Epidemic - Journal of Turkish Weekly

* ►July 15, 2008 - Research and Markets: The Global Veterinary Vaccines Market Is Rapidly Growing At A CAGR of More Than 6% and Is Projected To Reach US$5.1 Billion by the Year 2012 - Research and Markets via Business Wire via MarketWatch

►July 15, 2008 - Calm Down or Else (requires registration) - The New York Times - "For more than a decade, parents of children with developmental and psychiatric problems have pushed to gain more access to mainstream schools and classrooms for their sons and daughters. One unfortunate result, some experts say, is schools’ increasing use of precisely the sort of practices families hoped to avoid by steering clear of institutionalized settings: takedowns, isolation rooms, restraining chairs with straps, and worse."

►July 15, 2008 - Merck Drops Law Firm In Vioxx Case Over Recusal - Pharmalot

►July 15, 2008 - Adults, get your shots: You need vaccines, too - Newly developed shots can protect against shingles and cervical cancer. - Wall Street Journal via The Charlotte Observer

* ►July 15, 2008 - The Black Box Warning: Is The FDA Overreacting? - Pharmalot

►July 15, 2008 - A Threat in a Grassy Stroll: Lyme Disease (requires registration) - The New York Times

►July 15, 2008 - The Case For Reversing, Or At Least Delaying, Aging - BMJ via Medical News Today

►July 15, 2008 - Mechanism behind Mind-Body Connection Explains How Chronic Stress Ages Immune System - Immune cells end in protective caps called telomeres that are shorter in persons suffering chronic stress. A new UCLA study suggests that the stress hormone cortisol is the culprit behind telomeres' premature aging and offers a potential drug target for protecting the immune systems of persons who under long-term stress. - University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences via Newswise

►July 15, 2008 - Stomach Bug Appears To Protect Kids From Asthma, Says New Study - A long-time microbial inhabitant of the human stomach may protect children from developing asthma, according to a new study among more than 7,000 subjects led by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers. Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that has co-existed with humans for at least 50,000 years, may lead to peptic ulcers and stomach cancer. Yet, kids between the ages of 3 and 13 are nearly 59 percent less likely to have asthma if they carry the bug, the researchers report. - NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine, via EurekAlert! via ScienceDaily

►July 15, 2008 - Vitamin D: Builds Bones And Much More - Vitamin D is essential to strong bones. Inadequate vitamin D can lead to osteoporosis, a brittle bone disease. - Mayo Clinic, via Newswise via ScienceDaily

* ►July 14, 2008 - Autism study panned by critics - Plan to use chelating agents on children comes under fire. - news (Nature)

* ►July 14, 2008 - Grassley Targets Brown’s Keller Over Grants - Pharmalot

* ►July 14, 2008 - Grassley to APA: Open your books (requires registration) - The Scientist

* ►July 14, 2008 - PhRMA Marketing Code: Throw Away Those Pens, the Time Is Perfect - The pen may be mightier than the sword, but even it must bow to the new realities of the pharmaceutical marketplace. The industry has decided that the branding value of free pens for physicians is no longer worth the impact on pharma’s reputation—and Congress has decided it is time for doctors to get out of the pen-and-paper prescribing world anyway. - The RPM Report

* ►July 14, 2008 - Fresenius’ Fearless Deals: Who’s Afraid of Heparin? - The German health care products and services company makes a big move with APP—the sole remaining US supplier of heparin—and follows up by licensing rights to a “not approvable” injectable iron brand. The moves make great strategic sense as Fresenius builds its US presence—though the company may find itself in the political spotlight if things go awry. - The RPM Report

* ►July 14, 2008 - Emerging Perspectives: Psychotropic Drugs During Pregnancy — New Data on Neonatal Outcomes - Both the illness and the medication can create problems for the exposed neonate. - journal article (Journal Watch Psychiatry)

►July 14, 2008 - Encephalitis Lethargica in the Soviet Union - journal article (European Neurology)

►July 14, 2008 - Roche Pharma suspended from body - Swiss drug firm Roche Pharma has been suspended from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) for a minimum of six months. - BBC

►July 14, 2008 - Ranbaxy Cries Uncle: Will Give Feds Documents - Pharmalot

* ►July 14, 2008 - Maryland First, and Then the World - Fourteen biotech companies literally lined up to claim a piece of Maryland’s $6 million tax credit incentive program. A sign of the times to be sure—and a sure sign of a coming push for a new federal tax credit to support biotech. - The RPM Report

►July 14, 2008 - Nucleostemin, Serotonin And Insulin Signaling: Controlling Drosophila Growth - In the July 15th issue of Genes & Development, Dr. Matthew Scott and colleagues at Stanford University School of Medicine reveal that a protein called Nucleostemin 3 links the serotonin and insulin signaling pathways in the control of Drosophila body size. - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, via EurekAlert! via ScienceDaily

* ►July 14, 2008 - Researchers Identify Immune Cells That Block Allergic Reactions - When it comes to allergies, both the problem and the solution are found within us. Our immune systems respond to foreign substances with an arsenal of cells. Some are programmed to "remember" invaders they've encountered in the past. Normally, anything previously identified as harmless is allowed to pass. Sometimes, however, the immune response goes awry, triggering an allergic reaction. - NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine, via EurekAlert! via ScienceDaily

* ►July 14, 2008 - Appeals court rejects former Army scientist's libel claim against NY Times in anthrax case - AP via Newsday

►July 14, 2008 - Public warned to be wary of mosquitoes - Some carry West Nile virus, health department says - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

►July 14, 2008 - 'Breakthrough' in malaria fight - Australian scientists have identified a potential treatment to combat malaria. - BBC

►July 14, 2008 - Studies point to immune system role in Huntington's - Reuters

►July 14, 2008 - Update 1-McCain adviser sees drug import challenges - Reuters via The Guardian, UK

►July 14, 2008 - Sleep loss produces false memories - But caffeine helps to boost accurate recall - news (Nature)

►July 14, 2008 - Exercise 'slows down Alzheimer's' - Being physically fit could hold back the advance of Alzheimer's disease, US researchers have suggested. - BBC

* ►July 14, 2008 - Dr. Peter Breggin: Lessons from the Death of "Mental Patient" Esmin Green - The Huffington Post

* ►July 14, 2008 - US Government withdrew key expert thimerosal reports - Alliance of Human Research Protection

* ►July 14, 2008 - Wall Street Journal - Drugs' Links To Suicide Risk Draw Concern - Alliance of Human Research Protection

* ►July 14, 2008 - Pediatrician Lawrence Diller Chastises Child Psychiatrist Joseph Biederman - Alliance of Human Research Protection

►July 14, 2008 - Parents reminded vaccinations required for day cares, schools - Sequoyah County Times

►July 14, 2008 - Report finds 350 surgery errors every day - More than 350 errors in surgery are reported every day in England, often because doctors operate on the wrong part of the body, and with sometimes fatal results, a report by Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, has found. - The Telegraph, UK

►July 14, 2008 - Ebola-like virus returns to Europe after 40 years - New Scientist

* ►July 13, 2008 - Pill-Popping Pets (requires registration) - The New York Times - "The practice of prescribing medications designed for humans to animals has grown substantially over the past decade and a half, and pharmaceutical companies have recently begun experimenting with a more direct strategy: marketing behavior-modification and 'lifestyle' drugs specifically for pets. America’s animals, it seems, have very American health problems."

►July 13, 2008 - DTC budgets: How low can they go? - World of DTC Marketing

* ►July 12, 2008 - Spurning vaccination invites epidemics - The reappearance of measles in the US is a disturbing trend. - opinion - The Australian

►July 12, 2008 - Uganda issues Marburg alert - Wavah Broadcasting Company, Uganda - "The Ministry says in a statement that people should avoid visiting the python cave in Maramagambo forest where the Dutch woman is believed to have got the virus from contact with the bats that inhabit the cave."

►July 11, 2008 - Glaxo Exec Resigns From UK Watchdog Group - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►July 11, 2008 - Are adolescents ready for tuberculosis vaccine trials? - journal article (Vaccine)

►July 11, 2008 - US court slaps down pollution law - Major clean-air programme is now in limbo. (Nature)

►July 11, 2008 - Do Antidepressants Make Bones Brittle? - Studies suggest an increased fracture risk in people who take the medications - HealthDay News

►July 11, 2008 - Long-term health outcomes in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: A population-based study - journal article (Inflammatory Bowel Diseases)

►July 11, 2008 - Congenital anomaly and childhood cancer: A population-based, record linkage study - journal article (Medical and Pediatric Oncology)

►July 10, 2008 - Fecal calprotectin levels and serological responses to microbial antigens among children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease - journal article (Inflammatory Bowel Diseases)

►July 10, 2008 - HIV Infusion Clinic Administrator Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison For Health Care Fraud - PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

►July 10, 2008 - Lake County Health Department reports measles case - Lake County Journals

* ►July 10, 2008 - Cytos Shares Rise Most in 5 Years on Dust Allergy Vaccine Study - Bloomberg - "Cytos Biotechnology AG, the Swiss developer of allergy and nicotine vaccines, rose the most ever after its experimental dust-mite and cat allergy vaccine performed better than a placebo in a study."

* ►July 9, 2008 - A Prospective Study of Transsulfuration Biomarkers in Autistic Disorders. (full text) (pdf) - journal article (Neurochemical Research) via Whale.to

►July 8, 2008 - Rotary extends goals with Polio Campaign - Ada Evening News

►July 8, 2008 - CD8+ T-cell attenuation of cutaneous herpes simplex virus infection reduces the average viral copy number of the ensuing latent infection - journal article (Immunology & Cell Biology)

►July 8, 2008 - The GABA transporter 1 (SLC6A1): a novel candidate gene for anxiety disorders - journal article (Journal of Neural Transmission)

►July 7, 2008 - Cancer Therapies from the Ocean? - Society for Experimental Biology - Society for Experimental Biology via Biocompare

►July 7, 2008 - Nigeria: Rotary to Partner FG On Polio Eradication Isa Sa'idu, Zaria - Daily Trust (Abuja) via AllAfrica.com

►July 7, 2008 - Vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer linked to health problems - WZZM13.com

►July 7, 2008 - immatics Receives 3 Research Grants Totaling 1.4 mn To Advance Its Early-stage Cancer Immunotherapy Programs - PharmaLive via MedAdNews

►July 7, 2008 - Beaten by ignorance, govt apathy, polio vaccinators quit - Expressindia

►July 7, 2008 - Henderson Morley in talks with companies to develop fish vaccine adjuvant - Thomson Financial via Hemscott

►July 7, 2008 - Autism Cymru brings two top autism experts to Wales - Autism Cymru is very pleased to bring Donna Williams and John Clements to South Wales in the autumn to focus on talks regarding Challenging behaviours and ASD and Positive behaviour support and ASD. - Autism Cymru

►July 7, 2008 - Biopure announces meeting with FDA (requires registration) - Boston Globe

►July 7, 2008 - University of Alabama scientists develop a green alternative to mercury, alcohol thermometers - The Birmingham News via AL.com

►July 3, 2008 - Group A Streptococcus vaccines: considering the issues - VacZine Analytics via PharmiWeb.com

►July 2, 2008 - Babies’ pain is subject of study - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

►July 2, 2008 - Disease Behavior in Children with Crohn’s Disease: The Effect of Disease Duration, Ethnicity, Genotype, and Phenotype - journal article (Digestive Diseases and Sciences)

►July 1, 2008 - DRC: Monkey pox kills 22 in Equateur province - IRIN Africa - "The disease disappeared in the 1980s but made a comeback after routine vaccinations against smallpox, a related disease, were stopped."
 
* ►July 2008 - Adolescent and Adult Participation in an HIV Vaccine Trial Preparedness Cohort in South Africa - journal article (Journal of Adolescent Health)

* ►July 2008 - Pneumococcal Invasive Disease in Children: Effect of Vaccination. - journal article (Clinical Pulmonary Medicine) - "Recently, several authors have reported an increase in infections caused by non-PCV7 serotypes. In addition, resistance to commonly used antimicrobials has significantly increased among nonvaccine serotypes. Virulent pneumococcal serotypes not covered by the PCV7 vaccine and serotype replacement make it essential that there be continued monitoring and surveillance of pneumoccocal colonization and invasive disease."

* ►July 2008 - Childhood Hygiene Is Associated With the Risk for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-Based Study - journal article (The American Journal of Gastroenterology)

►July 2008 - The Role of Extraesophageal Reflux in Otitis Media in Infants and Children. - journal article (Laryngoscope)

►July 2008 - Effect of maternal egg consumption on breast milk ovalbumin concentration - journal article (Clinical & Experimental Allergy)

►June 25, 2008 - Study shows 150 percent jump in statin use - Reuters

* ►HORRORS OF VACCINATION EXPOSED AND ILLUSTRATED - PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT TO ABOLISH COMPULSORY VACCINATION IN ARMY AND NAVY BY CHAS. M. HIGGINS - 1920 Published by Chas M. Higgins, Brooklyn. - www.whale.to

* ►VAERS Gardasil - www.whale.to

* ►August 2008 - Human papillomavirus vaccine: recommendations, issues and controversies. - journal article (Current Opinion in Pediatrics)

* ►August 2008 - Update on universal childhood immunizations. - journal article (Current Opinion in Pediatrics) - "The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices no longer expresses a preference for the use of the combination measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine over separate measles-mumps-rubella and varicella administration. Because of a notable recall of Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccines by Merck & Co Inc, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, USA, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends that pediatric providers conserve available Haemophilus influenzae type B vaccines by delaying the administration of the booster dose of the vaccine in healthy children."

* ►July 21, 2008 - Health care access problems surge among insured Americans - One report finds that millions more insured patients are delaying or not getting care, while another shows a spike in "underinsured" Americans. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Expect the thrill of victory, the agony of bad air at the Olympics - Respiratory ills are high on the list of health threats that visitors to next month's games will face. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Settlement proposed in Medicaid/Part D case - The lawsuit was one of the first pieces of litigation to arise in the opening days of the Medicare drug benefit. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Suit aims to block Hawaii's plan to shift blind, elderly, disabled on Medicaid into managed care - Physicians say the health plans that won the contracts don't have adequate networks to guarantee access to care. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - 6 rules cutting Medicaid delayed until 2009 - Hospital and physician organizations applauded the reprieve, but a seventh rule was not delayed. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Medicare launches personal health records for South Carolina residents - Physicians would need a patient's permission before accessing the record and could add information to it. - www.ama-assn.org

* ►July 21, 2008 - Doctors let TV series document their world - Physicians at Johns Hopkins University Hospital initially had concerns about cameras getting in the way but found the experience gratifying. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Exception to statute of limitations upheld in Georgia - Doctors say allowing plaintiffs more time to file suit when a misdiagnosis occurs disregards medical science and the Legislature's intent. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Making the practice switch: One doctor became an employee, the other started his own office - Both physicians share their experiences about their paths to a better life and offer tips to others considering a change. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Marshfield Clinic puts its EHR on the market - The first license agreement with the large Wisconsin health system will create a private RHIO and the potential to reach outside the state. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Report details how much insurers spend on care in California - The state medical society is pushing a bill that sets a minimum medical-loss ratio for health insurers. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Job hunting? Cast wide net, read contract - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Rating insurers will help fix inefficient claims system - A new AMA initiative is designed to improve the process and provide doctors with accurate payments. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Let's move from awareness to action on the uninsured - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Genetic precision (ASCO annual meeting) - The trickle of discoveries that revolutionized cancer care is turning into a flood. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - New tool evaluates "everyday" cognition - Growing numbers of elderly likely will lead to higher rates of dementia, making earlier detection a priority. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - More schooled, more active - Limited activity is sometimes tied to a person's education level. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - Letters to the Editor - Direct-to-consumer ads are "a profit wolf dressed in an altruistic sheepskin" - Want to be a doctor? Go to med school - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - News in brief: Health & Science - Diabetes surging in U.S. - Evidence of Alzheimer's beginnings - Advances in HIV vaccine process - Overweight kids with fatty liver more likely to have metabolic syndrome - MRSA causing kids' bone infections - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - News in brief: Government & Medicine - AMA, AHIP run competing ads on Medicare physician pay cut - Pharmacies join legal battle to stop Calif. Medicaid cuts - www.ama-assn.org

►July 21, 2008 - News in brief: Professional Issues - AMA protests award given to alleged Nazi euthanasia doctor - www.ama-assn.org

* ►July 15, 2008 - West Coast immunisation warning - TASMANIA'S West Coast is one of Australia's immunisation blackspots and diseases like measles could regain a foothold if inoculation rates fall further. - Tasmanian Mercury via www.news.com.au - "He said parents who chose not to immunise their children were either ignorant of the facts, scared by unfounded horror stories or just plain lazy. 'You are either part of a community or you are not. This is about insuring a community against disease and about social solidarity,' Prof Walters said."

►July 15, 2008 - The Resurgence of Polio - Nigerian Tribune - "There is an urgent need for an aggressive enlightenment campaign. Respected community leaders, who are free of suspicion and superstition, should be used to educate the people on the benefits of protecting their children against polio and the real risks of not doing so. Vaccines should be imported by the government from reputable places. Bad vaccines can actually cause polio. No Nigerian child deserves the suffering and stigmatisation caused by polio."

►July 15, 2008 - Polio vaccination must for issuance of Haj, Umra visas - The News - International - Pakistan

* ►July 14, 2008 - Government's Defense of Mercury in Vaccines Shaken by Withdrawal of Expert Reports By Dr. Paul King CoMeD, Inc. via Hawaii Reporter - "In a June 27, 2008 Autism Omnibus Proceeding (OAP) conference, attorneys for the DHHS announced that they were withdrawing two key written reports and any statements which relied on those reports. Those key reports, written by two world-renowned toxicologists (Dr. Laszlo Magos, formerly from the Medical Research Council Laboratories, England, and Dr. Thomas Clarkson, from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY USA), were the toxicological pillars underpinning the government's claim that Thimerosal does not cause autism."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Dr. Mayer Eisenstein Continues Campaign Warning about Vaccination Dangers, Says Don’t Vaccinate Before You Educate (includes video) - Don't Vaccinate Before You Educate - ExpertClick.com - "Mayer Eisenstein, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., is bringing an urgent message to a public that is increasingly confused on the complex and rather lengthy vaccination schedule mandated by the Federal Government. Author of the just released book, Don’t Vaccinate Before You Educate, Dr. Eisenstein has harbored serious doubts about vaccinations from the beginning of his medical career when his pediatrics professor, Robert Mendlesohn, began to sour on the idea of mass immunizations."

* ►July 14, 2008 - FDA Approves Energex Systems, Inc. Non-Drug Therapy For HIV Research - Novel Approach to Creating Therapeutic Vaccine - Energex Systems via Business Wire via MarketWatch

* ►July 14, 2008 - CSC's DVC Wins $32.3 Million NIAID Contract to Establish Phase 1 Clinical Trial Unit - PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX via MarketWatch - "DynPort Vaccine Company LLC (DVC), a CSC company, has received a contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, to establish and operate a Phase 1 clinical trial unit for infectious disease therapeutics. The contract is valued at approximately $32.3 million over a seven-year period. DVC is teaming with Quintiles Transnational Corp. to complete this work."

* ►July 14, 2008 - DynPort scores $32M to research infectious diseases - Frederick company wins another federal biodefense contract - Gazette.net - "DynPort has advanced eight products into clinical trials in the last 10 years, including a plague vaccine. The company, which says it has been prime contractor for the Pentagon’s vaccine effort for 10 years, landed a contract this year that secures all future funding that the department allocates to its vaccine development program, called the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program."

* ►July 14, 2008 - New Study Links Mercury Exposure To Autism - The One Click Group - "A new peer-reviewed study, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Maternal Rh-Negativity, and Rho(D) Immune Globulins: A Multi-Center Assessment, published in Neuroendocrinology Letters 2008; 29(2): 272-280, found significant links between mercury exposure from Thimerosal-containing Rho(D) immune globulin preparations and the neurodevelopmental disorder diagnoses found in the affected children studied."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Congressional Oversight Committee Presses for Vaccine Research By Kelli Ann Davis - Age of Autism

* ►July 14, 2008 - Another National Tragedy: Self Protection At The CDC By Tim Kasemodel - Age of Autism

►July 14, 2008 - Do Cry for Me Argentina: Deadly Vaccine Trials - Age of Autism

* ►July 14, 2008 - Doctor dismisses link of autism to vaccines - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

►July 14, 2008 - Autistic children 'rights abused' - Children with autism in the Western Health Trust are having their human rights breached, a charity has claimed. - BBC

►July 14, 2008 - Autism Gene Brings Hope - In many of the families studied, autism is caused by faulty DNA and something in the child's social environment after birth. - WMT Radio

* ►July 14, 2008 - More than 500 children given vaccines that could be ineffective - Staten Island Advance - "The city Health Department is recommending that children who received inoculations during the last six months at the Staten Island Physician Practice in Annadale be revaccinated because the vaccines were stored at improper temperatures -- and could be ineffective."

►July 14, 2008 - Sixth-graders need to get vaccination to attend school - New Bern Sun Journal

►July 14, 2008 - No room for complacency - New Zealand Doctor Online - "Aussie GPs are being urged to vaccinate opportunistically to combat a spike in measles cases and while there isn’t an increase here, there’s no room for complacency, a public health expert says."

►July 14, 2008 - New Online Tool Manages Children’s Vaccine Schedules - Georgia Institute of Technology, Research Communications via Infection Control Today

►July 14, 2008 - IAC Express 2008 Issue number 742 - Immunization Action Coalition

* ►July 14, 2008 - Stay Healthy, Stay On Top of Vaccinations - For Foreign Travel or Keeping Healthy at Home, All the Necessary Vaccinations - Good Morning America via ABC News - "Dr. Marie Savard appeared on 'Good Morning America' today to talk about the five vaccinations every adult should have. While important, that is only half of the list compiled by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Vaccine rules change for schools - New regulations add requirements for Tdap booster and mumps shot - ENCToday - "The N.C. Commission for Public Health has made several changes to the rules regarding vaccination of school-aged students and college-bound students."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Save the Date: Free shots! Free haircuts! Free School supplies! (blog) - Orlando Sentinel

* ►July 14, 2008 - I believe Patricia McKenna is unfit for office if she will not back down on tot jabs - Mass vaccination has rid the world of smallpox. Polio now no longer exists in Europe. - opinion - The Herald, Ireland - "Ms McKenna has openly and repeatedly indicated her hostility towards the immunisation of Irish children against life-threatening illnesses. In late 2006, she took part in a debate on RTE's Seoige and O'Shea show where she proudly proclaimed her refusal to have her own children vaccinated."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Newly-Approved Pentacel Vaccine Uses Aborted Fetal Cell Line MRC-5 - The Bulletin

►July 14, 2008 - Vical to Present Phase 1 Data for Vaxfectin(R)-Formulated Pandemic Influenza DNA Vaccines - Vical Incorporated via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►July 14, 2008 - Quintiles’ Overland Park unit will work on federal contract - Kansas City Business Journal

* ►July 14, 2008 - Science & Medicine | Russia Could Develop HIV/AIDS Vaccine Within 10 to 15 Years, Health Ministry Official Says - www.kaisernetwork.org

►July 14, 2008 - MRSA Action UK: Will vaccines ever be the answer to super bugs? - Politics.co.uk

►July 14, 2008 - Could a jab spell the end for daily blood pressure tablets? - Daily Mail, UK

* ►July 14, 2008 - Abt Associates Opens Atlanta Office - New Office to Enhance Collaboration and Partnership with CDC -  Abt Associates via PRNewswire via MarketWatch - "Recent and ongoing studies on which Abt Associates has collaborated with the CDC include HIV prevention, chronic fatigue syndrome, flu vaccine safety, avian flu vaccine effectiveness, and the results of early exposure to mercury from thimerosal-containing vaccines."

►July 14, 2008 - Ranbaxy slumps 11% on US probe; company says allegations baseless - Economic Times, India

►July 14, 2008 - Ranbaxy says to file response in US district court to DOJ motion - Thomson Financial via Forbes

►July 14, 2008 - More Accounts of Cipro/Levaquin Side Effects - InjuryBoard.com

►July 14, 2008 - FDA questions testing of J&J pneumonia antibiotic (requires registration) - AP via Boston Globe

►July 14, 2008 - Drugs for children - Questionable advice on cholesterol medication - WatertownDailyTimes.com

* ►July 14, 2008 - Gut, cervical cancer research - Gardasil, a cervical cancer vaccine could be used to help protect against other cancers. Research is underway at Tasmania's Launceston General Hospital into whether the vaccine used to prevent cervical cancer could also prevent cancer in the lower gut. - www.abc.net.au

* ►July 14, 2008 - Doctors Come Out in Support of Cervical Cancer Vaccine - While Not Risk-Free, Benefits of Gardasil Most Likely Outweigh Risks - ABC News - "Although, at first glance, the numbers are startling, parents may be able to breathe a sigh of relief. Curtis Allen of the CDC says that almost 95 percent of the events are minor reactions, such as sore arms. Of the events reported, only 7 percent have been classified as 'serious.' To put this in perspective, Allen says that most vaccines have a 10 to 15 percent serious report rate."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Merck, FDA Update Potential Adverse Reactions To HPV Vaccine Gardasil, Washington Times Reports - Daily Women's Health Policy Report via Medical News Today

►July 14, 2008 - Cancer vaccine made ready at back-to-school clinics - Cibola County Beacon

►July 14, 2008 - Vaccine too new: Parent - Mom says long-term effect of '06 drug unknown - The Province via Canada.com

►July 14, 2008 - Essex: talk on new cancer jab for girls - The Gazette, UK

►July 14, 2008 - Highland Village Boy Recovering From Meningitis - CBS11tv.com

►July 14, 2008 - Co-infection with MRSA Implicated in Flu Deaths - Nurse.com

►July 14, 2008 - Flu epidemic tests ethics of those who call the shots - The Journal Gazette

►July 14, 2008 - Supercomputers Identify Potential New Drugs to Combat 'Bird Flu' - U.S. News & World Report

►July 14, 2008 - Health Department plans MARC flu clinic - Leavenworth Times

►July 14, 2008 - Blog Exercise For Pandemic Flu in SE Idaho - LocalNews8.com

►July 14, 2008 - Health Departments See Rise In Whooping Cough Cases (includes video) - KXAS NBC 5 Dallas

►July 14, 2008 - Whooping cough on Whidbey Island may have been spread through swim class - PNWLocalNews

►July 14, 2008 - Little League decision tough but healthy call - editorial - HeraldNet

►July 14, 2008 - From outside the USA comes a measles threat inside the USA - USA Today - "Although every state requires vaccinations for school admission, state laws vary, and almost every state grants exemptions on religious grounds, says Duke University pediatrician Samuel Katz of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Nearly two dozen states permit 'philosophical exemptions.' Schaffner says many infectious-disease experts worry that other diseases eliminated from the USA, including mumps and German measles, may rebound because parents are refusing vaccination and pediatricians are no longer trained to diagnose and treat them."

►July 14, 2008 - Measles Outbreak Scares Moms - Are unvaccinated children to blame? - MomLogic

►July 14, 2008 - Georgia: Measles Alert - Lakefront Hartwell

►July 14, 2008 - New 'Scrubber' Speeds Removal Of Powerful Anthrax Clean-up Agent - American Chemical Society via ScienceDaily

►July 14, 2008 - Patients recovering from bout of anthrax - Three people in Sjenica, in southwestern Serbia, are recovering after being infected with anthrax. - B92

►July 14, 2008 - CENTRAL ASIA: OFFICIALS STRUGGLE TO CONTAIN OUTBREAKS OF ANTHRAX, TYPHOID - EurasiaNet

►July 14, 2008 - Fears that Have Refused to Go Away - Newswatch, Nigeria - "For most parents in sub-saharan Africa, the fear that their children would die before reaching five years is still a nightmare."

►July 14, 2008 - Syphilis on rise among men with same-sex partners - Study: Sex partners often found online (requires registration) - Chicago Tribune

►July 14, 2008 - How did boy gets HIV-positive blood? - The Star via Independent Online

►July 14, 2008 - Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis cuts risk of death for HIV-positive patients with TB in Zambia - Aidsmap

►July 14, 2008 - Hungarian scientists in protein production breakthrough - Caboodle.hu

►July 14, 2008 - Seven years and counting: National disease-tracking system still unfinished - A dozen states have yet to install technology needed to enable public health officials to monitor disease outbreaks via the Web - Computer World

June 14, 2008 - New FDA System to Track Safety of Drugs and Devices - NaturalNews.com

►July 14, 2008 - U-M researchers receive prestigious Health Policy Research awards - University of Michigan

►July 14, 2008 - Salmonella Scare: CDC still searches for clues - Source of Salmonella outbreak remains a mystery (requires registration or subscription) - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►July 14, 2008 - Coal plant draws opposition (requires registration) - Boston Globe

►July 14, 2008 - What enviros don't want you to know about new mercury rule - Lakeland Times

►July 14, 2008 - Toxic chemical levels finally dropping in Arctic food animals, new study shows - Canadian Press via Google

* ►July 14, 2008 - Times Wins in Libel Suit Brought By Former Anthrax Suspect - New York Sun

►July 14, 2008 - Vaccination vital to protect rare livestock in Bluetongue protection zone - Defra 7thSpace Interactive

►July 14, 2008 - New study sheds light on how intracellular pathogens trigger the immune system - University of California - Berkeley via EurekAlert!

►July 14, 2008 - UK: Tackling The Health Of The Teenage Nation - Chief Medical Officer Publishes Annual Report; New Focus On Tackling The Health Of The Teenage Nation - Department of Health, UK via www.scoop.co.nz

* ►July 14, 2008 - How Many More Will Die Before FDA Ghouls Are Held Accountable? - News With Views

* ►July 14, 2008 - EPA Says a Human Life Is Worth Less Today - Beyond Pesticides - "The AP proposes the following example: a hypothetical regulation that costs $18 billion to enforce but will prevent 2,500 deaths. At $7.8 million per person (the old figure), the lifesaving benefits outweigh the costs. But at $6.9 million per person, the rule costs more than the lives it saves, so it may not be adopted. Many environmentalists and public health advocates believe the Bush administration has changed the figure to avoid tougher rules."

►July 14, 2008 - Risk of measles rises in many European countries - DPA via The Earth Times

►July 14, 2008 - Exhausted B Cells Hamper Immune Response To HIV - Recent studies have shown that HIV causes a vigorous and prolonged immune response that eventually leads to the exhaustion of key immune system cells--CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells--that target HIV. These tired cells become less and less able to fight the virus, and the cells' fatigue contributes to the inability of an HIV-infected person's immune system to clear the virus from the body. -  NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, via EurekAlert! via ScienceDaily

►July 14, 2008 - New health threats for the 20th Century - In the 60 years since the start of the NHS much has changed – not least our ability to treat to combat infectious diseases. But as we move into the 21st Century, new threats are emerging, as Dr Roland Salmon explains - Western Mail, UK

►July 14, 2008 - Preview-Pharma gains from market turmoil, but for how long? - Reuters

►July 14, 2008 - People living near pharmaceutical factory at risk from TB - Residents say no action has been taken against factory - Daily Times

►July 14, 2008 - Disease Has Girl's Immune System Attacking Her Body - A 10-year-old Canadian girl has been diagnosed with a rare condition that is causing her immune system to attack her body, the Daily Gleaner reported. - The Daily Gleaner via FOX News

►July 14, 2008 - Apply Liberally: Consumers Use Products as They See Fit - Why some companies follow the lead of consumers who have their own ideas about product usage - AdWeek

* ►July 14, 2008 - NIH Researcher Failed To Disclose Conflict - Pharmalot

►July 14, 2008 - Boehringer Ingelheim Cutting Neuro Sales Reps - Pharmalot

►July 14, 2008 - Vitamin D tests soar as deficiency, diseases linked - USA Today - "Richard Reitz, a medical director with Quest Diagnostics of Madison, N.J., says tests ordered for vitamin D grew by about 80% from May 2007 to May 2008."

►July 14, 2008 - Lyme disease warning to walkers - Western Mail, UK

►July 14, 2008 - Protect Yourself Against Disease - Commonsense Measures will Reduce the Risk of Catching Something From Your Pet - 9WSYR.com

►July 13, 2008 - Washing Away Superbugs - PharmacyWeek

►July 13, 2008 - Nicotine drug 'may slow dementia' - Nicotine-based drugs may help delay the moment a person with dementia has to enter a care home, say researchers. - BBC

* ►July 13, 2008 - Are Our Leading Pediatricians Drug Industry Shills? - San Francisco Chronicle

* ►July 13, 2008 - At Least 12 Babies Die in GSK Trials in Argentina - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "The world is bearing witness to the moral dissolution of corporate influenced medicine--a pediatrician is sanguine about the death of 12 babies in a clinical trial, claiming it is 'a very low figure...' This profit-driven culture has derailed medicine from its traditional ethical principles, rapidly converting into a ruthless commercial enterprise. This medical tragedy is widely disseminated on internet blogs but ignored by the press-- Why ?????????????????????"

* ►July 13, 2008 - Grassley Probes COI at American Psychiatric Association - Alliance for Human Research Protection

►July 13, 2008 - Cholesterol Drugs for 8-Year Olds (NYT Editorial) - Alliance for Human Research Protection

►July 13, 2008 - NEW STUDY LINKS THIMEROSAL (MERCURY) EXPOSURE WITH AUTISM (pdf) - press release - CoMeD via The One Click Group - "A new peer-reviewed study, "Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Maternal Rh-Negativity, and Rho(D) Immune Globulins: A Multi-Center Assessment," published in Neuroendocrinology Letters 2008; 29(2): 272-280, found significant links between mercury exposure from Thimerosal-containing Rho(D) immune globulin preparations and the neurodevelopmental disorder diagnoses found in the affected children studied."

►July 13, 2008 - Is the US Ready for Bio-Warfare? - Christian Broadcasting Network News

* ►July 13, 2008 - Drugs calm Parkinson's but ignite odd actions - Chicago Tribune - "When Tammy Rothwell started taking a prescription drug called Mirapex for the symptoms of her Parkinson's disease, she thought she had finally found peace after 25 years. But as Rothwell's muscle tremors faded under the medication, a new problem arose. Rothwell, who said she had never gambled and had been careful with her money before starting Mirapex, began compulsively spending $200 a day on scratch-off lottery tickets and making irrational purchases such as 100 tubes of lipstick. The habits escalated so rapidly, Rothwell said, that she ran through more than $70,000 in two years."

►July 13, 2008 - IDPs seek herbal cure for Hepatitis E - New Vision, Uganda

* ►July 12, 2008 - Indonesia's snub of U.S. lab worries flu researchers - If a U.S. Navy medical research facility in Jakarta is shut down, the hunt for the next big bug could be impeded, Western scientists warn. - Los Angeles Times via Minneapolis Star Tribune

* ►July 12, 2008 - Tuberculosis vaccine development: goals, immunological design, and evaluation - journal article (The Lancet)

* ►July 12, 2008 - Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties (requires registration) - The New York Times

* ►July 12, 2008 - Doctors' premiums on the rise - DAMAGES claims against doctors have shown their first year-on-year increase since the industry's near-meltdown in 2001-02, and premiums for some groups have also begun tracking higher, industry figures show. - The Australian

* ►July 11, 2008 - Experts, Advocates Tackle Challenges of Autism, Architecture - PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch - "An all-day session, "Exploring Assessment and Educational Intervention for Students with Autism Spectrum and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders," included presentations by Dr. Lee Ann Grisolano, Ph.D., pediatric neuropsychologist, and the Hon. Judge Michelle Coleman, educational advocate and parent of special needs children."

►July 11, 2008 - Clean Water Act Enforcement Compromised - Beyond Pesticides via The Washington Post

►July 11, 2008 - How flu-fighting cells know when theyre required in the lung - Thaindian.com

►July 10, 2008 - WHO passes new vaccine; Panacea eyes mkt size of $350 m - Moneycontrol India

►July 10, 2008 - A mathematical optimization of immunization - Physical Review Letters via Nobel Intent via Ars Technica

►July 10, 2008 - New Clues to Autism's Cause - TIME Magazine

* ►July 10, 2008 - Researchers Unveil Near-Complete Protein Catalog for Mitochondria - Work flows from advanced large-scale methods for measuring proteins; inventory includes nearly 300 novel proteins, highlights basis of rare metabolic disease - Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard via Biocompare

* ►July 9, 2008 - A Prospective Study of Transsulfuration Biomarkers in Autistic Disorders. - journal article (Neurochemical Research)

* ►July 9, 2008 - Global Food Crisis Leading to Increased Interest in GM Food - Beyond Pesticides

►July 9, 2008 - Federal bill sets $14 million in research at UND (requires registration) - Grand Forks Herald

►July 9, 2008 - Anthrax Mystery Continues To Cost Us - Tampa Tribune

►July 9, 2008 - Science & Medicine | Biotech Firm GeoVax Labs Seeking FDA Approval To Launch Phase II Trials of HIV Vaccine Candidate - www.kaisernetwork.org

►July 8, 2008 - Widespread Uses of Anti-Bacterial Consumer Chemical Challenged - Beyond Pesticides

►July 3, 2008 - New vaccine for anthrax developed - Newindpress

* ►July 2008 - Relationship of Influenza Vaccination Declination Statements and Influenza Vaccination Rates for Healthcare Workers in 22 US Hospitals - journal article (Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology)

* ►April 28, 2007 - Research triggers conflict concerns - Booming private industry serves drug companies and government clients - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - "The medical research company hired by the federal government four years ago to update its list of carcinogens moved quickly to add a virus to the list while two of its clients were developing vaccines to combat that same virus. Today those clients - Merck & Co. and GlaxoSmithKline - along with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are involved in a controversial push to have every adolescent girl in the nation receive the vaccine against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus."