* ►July 10, 2008 - Four submissions so far on GM flu vaccine - Horsetalk, New Zealand - "The Green Party has voiced its concern over the application, saying the vaccine's use would kill the country's GE-free status. 'I am amazed that for the benefit of Australasia's gambling industry we are putting our GE-Free status at risk,' said party co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons."

►July 10, 2008 - Protein Sciences Never Intended To Sell Itself, Suitor Says - Hartford Courant - "According to the lawsuit, Protein Sciences racked up heavy debt while it pursued clinical trials of FluBlok. In the past three years, the lawsuit said, Protein Sciences sought the backing of 150 venture capitalists and potential merger partners. Those efforts failed."

* ►July 10, 2008 - Merck, FDA expand Gardasil warnings - Washington Times - "The new warning - added to the package insert and to an information sheet given to patients - was approved June 12 by the FDA, which states in documents on its Web site that the updated information 'reflect reports received' after the vaccine went on the market in 2006."

►July 10, 2008 - The Dangers of Gardasil: Is it Deadly? - The FDA is following up on a recent rash of claims that the drug has been causing more serious, potentially deadly problems. - Catholic Online

►July 10, 2008 - Software shield for mother & child - Step taken under mamta programme to record data - The Telegraph, India - "'The developed software also throws light on mother and children and helps monitor information on pregnant women and their nutritional status. The complete chart for deadline of immunisation of different vaccines is automatically generated,' added Ahmed."

►July 10, 2008 - Angry parents say the Lee’s Summit School District leaves its autistic students behind - The Pitch

►July 10, 2008 - F.D.A. Revises Its Letter for Nonapproval of Drugs (requires registration) - The New York Times - "Drug makers whose products are not ready for approval in the United States will soon get the word from regulators in a new format intended partly to avoid scaring investors."

►July 9, 2008 - Death of a Euphemism: The End of FDA’s “Approvable Letter” - Wall Street Journal Health Blog

* ►July 9, 2008 - 1 in 88 - Autism/ASD among Children of Military Families by F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP and Raymond W. Gallup - Vaccine Autoimmune Project for Research and Education (VAP) via www.vaproject.org - "The recently-released FOIA data provides, as a parent put it so well, 'a sobering picture': There are at least 13,243 children and young adults diagnosed with an ASD among active duty military children.  According to a 2005 study, there were 1,177,190 military dependent children (all ages) in that population giving a ratio of 1:89 (1:88 if not rounded) of medically-diagnosed children."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Reasons to Just Say NO to Vaccines - by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, DO - NewsWithViews - "A significant problem with the combo shots is that, in the event of an adverse reaction, there is no way to determine which component caused the problem. This eliminates the ability to refuse additional doses of a particular vaccine. The ability to make a claim with the Vaccine Injury Compensation program is likewise negated."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Bay Area autism diagnoses increasing (includes video) - KGO ABC 7 - "The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health compiled the latest numbers given to them by the state Department of Education and the numbers have parents and researchers questioning the causes and the reasons for the continuing increases."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Earlier Vaccination Causes Asthma by Mark F. Blaxill - Age of Autism

* ►July 9, 2008 - Gender, time of day affect response to vaccination - Men vaccinated in the morning showed strongest response to both hepatitis and influenza - Psychophysiology via EurekAlert! via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - "In the first study, participants consisted of 75 University of Birmingham students who were vaccinated with the hepatitis A vaccine during a morning session (10 am to 12 pm) or early evening session (4 pm to 6 pm). In the second study, 90 older adults attended their medical practice for the annual influenza vaccination and received the vaccination in the morning between 8 am and 11 am or in the afternoon between 1 pm and 4 pm."

* ►July 9, 2008 - No choice but MMR as supplies of single mumps vaccine run out - Daily Mail, UK

* ►July 9, 2008 - Daily Mail Alters Its Forced MMR-Autism Jab Coverage - The One Click Group

* ►July 9, 2008 - Measles outbreak hits 127 people in 15 states - Reuters - "Public health officials have been stressing the importance of immunizing children amid increasingly vocal vaccine opponents who object to them for religious or other reasons or because they fear the shots may cause autism or other harm. ... 'The primary reason for lack of vaccination is personal belief exemptions,' the CDC's Dr. Larry Pickering told a news conference arranged by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Leeds project to boost parents’ confidence in MMR choices - Nursing in Practice - "This new project, funded with £242,252 by the National Institute for Health Research, will see researchers at the University of Leeds recruit hundreds of new parents about to make their first decision on vaccinating their children. They will test out different ways of helping parents make their MMR choices."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Protect your children with MMR jab, entrepreneur warns - A magazine editor facing deafness as a result of childhood measles has urged parents to protect their children against the disease. - Derby Evening Telegraph

* ►July 9, 2008 - Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Signs Bill Ensuring Continuity of Care for Children, Young Adults with Autism - press release - Pennsylvania Office of the Governor via PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

►July 9, 2008 - New MMR study to encourage vaccinations - Yorkshire Post - "'Health professionals need to have credible and appropriate information to give those parents about to make a decision about immunising their children.' Simon Balmer, head of health protection for Leeds Primary Care Trust, said: 'With the right information we believe that most parents will choose to vaccinate their children.'"

►July 9, 2008 - TACA's CHRISTINA BLAKEY ON FOX'S MIKE & JULIET - Age of Autism

►July 9, 2008 - AAP's Renee Jenkins Letter to Julie Deardorff - Age of Autism

►July 9, 2008 - New Autism Treatment (includes video) - WCAV TV - "A method once used to treat people with lead poisoning is now being used to help autistic children across the United States. This treatment hasn't been approved by the FDA, but parents and government researchers are pushing to test the unproven treatment on children."

►July 9, 2008 - Lead chelation treatment for autism? - Julie's Health Club via Chicago Tribune

►July 9, 2008 - Man with Autism Meets St. Paul Firefighters Who Came to Rescue - MyFox Twin Cities

►July 9, 2008 - FDA panel to weigh suicide risks of epilepsy drugs - AP via BusinessWeek

►July 9, 2008 - US, Europe, Australia unite on drug inspections - The Associated Press via Google

►July 9, 2008 - Gardasil Vaccine Comes Under New Fire from Revealing Reports - More Doubts About the Safety of This Vaccine Against HPV - Associated Content

►July 9, 2008 - Adolescent Sex No Predictor Of HPV Risk - Tampa Tribune

* ►July 9, 2008 - HPV Roundup: Gardasil safety worries, Cervarix FDA delays, more on mandates - VaccineEthics.org - "Also, the May 2008 Harvard Law Review published a paper titled "Toward a 21st Century Jacobson v. Massachusetts (pdf), alluding to the 1905 case that is widely seen as the foundation for state public health powers. The authors argue that a distinction should be drawn between vaccines that are 'medically necessary' (such as smallpox) and those that are 'practically necessary' (such as hepatitis B and HPV, for which other preventive measures are available but not widely used). The paper suggests that current law and policy fail to acknowledge the implications of this distinction."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Is HPV Vaccine Linked To Teen's Paralysis? - Shannon Nelson Began Suffering Numbness Days After Getting Vaccine For Cervical Cancer - CBS 2 Chicago - "Dr. Diane Harper helped research the HPV vaccine for Merck, which makes Gardasil. She said it's definitely too early to require the vaccine for pre-teens as some states are trying to do. 'I see red lights flashing. This is a real danger zone, 'Harper said. She's even opposed to federal guidelines which simply suggest the vaccine for girls as young as 11. 'I would have started at 15, not at 12,' Harper said. Although she feels the vaccine is generally safe, she's also worried about side effects and she says that not enough is known about how long the protection lasts. 'Of course that concerns me. I think the thought is that there probably will be efficacy for longer than 5 years, but it's probably not going to be lifetime efficacy. There probably will be some need for a booster,' Harper said."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Reports of side effects pouring in for HPV vaccine - WWMT.com - "A vaccine meant to protect your daughters from disease could pack some serious side effects. 'I started having episodes where I didn't know who I was or where I was. I was dizzy,' said Mattie Turkopolis. That 13-year-old girl started passing out and forgetting things. It got so bad she had to quit all of her sports. Doctors spent months trying to figure out what happened. Finally, a neurologist linked it all to the HPV vaccine Gardasil."

* ►July 9, 2008 - FDA Adverse Reports on Gardasil Made Public - InjuryBoard.com - "78 separate cases, patients experience an outbreak of warts in the groin and genital area, even among girls who tested negative for HPV.  Other outbreaks of warts were found on the face, hands, and feet and were all caused by strains of the papilloma virus. ... 25.4 percent experienced swelling after receiving Gardasil, and 15.8 percent reported the same thing after receiving an aluminum placebo. Gardasil contains 225 mcg of aluminum. The FDA allowed Merck to use an aluminum-based placebo, while most are saline based. 'Using a reactive aluminum-containing placebo instead of a non-reactive saline base can make vaccines seem safer than they may actually be' reports Judicial Watch."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Evening News Uniquely Reports Serious Concerns about Gardasil - NewsBusters.org

* ►July 9, 2008 - Could HPV Vaccine Lead to Paralysis? (includes video) - CBS via AOL Health

►July 9, 2008 - State to still offer HPV vaccine - KRCG.com - "Missouri's Department of Health and Senior Services says it will continue to provide the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine Gardasil to low-income and under-insured women and girls as young as 9."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Barriers to Adolescent Immunization Outlined - American Journal of Preventive Medicine via MedPage Today - "Promoting vaccination directly to teens will also be important, Dr. Freed and colleagues said. They noted that adolescents make many healthcare decisions themselves. The committee also acknowledged that teens are a tough audience when it comes to encouraging preventive behaviors. 'Current policies and programs have not been successful in immunizing a major portion of adolescents with the previously recommended tetanus booster,' Dr. Freed and colleagues pointed out. ... No external funding for the reports was disclosed. One author reported financial relationships with Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, and Sanofi Pasteur. One co-author is an employee of Sanofi Pasteur. Several co-authors are employees of the Department of Health and Human Services. No other potential conflicts of interest were reported."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Get Your Shots: Adults Need Vaccines, Too Public-Health Experts Push For National Inoculation Plan; A Rise in Whooping Cough (free content) (includes video) - The Informed Patient via The Wall Street Journal

►July 9, 2008 - Is Jessica Alba Looking Into ‘Greening’ Vaccines Too? - People via Ecorazzi

►July 9, 2008 - "Protecting public trust in immunization" - VaccineEthics.org

►July 9, 2008 - UK Gov / Glaxo Child Marketing Scandal Explodes - The One Click Group

* ►July 9, 2008 - Drugs' Links To Suicide Risk Draw Concern (free content) - The Wall Street Journal - "Among the 20 best-selling drugs of 2007, six already carry warnings for suicidality, and one was the subject of a special FDA 'alert' this year and is being further studied."

* ►July 9, 2008 - UPDATE: Widow Sues Pfizer Alleging Drug Caused Man's Suicide - Dow Jones via CNNMoney - "The widow of a man who allegedly committed suicide after using Pfizer Inc.'s ( PFE) smoking-cessation treatment Chantix has sued the drug giant, claiming Pfizer failed to properly warn of the pill's psychiatric side effects."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Ark. judge tosses $27M award in hormone drug suit - Judge tosses $27 million punitive damages award for Ark. woman who sued over hormone drugs - AP via CNNMoney

* ►July 9, 2008 - CDC chief criticized for pushing safety director out - Julie Gerberding has declined to renew John Howard's contract (requires registration or subscription) - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

* ►July 9, 2008 - Congressmen and 9/11 Responders Pissed at Bush/Gerberding for Firing John Howard - Adventures in Autism

* ►July 9, 2008 - Emergent files suit against Conn. company - Lansing State Journal - "Rockville, Md.-based Emergent alleges Protein Sciences Corp. and its management have failed to follow through on an agreement announced in May for Emergent to buy the maker of a potential new flu vaccine."

* ►July 9, 2008 - Salmonella may be a key for a new vaccine - Gates Foundation-backed vaccine developers have found a way to send genetic text messages to the cells of the body to evoke immunity to pneumonia. It could save the lives of a million children a year, yet fluency in the language of the immune system will not come easily. - Crosscut Seattle

►July 9, 2008 - Genocea Teams With Nonprofit PATH on Vaccine for Children in Developing World - Xconomy.com

►July 9, 2008 - Pneumococcal Vaccine Proves Very Effective After Only 2 Years in Norway - Norwegian Institute of Public Health via Doctor's Guide

►July 9, 2008 - In Spite of Setbacks, Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines Continue to Make Gains - Immune Science Associates Assessment Analyzes Evolving Strategies - Greystone Associates via Live-PR.com

* ►July 9, 2008 - Indiana study profiles local pandemic planning problems - CIDRAP News

►July 9, 2008 - Experts identify genes for bird flu replication - Reuters India

►July 9, 2008 - Hong Kong orders mass cull as bird flu spreads - Reuters via GlobalTV via Canada.com

►July 9, 2008 - Fruit Fly Gene Study Could Yield New Flu Treatments - Howard Hughes Medical Institute

►July 9, 2008 - Fruit flies help fight next flu pandemic - The Capital Times via Madison.com

►July 9, 2008 - MMWR Study Findings - For Patients With Asthma, Flu Vaccine Coverage Falls Short - AAFP News Now

►July 9, 2008 - IndyCar rookie Viso sidelined by case of mumps - USA Today

►July 9, 2008 - Infant, child& maternal mortality rates in Somalia are among the highest -unicef - Mareeg Online

►July 9, 2008 - Harley Flathers: Polio doesn't always happen to someone else - Post-Bulletin

►July 9, 2008 - Structure Of Critical Protein From Ebola Virus Determined - Scripps Research Institute, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS via ScienceDaily

►July 9, 2008 - Akorn signs 10-year contract with pharma company - AP via Forbes

►July 9, 2008 - SureScripts-RxHub Applauds House and Senate Passage of First Ever Medicare Incentives for Physicians to Use E-Prescribing in Place of Paper Prescriptions - SureScripts-RxHub  via Marketwire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

►July 9, 2008 - Report Links Dead Doctors to Payments by Medicare (requires registration) - The New York Times

►July 9, 2008 - Jalapeno Peppers Caused Some US Salmonella Cases - Bloomberg

* ►July 9, 2008 - Salmonella Illnesses Now Largest Foodborne Outbreak in US History - Infection toll at 1,017; health officials add hot peppers and cilantro as suspect foods, along with tomatoes - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report

* ►July 8, 2008 - Altered calcium homeostasis in autism-spectrum disorders: evidence from biochemical and genetic studies of the mitochondrial aspartate/glutamate carrier AGC1 - journal article (Molecular Psychiatry)

* ►July 8, 2008 - More than 8000 Complaints about Gardasil, including Death - Planet Chiropractic

* ►July 8, 2008 - Yvonne K. Fulbright: Think Twice about that HPV Vaccine - The Huffington Post - "Another issue at play is the fact that we simply don't know enough about the vaccine, specifically, its long-term effects. Gardasil contains aluminum and nobody knows how that may eventually impact a female's fertility. Furthermore, the vaccine has not been tested as far as how it may interact with other childhood vaccinations."

* ►July 8, 2008 - GSK senior V-P Appointed to Watchdog Education Board - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "There is reason for serious concern about pharmaceutical industry penetration into public policy bodies and public education systems in the U.S. and in the UK. This industry's influence peddling has but one goal--increasing profits through market expansion."

* ►July 8, 2008 - UK Government Forces MMR-Autism Jab On Parents - Daily Mail via The One Click Group

* ►July 8, 2008 - “The Global Learning Series” to Raise Understanding and Awareness of Vaccines and Vaccination Programs in Episodes Including, “Understanding Green Vaccines” - press release - “The Global Learning Series” via Business Wire - "We will bring greater understanding about vaccines and vaccination programs, Autism, and environmental health issues to the global medical and patient community, with special sensitivity towards parents of children and those who know or love someone with Autism, empowering them to make better well informed decisions."

►July 8, 2008 - Autism in the Military By Angela Warner - Age of Autism - Managing Editor's Note: We reprinted this with permission from Angela Warner, who runs the "Autism Salutes" blog about autism in the US military.

►July 8, 2008 - Autism Center of Nebraska on Probation - KPTM.com - "Two top officials at the center were fired after a state audit found center leaders deliberately falsified billing records. The leaders were charging for services that weren't provided."

►July 8, 2008 - Fringe autism treatment could get federal study in the United States - AP via Yahoo!

►July 8, 2008 - Parents push U.S. government to take on controversial autism research (requires registration or subscription) - AP via The Globe and Mail

►July 8, 2008 - Therapeutic Healing Vest for Children With Autism, ADHD, Anxiety - NaturalNews.com

* ►July 8, 2008 - Vaccinations Cause Sensitization, Anaphylaxis, and put children at risk to everyday substances - Consumercidal Happenings

* ►July 8, 2008 - More on Vaccine Induced Anaphylaxis - Consumercidal Happenings

* ►July 8, 2008 - Atlanta company to study AIDS vaccine on humans - GeoVax Labs's trial involves 225 volunteers from U.S., South America (requires registration) - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►July 8, 2008 - Public health advocates outline immunization plan - AP via Hays Daily News - "The Kansas Health Institute lists 49 counties as having no private health care providers who give childhood immunizations."

►July 7, 2008 - HPV vaccine comes under scrutiny - Gardasil, the vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer, is coming under more scrutiny amid complaints linking it to health problems. (includes video) - ABC 7 KGO

►July 7, 2008 - Complaints Cause Gardasil Cervical Cancer Vaccine Scrutiny - eMax Health

►July 7, 2008 - New vaccine sneaks into body, then self-destructs - Reuters via Scientific American

* ►July 7, 2008 - Jessica Alba Ponders 'Laid-Back' Motherhood - People.com - "'I've been reading a lot about kids and infections, autism and vaccinations,' adds Alba, who suffered from health problems as a child. 'I've come to think that perhaps I was a product of my environment or the vaccines or something my mother took when she was pregnant.'"

►July 5, 2008 - Your Number is Zero - Survey ER Physicians and Mental Patients - Alliance for Human Research Protection

►July 5, 2008 - Florida May Limit Pay for Children's Psych Drugs_St Pete Times Journalism Award - Alliance for Human Research Protection

►July 4, 2008 - "No Drug Reps" Certificate for MDs (PharmedOut) - Alliance for Human Research Protection

* ►June 2008 - Immunity Gap: A Growing Number of Concerned Parents Exempt Children from Required Shots - As more parents refuse vaccines for their kids, health officials worry. - Edutopia

* ►May 2008 - TOWARD A TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY JACOBSON V. MASSACHUSETTS (pdf) - Harvard Law Review - "Biomedical advances are pushing the foundational public health law case Jacobson v. Massachusetts 1 towards obsolescence. The 1905 Supreme Court decision established the constitutionality of state compulsory vaccination laws when they are 'necessary for the public health or the public safety.'2  But the case addressed issues of medicine, disease, and society that are increasingly irrelevant. Jacobson’s rationale has little to say about two recently developed controversial vaccines — the hepatitis B vaccine and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine — and it will likely have even less to say about vaccines that are still in the pipeline. These vaccines are qualitatively different from their predecessors in that they are not medically essential to preventing the spread of disease. Vaccine law and policy —whether through common law, statutes, or agency directives — must develop clear ways to recognize these distinctions."

►Dietrich Klinghardt Autism Conference in August - Autism  2008 August 8-10, 2008 - Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt will be hosting an autism conference in August!...Location: Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Bellevue, WA - http://lymebook.com

* ►August 1, 2008 - Correlates of Vaccine-Induced Immunity (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►August 1, 2008 - Pathology and Pathogenesis of Fatal Bordetella pertussis Infection in Infants (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►August 1, 2008 - The Management of Encephalitis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►August 1, 2008 - Comparison of the Clinical Effectiveness of Oseltamivir and Zanamivir against Influenza Virus Infection in Children - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Human Parechoviruses as an Important Viral Cause of Sepsislike Illness and Meningitis in Young Children - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - SMART-COP: A Tool for Predicting the Need for Intensive Respiratory or Vasopressor Support in Community-Acquired Pneumonia - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - On the Risk of Being and Becoming Infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Rates of Tuberculosis Transmission to Children and Adolescents in a Community with a High Prevalence of HIV Infection among Adults (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Genetic Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance in Group B Streptococcus Colonizing Young, Nonpregnant Women - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►August 1, 2008 - Meningoencephalitis with Persistent Parvovirus B19 Infection in an Apparently Healthy Woman - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►July 9, 2008 - FDA Turns to Electronic "Sentinel" to Flag Prescription Drug Safety Problems - journal article (JAMA)

* ►July 9, 2008 - Clash Over Drug Approvals - journal article (JAMA)

* ►July 9, 2008 - Health Policy and Public Trust - journal article (JAMA)

►July 9, 2008 - Vacations and Health - journal article (JAMA)

►July 9, 2008 - Web Searching for Information About Physicians - journal article (JAMA)

►July 9, 2008 - Exposing Poverty and Inspiring Medical Humanitarianism - journal article (JAMA)

►July 9, 2008 - States Show Wide Discrepancies in Quality of Health Care for US Children - journal article (JAMA)

►July 9, 2008 - Redundant Drug Benefits - journal article (JAMA)

►July 9, 2008 - Practice Parameter: Simple Maneuver Is Best Therapy for Common Form of Vertigo - journal article (JAMA)

►July 9, 2008 - Childcare centre hit by Hepatitis A - NZPA via New Zealand Herald

►July 9, 2008 - Preventing yellow fever - Increased travelling to Africa and Latin America raises the risks of yellow fever infections here. - Malaysia Star

►July 9, 2008 - Free vaccines in short supply - The Telegraph, India

►July 9, 2008 - Hendra equine virus kills two Brisbane horses - TWO horses are dead after an outbreak of the rare Hendra virus sent an equine clinic on Brisbane's bayside into lockdown. - Courier Mail via www.news.com.au

* ►July 9, 2008 - Novel Ways To Boost Vaccination Or Natural Defenses - Garvan Institute of Medical Research via ScienceDaily - "'We showed that if you take a mouse genetically deficient in IL-21 and immunise it, you don't get TFH cells and you don't get antibody production. Conversely, if you put IL-21 receptor sufficient, or normal, T cells into the same mouse, where of course the B cells remain abnormal, you recover the normal immune reaction.'"

* ►July 8, 2008 - A parent responds to Genesis vaccine investigation (includes video) - WQAD.com - "Genesis says after investigating the batch of vaccinations a baby boy received the same day he died it now believes it's safe to resume the shots.  But some parents are proceeding with caution. Amy Blink has four kids and her youngest, Kyler is 9 months old.   She says when she heard about a baby boy dying after getting his routine shots she made a decision. 'To find that out when we was suppose to have a shot 3 days later it's like oh my gosh no way.' ... Blink is a nurse and when she heard what Gensis did to investigate she was still hesitant."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Wakefield hearing resumes - OnMedica - "The hearing, which began in July 2007 was initially only supposed to last 16 weeks. However, it met again in March of this year through until May, and will resume again on Tuesday July 15th, due to end on August 29th....The parents' pressure group JABS continues to stand by Wakefield and colleagues - accusing the GMC of a 'witchhunt'."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Parents must choose MMR or no protection after 'suspicious' shortage of single vaccine - Daily Mail, UK - "It emerged today that the world's only Mumpsvax manufacturer, American pharmaceutical giant Merck, has mysteriously halted production until at least 2009. The firm - which also supplies the UK with the MMR vaccine - has stopped making the drug twice before, but never for more than three months at a time. For many parents it now means an agonising choice of whether to risk the MMR jab - or not to inoculate their children at all."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Dental industry gets an earful on mercury - The Associated Press via Google - "The American Dental Association, before its spokesman testified, faced deeply personal diatribes from Reps. Dan Burton, R-Ind., and Diane E. Watson, D-Calif....Then Burton talked about his grandson, saying the child became autistic not long after receiving nine vaccination shots, seven of them containing mercury....Watson had her own issues. She blamed mercury fillings she got as a 9-year-old for allergies, headaches, darker and splotchy skin and trouble remembering people's names. She talked to researchers who thought she had mercury poisoning."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Congress Called on to Hold Dental Mercury Polluters Accountable at U.S. House Oversight Hearing - press release - Mercury Policy Project via PRNewswire-USNewswire via The Earth Times

* ►July 8, 2008 - Cheney Aides Altered CDC Testimony, Agency Official Says - Ex-Administrator Says Official From Vice President's Office Edited Out Six Pages (requires registration) - Washington Post

* ►July 8, 2008 - Take a deep breath... - Huddersfield Examiner, UK - "In Mexico, some doctors organised a mass immunisation programme against measles using an inhalation. They used a very archaic home made set-up to generate a mist from the standard measles vaccine and got children to inhale this mist from a face mask made out of a plastic coffee cup. About 4 million Mexicans were immunised by this method – and it provided the required level of immunity. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has focused its attention on this issue and is soon to embark on a system of immunisation based on the Mexican experience."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Wilson: Some Vaccines Still Contain Mercury (includes video) - WXYZ.com

* ►July 8, 2008 - Fringe autism treatment could get federal study - AP via Chico Enterprise Record - "Dr. Martin Myers, former director of the federal National Vaccine Program Office, said he believes giving chelation to autistic children is unethical — but says the government can justify the study because so many parents are using chelation without scientific evidence. 'It's incumbent on the scientific community to evaluate it,' he said."

* ►July 8, 2008 - PAUL OFFIT KNOWS AUTISM, JUST ASK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By J.B. Handley - Age of Autism - "Quoting Paul Offit on an article on autism treatment is like quoting the Marlboro Man about a compelling treatment for lung cancer! Not only does Mr. Offit have zero expertise in the area of autism treatment—he has never treated a single child with autism and his specialty is infectious diseases—but also Mr. Offit is a paid spokesperson for Merck, he’s a vaccine patent holder on a vaccine currently in our recommended schedule, and he has been reprimanded by the US Congress for his conflicts when serving on a Vaccine Advisory Committee."

* ►July 8, 2008 - THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE COMBATING AUTISM ACT By Jim Moody, Esq. - Age of Autism - "An “early draft” of the strategic plan for autism research: NO epidemic and NO urgency, NO priority for treatment and environmental triggers, and NO research budget."

* ►July 8, 2008 - The CDC to Study Vaccine Induced Encephalopathy! - Adventures in Autism - Finally! The CDC's Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Network is currently looking for subjects to 'evaluate the association between viral vaccines and encephalopathy/encephalitis through a detailed evaluation of children with encephalopathy/encephalitis as well as control children'. Their message to doctors:  'If you have a patient who you think might be eligible for the study, please complete the following two questions and provide your contact information. We thank you for your help in this important study.'"

* ►July 8, 2008 - The New Autism Dictionary - Adventures in Autism

* ►July 8, 2008 - The first autism disease genes - European College of Neuropsychopharmacology via EurekAlert!

* ►July 8, 2008 - Autism Research Institute Launches Mobile Website - autism.mobi now available to provide mobile-friendly content and services on Autism-related issues to world's two billion mobile users - press release - dotMobi via PRNewswire via The Earth Times

►July 8, 2008 - On the spectrum - autism diagnoses continue to increase - Parents finding more available resources, understanding - Lakeland Times

►July 8, 2008 - The Carolina Center Discusses Autism Spectrum Disorder on July 15 - press release - The Carolina Center via dBusinessNews

►July 8, 2008 - Son's autism tests Iraq refugee's resolve (includes video) - CNN

* ►July 8, 2008 - DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT: TODAY'S DAMAGED SCHOOLKIDS - Age of Autism

* ►July 8, 2008 - School pupil speech testing urged - All children should be assessed for speech problems at the start of primary and secondary school, a report says. - BBC

* ►July 8, 2008 - Children should learn to speak before they learn to read says review - The Times, UK - "'Speech, language and communications problems in children are three times as prevalent as dyslexia, ten times as prevalent as autism. And yet they are often unrecognised, just as dyslexia was 20 years ago,' Mr Bercow said."

►July 8, 2008 - Tomato-based vaccine shows promise against Alzheimer's in mice - CBC - "Tomatoes are an attractive candidate as a vaccine carrier because they can be eaten without heat treatment. Heat increases the risk of destroying the vaccine's immune stimulation potential. The researchers inserted the beta-amyloid gene into the tomato genome and measured the immune responses in a group of 15-month-old mice."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Can Tomatoes Carry An Oral Vaccine Against Alzheimer's Disease? - Springer via ScienceDaily

* ►July 8, 2008 - Adolescents Are Not Receiving Recommended Immunization In US, Report Shows - Elsevier Health Sciences, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS via ScienceDaily

►July 8, 2008 - NIH ponders logistics of biodefense lab accidents - The Frederick (Md.) News-Post via Examiner.com

►July 8, 2008 - America's cardiac kids - editorial - The Star-Ledger

* ►July 8, 2008 - Cholesterol Disease Mongering Reaches New Low with Statin Drug Push For 8-Year-Olds - NaturalNews.com

* ►July 8, 2008 - 8-Year-Olds on Statins? A New Plan Quickly Bites Back (requires registration) - The New York Times - "'It will open the door for pharmaceutical companies to heavily advertise and promote their use in 8-year-olds, when we don’t know yet the long-term effect on using these drugs on prepubertal kids,' said Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician in Danville, Calif., and the founder of the popular Web site DrGreene.com."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Careful with new cholesterol guidelines for kids, local doctors say - The Capital Times via Madison.com

* ►July 8, 2008 - US issues warning about Cipro-type antibiotics - CTV - "The Food and Drug Administration warns that such drugs can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated. The FDA is ordering makers of fluoroquinolone drugs -- a potent class of antibiotics -- to add a 'black box' warning to their products, which include Cipro, Levaquin, Floxin and other medications."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Wyeth Applauds Six Countries Across Europe, and the Middle East, That Recently Announced the Inclusion of the 7-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7) in Their Immunization Schedules - Wyeth Pharmaceuticals via The Earth Times

* ►July 8, 2008 - The Trouble With Gardasil? (video) - Pharmalot

* ►July 8, 2008 - Quote Of The Day: ‘I’m Embarrassed For The AAP’ - Pharmalot

* ►July 8, 2008 - Hong Kong expert warns flu vaccine for chickens losing efficacy - Deutsche Presse-Agentur via M&C

* ►July 8, 2008 - FDA Wants Suicide Warnings On Epilepsy Drugs - FDA via Wall Street Journal via Medical News Today

►July 8, 2008 - FDA Requests Boxed Warnings on Fluoroquinolone Antimicrobial Drugs - Seeks to Strengthen Warnings Concerning Increased Risk of Tendinitis and Tendon Rupture - FDA

►July 8, 2008 - Wyeth (WYE) NewsBite - Wyeth Rises on GSK Ruling - Market Intelligence Center - "Wyeth shares have been rallying with other drug companies lifted by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) whose shares soared on news that its cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix will be covered by the French healthcare system."

* ►July 8, 2008 - The Nation’s Medicine Chest Is Emptying Its Shelves - Pharmalot

►July 8, 2008 - Go East, Young Man: China Continues To Seduce - Pharmalot

►July 8, 2008 - Lilly Is Fined For Promoting Cialis Improperly - Pharmalot

►July 8, 2008 - Antidepressants tied to gastrointestinal bleeding - Reuters

►July 8, 2008 - Mystery of the meat-eaters' molecule - Our inability to produce a chemical present in every other primate may be linked to a series of chronic diseases. Roger Highfield explains more - Telegraph, UK

►July 8, 2008 - Infectious disease surveillance 2.0: Crawling the Net to detect outbreaks - Think of it as an early warning system for health officials - Computer World

►July 8, 2008 - New MedPredict Report Highlights Trend Toward Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Impact on Pharmaceutical Development - MedPredict Market Research via PRNewswire via The Earth Times

►July 8, 2008 - How to think yourself better - Positive thinking can help ease pain, improve fitness and prevent illness. Anastasia Stephens explains how to harness the power of your mind - The Independent, UK

►July 8, 2008 - $1.85M US Army contract continues biologically-inspired system security research - Professor continues research of biologically-inspired tactical security infrastructure for military computing and disaster relief operations - Florida Institute of Technology via EurekAlert!

►July 8, 2008 - Nature to aid open access (requires registration) - The Scientist

►July 8, 2008 - FDA Approves New Genetic Test for Patients with Breast Cancer - FDA

►July 8, 2008 - Out of the Gate: Novartis rises - Novartis moves up after company completes first phase of Alcon buyout - AP via CNN Money

►July 8, 2008 - Leaders still vague on emissions targets - G8 talks fail to advance fight against climate change. - news (Nature)

►July 8, 2008 - Probiotics help babies fight off respiratory ills - Pediatrics via Reuters Health

* ►July 8, 2008 - Unsafe MHRA Drugs 'Watchdog' Fails The UK - People Die - Daily Mail via The One Click Group

* ►July 8, 2008 - Serotonin Imbalance NOT A Cause Of Crib Death - Scoop via The One Click Group

►July 8, 2008 - Internet Crawling: A New Tool for Tracking Infectious Disease - press release - Children's Hospital Boston via AScribe - "An online project called HealthMap (http://www.healthmap.org) makes the information available to all comers. As reported in the ►July issue of PLoS Medicine, it extracts, categorizes, filters and integrates a variety of Web-based data sources, even penetrating blogs, listservs, chatrooms, and online news reports - not your usual sources for monitoring global health."

►July 8, 2008 - Fighting Avian Flu with DNA - Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine

* ►July 8, 2008 - HIV-positive children vaccinated against influenza have weaker protective immune response - Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes via Aidsmap - "'The persistence of immune defects in HIV-infected children prevents the possibility of mounting fully efficient immune responses to vaccination,' the authors conclude. 'The efficacy of different, more frequent and/or more intense vaccine schedules should be considered in these children.'"

* ►July 8, 2008 - Start of Phase I Study for Intranasal Pandemic Influenza Vaccine deltaFLU - press release - Avir Green Hills Biotechnology Trade AG via PRNewswire via The Earth Times - "Avir Green Hills Biotechnology starts a clinical phase I study with its intranasal vaccine deltaFLU against pandemic influenza. This novel generation of a live-attenuated vaccine based on the deletion of the NS1 gene has shown superior preclinical data."

►July 8, 2008 - Pandemic mutations in bird flu revealed - Society for General Microbiology via EurekAlert!

* ►July 8, 2008 - Gates Foundation targets polio with $150M more funding - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

►July 8, 2008 - Hepatitis Records Ready For Release - Police Set Up Hot Line For Records Request - KVVU Las Vegas

►July 8, 2008 - Lyme disease - identifying and treating the tick borne illness - North Denver News

►July 8, 2008 - Aerial spraying considered to combat West Nile virus (requires registration) - Sacramento Bee

►July 8, 2008 - CDC: New West Nile Strain Could Thrive - Tenn. Doctor Says Residents Shouldn't Panic (includes video) - WSMV.com

►July 8, 2008 - Meningitis death at SVH - Sonoma Index-Tribune

►July 8, 2008 - Legionnaires' disease outbreak (includes video) - News 10 Now

►July 8, 2008 - Whooping cough outbreak on Whidbey Island - KING5.com

►July 8, 2008 - Technologist who worked in immunohistochemsitry lab testifies at Cameron Inquiry - St. John's Telegram - "The Cameron Inquiry is examining why 383 breast cancer patients received the wrong results from hormone receptor tests — used to determine treatment options — from the General Hospital immunohistochemistry lab from 1997 to 2005."

►July 8, 2008 - Justice Department Reaches Settlement Agreement With Medical Weight Loss Clinic - PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX via Marketwatch - " It was alleged that Medical Weight Loss Clinic refused to serve a prospective client because she has HIV disease."

►July 8, 2008 - Hatfill gets his day - Our view: The government should explain its actions in anthrax case - editorial (requires registration or subscription) - Baltimore Sun

►July 8, 2008 - Livestock deaths reported in anthrax-hit Siberian republic - RIA Novosti

►July 8, 2008 - Officials say animals at risk of anthrax - AP via Grand Forks Herald

►July 8, 2008 - Animal Anthrax Infections Confirmed - KFYRtv.com

►July 8, 2008 - First extension of bluetongue vaccination zone announced - Western Mail via Wales Online

►July 8, 2008 - County: Death Of Horse Due To West Nile Virus - AP via KGTV, 10News.com

►July 8, 2008 - Dorgan secures $14.25 million for UND research (requires registration) - Grand Forks Herald

►July 8, 2008 - The way to a virus' 'heart' is through its enzymes - Society for General Microbiology via EurekAlert!

►July 8, 2008 - Molecule critical for immune function identified - ANI via Thaindian News

►July 8, 2008 - Protecting America's food - Our view: The FDA needs more resources, better leadership - editorial - Baltimore Sun

►July 8, 2008 - Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield adds rotavirus vaccine to coverage - The Cleveland Plain Dealer

►July 8, 2008 - Khorrami, Pollard & Abir Files Class Action Civil Rights Lawsuit in Federal Court Against California Prisons for Failure to Properly Treat Inmates With Hepatitis C - press release - Khorrami, Pollard & Abir, LLP via Marketwire - "Hepatitis C currently infects about 40% of the approximately 190,000 inmates in California prisons."

►July 8, 2008 - Gardasil Vaccine Controversy (includes video) - WIFR.com

►July 8, 2008 - Is Gardasil Safe For You? (includes video) - Indiana's News Center

►July 8, 2008 - Gardasil, Cipro cause health worries (includes video) - CTV British Columbia

►July 8, 2008 - French approval of cancer vaccine boosts GlaxoSmithKline - Triangle Business Journal

* ►July 8, 2008 - HPV Vaccine Could Come With Bad Side Effects (includes video) - cbs4denver.com - "'The question is -- are these kinds of cases caused by Gardasil or just coincidence?' CBS4 Medical Editor Dr. Dave Hnida said. 'The answer is needed quickly as more states push to make Gardasil a mandatory vaccine.' ... 'I am a firm believer in immunizations but have to admit this one never made my list of must-have vaccines,' Hnida said. 'I'd like to see more research done especially if some are considering making this mandatory.'"

* ►July 8, 2008 - Gardasil vaccine raises concerns (includes video) - News 10 Now - "The head of University of Rochester Medical Center's infectious disease unit is standing by Gardasil and the vaccine's ability to protect young women against cervical cancer. Doctor John Treanor's reaction comes in the wake of growing concern over the vaccine's safety."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Gardasil - 18 Dead, Thousands Suffer Complications - Growing opposition and flat sales trigger Gardasil manufacturer Merck stock sell-off - LifeSiteNews.com

* ►July 8, 2008 - A Teen's Father Speaks Out About HPV Vaccine - InjuryBoard.com

* ►July 8, 2008 - Gardasil HPV Vaccine Side Effects Posted by Sharyl Attkisson - CBS Primary Source Blog - "One thing that's different about Amanda's case than some of the others is that both of her parents medical doctors who didn't think twice about having their daughter get the shot – but are now second-guessing themselves. They call their daughter's illness after Gardasil 'a very sobering experience.' Amanda's dad says, 'as the father of three girls, I've had to ask myself why I let my eldest one get an unproven vaccine against a few strains of a nonlethal virus that can be dealt with in many more effective ways. It's not like they are at high risk. It was the regrettable acceptance of the vaccine party line that [mis]led me.'"

* ►July 8, 2008 - Vaccine Watch: Gardasil Side-Effects? Posted by Sharyl Attkisson - Couric & Co. via CBS News

* ►July 8, 2008 - Push for HPV vaccine continues despite side effects (includes video) - KVUE.com

* ►July 8, 2008 - HPV Vaccine Blamed for Teen's Paralysis - Gardasil certainly made headlines in 2006 when the Food and Drug Administration approved it as a vaccine against four strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which can cause cervical cancer. - FOX News

* ►July 8, 2008 - Gardasil Safety: Questions and Answers - Experts Weigh In on Safety Concerns About HPV Vaccine Gardasil - WebMD - "Karen Smith-McCune, MD, PhD, associate professor of the department of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive science at the University of California, San Francisco, agrees that the VAERS data don't amount to proof. But Smith-McCune, who has daughters in the age range for Gardasil vaccination, says she's waiting to see the final, published results from Gardasil's phase III clinical trials before she decides whether to let her daughters get vaccinated. Merck presented those results to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in February and plans to publish the findings later this year, Merck spokeswoman Amy Rose tells WebMD by email."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Girls to get cervical cancer vaccination - DutchNews.nl - "All 12-year-old girls will be vaccinated against cervical cancer from September 2009, health minister Ab Klink announced on Tuesday. The minister wants the HPV vaccine to be included in the national vaccination programme so it will be free to everyone, reports the Telegraaf. Klink also wants to run a ‘catch up’ programme to vaccinate girls between 13 and 16 years of age."

* ►July 7, 2008 - Serious Questions About HPV Vaccine (includes video) - Merck’s Gardasil Now Fighting Numerous Reports Of Serious Side Effects - CBS News - "Jamie Venice passed out and had a seizure after her Gardasil shot. “After the seizure I didn’t want to go to bed; I thought I wasn’t going to be able to wake up,” she said. She was lucky compared to Amanda Ratner. She came down with an illness so excruciating, she had to take morphine. Her parents, both doctors, blame Gardasil."

* ►July 7, 2008 - HPV Vaccine Linked To Teen's Paralysis? - Her Father Thinks Gardasil Might Be; Drug's Maker Denies It (includes video) - The Early Show via CBS News

* ►July 7, 2008 - Setting the Record Straight - Jenny's Journey - "Rather, our goal in making Jenny’s sad story public is to locate any possible 'comparables' to Jenny – which could include girls (and even boys) who have not taken Gardasil, but who have experienced a rapid decline and paralysis that is resistant to the many kinds of treatment Jenny already has received."

►July 7, 2008 - Parent wants answers on Gardasil vaccine - United Press International

►July 7, 2008 - GARDASIL IN THE NEWS: HEADED FOR THE OBITS? - Age of Autism

►July 7, 2008 - A New Weapon Against West Nile Virus - This season, the CDC recommends a fourth insect repellent to fight mosquito bites - U.S. News & World Report

►July 7, 2008 - Japanese encephalitis virus causes 'double trouble' to brain - Wiley-Blackwell via EurekAlert!

►July 7, 2008 - Clinical trials on for anti-rabies agent through skin - ChennaiOnline

►July 7, 2008 - What are the Secrets of a Long and Healthy Life? - Study Seeks Long-Lived Families for Answers - NIH News

►July 7, 2008 - NHS 'run like a supermarket war' - Doctors have urged England to follow Scotland's example in avoiding the use of the private sector and competition in the NHS. - BBC

►July 7, 2008 - Natural Bio-Army Trained to Fight Cancer - LiveScience

►July 7, 2008 - 'Multi-target' Immune Therapy Improves Outcomes Of Severe Lupus Nephritis - A new treatment using a combination of drugs targeting different parts of the immune system improves the recovery rate for patients with severe lupus involving the kidneys, according to a new report. - ScienceDaily

►July 6, 2008 - Slowing fish virus a task for all - Boaters, fishermen must be aware of regulations to control VHS spread - Chicago Sun-Times

►July 6, 2008 - Brain fever patients may be saved from post-treatment effects - PTI via The Hindu

►July 6, 2008 - Dr. Desai's Rise and Fall - Scandal engulfs physician who escaped 'hell on earth,' rose to prominence in LV - Las Vegas Review Journal

►July 5, 2008 - Ranbaxy set to launch India's first malaria drug - The Economic Times

►July 3, 2008 - The Avandia Effect - An FDA advisory committee just recommended big changes for diabetes drug development—required cardiovascular outcomes trials. That shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. This should: the recommendations include products with no evidence of a CV signal. Welcome to the new world of drug development. - The RPM Report

►July 3, 2008 - Number of teenagers being treated for hepatitis has quadrupled - The number of teenagers being sent out of county to be treated for Hepatitis B and C has more than quadrupled over the last year. - News & Star, UK

►July 2, 2008 - Pandemic flu exercise successful - Exercise identified strengths, weaknesses of local health-care system - Powell Tribune

* ►July 2, 2008 - Good News for Cervarix? - GSK’s HPV vaccine won’t be brought back to FDA until 2009—but that may be a good outcome if FDA still has questions about the novel adjuvant used in the product. - The RPM Report - "Novartis told analysts on June 4 that it is finding the route for an adjuvanted flu vaccine through FDA trickier than it thought (see here). Jorge Reinhardt even described his adjuvant (MF59) as not a very pharmacologically active ingredient to help assure analysts that it could eventually make it through FDA’s safety review."

* ►July 1, 2008 - HPV Vaccine for Girls and Young Women Posted by Sharyl Attkisson - CBS News Primary Source Blog - "However, the vaccination is not without controversy, including the question of adverse events. Below is a new analysis of records obtained under federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by the conservatively funded Judicial Watch group. The report claims, among other things, that the HPV vaccine can make HPV symptoms worse, contains aluminum, its long term effects on fertility are unknown, and it has not been tested for how it could interact with all the other vaccinations children might be receiving."

* ►July 1, 2008 - Yeast-Based Vaccine Induces Immune Responses and Reduces Tumor Size in Mice - press release - NIH

►July 1, 2008 - Netanya woman in serious condition after falling victim to West Nile Virus - Jerusalem Post

►July 1, 2008 - Recovering from West Nile virus - In severe forms, it attacks the motor neurons that trigger muscle function and can lead to paralysis - Jackson Clarion-Ledger

►July 2008 - Abnormally phosphorylated tau is associated with neuronal and axonal loss in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis - journal article (Brain)

►July 2008 - A novel druglike spleen tyrosine kinase binder prevents anaphylactic shock when administered orally - journal article (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

►July 2008 - Reported food allergy to peanut, tree nuts and fruit: comparison of clinical manifestations, prescription of medication and impact on daily life. - journal article (Allergy)

►July 2008 - Allergic reactions to peanuts, tree nuts, and seeds aboard commercial airliners - journal article (Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology)

►July 2008 - Aggravation of viral hepatitis by platelet-derived serotonin - journal article (Nature Medicine)

►July 2008 - Rare History, Common Disease (requires registration) - A unique population in Quebec is helping reveal the genetics behind common diseases such as heart disease and asthma. But as it loses its isolation, is time running out? - The Scientist

* ►June 30, 2008 - FDA Steps Up Security for Advisory Committees - FDA advisory committees meetings are usually civil discussions of the approvability of a new drug—or even sleepier debates about clinical trial design. But every once in a while, chaos breaks out. And that has led FDA to rethink the way it runs its meetings. - The RPM Report

►June 30, 2008 - Good prognosis, clinical features, and circumstances of peanut and tree nut reactions in children treated by a specialist allergy center - journal article (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

►June 30, 2008 - Mystery surrounds virus which is devastating bee colonies (includes video) - Yorkshire Post

* ►June 30, 2008 - The CDC Says 1 in 150 Children Have Autism; We Say NO! Nonsense! - Autism Salutes

►June 29, 2008 - Prevention best cure - Vaccine vital in fighting HPV disease - Times West Virginian

* ►June 27, 2008 - Vaccine Court Posted by Sharyl Attkisson - CBS News Primary Source Blog - "More than a billion dollars has been paid out to vaccine victims since the court opened its doors in Washington D.C. back in 1988. Statistics regarding the number of claims filed, won, and denied broken down by vaccine type can be found here. Be aware that the raw numbers aren't particularly reflective of much since so few cases make their way to vaccine court."

►June 24, 2008 - Anaphylaxis management plans for the acute and long-term management of anaphylaxis: A systematic review - journal article (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

►June 20, 2008 - Presymptomatic differences in Toll-like receptor function in infants who have allergy - journal article (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

►June 2008 - TNF- promoter polymorphisms in sudden infant death - journal article (Human Immunology) - "Several studies indicate that the immune system is stimulated in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Tumor necrosis factor-greek small letter alpha (TNF-greek small letter alpha) is a proinflammatory cytokine that strongly affects the cytokine cascade."

►June 2008 - 159C>T CD14 genotype—Functional effects on innate immune responses in term neonates - journal article (Human Immunology)

* ►Volume 14 Number 6 - Erythema nodosum - an association with rabies vaccination (full text) - journal article (Dermatology Online Journal)

* ►Evaluation of Encephalopathy/Encephalitis after Virus-Containing Vaccines - CISA Projects via http://vaccinesafety.org

►July 15, 2008 - Population Stratification Bias in the Case-Only Study for Gene-Environment Interactions - journal article (American Journal of Epidemiology)

* ►July 14, 2008 - Kids' combination vaccines cut number of required shots - Advisory panel urges adding new vaccines to the schedule for children 2 months to 6 years. - www.ama-assn.org

* ►July 14, 2008 - News in brief: Professional Issues - Conflict-of-interest scorecard finds few medical schools do top job - www.ama-assn.org - "In the association's PharmFree Scorecard, only seven of 150 schools received an A for their conflict-of-interest policies, while 14 earned a B."

* ►July 14, 2008 - Criminal HIPAA case targets employee, not clinic, for breach - Still, legal experts warn of state civil liabilities for physician practices in such situations. - www.ama-assn.org

* ►July 14, 2008 - Privacy framework for personal health records developed - Major PHR vendors sign on to the AMA-supported standards. - www.ama-assn.org

* ►July 14, 2008 - Medicare's no-pay conditions: Not always preventable - AMA delegates voice strong objections to a new rule that would deny hospitals payment for certain conditions patients develop in the facility. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - Low vitamin D linked to increased risk of heart attack, death - Studies add to the data indicating that not having enough is unhealthy. Physicians are calling for more guidance. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - California bill would mandate discussions of end-of-life options - Doctors agree that patients have a right to know about choices, but most say lawmakers should not meddle in physician-patient relationships. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - Medicare double-delay: Senate fails to act, CMS holds physician claims - The government won't process doctors' Medicare claims until July 15 to give lawmakers more time to pass legislation stopping pay cuts. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - The end is near for CFC-propelled inhalers - With the deadline for the transition to HFA-propelled inhalers less than six months away, millions of patients still rely on the older devices. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - New Medicare hospice rules aim to boost physicians' role - The most significant changes are designed to give patients more rights. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - Medicare's no-pay events: Coping with the complications - A controversial rule has doctors and hospitals struggling with easing the financial sting while still helping high-risk patients. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - Teaching hospitals, residencies win reprieve on Medicaid cuts - CMS has put a temporary halt to new rules that would slash billions from training budgets. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - Know your EMR needs (Towards the Electronic Patient Record conference) - With more vendors entering the industry, experts say, physicians can be choosy about their technology. But first identify your key choices. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - States rapped for lax regulation of individual insurance market - Analysis by a consumer group finds that more Americans are moving to policies that offer them less government protection. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - One answer to EMR data entry: Hire a scribe to do it - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - Technology aids MS detection, but diagnosis still challenging - The use of MRIs to map the condition of the central nervous system has been helpful in identifying the illness. - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - Letters to the Editor - Titles should convey clarity, but "doctor of nursing" will confuse public - A scribe, not an EHR, for efficiency - Gifts and trips are given to physicians with the expectation of a return - Don't limit liability reform to crises - Safety tips an acknowledgment that some practices choose to be armed - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - News in brief: Health & Science - Food diaries, physical activity increase weight loss when dieting - U.S., Vietnam sign food, medical safety agreement - www.ama-assn.org

►July 14, 2008 - News in brief: Government & Medicine - Southwest has highest uninsured rate - Mayors embrace single-payer system - Feds step up health care fraud actions - www.ama-assn.org

* ►July 8, 2008 - Sneaky self destruct vaccine created - OneNews via TVNZ.co.nz - "The researchers genetically engineered a type of Salmonella bacteria to carry a little piece of Streptococcus and dripped it into the mouths of mice. Reporting in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they said the vaccine protected the mice, and the Salmonella carrier blew itself up."

* ►July 8, 2008 - Rising number of primary pupils unable to speak in sentences - The Guardian, UK

►July 8, 2008 - Women denied cancer vaccines - Kathimerini

►July 8, 2008 - Prevention: Rotavirus Vaccine Said to Be Working (requires registration) - The New York Times

►July 8, 2008 - Korea Recognized for Efforts in Fighting Hepatitis B - The Chosun Ilbo

►July 8, 2008 - IACC Strategic Planning Workgroup Meeting - July 8, 2008 - Time:  10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT - Agenda:  Review and comment on the draft IACC Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Research - Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee National Institute of Mental Health, NIH

►July 8, 2008 - Family Justice - The Times, UK - "Family courts: the hidden untouchables - In the second of our special articles, we explain how family courts operate in secrecy"

►July 7, 2008 - The Times Launches UK Family Courts Anti-Secrecy Campaign - The One Click Group

►July 7, 2008 - Parents Beware - Countess Of Mar And Charity Rep Jane Colby - The Countess of Mar and TYMES Trust charity rep Jane Colby attempt to wreck the lives of ME/CFS labelled children - The One Click Group

* ►July 7, 2008 - CoG for Life Asks Medical Profession & Pro-Life families: "Just say no to new aborted fetal vaccine!" - www.cogforlife.org - "Pentacel is a combination vaccine of Diptheria, Pertussis, Tetanus (DTaP) plus HiB and Polio. The polio portion of the vaccine uses aborted fetal cell line MRC-5, taken from the lung tissue of an electively aborted 14-week gestation baby."

* ►July 7, 2008 - Vaccinations resume at Genesis - Quad-City Times - “Based on assurances we received from the manufacturers, we feel that the public health is best served by offering our patients the Centers for Disease Control-recommended vaccination services,” Croken said in a news release issued today. The baby received standard vaccines that protect children from eight diseases, including diphtheria, haemophilus influenzae b, hepatitis B, pertussis, pneumoccal disease, polio, rotavirus and tetanus, Croken said. These vaccines are recommended by the CDC and by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The baby’s autopsy was conducted July 2, according to Brian Gustafson, chief deputy at the Rock Island County Coroner’s office, Rock Island. “We just don’t know yet,” he said of the cause of death. While the initial findings were inconclusive, further genetic testing and toxicology scans have been conducted, he said. Final conclusions will take from three weeks to three months."

* ►July 7, 2008 - Immune Design Aiming To Make Vaccines That Work Better in a Single Shot - xconomy Seattle - "No currently marketed vaccine contains this form of synthetic adjuvant. The adjuvant will be combined with an engineered virus, licensed from the Caltech lab of David Baltimore, that efficiently spreads the immune-booster through the body. In other cases, Immune Design may use key snippets of protein to train the immune system to fight without having the potential to actually make people sick, like weakened live-virus vaccines can."

* ►July 7, 2008 - HPV vaccinations are a choice to ponder seriously - Deseret News

* ►July 7, 2008 - Big Pharma's Change of Heart on Ad Ban Is Too Little, Too Late - Things Could Get Worse as We Start Seeing More Ads for Drugs We Don't Really Need - Advertising Age

* ►July 7, 2008 - Should parents worry about HPV vaccine? (includes video) - CNN - "Gardasil has been the subject of 7,802 'adverse event' reports from the time the Food and Drug Administration approved its use two years ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Girls and women have blamed the vaccine for causing ailments from nausea to paralysis -- even death Fifteen deaths were reported to the FDA, and 10 were confirmed, but the CDC says none of the 10 were linked to the vaccine. The CDC says it continues to study the reports of illness."

* ►July 7, 2008 - HPV Vaccine Victims Pile Up: $1.5B for Merck by Barbara Loe Fisher - Vaccine Awakening

* ►July 7, 2008 - NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter

HPV Vaccine Victims Pile Up: $1.5B for Merck by Barbara Loe Fisher

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While Merck has pulled in $1.5B from sales of GARDASIL vaccine worldwide, there are continuing reports that girls are being crippled and dying after getting the HPV vaccine fast tracked and licensed by the FDA in 2006. Although the roll-out of GARDASIL with an unparalleled multi-million dollar mass media advertising blitz has created a profitable market for the drug company that took huge losses from Vioxx injury/death lawsuits, the persistent reports of Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) paralysis, arthritis, seizures and sudden loss of consciousness within 24 hours of vaccination continue to haunt the marketing campaign.

Last week Judicial Watch issued a report on more than 8,000 GARDASIL reaction reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A search of the VAERS database, which includes reaction reports through April 30, 2008 released to the public by the FDA, reveals nearly 6,700 reports of injury and death after GARDASIL. Two GARDASIL vaccine injury claims recently were filed in the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

Exactly two years ago, NVIC sounded the first public warning about GARDASIL risks pointing out that Merck had not adequately proven the vaccine was safe and effective to give to girls under age 16. NVIC pointed out that pre- licensure trials were flawed because they used an aluminum containing placebo that may have masked the true reactivity of GARDASIL, which also contains 225 mcg of aluminum. Like mercury, aluminum can cause inflammation in the body and kill brain cells.

The fact that Merck had only studied the vaccine in fewer than 1200 girls under age 16 and followed them up for less than two years before licensure did not seem to bother doctors working for the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), who saluted Merck smartly and promptly recommended that all 11 year old girls entering sixth grade get three doses.

By the end of 2006, Merck had marshaled its well- paid lobbying forces bolstered by a flashy television advertising campaign in an unprecedented effort to persuade legislators in every state to turn CDC recommendations into law and pass HPV vaccine mandates. Texas Governor Rick Perry went so far as to issue an Executive Order mandating the vaccine for all sixth grade girls.

GARDASIL had only been on the market for a few months and nobody, including Merck, knew the full range of side effects when GARDASIL was given to millions of girls entering puberty. Nevertheless, the pressure was on young girls, their parents and state legislators to trust blindly that the vaccine had no real risks.

In early 2007, NVIC again warned the public that there were significant risks associated with GARDASIL, especially when it was combined with other vaccines. NVIC warned that there was evidence that giving GARDASIL during active HPV infection may increase the risk for cervical cancer while girls were not being tested for active HPV infection before getting vaccinated. NVIC also advised that girls should not drive home after getting the shot because of the risk for sudden loss of consciousness after leaving the doctor's office.

In March 2007, the CDC admitted that there was no scientific evidence that GARDASIL can be safely co- administered with other vaccines (like TDaP, meningococcal, varicella, MMR, influenza). Even so, without a second thought, the CDC urged doctors to assume safety and go ahead and give GARDASIL simultaneously with other vaccines.

By end of May 2007 almost every state had rejected proposed mandates for GARDASIL vaccine and there were more than 2,000 GARDASIL adverse events reported to VAERS. In August 2007, NVIC released a comprehensive analysis of GARDASIL reaction reports to VAERS and a critique of the CDC's universal use recommendation. In a letter, NVIC asked the CDC to warn doctors that the simultaneous administration of Menactra with GARDASIL increases the risk for GBS and other serious adverse event reports.

The CDC chose to blow off NVIC's report and do nothing.

Two years after licensure, it is clear that GARDASIL has plenty of risks for young girls. Among the more than 130 GARDASIL reaction reports that have been filed with NVIC's 26-year old Vaccine Reaction Registry is one that was posted by a mother, who witnessed what happened to her daughter on the International Memorial for Vaccine Victims.

Amanda's mother describes her daughter as "a beautiful, active girl that was brought down." Only 14 when she was vaccinated, Amanda "became weak, tired and sick to her stomach" but the symptoms subsided. One week after the second HPV vaccination, her legs "became very weak and she started losing feeling in her feet." She was hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit for four days with a diagnosis of Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

Amanda's mother said "The doctors thought we were CRAZY when we mentioned that the HPV vaccine could cause this."

"Amanda is constantly sick," says her Mom. "Something has suppressed her immune system so badly she can barely function. The depression got really bad because she is experiencing a lot of pain in her knees now and can't do any sports. She was once very active and right now can barely go to school We were told me her doctors that there is nothing more that they can do and that she could use a good psychiatrist."

How many more girls like Amanda and her mother have had their futures stolen by a vaccine that is supposed to prevent a viral infection that is cleared without any residual effects by more than 90 percent of all who get it to prevent a cancer that causes less than 1 percent of all new cancer cases and cancer deaths in the U.S. every year? Did Amanda and her mother know that cervical cancer can be prevented nearly 100 percent of the time with annual pap smears and early intervention when pre-cancerous cervical lesions are diagnosed?

Or did Amanda's Mom believe Amanda would be "one less" because a pediatrician told her so?

NVIC continues to receive reports from grieving mothers and fathers who can't find doctors to treat their once-healthy daughters who are now chronically ill and disabled after being injected with GARDASIL. In almost every case, the doctors are denying the vaccine had anything to do with what happened.

The tragic denial by the medical profession of the harm vaccines can do continues decade after decade after decade. When will doctors stop being marketers of pharmaceutical products and implementers of government policy and embrace the moral imperative to "first, do no harm?"

The "its all a coincidence" defense mounted by doctors when something bad happens after vaccination is illogical, unscientific and dangerous. When will Americans get up off their knees and stop worshipping men and women in white coats who do not know what they are doing?
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"Katherine Kimzey started suffering debilitating headaches, fainting spells and arthritis-like stiffness last November. Six weeks later, the 14-year-old Dallas resident became so dizzy she could barely walk. She was hospitalized and missed three weeks of school. Then, she had a seizure. For weeks, she bounced back and forth between specialists and was eventually diagnosed with epilepsy. Katherine's mother, Michelle Kimzey, now believes her daughter's symptoms were caused by a new vaccine that was supposed to protect her against cervical cancer...... The HPV vaccine has generated debate across the country and in Texas. Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order in February 2007 requiring that all sixth-grade girls get the HPV shot. But angry parents and conservative groups fought the mandate, fearing it condoned premarital sex and took away parental rights. The Legislature defeated the order last April. The National Vaccine Information Center heralded the decision, saying that testing of the vaccine was not extensive enough in girls under 12. The nonprofit center had already started warning about the possibility of adverse reactions such as extreme fatigue, arthritis and loss of consciousness. Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the center, said she's frustrated that the CDC has "assumed safety" for Gardasil, which has been tested only in conjunction with the vaccine for Hepatitis B. Today, girls often receive the Gardasil shot at the same time as a meningitis vaccine and another new booster that immunizes against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. The FDA has approved all the vaccines separately, but studies on administering them together are still ongoing. "Not only was Gardasil put on the fast track and licensed quickly," said Ms. Fisher, "but to say safety is assumed and you can give any vaccine with it is even more shocking." - Jessica Myers, Dallas Morning News (June 6, 2008)
http: //www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/local news/stories/DN- vaccine_06met.ART.North.Edition1.46ef875.html

"Gardasil has been a shot in the arm for pharmaceutical giant Merck. The company had been reeling from the withdrawal of its anti-arthritis drug Vioxx because of increased risk of heart attacks and resulting lawsuits. Now, however, Merck's new vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV) - aimed at combating cervical cancer - has been deployed worldwide, earning an estimated $1.5 billion in sales. But the drug is coming under increasing fire from anti-vaccine activists. Already very vocal about childhood innoculations, now they are expressing concern about the effects of Merck's drug on young girls, a primary focus of the company's big ad campaign....."This issue is not going away as more and more vaccines are brought to the market," Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) who became an activist after a serious reaction in her son to a DPT vaccine (a combined innoculation against Diptheria, Whooping Cough - pertussis - and Tetanus). Fisher, who has served on an Federal Drug Administration consumer advisory committee on vaccines, takes issue with the CDC's read of the VAERS Gardasil reports. Her organization, NVIC, has called on the CDC and FDA to warn the public that Gardasil has been associated with at least 15 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), an autoimmune disorder; and it says there is an increased risk for GBS when Gardasil is co- administered with other vaccines, particularly Menactra, a meningitis vaccine....NVIC is concerned about the growing number of vaccinations required by schools and the push, in some public health quarters, to mandate more vaccines. The political fight has been taken to New York and New Jersey. New York state public health officials have endorsed state legislation that would take the CDC's recommended vaccine list for children and declare it to be mandatory, Fisher says, and she sees that as a move that should alarm parents. Vaccinations should be voluntary, Fisher says, and be made with "informed consent" by parents." - Hilary Hylton-Austin, Time/CNN (June 19, 2008) http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1816507,00.html

"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released a report based on new documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing reports of adverse reactions to the vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil. The adverse reactions include 10 deaths since September, 2007. (The total number of death reports is at least 18 and as many as 20.) The FDA also produced 140 "serious" reports (27 of which were categorized as "life threatening"), 10 spontaneous abortions and six cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome - all since January 2008." - Judicial Watch (June 30, 2008)
http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2008/jun/judicial-watch-uncovers-new-fda-records-detailing-ten-new-deaths-140-serious-adverse-e

"About a month after being vaccinated against the cervical cancer-causing HPV virus, 13- year-old Jenny Tetlock missed the lowest hurdle in gym class, the first hint of the degenerative muscle disease that, 15 months later, has left the previously healthy teenager nearly completely paralyzed....Her father, Philip Tetlock, a psychology professor at UC- Berkeley's Haas School of Business, has embarked on an odyssey to find out whether the vaccine or random coincidence is to blame..... Tetlock, though, wonders if Jenny carries genes that predisposed her to problems with the Gardasil vaccine. At age 10, Jenny developed a rare skin disease called pityriasis lichenoides that's thought to be triggered by an overactive immune system, and her grandmother died of a nervous system disease. Could it be that certain genetic tendencies make some people more likely to develop severe reactions from vaccines?....Jenny endures terrible suffering each day."..... "She must watch her capacity to control her own body gradually ebb away-and each day her hopes of ever having a normal human life recede ever further into memory. The disease is cruel beyond belief." - Deborah Kotz, US News & World Report (July 2, 2008)
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/on-women/2008/07/02/is-hpv-vaccine-to-blame-for-a-teens-paralysis.html


"Lawyers last month filed the first two claims on behalf of girls with ailments blamed on Gardasil under a federal program to compensate victims of vaccine-caused illness, The Post has learned. Both girls got the injections at their middle schools. One is Jesalee Parsons, now 15, of Oklahoma, who began vomiting the day she got a Gardasil shot and developed pancreatitis, her claim says. "It makes me mad because they're saying how great it is, but they never mention how many people have been hurt by it," Jesalee told The Post. Healthy all her life, her family says, Jesalee has been hospitalized on and off for more than a year. She restricts her diet, takes pain pills and misses many school days. "I'm pretty sick all the time," she said. The other claim was filed for Jessica Vega of Nevada, who came down with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an immune-system disorder, at age 14 - a week after her second Gardasil shot. Thirty others have reported the syndrome after getting the vaccine. JESSICA'S mom, Rhonda Vega, says the girl's lower legs and arms were paralyzed, but she's learned to walk again. "Protecting girls against cervical cancer is a fabulous thing, but if this is what's going to happen, they need to research it more," she said......Merck spokeswoman Kelley Dougherty said the company "actively monitors" reports of side effects. "An event report does not mean that a causal relationship between an event and vaccination has been established - just that the event occurred after vaccination," she said. - Susan Edelman and Bruce Golding, New York Post (July 6, 2008)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07062008/news/nationalnews/feds_warning_shot_118716.htm

* ►July 7, 2008 - CDC reports almost 8,000 adverse reactions to cervical vaccine in U.S. - CBC

* ►July 7, 2008 - Merck slides on worries over a vaccine's sales - Merck & Co. shares fell sharply Monday amid concerns raised in a research note by UBS about how sales of its new vaccine Gardasil are faring. - MarketWatch

* ►July 7, 2008 - Cancer virus in breast milk? - Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal via Reuters Health via Health24.com - "Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16), which has been linked to cervical cancer, can be detected in human breast milk collected during the early period after a woman delivers her baby, doctors from Finland report. It is possible that HPV DNA present in breast milk may be transmitted to the infant during breast feeding, study chief Dr Stina Syrjanen suggested in correspondence with Reuters Health."

* ►July 7, 2008 - Gardasil Associated with Paralysis - Newsinferno.com

►July 7, 2008 - Gardasil Under Scrutiny - WKBW.com

►July 7, 2008 - Complaints About Cervical Cancer Vaccine Put It Under Scrutiny (includes video) - KOLD.com

►July 7, 2008 - Is Gardasil Safe? - Our pediatrician weighs in. - Mom Logic

►July 7, 2008 - Gardasil Paralyzes Jenny Tetlock? Suits Befall Merck, 8,000 Complaints - Post Chronicle

►July 7, 2008 - Cervical cancer vaccine causes concern - KABC ABC 7

►July 7, 2008 - Taking a Shot at Cervical Cancer - HPV vaccines continue to offer hope for prevention. - CancerConsultants.com

* ►July 7, 2008 - Autism Invitation: IACC Conference Call on 7/8 - Age of Autism

* ►July 7, 2008 - Dr. Renee Jenkins: Channeling Paul Offit's Bullshit By J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

►July 7, 2008 - Teaching Police How To Deal With Those With Autism - Adventures in Autism

►July 7, 2008 - Shannon Johnson's Thank You Campaign - Adventures in Autism

►July 7, 2008 - Targeting the womb, Down syndrome, disabilities - Newsday

►July 7, 2008 - IAC Express 2008 Issue number 740 - Immunization Action Coalition - "New Jersey and Vermont expand school vaccination requirements; West Virginia allows pharmacists to vaccinate"

* ►July 7, 2008 - Feds target children with live flu vaccine - Formula planned for possibly millions contains virus that can spread on contact - World Net Daily - "The federal government plans to give children – possibly millions of them – a live influenza vaccine they could transmit to anyone with whom they come into contact. The vaccinations could start as early as a few weeks from now, and the infections could be spread for up to three weeks following the vaccinations, officials confirmed. Each half milliliter portion of the formula, called FluMist, contains particles of 'live, attenuated influenza virus,' writes Robert Carrillo on his extensive blog posting about the vaccine."

►July 7, 2008 - Wise or Not? Doctors Sound Off on Cholesterol Tests for Kids - Doctors Debate If Widespread Tests Save Lives, or Waste Money - ABC News

►July 7, 2008 - What's Wrong With The CDC's Final Report On Formaldehyde In The FEMA Trailers? - The Methodology Leaves Something To Be Desired - press release - Interscan Corporation via Expertclick

* ►July 7, 2008 - When courage and conscience collide - guest commentary - The Denver Post

►July 7, 2008 - Family justice: the secret state that steals our children - The Times, UK via Real Fathers for Justice

* ►July 7, 2008 - FDA seeks suicide warning on anti-seizure drugs - FDA scientists want black box warning about suicide risks on seizure drugs used by millions - AP via CNNMoney

* ►July 7, 2008 - Cholesterol Screening Is Urged for Young (requires registration) - The New York Times - "Because statins have been around since only the mid-1980s, there is no evidence to show whether giving statins to a child will lower the risk for heart attack in middle age. The academy also now recommends giving children low-fat milk after 12 months if a doctor is concerned about future weight problems. Although children need fat for brain development, the group says that because children often consume so much fat, low-fat milk is now appropriate."

* ►July 7, 2008 - Slip Slidin' Away - Scientific integrity and the rot in the UK Government - Scientific Misconduct Blog - "This week sees a new furore over the appointment of a GlaxoSmithKline Senior Vice President (Paul Blackburn) to the board of the education watchdog Ofsted. Any last shred of credibility of the UK Labour government is gone. The implications of this despicable appointment are obvious to anyone who has followed the various ins and outs of misrepresented science and government collusion with GSK. Much of this bad science involved children. It certainly involved deaths and much human suffering."

►July 7, 2008 - Dean Edward J Wing and integrity at Brown Medical School - Scientific Misconduct Blog

►July 7, 2008 - Crawling the Web: HIV and RNAi - Scientist Live

►July 7, 2008 - Doctors extract cancer cells from blood sample - Reuters

►July 7, 2008 - Salmonella probe turns to peppers, cilantro - CBC

►July 7, 2008 - FDA not blocking imports in salmonella inquiry - The Packer

►July 7, 2008 - Older Dads Make for Riskier Pregnancies - Wall Street Journal Health Blog

►July 7, 2008 - Biological Clocks Tick for Men, Too - Men's Fertility Plummets in Late 30s, Early 40s - ABC News

►July 7, 2008 - CDC recommends UV or ozone disinfection for pools - Water Technology Online

* ►July 7, 2008 - Home Dangers: New Cause of Diabetes - News4Jax.com - "Anniston was home to one of only two U.S. plants that made polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs from the late 20s to the 1970s. 'Diabetes is one thing that can happen and that probably happens because these chemicals can affect glucose metabolism,' Dr. Silverstone said."

►July 7, 2008 - Can "Bird Flu" Be Eradicated Forever? - Top News US Edition

►July 7, 2008 - Draft Guidance for Industry: Use of Nucleic Acid Tests to Reduce the Risk of Transmission of West Nile Virus From Donors of Whole Blood and Blood Components Intended for Transfusion and Donors of Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue-Based Products; Request for Data - FDA/CBER

►July 7, 2008 - What’s going on with Ebola? I thought it was going to kill us all. - Scienceonline

* ►July 7, 2008 - Military Unit Will Expand Infectious Disease Tracking - iHealthBeat

* ►July 7, 2008 - GSK looks to gov. agencies for R&D advice - FierceBiotech

►July 7, 2008 - Glaxo Seeks Guidance From Health Systems (free content) - The Wall Street Journal

►July 7, 2008 - Doctors Press Senate to Undo Medicare Cuts (requires registration) - The New York Times

►July 7, 2008 - India Lets Pharma Challenge Compulsory Licenses - FierceBiotech

►July 7, 2008 - And The Weather Report Calls For A Cloudy Future - Pharmalot

►July 7, 2008 - Doctors turn away 'chronic' patients - State capitals are feeling the brunt of the nation's doctor shortage, with GPs in these previously well-served areas shutting their doors to new patients due to overwhelming demand. - The Australian

* ►July 7, 2008 - Letter: Country doctors better on Lyme - The News-Times - "One quickly realizes by attending one of the Lyme disease task force meetings of about 300 victims -- about half having effects of Lyme that were untreated for a year or more -- that untreated Lyme sets up conditions for many other illnesses, many far worse than Bell's palsy. Statistically, the percentage of severe cases is low, yet amounting to tens of thousands in Connecticut, a major epidemic by any standards. It is so massive that positive correlations now exist between Lyme disease epidemic states and MS, ALS, Parkinson's and even Alzheimer's."

►July 7, 2008 - Global economic crisis: Growth, pay rises and job security in a changing climate - Hays Pharma

►July 7, 2008 - HIV prophylaxis following occupational exposure. - New York State Department of Health via www.guideline.gov

►July 7, 2008 - HIV prophylaxis following non-occupational exposure including sexual assault. - New York State Department of Health via www.guideline.gov

►July 7, 2008 - TB identified as leading cause of AIDS-related death in Rio de Janeiro - Aidsmap

►July 7, 2008 - Awful news — but not a fatal blow - The Times

►July 7, 2008 - BD Announces CE Marking of a New Molecular Test to Diagnose Patients with Clostridium difficile Infections - BD GeneOhm(TM) Cdiff Assay Submitted for FDA Clearance - PRNewswire-FirstCall via Interest!Alert

►July 7, 2008 - New rules for healthcare (requires registration or subscription) - A focus on chronic disease would mean lower costs and easier access. - Los Angeles Times

►July 7, 2008 - Genetic haul lifts hopes on Crohn's - Researchers find 32 links to disease - The Boston Globe

* ►July 7, 2008 - Decline in breast-feeding leads to child malnutrition - China Economic Net

* ►July 6, 2008 - Who’s Minding The Children? In The UK, It’s Glaxo? - Pharmalot - "A scandal is mushrooming because the Schools Secretary has appointed a Glaxo exec to the board of the government’s official education watchdog agency, known as Ofsted. And the move occurred less than a month before the government awarded a reported $200 million contract to Glaxo for its HPV vaccine for school-age girls 12 years and older, which some parents fear will give a green light to teenage sex, The Daily Mail reports."

* ►July 6, 2008 - Sex During Adolescence Doesn't Predict Future HPV Infection - Pediatrics via Newswise via Interest!Alert

* ►July 6, 2008 - FDA should take steps to challenge bogus immunity claims - Health News Track

►July 6, 2008 - Janice Poirot, public health nurse: Health info crucial - Steamboat Pilot & Today

* ►July 6, 2008 - CYFD Fights 'Medicine Man': State wants to terminate parental rights of home-schooling dad - Albuquerque Journal via McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX via Tradingcharts.com

►July 6, 2008 - Repair for mental impairment? - Nature Medicine via The Philadelphia Inquirer

►July 6, 2008 - Grades can't tell the whole story about doctors - Michael Kirsch, a gastroenterologist - editorial - The Plain Dealer

►July 6, 2008 - Lots of healing in Henrico - From ChapStick to Robitussin, the local Wyeth plant hums - Richmond Times-Dispatch

►July 6, 2008 - Ozone therapy, an answer to 200 diseases - IBN Live

►July 6, 2008 - Keeping it clean - New landmark study confirms the importance of home and personal hygiene in reducing infectious diseases and infections. - cloveTWO.com

* ►July 6, 2008 - Autism Experts to Meet - Two Controversial Cases (NYT) - Alliance for Human Protection

►July 6, 2008 - Autism Advocacy at the Federal Level: Let Them Hear Your Voice - Autismville

►July 6, 2008 - GSK Board Member On UK Education Board as GSK Wins 200 Mil HPV Vaccine Contract - Adventures in Autism

►July 6, 2008 - Cheeky chops - Swelling of the parotid salivary glands gives this disease its trademark look. - Herald Sun via www.news.com.au - "Sometimes a person infected with mumps may have few or possibly even no symptoms, but they are still infectious."

►July 6, 2008 - The challenge of autism - Dickinson Press

* ►July 5, 2008 - Land Of The Free Or Home Of Tyranny? - Rush judgment not rash - www.healthtruthrevealed.com - "A Colorado couple gave birth to their first child and were informed that a screening test cited the mother as positive for Hepatitis B, and therefore the newborn would be vaccinated immediately. The new parents' joys were turned to horror. They said there must be a mistake and refused the vaccination. Armed guards were brought in to ensure the vaccination was administered. Subsequent testing very shortly thereafter confirmed that the new mother did NOT in fact have Hepatitis B."

►July 5, 2008 - HEALTHCARE REPORT: AMERICANS PAYING MORE FOR LESS - NewsWithViews via www.healthtruthrevealed.com

►July 5, 2008 - Are You Dying To Lower Your Cholesterol? - Forgoodnesssake123.com via www.healthtruthrevealed.com

►July 5, 2008 - Parent Collaboration is Critical to Success in ABA Treatment for Autism - Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention via The Autism Retort 2008

►July 5, 2008 - Lyme disease mystery might have been solved - Newsday via The News Tribune

►July 5, 2008 - What Does It Mean To Say A Pricey Drug Works? - Pharmalot - "That’s one of a series of questions asked - yet again - about Genentech’s Avastin, which is approved for treating advanced lung, colon or breast cancer by cutting a tumor’s blood supply. The med is widely used, despite a price tag of up to $100,000 a year. Studies, however, show Avastin prolongs life by only a few months and may not be as effective as once thought."

►July 5, 2008 - NHS role 'could be more profound' - Public health experts have called for a radical extension in the role of the NHS to protect people from sickness. - BBC News

* ►July 4, 2008 - Science into policy: preparing for pandemic influenza (full text) - journal article (Journal of Public Health)

* ►July 4, 2008 - Sex education 'should begin at four' - Mandatory sex and relationship education for children as young as four is needed to reduce the rising teenage STI and abortion rate, according to two leading sexual health charities. - BBC

* ►July 4, 2008 - Molecular Epidemiology and pathogenic Potential of underdiagnosed human Papillomavirus Types (pdf) - journal article (BMC Microbiology)

►July 4, 2008 - Drug Use Highest In U.S. - PloS Medicine via Ivanhoe

* ►July 4, 2008 - Baby dies after ‘vaccination’ - “Exact cause of death can be ascertained only after visceral analysis is done” - The Hindu - "Krishnagiri: A two-month old female baby died reportedly after being given Diptheria-Pertussis-Tetanus (DPT) and Hepatitis B vaccination shots at Kappalvadi near Bargur on Wednesday. According to sources, the baby developed fever 11 hours after being administered the vaccines at the Kappalvadi Primary Health Centre. The parents gave tablets as prescribed by a doctor at the PHC. Though the temperature came down initially, it shot up again. The baby developed diarrhoea and the parents rushed the child to a private hospital in Bargur. Doctors on duty referred the baby to the Krishnagiri Government Hospital. However, it died on way to the hospital."

* ►July 3, 2008 - The cradle, not the grave - A chance observation may help explain why some babies die unexpectedly - The Economist

* ►July 3, 2008 - What’s new in autism? - journal article (European Journal of Pediatrics)

►July 3, 2008 - 'Deadliest' malaria rising in UK - More cases of the most dangerous type of malaria than ever before are being brought back to the UK from trips abroad, official figures show. - BBC

►July 3, 2008 - Pesticides and Degradation Products Detected in Ground Water - Beyond Pesticide

►July 3, 2008 - New FASEB head focuses on election (requires registration) - The Scientist

►July 3, 2008 - Platelets in Allergy - journal article (Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology)

►July 3, 2008 - Antipsychotics curb violence in some schizophrenics - Reuters Health

►July 3, 2008 - In mice, “youth” drug prolongs vigor but not life: report - Cell Me­tab­o­lism via World Science

* ►July 2, 2008 - Children Must Be Protected Against Hepatitis, Warns ABPI - www.abpi.org.uk via PharmiWeb - “A programme needs to be put into place to ensure that all British children are inoculated against Hepatitis B,” said ABPI Medical Director, Dr Richard Tiner. “It is a matter of public health. Much of the rest of Europe operates mass childhood vaccination programmes; it is time that the UK followed suit."

►July 2, 2008 - Synthetic Molecules Emulate Enzyme Behavior for the First Time - Ohio State University via Biocompare

►July 2, 2008 - Atoms found to interact unexpectedly - Nature via World Science

►July 2, 2008 - Child Immunization - New Plague of the 20th Century? (blog) - psychic reading

►July 1, 2008 - Offspring from mothers fed a 'junk food' diet in pregnancy and lactation exhibit exacerbated adiposity that is more pronounced in females. - journal article (The Journal of Physiology)

* ►July 1, 2008 - Human Rights Petition Challenges U.S. Environmental Racism - AEHR's via Beyond Pesticide 

* ►July 2008 - Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: The Policy Debate Over the Prevention of Cervical Cancer-A Commentary. - journal article (Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease)

►July 2008 - GroEL as a molecular scaffold for structural analysis of the anthrax toxin pore - journal article (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)

►July 2008 - Serotype distribution and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from children in China younger than 5 years - journal article (Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease)

►July 2008 - Cell-Cycle Control Protein Expression Is Disrupted in Anogenital Condylomata Infected With Low-Risk Human Papillomavirus Types. - journal article (Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease)

►July 2008 - fMRI reveals distinct CNS processing during symptomatic and recovered complex regional pain syndrome in children - journal article (Brain)

►July 2008 - In vitro synergism of β-lactams with ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin against genetically distinct multidrug-resistant isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa - journal article (International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)

►July 2008 - Formulary decisions for pre-1938 medications - journal article (American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy)

►July 2008 - Intranasally administered corticosteroids and neuropsychiatric disturbances: a review of the International Pharmacovigilance Programme of the World Health Organization - journal article (Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology)

►June 30, 2008 - Mother's junk food 'harms child' - Eating a poor diet when pregnant or breastfeeding may cause long-lasting health damage to the child, animal studies suggest. - BBC

►June 30, 2008 - Neural markers of a greater female responsiveness to social stimuli - journal article (BMC Neuroscience)

* ►June 29, 2008 - Revised Doctors Oath - 1st July is celebrated as Doctors Day world over.  Hippocrates Oath, being centuries old, is revised by Dr. Leo Rebello - IMC India

►June 29, 2008 - A place for Alex: Mom struggles to keep family together despite son's severe autism - The Daily News

►June 27, 2008 - Mahopac schools sued over abuse allegations - The Journal News

►June 23, 2008 - Microbix to build flu vaccine plant in China - Reuters via Financial Post

►June 20, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines? - WebMD Blog

►June 4, 2008 - Staphylococcus aureus Community-Acquired Pneumonia During the 2006 to 2007 Influenza Season - journal article (Annals of Emergency Medicine)

* ►Spring/Summer 2008 - Rattling Autism's Lock on the Brain - UMDNJ Magazine

►August 27, 2007 - Judge: RISD must pay for girl's care - Private treatment for behavior disorders could strain schools - Dallas Morning News

►1992 - The systemic availability of oral glutathione. - journal article (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology)

►Vaccines: A Workshop for Parents and Practitioners  08-Jul-2008  7:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Barrie, Ontario, Canada - Organization Wholistic Moms Group of Barrie - Barrie.ca - "Many parents have concerns about vaccines, ranging from their ingredients to the possible side effects to the number their children are being asked to have at such a young age. Dr. Larry Palevsky, a pediatrician from New York City, will be discussing vaccine awareness. This workshop is designed to give parents the information and data they need to make an INFORMED DECISION as to whether or not vaccinations are right for their family."

►Comparing Natural Immunity With Vaccines By Trevor Gunn - Tuesday July 15th 2008. This is a Part Two presentation.7.30pm Educare Small School, Cowleaze Road, KT2 6DZ - Wednesday July 16th 2008. This is a Part Two presentation. Monday 22 Sept 2008 - Part 1 and Monday 29 Sept 2008 - Part 2 Talks start at 8pm in Forest Row Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row East Sussex.