►July 15, 2008 - Human Tuberculosis due to Mycobacterium bovis in the United States, 1995-2005 (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 15, 2008 - Prospective Study of Serologic Tests for Lyme Disease - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 15, 2008 - The Relationship between Age and the Manifestations of and Mortality Associated with Severe Malaria - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 15, 2008 - Human Bocavirus in Children Hospitalized for Acute Gastroenteritis: A Case-Control Study - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 15, 2008 - Risk of Infection and Death due to Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Long-Term Carriers - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 15, 2008 - Shiga Toxin-Negative Attaching and Effacing Escherichia coli: Distinct Clinical Associations with Bacterial Phylogeny and Virulence Traits and Inferred In-Host Pathogen Evolution - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 15, 2008 - Molecular Epidemiology of Candidemia: Evidence of Clusters of Smoldering Nosocomial Infections (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►July 1, 2008 - Characteristics of an Ideal Rotavirus Vaccine - journal article (Clinical Pediatrics)

* ►July 1, 2008 - Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates for Pediatric Asthmatics by Use of an Asthma Educational Tool and a Patient Electronic Care System - journal article (Clinical Pediatrics)

►July 1, 2008 - Immunization of Malignant Melanoma Patients with Full-Length NY-ESO-1 Protein Using TLR7 Agonist Imiquimod as Vaccine Adjuvant - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►July 1, 2008 - Functional Tolerance of CD8+ T Cells Induced by Muscle-Specific Antigen Expression - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►July 1, 2008 - A 10-Year Prospective Study of Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children with Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection - journal article (The Journal of Pediatrics)

►July 1, 2008 - Haemophilus influenzae Interacts with the Human Complement Inhibitor Factor H - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►July 1, 2008 - Acrolein Inhalation Suppresses Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Inflammatory Cytokine Production but Does Not Affect Acute Airways Neutrophilia - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►July 1, 2008 - Latex allergy: new insights to explain different sensitization profiles in different risk groups - journal article (British Journal of Dermatology)

* ►July 1, 2008 - Use of mental health services and complementary and alternative medicine in persons with common mental disorders - journal article (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica)

* ►July 2008 - The diminishment of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) by neuropeptide alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (-MSH) therapy - journal article (Brain, Behavior, and Immunity)

►July 2008 - The Quality of the Early Motor Repertoire in Preterm Infants Predicts Minor Neurologic Dysfunction at School Age - journal article (The Journal of Pediatrics)

►July 2008 - Ready-to-use introduction schedules for first exposure to allergenic foods in children at home - journal article (Allergy)

►July 2008 - Resistance to Intravenous Immunoglobulin in Children with Kawasaki Disease - journal article (The Journal of Pediatrics)

►July 2008 - Faecal calprotectin as reliable non-invasive marker to assess the severity of mucosal inflammation in children with inflammatory bowel disease - journal article (Digestive and Liver Disease)

►July 2008 - The Tick Salivary Protein Salp15 Inhibits the Killing of Serum-Sensitive Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Isolates - journal article (Infection and Immunity)

►July 2008 - Transposition of Three Amino Acids Transforms the Human Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor (mGluR)-3-Positive Allosteric Modulation Site to mGluR2, and Additional Characterization of the mGluR2-Positive Allosteric Modulation Site - journal article (Journal of Pharmacology)

►July 2008 - Campylobacter jejuni response to human mucin MUC2: modulation of colonization and pathogenicity determinants - journal article (Journal of Microbiology)

* ►June 22, 2008 - Mad rush for rabies jabs - The London Times - “We recommend that anyone visiting the developing world gets the rabies preexposure vaccine,” says Paul Goodyer, of Nomad Travel Clinics, which still has stocks."

►June 22, 2008 - Kissing disease still a curse for the young and the feverish - The Age, AU

►June 22, 2008 - CDC confirms more enterovirus cases, now totaling 232 - Taipei Times

►June 22, 2008 - Hope for meningococcal vaccine - A vaccine for meningococcal disease could almost wipe out the killer infection in Australia. - Melbourne Herald Sun via www.news.com.au - "In a significant breakthrough, international scientists have successfully tested a new vaccine for meningococcal B on 150 children....While stressing the trials were in their early phases, Dr Jim Buttery, an infectious diseases pediatrician at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, said it was a 'really important step' in the fight against the feared disease."

* ►June 22, 2008 - A shot at life - As children in Africa die from meningitis and pneumonia, a doctor races to deliver a vaccine, writes Matthew Benns. - Sydney Morning Herald

* ►June 22, 2008 - Chinese deal called off in race to beat bird flu - WHO offers funding and expertise to set up vaccine plant - Bangkok Post

* ►June 22, 2008 - CDC action at germ lab questioned (requires registration or subscription) - Atlanta Journal-Constitution - "At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new $214 million infectious disease laboratory in Atlanta, scientists are conducting experiments on bioterror bacteria in a room with a containment door sealed with duct tape. The tape was applied around the edges of the door a year ago after the building's ventilation system malfunctioned and pulled potentially contaminated air out of the lab and into a 'clean' hallway."

* ►June 21, 2008 - David Kirby: CDC: Vaccine Study Used Flawed Methods - The Huffington Post - "(NOTE: My original post on this topic mischaracterized the 2003 CDC vaccine investigation as an 'Ecological Study,' which it was not. I am reposting this piece to reflect that information accurately, but also to point out that many of the weaknesses identified in the CDC's data and methods apply to the published 2003 'retrospective cohort' study, as much as they do to any future 'ecological' ones. I regret and apologize for the error.)"

* ►June 21, 2008 - RECOVERY STORY: KALE - Kale’s Journey - Presented By Generation Rescue (includes video) - Age of Autism

* ►June 21, 2008 - Over 350 attend autism conference - Pittsburg Morning Sun

* ►June 21, 2008 - Out of school, into the home - A Henrico mother chooses home schooling over special education for her two autistic children - inRich.com - "According to the Home School Legal Defense Association, based in Purcellville, thousands of families nationwide home-school special-needs children. 'We are inundated with calls,' said Betty Statnick, special-needs coordinator at the association. 'I've been here since 1995. Two-and-a-half years ago we had to hire a second person, and just recently a third, to deal with it.'"

* ►June 21, 2008 - ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FOR U.S. PERMANENT RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS: Technical Instructions for Vaccination, 2008 - Dobson Immigration Law & Policy Blog - "Among several new requirements is the human papillomavirus vaccine for females age 11 through 26. This particular vaccine has received a significant amount of news coverage recently, especially when government organizations considered making this a mandatory vaccine for certain U.S. residents."

►June 21, 2008 - Immunization saving lives in Africa - A revitalised global effort to improve immunisation programmes and strengthen health systems in the poorest countries is saving an increasing number of lives and making a significant impact towards achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals. - Africa Science News

►June 21, 2008 - Story of girl's illness makes national news - Hickory Daily Record - "By the time Mandy Young was 9 years old, she’d had meningitis three times, a stroke, seizures, an abscess on her abdomen and gangrene that caused the amputation of her leg and hip."

►June 21, 2008 - Judge rules in favor of Cashion schools - AP via KTEN.com - "The Cashion School District has won the latest round in a claim that the district wasn't providing a proper education to two sisters with autism."

►June 21, 2008 - Cashion autism case might not be finished - NewsOK.com

* ►June 21, 2008 - Veteran Guinea Pigs - NewsWithViews.com

►June 21, 2008 - T-shirt sales to fund vaccines - The Yomiuri Shimbun

►June 21, 2008 - Lewiston practice honored for immunization efforts - SunJournal.com

* ►June 21, 2008 - US health official: Complacency is 'public health enemy No. 1' - AP via International Herald Tribune - "Gerberding said events in her own backyard forced her to think about just how closely people, animals and the environment are linked and how many people do not make the connection until they are directly affected. 'Three years ago, my husband was mowing the lawn on a Tuesday night and acquired a West Nile virus infection and developed encephalitis in my backyard — literally,' she said in her speech at the three-day International Congress on Infectious Diseases. 'A year ago, I adopted a stray cat that I found in this backyard ... but amazingly she was carrying cat-scratch disease and I acquired it from her.'"

►June 21, 2008 - World not fully prepared for flu pandemic: expert - Reuters India

►June 21, 2008 - Experts: Bird flu may worsen global food crisis - AP via USA Today

►June 21, 2008 - Exercise prepares county for outbreak - Times Bulletin

►June 21, 2008 - Limited flu shots available this year - The Review - "Some elderly residents who relied on the Columbiana County Health Department for their flu shots will have to go elsewhere this year."

* ►June 21, 2008 - Too little but not too late: Results of a literature review to improve routine immunization programs in developing countries (pdf) - journal article (BMC Health Services Research)

* ►June 21, 2008 - CDC, Aventis Pasteur Plan to Address Influenza Vaccine Shortages (blog) - infections news

►June 21, 2008 - Health experts: Global fight against bird flu remains weak, can worsen global food crisis -  AP via Yahoo!

►June 21, 2008 - Novel Compound May Treat Acute Diarrhea - In a development that may lessen the epidemic of diarrhea-related deaths among children in developing countries, scientists in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have discovered a novel compound that might lead to an inexpensive, easy-to-take treatment. The results of pre-clinical tests have now been published. - ScienceDaily

►June 21, 2008 - Exodus of Alberta's public health leaders a sad reality - The Globe and Mail

►June 21, 2008 - Nevada Woman In Wyeth Drug Case Dies - KOLO TV

►June 21, 2008 - A healthy fear and loathing of Bill C-51 - Is our right to purchase natural medicines at risk? - Toronto Sun

►June 21, 2008 - Polio survivors engage in immunisation campaigns - The Tide

►June 21, 2008 - Dr may have advised HIV man safe - A doctor admits he may have advised Victorian health authorities that a man accused of deliberately spreading HIV could not pass on the virus. - AAP via Stuff.co.nz

►June 21, 2008 - Prognosis of HIV/HCV-coinfected patients may be better than previously thought - Aidsmap

►June 21, 2008 - Predicting which HIV/HCV-coinfected patients will respond to HCV treatment: some expected and some surprising answers - Aidsmap

►June 21, 2008 - Are you an A, B or O - or even a Duffy? Why you should know your blood type - Daily Mail, UK

►June 21, 2008 - FDA follows new clues to salmonella - As tomato toll climbs, investigators head to farms in Florida and Mexico. - AP via Philadelphia Inquirer

* ►June 20, 2008 - Product Approval Information Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed, Inactivated Poliovirus and Haemophilus b Conjugate (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate) Vaccine Pentacel - FDA/CBER

* ►June 20, 2008 - Notice: Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Transport of Laboratory Personnel Exposed to Infectious Agents From Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD - Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health via www.pharmcast.com

* ►June 20, 2008 - Most Asthmatics Aren't Getting Flu Shot - HealthDay News via Yahoo!

* ►June 20, 2008 - Are Key Opinion Leaders Expensive Sales Reps? - Pharmalot - “Key opinion leaders were salespeople for us, and we would routinely measure the return on our investment, by tracking prescriptions before and after their presentations,” she tells BMJ. “If that speaker didn’t make the impact the company was looking for, then you wouldn’t invite them back.” (Click here to watch the video)."

* ►June 20, 2008 - Flu Shot Under Skin May Improve Protection for Aged - International Congress for Infectious Diseases via Bloomberg

* ►June 20, 2008 - UK Orders Review Of Antipsychotic Usage - Pharmalot - "The health minister issued the order because the meds are widely used to calm people suffering from dementia, The Guardian reports. The moves comes just after the FDA required manufacturers of “conventional” antipsychotics to change the labeling to warn about an increased risk of death associated with the off-label use to treat behavioral problems in older people with dementia."

* ►June 20, 2008 - US Investigation Into Glaxo And Paxil Widens - Pharmalot

* ►June 20, 2008 - Doctor Advised Neurontin Warning But Was Ignored - Pharmalot

* ►June 20, 2008 - Addictive Drugs To Be Prescribed Online - Pharmalot

►June 20, 2008 - Bio-Defense Research Not for All, Not Hollywood - AP via IntelliHealth

►June 20, 2008 - Pfizer And Nigeria Hold Trovan Settlement Talks - Pharmalot

* ►June 20, 2008 - VA Sends Chantix Warnings To 32,000 Vets - Pharmalot

* ►June 20, 2008 - AstraZeneca CEO To Be Grilled On Seroquel Risks - Pharmalot

►June 20, 2008 - Getting the shots - The Emporia Gazette

* ►June 20, 2008 - Market America developing autism vitamin - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area

* ►June 20, 2008 - U.S. FDA seeks India post for food, drug checks - Reuters

►June 20, 2008 - Ligand Partner GlaxoSmithKline Receives FDA Extended Priority Review for PROMACTA(R) NDA - Ligand Pharmaceuticals via Centre Daily - "If approved, PROMACTA would be the first oral thrombopoietin receptor agonist therapy for the short-term treatment of previously treated patients with chronic ITP to increase platelet counts and reduce or prevent bleeding. Chronic ITP is a disorder marked by increased platelet destruction and/or inadequate platelet production in the blood, which causes an increased risk of bruising and bleeding. PROMACTA is an investigational, once-daily oral treatment that induces the proliferation and differentiation of cells in the bone marrow to produce platelets."

►June 20, 2008 - First Five Critical Steps to Dealing with a New Lyme Disease Diagnosis - Time For Lyme offers new patients the following guidelines for early disease management - eMedia World

►June 20, 2008 - European Drugmakers Seek To Ban Parallel Trade - Pharmalot

►June 20, 2008 - Treating chronic pain, migraine & muscle spasticity through inhibition of neurotransmitter glutamate - TorreyPines Therapeutics via EurekAlert! via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

►June 20, 2008 - Chronic disease should be top priority - New Hampshire Business Review

►June 20, 2008 - Promising trials for new MS pill - A new oral drug for multiple sclerosis has produced promising results in clinical trials. - BBC

►June 20, 2008 - WHO Warns of Growing Need for Mental Health Services in China - The World Health Organization is praising the Chinese government for taking immediate steps to halt the outbreak of infectious diseases in the aftermath of the huge earthquake that struck southwestern Sichuan province in May. At the same time, the international health body warns of a growing demand for mental health care. Stephanie Ho has more on the story from Beijing. - Voice of America

►June 20, 2008 - APA 2008: ADHD CME/CE (requires registration) - Medscape

►June 20, 2008 - Probiotics: A Closer Look - U.S. Pharmacist

►June 20, 2008 - JCI table of contents - Journal of Clinical Investigation via EurekAlert! via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

►June 20, 2008 - Study reveals positive attitude to teenage HPV vaccine programme - On Medica

* ►June 20, 2008 - Kansas’ first autism conference ‘a success’ - Joplin Globe

* ►June 20, 2008 - It's the mandatory flu vaccine that I object to - letter - Press of Atlantic City

* ►June 20, 2008 - We're in chemical overload - Toxic chemicals: Consumers are the lab rats - Montreal Gazette via Canada.com

* ►June 20, 2008 - Do Pharmaceuticals Make You Healthy? Health Ranger Announces $10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma - NaturalNews.com

►June 20, 2008 - Dr. Lonnie Zwaigenbaum keynote speaker at Autism Speaks event this Sunday - Local MP, Mike Lake and family to join families, service providers and other community supporters at Walk Now for Autism Kick-Off Lunch. - press release - Autism Speaks Canada via CNW Group

►June 20, 2008 - Indonesia's bird flu toll reaches 110 - Radio Australia

►June 20, 2008 - Mannan From Heaven For Flu Sufferers; Victoria, Australia Researchers Develop Innovative Vaccine - State of Victoria, Australia via Medical News Today

►June 20, 2008 - Non-profit eases vaccine demand - Super Shot aids those lacking health insurance - The Journal Gazette

►June 20, 2008 - Clinic area's shot in the arm - The Journal Gazette

►June 20, 2008 - Chickenpox jab for everyone - Herald.ie - "It is understood that the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC) will look at the case for universal vaccination once two new vaccines in the childhood immunisation schedule, for Hepatitis B and Pneumococcal disease, are implemented in September."

►June 20, 2008 - Merck plant rising, keeps expanding: Plans for the Durham vaccine plant now include 400 jobs, millions in investment - The News & Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX via Trading Markets

►June 20, 2008 - Drill focuses on special populations during flu pandemic - Columbus Telegram

►June 20, 2008 - Analysis: New report on bio-war lab danger - United Press International

►June 20, 2008 - Kansas’ bid for National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility on track - Kansas City Star

►June 20, 2008 - Federal report: Manhattan still in running for Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility - Lawrence Journal-World

►June 20, 2008 - Microbiologists Track Lyme Disease Spirochetes - Science Centric via The One Click Group

►June 20, 2008 - 14 die of cancer in seven years living next to phone mast with highest radiation levels in UK - Daily Mail, UK

►June 20, 2008 - HIV and hepatitis coinfection in Africa: studies provide conflicting prevalence data - Aidsmap

►June 20, 2008 - Anti-HIV treatment may mean that progression of hepatitis C no worse in coinfected patients than in those with only hepatitis C - Aidsmap

►June 20, 2008 - Ribavirin levels after four weeks of treatment predict which HIV/hepatitis C coinfected and re-treated patients will respond - Aidsmap

►June 19, 2008 - Is autism part of evolution? - Puzzle Pieces via Arizona Daily Star

* ►June 19, 2008 - Word Of Caution (comment) - Medical News Today - "Herd immunizations are sometimes less costly as only the exposed are stricken. Rhumatoid arthritis and diabetic complications are only a few "Side Effects" of mass immunization. Statistical analysis of Ethical casualties has long been a problem for Public Health. Having said this, I wish them all good luck in the research."

►June 19, 2008 - GC Health Dept. Reports Another Case Of Rabies - The Republican

►June 19, 2008 - Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could Combat Malaria, Scientists Say - Researchers Try New Approaches in Fight Against Deadly Disease - AP via ABC News

►June 19, 2008 - New role for supporting brain cells (requires registration) - The Scientist

►June 19, 2008 - Update 1-Bayer to be No.1 in Chinese drugs market - The Guardian, UK

►June 19, 2008 - Jury Still Out On the Safety of Baby Bottles - EmpowHer

►June 19, 2008 - Oxygen an alternative treatment for autism - News 8 Austin

►June 19, 2008 - "Virtual man" may ease drug R&D woes: report - Reuters

* ►June 19, 2008 - Homeopaths and scientists respond to growing attacks at London conference! - Alliance for Natural Health (ANH)

►June 19, 2008 - Avian flu drill reveals curable ills in university hospital’s protocol - Examiner.com

►June 18, 2008 - Local agencies perform pandemic flu exercise - Lompoc Record

* ►June 18, 2008 - Notice (A): Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing - National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, HHS via www.pharmcast.com - "Use of Amyloid Proteins as Vaccine Scaffolds - Recombinant Modified Bacillus anthracis Protective Antigen for Use in Vaccines"

* ►June 18, 2008 - Notice (B): Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing - National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, HHS via www.pharmcast.com

* ►June 18, 2008 - The prevalence of autism in Australia. Can it be established from existing data? - journal article (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health)

►June 18, 2008 - Thinking Ahead: Bacteria Anticipate Coming Changes in Their Environment - Microbes may be smarter than we think. - Princeton University, Engineering School via Biocompare

►June 18, 2008 - What is a Language Disorder? - American Chronicle

►June 18, 2008 - Is it a bird? Is it a plane? So what is ASD? - American Chronicle

►June 18, 2008 - Complex regional pain syndromes in children and adolescents - journal article (Pediatrics International)

►June 17, 2008 - Maturation process of TDP-43-positive neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with and without dementia - journal article (Acta Neuropathologica)

* ►June 17, 2008 - Family Sues PetSmart, Claims Father Died From Contact With Diseased Bird (includes video) - KRISTV.com

►June 16, 2008 - Test of Bacteria Toxin Delivery System Could Pave Way for New Antibiotic Drugs - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem via Biocompare

►June 14, 2008 - Ethnic Disparities in Special Education Labeling Among Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders via RedOrbit

►June 14, 2008 - Why Youngsters With Autistic Spectrum Disorders Remain Underrepresented in Special Education - Remedial and Special Education; RASE via Red Orbit

►June 14, 2008 - Life saver, not child abuser - The Valley News Online - "I am writing concerning the verdict and subsequent jail time that Audrey Arnold was sentenced to last week. How did things get so out of proportion to the issue at hand, which was the question: Did Audrey Arnold cause injury to a child under her care?....During the trial, we learned that Fajo was displaying symptoms of seizure before Audrey even touched him."

►June 13, 2008 - Traffic pollution linked to childhood allergies - Reuters via Victoria Times Colonist via Canada.com

* ►June 13, 2008 - The epidemiology of Autism Speaks - The Autism Crisis Blog

►June 13, 2008 - Vaccine action - letter - Lawrence Journal World

►June 13, 2008 - Upcoming autism/science related reading material - Left Brain/Right Brain

►June 13, 2008 - AP, etc: Feds warn some to avoid amalgam dental fillings. It’s the mercury. - Knight Science Journalism Tracker

►June 13, 2008 - U.S. Ranks Dead Last Among 19 Nations in Preventive Medicine - NaturalNews.com

►June 13, 2008 - As Concerns Grow, BPA-Free Items In Demand - The Tampa Tribune

►June 13, 2008 - Scientists to issue stem-cell guide - Their goal is to keep people desperate for treatment from falling prey to quacks. - Philadelphia Inquirer

►June 13, 2008 - That 'new shower curtain smell' gives off toxic chemicals, study finds - An environmental organization finds high concentrations of dangerous chemicals in shower curtains sold at major stores. (requires registration) - Los Angeles Times

►June 13, 2008 - Strictest limits on lead urged - EPA due to update 30-year-old standard by September 15 (requires registration) - Baltimore Sun

* ►June 12, 2008 - Hayfever vaccine will ease sneezing in just four weeks - Mail on Sunday - "This is because the pollen protein the vaccine contains - which helps the body to build up immunity - has been modified to sneak past antibodies, allowing large doses to be given from the start....As well as pollen, Pollinex contains monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL) which 'retunes' the immune system by damping down the usual reaction to pollen and encouraging a milder response....In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration must first review the safety of MPL, which is also present in a cervical cancer vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline."

* ►June 12, 2008 - Chemical imbalance - From car seats to condoms, nasty compounds have invaded our lives - Colorado Springs Independent

►June 12, 2008 - FDA HIT over safety failure - Agency has broken vow to protect food, Congress asserts (requires registration) - Baltimore Sun

►June 12, 2008 - FDA issues precautionary note on silver fillings - AP via Yahoo! - "The fillings, formally known as dental amalgams, 'contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses,' reads the FDA Web posting."

►June 12, 2008 - Understanding autism can lead to tolerance - Minnesota Public Radio

►June 12, 2008 - Understanding President Bush’s FY2009 Biodefense Budget Request - FAS Strategic Security Project Blog

►June 12, 2008 - EMEA Report Assesses Contaminated-Heparin Risk - Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine

►June 12, 2008 - Mom may learn next week if she can bond out of jail - Indianapolis Star - "'There is no history of child abuse by this mother,' he said. 'This child was taken to the doctor repeatedly, these parents were very concerned.'"

* ►June 12, 2008 - Clinical presentation and prognosis of childhood Guillain–Barré syndrome - journal article (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health)

►June 11, 2008 - Questions linger after death of disabled man - The News Tribune

►June 11, 2008 - Legal experts say lawsuit over student voted out of class could have merit - TCPalm.com

►June 11, 2008 - Allergies Cost Americans $11 Billion: Survey - ABC News

►June 11, 2008 - Tests reveal chemical vapors that may invade homes - The Record via NorthJersey.com

►June 11, 2008 - Is America Being Deliberately Set Up For A Famine? - www.healthtruthrevealed.com

* ►June 10, 2008 - Medicine research corrupted - editorial - St. Petersburg Times

►June 10, 2008 - Including special-needs children in class: Is it worth it? - The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo!

►June 7, 2008 - Vaccinations should be mandatory for kids - Cherry Hill Courier-Post

►June 5, 2008 - Are We Losing The Battle Against Rabies? - Modern Ghana

►June 5, 2008 - HHS Seeks Comments on Influenza Guidances - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) seeks public comment on its three recently released draft guidances designed to protect the public from a possible influenza pandemic, including guidelines for employers who plan to stockpile antiviral drugs. - Occupational Hazards

►June 5, 2008 - Nanogen Awarded New CDC Contract to Develop Molecular Diagnostic Test for Influenza and Avian Flu - press release - Nanogen, Inc. via Business Wire

►June 5, 2008 - Cherrix turning 18, free of cancer signs and court oversight - The Virginian-Pilot via HamptonRoads.com

►June 4, 2008 - New Jersey vaccines firm opens up in Hertfordshire - Business Weekly - "The facility will be DOR BioPharma’s new corporate office for the UK, giving the firm stronger European Union access, which should better facilitate the Named Patient Access programme that will be administered by Surrey-based IDIS."

* ►June 3, 2008 - School Board Official Changes Mind – Now Opposes HPV Vaccine in Schools - LifeSiteNews.com

►June 3, 2008 - Drug companies drain scientific brains from FDA - AP via USA Today

►June 3, 2008 - Rebellion is in the air over immunisation shake-up - The Herald, UK

►June 3, 2008 - US firm says working on dengue vaccine - AFP via Google

►June 3, 2008 - Generex Biotechnology Phase I Trial Results for Novel Immunotherapy Vaccine in Breast Cancer Patients Presented At ASCO - Results Conclude Vaccine is Safe and Well-Tolerated in Patients - To be Published in July Issue of The Journal of Clinical Oncology - press release - Generex Biotechnology Corporation via Prime Newswire

►June 3, 2008 - Medicago's H5N1 Pandemic Flu Vaccine Effective in Key Ferret Animal Model With Single Dose -  press release - Medicago Inc. via Marketwire

►June 3, 2008 - Title: Combined DNA vaccine and biological modifiers for cancer therapy (patent) - Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Paris, FR) via www.pharmcast.com

►June 3, 2008 - Title: Antimicrobial composition for medical articles (patent) - Sarangapani; Shantha (Walpole, MA) via www.pharmcast.com

►June 3, 2008 - Title: Methods and products related to metabolic interactions in disease (patent) - University of Vermont and State Agricultural College via www.pharmcast.com

►June 2, 2008 - Studies Question Safety of Antibacterial Soaps - Newsinferno.com

* ►June 2008 - Consumer Alert: Opposition Grows to Bill C-51 - Vitality Magazine - "Introduced by the government on April 8,  Bill C-51 is quite literally a Big Pharma bill. That’s because Big Pharma is Health Canada’s employer, not only through their user fees for product evaluations done according to their own time-lines, but because our government actually put Big Pharma in charge on January 6, 1996.  On that date, the Minister of Health passed an Order in Council and bypassed parliamentary debate. This Order redefined the 'client' it serves: all regulatory oversight of foods and drugs henceforth serves the manufacturer, the Act’s 'client' – not the Canadian people."

►June 2008 - Atopic Diseases, Allergic Sensitization, and Exposure to Traffic-related Air Pollution in Children - journal article (American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)

* ►June 2008 - Relationship between T-lymphocyte cytokine levels and sero-response to hepatitis B vaccines - journal article (World Journal of Gastroenterology)

* ►June 2008 - Hepatitis C vaccine: supply and demand - journal article (The Lancet)

►June 2008 - Spectrum of CNS disease caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria - journal article (The Lancet)

* ►May/June 2008 - Erythema multiforme following vaccination in an infant (full text) - journal article (Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology)

►May 30, 2008 - Congressman Sestak Continues to Support Autism Treatment, Research through legislation - http://sestak.house.gov

►May 29, 2008 - Mediterranean diet may also help stop diabetes - Reuters

* ►May 28, 2008 - Some Shun Wireless Internet - Some Claim to Have a Physical Aversion to Wireless Internet - ABC News

►May 21, 2008 - Piling it High - The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day - In These Times

►May 20, 2008 - SOUND SLUDGE SCIENCE and EPA/WEF Rapid Incident Response to Health Complaints From Land Application of Biosolids - http://thewatchers.us

* ►April 29, 2008 - Porphyrinuria in childhood autistic disorder is not associated with urinary creatinine deficiency - journal article (Pediatrics International)

* ►Volume 47 Number 6, 2008 - Two Cases Presenting With Pubertal Delay and Diagnosed as Celiac Disease - journal article (Clinical Pediatrics)

►Volume 47 Number 6, 2008 - A Case of Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome in an Adolescent Girl With Parvovirus B19 Infection - journal article (Clinical Pediatrics)

* ►2008 - ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FOR U.S. PERMANENT RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS: Technical Instructions for Vaccination (pdf) - CDC.gov - "Significant Changes in the Vaccination Requirements - Rotavirus vaccine, hepatitis A vaccine, meningococcal vaccine, human papillomavirus vaccine, and zoster vaccine have been added as age-appropriate to the vaccination requirements."

* ►April 25, 2007 - Ex-Pharmaceutical Rep. Speaks Out - video - YouTube

►Vol. 28, No. 4-5, 2006 - The Potential Role of Mitochondria in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury - journal article (Developmental Neuroscience)

►Comparing Natural Immunity With Vaccines By Trevor Gunn - Trevor Gunn (BSc. LCH RSHom) is a graduate in biochemistry and author of  'Comparing Natural Immunity with Vaccination Would you like to know:  whether vaccines work, how to avoid serious illness, knowing what treatments work? -  24 June 2008 - London NW1 27 June 2008 - Chagford, Devon - The Informed Parent, UK

►Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher - GwenOlsen.com

►The "TeenScreen" Federal Lawsuit - United States District Court, Northern District of Indiana, South Bend Division - Case Number: 3:05-cv-00586-JTM-CAN - Psychsearch.net

►From the Elusiveness of Schizophrenia, New Clues to Treatment (requires registration) The New York Times

►Volatile Vinyl – the new Shower Curtain’s Chemical Smell - The Center for Health, Environment & Justice

►Lead Standards - Public Hearings on Proposed Lead Standards June 12 - EPA will hold public hearings Thursday, June 12, 2008 in Baltimore and St. Louis to take comment on the agency’s proposal to dramatically strengthen the nation’s air quality standards for lead. The agency also will accept written comment through July 22, 2008. - US EPA

►Vaccination Against Human Papillomavirus Decreases Related Tests and Treatment for Cervical Cancer - Cancer Consultants

* ►July 2008 - Mitochondrial fragmentation in neurodegeneration - journal article (Nature Reviews Neuroscience) - "There is mounting evidence that mitochondrial dysfunction is an early and causal event in neurodegeneration. Mutations in the mitochondrial fusion GTPases mitofusin 2 and optic atrophy 1, neurotoxins and oxidative stress all disrupt the cable-like morphology of functional mitochondria. This results in impaired bioenergetics and mitochondrial migration, and can trigger neurodegeneration. These findings suggest potential new treatment avenues for neurodegenerative diseases."

►July 2008 - Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function - journal article (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)

►July 2008 - Immunity to malaria: more questions than answers - journal article (Nature Immunology)

►July 2008 - Recent advances in gene therapy for severe congenital immunodeficiency diseases. - journal article (Current Opinion in Hematology)

►July 2008 - Petilla terminology: nomenclature of features of GABAergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex - journal article (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)

►July 2008 - A framework for studying the neurobiology of value-based decision making - journal article (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)

►July 2008 - The receptor tyrosine kinase Flt3 is required for dendritic cell development in peripheral lymphoid tissues - journal article (Nature Immunology)

►July 2008 - Basophils enhance immunological memory responses - journal article (Nature Immunology)

►July 2008 - Animal models of Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia - journal article (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)

* ►June 21, 2008 - Effect of 50 000 IU vitamin A given with BCG vaccine on mortality in infants in Guinea-Bissau: randomised placebo controlled trial - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 21, 2008 - Key opinion leaders: independent experts or drug representatives in disguise? - journal article (BMJ)

►June 21, 2008 - Neonatal service reorganisation fails to iron out regional variation in death rates - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 21, 2008 - Government insists on second public consultation before regulating complementary medicine - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 21, 2008 - Vitamin A supplements in newborns and child survival - Benefit depends on the setting, baseline infant mortality, and vitamin A deficiency - journal article (BMJ)

►June 21, 2008 - Research organisations join forces to develop treatments for neglected infectious diseases - journal article (BMJ)

►June 21, 2008 - Europe’s drug companies are better than those in US in making drugs accessible to poor countries - journal article (BMJ)

►June 21, 2008 - One in four NHS trusts in England fail hygiene standards - journal article (BMJ)

►June 21, 2008 - EU launches plan to tackle mental illness and reduce number of suicides - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 21, 2008 - Psychiatrist admits plagiarism but denies dishonesty - journal article (BMJ)

►June 21, 2008 - Underinsurance threatens physical and financial wellbeing of US families - journal article (BMJ)

►June 21, 2008 - More than 100 000 children in Ethiopia need therapeutic feeding - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 21, 2008 - Official warning: Measles 'endemic' in Britain - The Independent, UK

* ►June 21, 2008 - Dr Fred Kavalier: Most doctors under 45 have never seen a case of measles – until now - The Independent, UK

* ►June 20, 2008 - David Kirby: CDC: Vaccine Study Design "Uninformative and Potentially Misleading" - The Huffington Post - "CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding has delivered a potentially explosive report to the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in which she admits to a startling string of errors in the design and methods used in the CDC's landmark 2003 study that found no link between mercury in vaccines and autism, ADHD, speech delay or tics."

* ►June 20, 2008 - Julie Gerberding Tells Congress That The Verstraeten Study is Junk! - Adventures in Autism

* ►June 20, 2008 - Call Now: Legislature Sneaking in Menigoccocal - Demo in Albany on Monday - A-CHAMP.org - "The good news is that due to an unprecedented outpouring of activism most of A10942, "the worst vaccine bill ever in New York" has been eliminated. The bad news is that it was morphed today into a mandatory meningoccocal shot bill. It would require all seventh graders to get a meningitis shot. The companion bills in the Senate, which also must be stopped are S 8623 and S 7822-A."

* ►June 20, 2008 - AAP Decides that Insulting Parents Will Increase Vaccination Rates - Adventures in Autism

* ►June 20, 2008 - On Media: Doctors Are Getting Real -- Except For Paul Offit by Anne Dachel - Age of Autism

* ►June 20, 2008 - What Disease Do You Want Your Child To Get? By Julie Obradovic - Age of Autism

* ►June 20, 2008 - Dr. Martha Herbert Joins Autism Speaks SAB - Age of Autism

* ►June 20, 2008 - Macrelli, et al. v. Children's Hospital, et al. - Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly - "The plaintiffs' son, David Macrelli, died on September 11, 1996, shortly after receiving a diphtheria pertussis, and tetanus (DPT) vaccination.  The OCME "took jurisdiction" of the body pursuant to G. L. c. 38, §§ 3 and 4.  Because of a potential public health risk to other children who received a DPT vaccination from the same lot, the OCME ordered an autopsy at Children's.... In January, 1997, four months after the death, the plaintiffs learned for the first time that their son's organs had been retained by the hospital.  They requested the organs back, and the organs were returned the next day.  On September 9, 1997, one year after the child had died, the OCME issued the final death certificate, identifying the cause of death as 'sudden unexplained death in the setting of a recent diphtheria pertussis tetanus vaccination.'"

►June 20, 2008 - Father's Illness Keeps Jenny McCarthy from Kansas Autism Conference - WIBW.com

►June 20, 2008 - NBC ‘Today’ Show Features Missouri Family Seeking Autism Insurance Coverage - Lee's Summit Journal

►June 20, 2008 - In a class of their own - Newsday

►June 20, 2008 - Field clear for French vaccine blockbuster move into US - Financial Times

►June 20, 2008 - Drugmakers urged to cut anti-diarrhoea vaccine prices - Reuters

* ►June 20, 2008 - GAVI Alliance: Alliance Reports Promising Upward Trend In Immunising Children In Poorest Nations: 20/06/2008 - MaximsNews Network

►June 20, 2008 - Rising immunization rates helping poor countries, UN-backed alliance reports - UN

►June 20, 2008 - Changes in the child vaccination schedules - CaymanMama.com

►June 20, 2008 - New Data Show Merck's Rotateq Helped Reduce Hospitalizations and Emergency Room Visits Due to Rotavirus Gastroenteritis for up to Three Years after Vaccination - Merck via PharmaLive

* ►June 20, 2008 - Did Michelle Obama Cancel a HPV Vaccine Program, Comparing It To Tuskeegee? - The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

* ►June 20, 2008 - Vaccine for an Insidious Virus - San Francisco Chronicle - "You may soon be hearing more news about HPV vaccination in males. HPV vaccines are currently approved for boys in Europe, Australia and Mexico, and may be approved for boys in the United States by 2009."

* ►June 20, 2008 - Controversial vaccine necessity - letter - Calgary Herald via Canada.com - "The young people in my family, including my sons, have decided to take the vaccine because the real benefits far outweigh any controversies and concerns....Dr. Muriel Solomon is president, Federation of Medical Women of Canada, Calgary branch"

►June 20, 2008 - Mistake to ban HPV vaccine in Catholic schools says student - letter - Oakville Beaver

►June 20, 2008 - Planned Parenthood combating HPV - Planned Parenthood of Northern New York is receiving $66,000 in grant money to help protect women against HPV, the human papilloma virus. (includes video) - News 10 Now

* ►June 20, 2008 - Mum tells of guilt over near-death daughter - Blackpool Gazette

* ►June 20, 2008 - Teenager dies of measles as cases of disease rise - A teenage boy has become the first person in the UK to die from measles for two years as cases of the disease continue to rise, Government scientists have said. - The Telegraph, UK - "The 17-year-old was admitted to hospital in April with pneumonia which developed after he contracted measles. He died in hospital five weeks later and Government scientists are urging doctors to take all opportunities to vaccinate any children who have not had a double dose of MMR."

* ►June 20, 2008 - Using measles to treat cancer - Researchers today know more about the measles than ever, and doctors are using that knowledge to develop new treatments for certain cancers. The first step is to understand how the measles virus infects its host. - Minnesota Public Radio

►June 20, 2008 - Measles doesn't work in the way we thought - Virus attacks the immune system, not the airways. - Nature News

►June 20, 2008 - Measle's Spread Doesn't Depend on Airways - Instead, certain immune cells may be key, new study shows - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report

►June 20, 2008 - Experts want children to have measles jab - News Shopper UK

* ►June 20, 2008 - AIDS Failure at Merck Elevates Burton Vaccine for 2 Million - Bloomberg - "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's richest charity, is spending more than $160 million on similar efforts in addition to bankrolling some of Burton's major funders. The U.S. government's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases -- along with private donors -- is also backing Burton's approach as the best way to stop AIDS dead in its tracks."

* ►June 20, 2008 - 'Days of Our Lives' writer and mom Dena Higley shares Autism story - Monsters and Critics M&C - "Will you attribute the cause of this to vaccines or do you have another reason why you think that Renee’s son is going to have autism?  Dena Higley: I am not - I have spoken at considerable length with Autism Speaks and we’ve come to the conclusion that just introducing an autistic child and dealing with the grief factor, and how to deal with an autistic child, is a huge enough fight for us to take at this point."

* ►June 20, 2008 - Merck adds $300M, 180 jobs at NC plant; Novartis yanks pre-pandemic vaccine app; - FierceBiotech

►June 20, 2008 - 'Nanohorns' could push immune system into action - The Economic Times

►June 20, 2008 - Fresh outbreak of polio emerges in northern Nigeria – UN health agency - UN News Centre

►June 20, 2008 - DRC: New polio threat prompts mass vaccination campaign - IRIN Africa

►June 20, 2008 - Angola: Vaccination Against Polio Second Phase Starts Today - Angola Press Agency (Luanda) via AllAfrica.com

►June 20, 2008 - UGANDA: Hepatitis E outbreak on the rise in Kitgum - IRIN via Reuters AlertNet

►June 20, 2008 - Chickenpox outbreak leads to detention center lockdown - Seattle Times

►June 20, 2008 - More than 100 doses of tetanus vaccine given during local floods - Daily Freeman Journal

►June 20, 2008 - Despite Setbacks, Scientist Devotes Life to Finding AIDS Vaccine - Wall Street Journal Health Blog

* ►June 20, 2008 - Study: Moving virus research could be costly - AP via Forbes - "The new National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility would replace the existing 840-acre research complex on Plum Island, which is about 100 miles northeast of New York City in the Long Island Sound and accessible only by ferry or helicopter."

►June 20, 2008 - Health officials warn of rabies vaccine shortage - Public health officials urge public to be careful when handling animals - WHOI 19

►June 20, 2008 - Lung injuries from transfusions have doctors stumped - The Plain Dealer - "The American Red Cross last year stopped using women's plasma for transfusions, after the adverse reactions were linked to antibodies carried by women who have been pregnant. The antibodies, or immune cells, clash with white blood cells of some plasma recipients. But even after the switch to all-male plasma, at least five cases of the lung injuries have been reported to the Red Cross Northern Ohio region this year. None of the cases were fatal, a Red Cross official said."

►June 20, 2008 - Salmonella outbreak illnesses climb to 552 - Reuters

►June 20, 2008 - CDC: 1 in 100 babies conceived in vitro - United Press International

►June 20, 2008 - FDA and US Marshals Seize Pet Food at Petco Warehouse - US Recall News

►June 20, 2008 - Industry backs FDA supplement clamp-down - The dietary supplements industry has applauded a move by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clamp down on products making bogus cancer cure claims. - NutraIngredients-usa.com

* ►June 20, 2008 - FDA Panel OKs Enbrel For Kids' Psoriasis - Enbrel Will Be First Systematic Drug, Going Into Body, To Treat Pediatric Patients - WebMD via CBS News - "The FDA's dermatologic and ophthalmic drugs advisory committee spent yesterday weighing Enbrel's benefits and risks, including the risk of serious infections and cancer risk."

►June 20, 2008 - America's Kids are Deficient in Key Nutrients - Welt Online

►June 19, 2008 - Mobile Autism Clinic To Offer Free Screenings, Information - UM Experts Launch Clinic To Bring Autism Awareness - NBC6.net

* ►June 19, 2008 - Family First: Vitamin D Deficiency - KATV Channel 7 - "Nine-month-old Jade was rushed to the hospital because of a sudden seizure. She’s 3 years old now, but her parents won’t forget what they learned that night two years ago. “They said, ‘We need to admit her,’” says Trina Patton, Jade’s mother. ”And I’m like, ‘For a calcium deficiency?!’” Jade’s bones weren’t absorbing calcium because she wasn’t getting enough vitamin D. Her seizure was the early sign of rickets, a bone-softening disease."

►June 19, 2008 - Health IT for kids - Government Health IT - "An infant arrived recently at a Kentucky emergency room with a life-threatening but undiagnosed illness. Unable to reach the baby’s parents or access her health record, doctors contacted the Kentucky Children’s Hospital in Lexington. There, doctors equipped with an electronic medical record system were able to unravel the mystery as a metabolic disorder and initiate treatment."

►June 19, 2008 - Some pediatric practices instituting flat annual fees - Long Beach Press-Telegram

►June 19, 2008 - Sigma-Aldrich Announces Collaboration to Develop Monoclonal Antibodies - Under Five Year Agreement, Academic Steering Committee will Identify Antibody Targets in the Areas of Cancer, Stem Cell and Autoimmune Research to be Produced by Sigma-Aldrich - press release - Sigma-Aldrich via PRNewswire-FirstCall via The Earth Times

►June 19, 2008 - Strategic Diagnostics Inc. to Produce Library of Antibodies for the Study of Usher Syndrome - Business Wire via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

* ►June 19, 2008  - Iomai, Intercell Chief Scientific Officers to Speak on Future of Vaccines at BIO International Convention Today - PRNewswire-FirstCall via RT Magazine

* ►June 19, 2008 - Sanofi: Girls Lose In UK Choice Of HPV Vaccine - Pharmalot

* ►June 19, 2008 - Glaxo Vaccine Wins U.K. Contract - Wall Street Journal via www.immunizationinfo.org - (abstract)

* ►June 19, 2008 - Scientific Misconduct Is Prevalent, But Not Reported - Pharmalot - "About 1,000 potential incidents of fabricated, falsified or plagiarized data in scientific research may go unreported every year, according to a survey in Nature*. And this suggests scientific misconduct is more prevalent than previously imagined and calls into question the effectiveness of self-regulation."

►June 19, 2008 - Sustainable vaccination strategy a must to control bird flu in VN - Experts talk to Viet Nam News about strategies needed to tackle bird flu on the sideline of a three-day international conference on avian influenza research and policies, which ended yesterday. - Viet Nam News

►June 19, 2008 - Novartis offers vaccines for public health - The China Post

►June 19, 2008 - Two die as Indonesia resumes bird flu reporting--WHO - Reuters

* ►June 19, 2008 - North Korea denies bird flu - AP via USA Today - "The Seoul-based Good Friends organization said last week that the disease had been discovered in the communist nation's northeast on June 3, when several birds were found dead near a military base. The group also said dozens of magpies were found dead inside a camp for political prisoners in an adjacent province, and a child of one prison official subsequently suffered a high fever and died, although the cause of the deaths was unclear. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said the country's quarantine authorities found in an investigation that no bird or human had died in the region and that health conditions there were "very safe."

►June 19, 2008 - Judge Upholds AstraZeneca Medicaid Fraud - Pharmalot

►June 19, 2008 - Sanofi Heart Drug Worsens Heart Failure - Pharmalot

* ►June 19, 2008 - Public Citizen Sues FDA For Not Yanking Darvon - Pharmalot

* ►June 19, 2008 - Autoimmune Disease Treatment May Not Dampen Immune System - Targeting a key protein might reap rewards for people with asthma, MS, scientists say - HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report

►June 19, 2008 - Sepracor epilepsy drug shown to reduce seizures - Sepracor epilepsy drug eslicarbazepine reduces seizures up to 1 year in late-stage studies - Sepracor via AP via CNN Money

►June 19, 2008 - Boost for NSF funding (requires registration) - The Scientist

►June 19, 2008 - AstraZeneca and Columbia University Medical Center Collaborate - Drug Discovery & Development

►June 19, 2008 - Mold A Growing Concern - WOWT.com

►June 19, 2008 - Discovery Labs gets clarification from FDA on Surfaxin approvable letter - Thomson Financial - "Surfaxin is used for the prevention of respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants."

* ►June 18, 2008 - The US Spends How Much On Unapproved Drugs? - Pharmalot - "The inquiry comes as the committee tries to determine how and why retroactive changes were made to the database used for Medicaid reimbursement for Dytan and other drugs, such as Avandia and Vytorin. The committee also wrote Kerry Weems, who heads the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to find out who maintains and updates the database, and whether reimbursement decisions were affected by the changes. (This is the letter)."

* ►June 18, 2008 - Institutes in pharma cash probe - Universities under pressure to investigate researchers' industry funding. - news (Nature)

►June 18, 2008 - Two boys diagnosed with whooping cough in Omaha - Omaha World-Herald

* ►June 18, 2008 - Neuroscientists Uncover Possible Link Between Different Forms of Epilepsy - Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have identified what may be the first known common denominator underlying inherited and sporadic epilepsy - a disruption in an ion channel called the BK channel. - Carnegie Mellon University via innovations report

►June 18, 2008 - Off Label Use of Abortion Pill Linked to Deadly Infections - NEWSInferno

►June 18, 2008 - Clone cell cancer 'cure' hailed - Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient's own cells cloned outside the body. - BBC

►June 18, 2008 - Inhalers and the Ozone Layer - Chlorofluorocarbon-propelled albuterol inhalers will no longer be available after December 31, 2008, and will be replaced by hydrofluoroalkane-propelled inhalers. - journal article (Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

►June 18, 2008 - Potential New Role for Red Grape Seeds in Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease - The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine via Biocompare

►June 18, 2008 - Deadly Diseases You Can Catch From Your Pet - FOX News

►June 18, 2008 - Merck Serono and Bionomics Announce Multiple Sclerosis Development and Licensing Agreement - Bionomics and Merck Serono to Collaborate to Discover and Develop Novel, Oral Treatment for MS - Collaboration Based on Novel Compounds That Allow Selective Inhibition of The Immune Cells Which Cause Nerve Cell Damage in Patients With MS - PRNewswire via Yahoo!

►June 17, 2008 - Science, not politics, the solution - letter - Peace Arch News - "This letter is written in response to your article on the HPV vaccine. Heather Stilwell, a school board trustee, was interviewed and expressed fears about this vaccine."

►June 17, 2008 - For autistic twins in Cashion, it's a learning battle - NewsOK.com

* ►June 16, 2008 - CityNews Exclusive: The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic (includes video) - CityNews

►June 16, 2008 - Chicken Pox Outbreak At San Diego Schools - KGTV

►June 12, 2008 - Suicidal actions linked with epilepsy drugs - Reuters Health

►June 12, 2008 - Debunking Brucellosis Myths - Montana just lost its brucellosis-free status, just as Idaho and Wyoming have in recent years, and stockgrowers and politicians blame the bison and elk herds living in Yellowstone National Park. But who's really at fault? - New West Network

►June 10, 2008 - Common Bowel Problem Linked to Chili Pepper Pain Receptor - Imperial College London via Biocompare

►June 7, 2008 - Families take autism battle to top court - Georgina Advocate

►June 6, 2008 - Hyperglycosylation and Reduced GABA Currents of Mutated GABRB3 Polypeptide in Remitting Childhood Absence Epilepsy - journal article (The American Journal of Human Genetics)

►June 3, 2008 - Vaccination Liberation Website Informs About Vaccines - Vaccination Liberation is part of a national grassroots network dedicated to providing information on vaccinations not often made available to the public so that one can make the only informed choice, complete avoidance and refusal. - Colfax Record

* ►June 2008 - Common pathophysiologic mechanisms in migraine and epilepsy. - journal article (Archives of Neurology)

►May 29, 2008 - Safety of Antibacterial Soap Debated - Researchers See Potential Health Hazards; Manufacturers Say Products Are Safe - WebMD

* ►Report to Congress on Vaccine Safety Datalink - House Appropriations Committee - Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H. (pdf) - Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Evidence of Harm

* ►June 20, 2008 - NZ Horse industry must oppose GE vaccine - GE Free NZ via Scoop.co.nz

►June 20, 2008 - Debate over vaccination program heats up - Scone Advocate - "WHILE thoroughbred industry leaders are keen for ongoing vaccination against Equine Influenza, Upper Hunter equestrians Blair and Nikki Richardson are among those who maintain it is not in the nation’s best interests."

►June 20, 2008 - BIODEFENSE: Senate Bill Would Alter Biosafety, Select Agent Rules (requires subscription for full article) - Science Magazine - "Last week, a bipartisan pair of U.S. senators introduced a bill that would streamline the red tape involved in studying potential bioweapons as well as address safety concerns at the nation's biodefense labs."

►June 20, 2008 - Florida may hold key to tainted tomatoes - But investigators say they may never be able to pinpoint salmonella source (requires registration or subscription) - Atlanta Journal-Constitution

►June 20, 2008 - Deathly virus stalks villages, silently - The Telegraph, India - "In Kokrajhar alone, the number of AIDS cases had shot up from nine to 20 in the past two years, he said."

►June 20, 2008 - Heat-Related Deaths Among Crop Workers --- United States, 1992--2006 - MMWR/CDC

* ►June 20, 2008 - Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Persons with Asthma --- United States, 2005--06 Influenza Season - MMWR/CDC

►June 20, 2008 - Recommendations from an Ad Hoc Meeting of the WHO Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network (LabNet) on Use of Alternative Diagnostic Samples for Measles and Rubella Surveillance - MMWR/CDC

►June 20, 2008 - False-Positive Oral Fluid Rapid HIV Tests --- New York City, 2005--2008 - MMWR/CDC

►June 20, 2008 - QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates* for the Five Leading Causes of Death --- United States, 2001--2006 - MMWR/CDC

►June 20, 2008 - Notifiable Diseases/Deaths in Selected Cities Weekly Information - MMWR/CDC

►June 20, 2008 - Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance --- United States, 2005 - MMWR/CDC

►June 20, 2008 - Malaria Surveillance --- United States, 2006 - MMWR/CDC

* ►June 19, 2008 - AAP Leadership Fights Informed Vaccine Choices by Barbara Loe Fisher - Vaccine Awakening

* ►June 19, 2008 - NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter

AAP Leadership Fights Informed Vaccine Choices by Barbara Loe Fisher

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In another fit of pique aimed at the growing number of vaccine-educated parents questioning pediatricians about the safety of vaccines, the largest private medical organization representing medical doctors treating children - the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) - recently announced to its membership that it will fight doubting parents in their offices, in the media, on the internet and through a partnership with other wealthy and powerful organizations funded by a pharmaceutical industry committed to doing the same thing.

On May 30, the AAP leadership reports that it met with the leaders of 15 allied organizations in Elk Grove, Illinois to discuss the growing refusal of parents to vaccinate their children according to recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and AAP. A recent letter to AAP members stated:

"The group agreed that recent attacks on vaccines have left parents confused. The rates of exemptions are climbing, and the protection of communities from vaccine preventable diseases is in jeopardy. Participants identified several factors that promote anti-vaccine information:

· Parent-to-parent spread of myths,
· A public that does not understand the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases,
· Internet and media exposure that is not balanced,
· Decreased trust in the government and health care providers,
· Slow response to negative news coverage, and · Increasing calls for philosophical exemptions.

The group recognized strategies that have worked in the past to address these drivers, agreed to jointly promote the positive value of vaccines, and will come together again in July to develop a cohesive message for dissemination. This message will be disseminated in mainstream media, through professional organizations, and via Internet tools. Materials are expected to be available by fall 2008. The group will formally be known as the Immunization Alliance."

Information on the AAP website gives pediatricians instructions about what to do with parents who refuse to obey the doctor's orders, including a sample letter that states:

"By not vaccinating your child you are taking selfish advantage of thousands of others who do vaccinate their children, which decreases the likelihood that your child will contract one of these diseases. We feel such an attitude to be self-centered and unacceptable. We are making you aware of these facts not to scare you or coerce you, but to emphasize the importance of vaccinating your child. We recognize that the choice may be a very emotional one for some parents. We will do everything we can to convince you that vaccinating according to the schedule is the right thing to do.

However, should you have doubts, please discuss these with your health care provider in advance of your visit. In some cases, we may alter the schedule to accommodate parental concerns or reservations. Please be advised, however, that delaying or "breaking up the vaccines" to give one or two at a time over two or more visits goes against expert recommendations, and can put your child at risk for serious illness (or even death) and goes against our medical advice as providers....such additional visits will require additional co-pays on your part. Furthermore, please realize that you will be required to sign a "Refusal to Vaccinate" acknowledgement in the event of lengthy delays.

Finally, if you should absolutely refuse to vaccinate your child despite all our efforts, we will ask you to find another health care provider who shares your views. We do not keep a list of such providers nor would we recommend any such physician."

Educated parents of America attempting to make informed, voluntary vaccination decisions for your children be warned: your pediatrician is out to change your mind about vaccination or teach you a lesson you will never forget.

Hang on to your child because the doctor you have trusted with your child's life might just try to make you out to be a bad parent and not only throw you out of the office but notify state officials to charge you with child medical abuse if you don't agree to give your child every one of those 69 doses of 16 vaccines that doctors working for the Centers for Disease Control say all children from birth to age 18 must get.

Be prepared that the doctor, who you pay to keep your child well, may dutifully obey recent orders given by the AAP leadership to implement one-size- fits-all government vaccine policies: no questions asked. The next time you visit your pediatrician and attempt to ask a question about vaccine reactions or suggest your child get fewer or no vaccines (especially if your child has already suffered serious vaccine reactions your doctor refuses to recognize) be prepared to be humiliated, harassed, threatened and thrown out of the office.

The message from the AAP leadership to vaccine-educated parents is: you WILL give your children every vaccine that industry produces even it brain damages or kills them. You DO NOT have the human right to protect your child from vaccine injury and death because you MUST sacrifice your child for what AAP and government officials have decided is the "greater good." Your child does NOT belong to you and if you don't agree to do exactly what we say, we will make sure your family is denied medical care.

Sounds like a smart plan to me, pediatricians of America, if you want to fatally compromise the last remaining shred of trust that mothers and fathers have in your knowledge about vaccine risks and how to minimize them for the children they love more than anyone in the world.

In the words of Jim Carrey: "How stupid do you think we are?"

Twenty-six years ago, the co-founders of the National Vaccine Information Center came to the table with the AAP leadership to talk about compensating children injured by mandated vaccines because the AAP said it was a matter of "simple justice for children." We believed the AAP leadership really cared about minimizing vaccine risks for the individual child rather than just wanting to pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 for the purpose of protecting drug companies and pediatricians from liability for vaccine injuries and deaths so they could continue to implement one-size-fits-all vaccine policies. Time and time again over the past quarter century, the AAP leadership has demonstrated that they betrayed the trust of parents then and now by refusing to work with parents to minimize vaccine risks.

In 1982, it was far easier to sweep vaccine injured children under the carpet because 1 in 6 American child was not becoming learning disabled and 1 in 150 child was not regressing into autism. Today, there are so many highly vaccinated children who are sick and disabled that there is no place to run and no place to hide.

The vaccine safety and informed consent movement has been led by educated middle class mothers and fathers who DO know how to tell a bad scientific study from a good one; who DO know how to calculate the amount of mercury or aluminum in a vaccine; and who DO know the difference between being told a lie and being told the truth about vaccine risks.

AAP: we are not stupid. We will not stand by and watch our children and grandchildren become vaccine damaged because you are obsessed with forcing every child to use every vaccine that Pharma produces with no concern for protecting the children who cannot use every vaccine safely. You can deny us medical care and try to take away our human right to voluntary, informed consent to vaccination but you will never win the war you have declared on millions of vaccine- educated parents in America.
 

AAP Spearheads New Immunization Alliance

On May 30, 2008, leaders from 15 organizations met at the American Academy of Pediatrics headquarters in Elk Grove Village, IL, to discuss recapturing the public's trust in immunizations. The meeting was called by the Academy's Executive Director, Errol Alden, MD, FAAP, in response to the #1 resolution from the Annual Leadership Forum, which resolved, "that the Academy lead the development of a coalition of health professional, public health, scientific and other organizations to develop a media campaign to market directly to parents the value of immunizations and the importance of child health recommendations based on credible scientific evidence."

The group agreed that recent attacks on vaccines have left parents confused. The rates of exemptions are climbing, and the protection of communities from vaccine preventable diseases is in jeopardy. Participants identified several factors that promote anti-vaccine information:

· Parent-to-parent spread of myths,
· A public that does not understand the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases,
· Internet and media exposure that is not balanced,
· Decreased trust in the government and health care providers,
· Slow response to negative news coverage, and
· Increasing calls for philosophical exemptions.

The group recognized strategies that have worked in the past to address these drivers, agreed to jointly promote the positive value of vaccines, and will come together again in July to develop a cohesive message for dissemination. This message will be disseminated in mainstream media, through professional organizations, and via Internet tools. Materials are expected to be available by fall 2008. The group will formally be known as the Immunization Alliance. The Alliance plans to continue to work together to address immunization issues as they emerge both now and in the future.

More information will be in the July issue of AAP News. In order to support its members in the meantime, the Academy has developed several resources for parents and pediatricians posted on the CISP Web Site at
http://www.cispimmunize.org/pro/pro_main.html? http://www.cispimmunize.org/pro/ParentalRefusaltoVaccinate.html

* ►June 19, 2008 - Olmsted on Autism: What's The Matter With Kids Today? by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism

* ►June 19, 2008 - Should I vaccinate my baby? (includes video) - CNN - "It's not entirely clear what family history would put your child at risk for vaccine problems, but Frances Page Glascoe, a professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, says parents should look back at least ask the question. 'I would look at Mom, Dad, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins who had developmental disabilities, including language disorders and autism spectrum disorder,' she said. If parents find such a family history, 'that would cause me to discuss an alternative vaccination schedule.' Jon Poling, Hannah's father, says it's clear to him now that he should have been more wary. 'We have autoimmune disorders on both sides of the family, and Hannah had multiple febrile infections with ear infections and horrible trouble with eczema,' he said. 'All of those are red flags that a child is at risk.'"

* ►June 19, 2008 - Quarantine gets power to give vaccines - The Age, Australia - "A bill to force travellers to take medication if they are at risk of spreading disease in Australia passed the Senate on Thursday. The Quarantine Amendment (National Health Security) Bill 2008 gives quarantine officers greater power to legally administer treatments to travellers even if they refuse. The bill will allow authorities to recognise vaccinations or treatments recommended by the World Health Organisation, to be forcibly given by an officer to prevent the spread of a communicable disease."

* ►June 19, 2008 - The exchange continues about autism,vaccines - letter - The Progress - "I [Donald Meserlian] phoned the writer and directed him to my Web site www.voicesofsafety.com under public health. I explained that the two research reports on 'Standard to Eliminate Mercury (Thimerosal) in Vaccines, Ban the Triple Vaccines DPT and MMR and Provide Freedom of Choice' and 'The Contribution of Mercury, the Triple Vaccines and Genetics to the Autism Epidemic' were based on a survey of more than 1400 parents that have sought exemptions from forced vaccinations so their children may attend school. The latter research report stated that the contribution of mercury (Thimersosal) the triple vaccines DPT and MMR and genetics to the autism epidemic were 18, 62 and 20 percent respectively. The sum of the mercury and triple vaccines is the 80 percent accurate figure I stated. Based on non-biased research and responsible journalism."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Survey suggests research misconduct is common - Reuters - "Merrill Goozner, who heads the Integrity in Science Project at the activist group Center for Science in the Public Interest, said, 'It's really the universities' responsibility to police this. And as we've seen in the (financial) conflict-of-interest field, they do a very poor job.'"

* ►June 19, 2008 - Duke doc honored for developing measles vaccine - The News & Observer - "Dr. Samuel Katz, a renowned Duke pediatrician and a developer of the measles vaccine, won a lifetime achievement award Wednesday night from activists for children from across North Carolina. Katz, 81, was awarded the North Carolina Children's Lifetime Legacy Award from Action for Children North Carolina, a nonprofit advocacy group."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Joining forces to combat global illness - opinion - Seattle Post-Intelligencer - "That is why, this week in Seattle, leaders in science, industry, policy and health are meeting at the Pacific Health Summit. The meeting focuses on malnutrition -- a debilitating medical condition that contributes to more than half of all deaths of children under 5. Its impact is especially devastating in countries with high rates of infectious disease -- as infections leave children more susceptible to malnutrition, and as malnutrition weakens the immune system and the body's ability to fight infections. Some might wonder why, as president of one of the world's largest vaccine companies, I will be participating in a nutrition conference."

►June 19, 2008 - The case for and against the MMR vaccine - Daily Mail, UK

►June 19, 2008 - MP standing up for natural health products - Victoria News - "Tabled by Stephen Harper’s Conservative government in early April of this year, Bill C-51 is intended to tighten regulations for the way pharmaceutical drugs are marketed to Canadians. But, and this is what has angered the 300-plus Victoria-area folks who have contacted my office, it encompasses natural health products in the legislation."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Autistic boy likely suffocated: coroner's report - Montreal Gazette via Canada.com - "On April 17, Gabriel began to disturb his class with loud sounds.  After being told repeatedly to calm down by a teacher, he was rolled in a weighted blanket. With his arms by his side, he was left on his stomach for over 20 minutes with only his toes exposed. When the teacher went to check on him, he was 'listless and blue in the face,' the Coroner's report said.  The teacher called 911 but the boy was already in a deep coma and passed away the next day in the Sainte-Justine hospital."

►June 19, 2008 - Psychic's vision sets off sex-abuse probe - Barrie school confronts mother of 11-year-old autistic girl with allegation - National Post

►June 19, 2008 - Ginger Taylor, BS, MS, AM - Adventures in Autism

►June 19, 2008 - Autism Versus "Autism-Like" Symptoms: What's the Difference? - http://autism.about.com

►June 19, 2008 - Autism Center Meets With State Regulators - ACN Promises Documentation For Charges In Question - KETV Omaha

►June 19, 2008 - Market America Announces Plans to Launch Vitamins for Children with Autism - press release - Market America, Inc. via Business Wire

* ►June 19, 2008 - Public Citizen Sues FDA for Failure to Act on Darvon - Suit says Darvon is dangerous and no more effective than similar drugs - Consumer Affairs - "Despite the drug’s health risks, however, it was one of the 25 most prescribed generic drugs last year, with 22 million prescriptions filled in pharmacies in 2007. 'Top FDA drug officials, including Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Director Dr. Janet Woodcock and Dr. Robert Temple, are well aware that this drug has considerable human toxicity, addiction potential and abuse liability, but very limited therapeutic usefulness,' said Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group at Public Citizen."

►June 19, 2008 - US FDA seeks India post for food, drug checks - Reuters India

►June 19, 2008 - Merck plans to invest $300 million in Durham, NC - Merck expects multimillion-dollar expansion in Durham will bring 180 jobs to the area - AP via CNNMoney

►June 19, 2008 - Pepper Hamilton's Securities Litigation Team Secures 3 Major Victories Within 10 Days - LawFuel

►June 19, 2008 - The CDC issues a public health alert on lead in artificial turf - Consumer Reports

►June 19, 2008 - Sorry, kids -- extra shot to battle chickenpox - Orlando Sentinel

* ►June 19, 2008 - Denmark picks Merck's Gardasil for vaccine progam - Reuters - "Denmark has chosen Merck & Co's...cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil for its immunisation program, according to Sanofi-Aventis..., which markets the drug in Europe as part of a joint venture with Merck."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Tridico tries to ressurrect vaccine issue. Doesn't get far - SooToday.com - "Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board Trustee Grace Tridico tried to raise the hot-button vaccination issue at a board meeting last night, but was quickly shut down by chair Marchy Bruni."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Tridico wants vaccination policy after HPV dispute-UPDATED - The Sault Star - "Trustees stopped short of debating the need for the proposed policy at Wednesday's regular meeting, leaving it to Tridico to follow procedure to have the issue included on the agenda for the next board meeting.  John Stadnyk, director of education for the H-SCDSB, said the board currently does not have a policy on vaccinations, some of which are now permitted to take place at schools. He said the board may need to seek legal advice if it pursues such a policy."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Doctors Studying HPV Vaccine For Teen Boys (includes video) - KDKA.com

►June 19, 2008 - Gardasil and HPV - You’ve seen the commercials - the happy faces and the “one less” slogan. Gardasil, the vaccine for genital warts or human papilloma virus (HPV), has been all the rage since it came onto the market two years ago. However, if you are considering Gardasil, there is more you should know about this new vaccine that many doctors are recommending for girls as young as nine. - SheKnows.com

►June 19, 2008 - BASHH Expresses Disappointment That The Government Missed The Chance To Eradicate Genital Warts From The Medical Map - British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) via Medical News Today

* ►June 19, 2008 - HPV vaccine for males? - Wisconsin Radio Network - "Currently, doctors are allowed to prescribe Gardasil to males but as an 'off label' use which opens up legal recourse by patients harmed by the vaccine."

* ►June 19, 2008 - GSK: UK's decision to choose Cervarix most likely based on price - Datamonitor via COMTEX via Trading Markets - "Cervarix boasts GSK's proprietary AS04 adjuvant as its main differentiating point, which may enhance the immunogenicity of the vaccine, therefore potentially reducing the need for booster shots. However, the long-term efficacy of these two vaccines is perceived as being similar, and Gardasil's extended coverage has so far won most of the government contracts in both Europe and the US."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Most people with asthma in US don't get a flu shot - Reuters - "Despite being at increased risk for influenza-related complications, almost two-thirds of people with asthma in the US are not vaccinated against influenza each year, according to an analysis of data from the 2005-2006 flu season. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has recommended since 1964 that all persons with asthma get a flu shot, because they're prone to complications if they do catch influenza."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Two women die from bird flu in Indonesia: WHO - Reuters UK

►June 19, 2008 - Genesis employee flu initiative wins national award - Quad-Cities Online - "The American Nurses Association (ANA) has named Genesis Health System among its 'Best Practices' recipients for its 2007 employee influenza vaccination campaign."

►June 19, 2008 - Hong Kong, Shenzhen hold avian flu exercise after outbreak in nearby farm - Xinhua via China View

►June 19, 2008 - DPRK denies bird flu outbreak - Xinhua via China View

►June 19, 2008 - Mystery virus strikes military academy - Bracknell Forest Standard

►June 19, 2008 - At Los Angeles convention, stars become aligned to end polio - Rotary International

►June 19, 2008 - 'Chicago Sun-Times' to Enroll 1,000 Kids in Health Coverage Program - Editor & Publisher

►June 19, 2008 - Traces Of Hepatitis A Found In Hawkins Wells - Greeneville Sun

►June 19, 2008 - IDPH not calling for hepatitis vaccinations - Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil

►June 19, 2008 - Flood-related tetanus concerns spark Waupun clinic - Fond du Lac Reporter

►June 19, 2008 - Saskatchewan government unveils West Nile Virus risk map - Regina Leader Post via Canada.com

►June 19, 2008 - Take Care Health Systems Offers Shingles Vaccine Nationwide - Vaccine Now Available at all 177 Take Care Health Clinics located at Select Walgreens - press release - Take Care Health Systems via Business Wire

►June 19, 2008 - Herpes Suppression May Not Prevent HIV Infection - HealthDay via Forbes

►June 19, 2008 - False Positives in Oral HIV Test Halt Use in NYC - CDC report traces roots of the problem - U.S. News & World Report

►June 19, 2008 - Heart Risks Emerging in People With HIV - HealthDay via Forbes

►June 19, 2008 - Take a chill pill, T cell - A receptor on infection-fighting cells may be a novel target for drugs that fight autoimmune disease. - Science News

* ►June 19, 2008 - Salmonella’s tricky attack plan revealed - Germ lurks in your cells while silently copying itself - LiveScience via MSNBC

►June 19, 2008 - China pushes anti-doping image before Olympics - AP via SportingNews.com

►June 19, 2008 - Bluetongue vaccination still a priority say NFU and CLA - Farming UK - "Commenting on the recent delays in vaccine delivery, the two organisations continued: 'It is unfortunate that we have seen a problem with the latest batch of vaccine, which for quality control reasons is undergoing further testing.'"

►June 19, 2008 - Vaccine protects horses from EEE - WALB.com - "Amanda Adamski boards up to 35 horses at any given time. To stay in her stables, the horses must receive an EEE vaccine."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Experts tout animal ID plan - BURVILLE MEETING: Panel says program will help prevent spread of disease - Watertown Daily Times - "Such programs would give health officials the ability to find farms to disseminate information and vaccinations more effectively, to understand the spread of any diseases and to respond more quickly when and if an outbreak did occur, said Mrs. Blood-Szentmiklosy."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Ranchers: Brucellosis vaccine is failing - Casper Star-Tribune Online

* ►June 18, 2008 - Mommy instinct vs. scientific research - Issue to be tackled by Jenny McCarthy, others at Pittsburg autism conference - The Joplin Globe via Athens Review - "An event for parents of those children and others began Thursday in Pittsburg, Kan., as the Kansas chapter of the National Autism Association hosts a two-day conference on autism spectrum disorders. Mandy Commons, organizer of the conference, said doctors and related professionals will speak Friday on a variety of subjects, including special-education laws, applied behavioral analysis, speech therapy and coping strategies for parents."

►June 18, 2008 - New Scanning Technology Offers Better Picture Of Critical Brain Functions - Mayo Clinic via Medical News Today

►June 18, 2008 - State Terminates Autism Center Contract - Auditor found "rampant financial impropriety and accounting irregularities" - WOWT.com

* ►June 18, 2008 - The fall of the General Medical Council - Part I: Confidence or con - Scientific Misconduct Blog

►June 17, 2008 - Eyes Bloodshot, Doctors Vent Their Discontent (requires registration) - The New York Times - "Doctors are working harder and faster to maintain income, even as staff salaries and costs of living continue to increase. Some have resorted to selling herbs and vitamins retail out of their offices to make up for decreasing revenue. Others are limiting their practices just to patients who can pay out of pocket."

►June 16, 2008 - Sinovac Receives Healive(R) and Bilive(R) Purchase Orders from Provincial CDCs for Earthquake Disaster Areas - press release - Sinovac Biotech Ltd. via Xinhua-PRNewswire - "Sinovac's commercialized vaccines include Healive(R) (hepatitis A), Bilive(R) (combined hepatitis A and B), Anflu(R) (influenza) and Panflu(TM) (H5N1). Sinovac is currently developing Universal Pandemic Influenza vaccine and Japanese encephalitis vaccine."

►June 16, 2008 - About Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and Idiotype Vaccination - Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a type of malignant disease that occurs within the lymphatic system, and it is the fifth most common cancer after breast, prostate, lung, and colon cancer - Prdomain Business Register

* ►June 13, 2008 - Current Vaccine Shortages & Delays - Last Updated June 13, 2008 - CDC - "Merck & Co., Inc., is experiencing production delays and has temporarily discontinued accepting orders for Pediatric and Adult hepatitis A vaccine (Pediatric & Adult VAQTA®). Based on current information, it is estimated that Pediatric VAQTA® will be available in fourth quarter 2008 and Adult VAQTA® in first quarter 2009."

* ►June 13, 2008 - Cancer vaccine OK'd for girls - Alberta to start program with Grade 5 pupils in September - Calgary Herald via Canada.com - "But Henry said some scientists dispute whether HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer and questioned whether the vaccine is the best use of the province's resources. 'Merck, who is producing (the vaccine), is certainly lobbying very highly to get everybody vaccinated,' he said."

►June 13, 2008 - Arlington father's essay celebrates a son with autism - HeraldNet

* ►June 3, 2008 - Experts Revive Debate Over Cellphones and Cancer (requires registration) - The New York Times - "Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears."

►June 2, 2008 - Merck's Movie "Script" For Advertising Its Cancer Vaccine - CNBC

Posted June 18, 2008

* ►July 2008 - Psychiatric genetics: progress amid controversy - journal article (Nature Reviews Genetics) - "Several psychiatric disorders — such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and autism — are highly heritable, yet identifying their genetic basis has been challenging, with most discoveries failing to be replicated. However, inroads have been made by the incorporation of intermediate traits (endophenotypes) and of environmental factors into genetic analyses, and through the identification of rare inherited variants and novel structural mutations."

* ►July 2008 - Challenges of exposure assessment for health studies in the aftermath of chemical incidents and disasters - journal article (Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology)

►July 2008 - Epidemiology and outcomes of bacterial meningitis in Mexican children: 10-year experience (1993–2003) - journal article (International Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►July 2008 - Central nervous system adverse effects of new antiepileptic drugs A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled studies - journal article (Seizure)

* ►July 2008 - A decay model for assessing polybrominated biphenyl exposure among women in the Michigan Long-Term PBB Study - journal article (Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology)

* ►July 2008 - Relationships between levels of volatile organic compounds in air and blood from the general population - journal article (Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology)

►July 2008 - Creatinine corrections for estimating children's and adult's pesticide intake doses in equilibrium with urinary pesticide and creatinine concentrations - journal article (Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology)

►July 2008 - Dietary wheat reduction decreases the level of urinary deoxynivalenol in UK adults - journal article (Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology)

►July 2008 - Cadmium dietary intake and biomarker data in French high seafood consumers - journal article (Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology)

* ►July 2008 - Evidence implicating the candidate schizophrenia/bipolar disorder susceptibility gene G72 in mitochondrial function - journal article (Molecular Psychiatry)

* ►July 2008 - Quetiapine facilitates oligodendrocyte development and prevents mice from myelin breakdown and behavioral changes - journal article (Molecular Psychiatry)

►July 2008 - Quantitative trait locus association scan of early reading disability and ability using pooled DNA and 100K SNP microarrays in a sample of 5760 children - journal article (Molecular Psychiatry)

►July 2008 - Replication of linkage on chromosome 7q22 and association of the regional Reelin gene with working memory in schizophrenia families - journal article (Molecular Psychiatry)

►July 2008 - Phospholipase C-1 knockout mice exhibit endophenotypes modeling schizophrenia which are rescued by environmental enrichment and clozapine administration - journal article (Molecular Psychiatry)

* ►July 2008 - Behavioral intervention to increase compliance with electroencephalographic procedures in children with developmental disabilities - journal article (Epilepsy & Behavior)

* ►July 2008 - Amygdala volume and psychopathology in childhood complex partial seizures - journal article (Epilepsy & Behavior)

►July 2008 - Parenting stress and childhood epilepsy: The impact of depression, learning, and seizure-related factors - journal article (Epilepsy & Behavior)

►July 2008 - Dealing with epilepsy: Parents speak up - journal article (Epilepsy & Behavior)

►July 2008 - Strategies to detect adverse effects of antiepileptic drugs in clinical practice - journal article (Epilepsy & Behavior)

►July 2008 - A EuroPrevall review of factors affecting incidence of peanut allergy: priorities for research and policy - journal article (Allergy)

►July 2008 - The art and design of genetic screens: RNA interference - journal article (Nature Reviews Genetics)

►July 2008 - The genetics of multiple sclerosis: SNPs to pathways to pathogenesis - journal article (Nature Reviews Genetics)

►July 2008 - Selenium and asthma: a complex relationship - journal article (Allergy)

* ►June 19, 2008 - Crucial role for the Nalp3 inflammasome in the immunostimulatory properties of aluminium adjuvants - journal article (Nature) - "We identify the Nalp3 inflammasome as a crucial element in the adjuvant effect of aluminium adjuvants; in addition, we show that the innate inflammasome pathway can direct a humoral adaptive immune response. This is likely to affect how we design effective, but safe, adjuvants in the future."

►June 19, 2008 - Keeping Pace with the Times — The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►June 19, 2008 - Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — A National Survey of Physicians (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►June 19, 2008 - Over-the-Counter Sales of Statins and Other Drugs for Asymptomatic Conditions (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►June 19, 2008 - Well, Well, Well - Benefits of Merck’s HPV vaccine don’t outweigh the associated risks - VUE Weekly - "As always, we’re being patronized, told the vaccine is being closely monitored (like that’s any consolation when the great experiment is being conducted on our pre-pubescent daughters), and that side effects, some of which have been very serious, aren’t necessarily causally linked to the vaccine. So, just to offer another perspective, Dr Shiv Chopra, who has a long history of putting human safety ahead of corporate interests and was coincidentally fired from Health Canada in 2004, and who wrote Corrupt to the Core: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower, says all vaccines are potentially neurotoxic."

* ►June 19, 2008 - Horse vaccine kills GE-free NZ - press release - Green Party via Scoop.co.nz

* ►June 19, 2008 - Does NZ need a GM horse vaccine? - It has been called the silver bullet - the vaccine that turned the tide on Australia's equine influenza outbreak and led to its eradication. - Horsetalk, NZ - "The Green Party has been quick to condemn the move. It argues there will be huge risks through a lack of containment and it would kill the country's GE-free status."

* ►June 19, 2008 - JE: One vaccinator attending to 300 kids a day - Even as vaccinators put in 10 hours each day, their honorarium has been slashed by half - Expressindia.com - "The Indian Express visited one such JE immunisation booth at Lohia Hospital on Wednesday and found that vaccinators were working from 8am to 6pm with just half-an-hour's break. Dr Uttar Kumar, district immunisation officer, said: 'We have to complete the immunisation as soon as possible. Luckily, there have been no major incidents of any side-effects or mistakes in the immunisation.'"

* ►June 18, 2008 - David Kirby: Hannah Poling Really Did Change Everything by David Kirby - Age of Autism

* ►June 18, 2008 - Heckenlively On The Omnibus Autism Proceeding: 5/22 - Mercury is Better for you than a Glass of Milk! – The Omnibus Autism Proceeding – Second Set of Hearings (Thimerosal & Autism) – Day Nine – May 22, 2008 By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. - Age of Autism

* ►June 18, 2008 - Holland On The Omnibus autism Proceeding: 5/22 - Thursday, May 22, 2008 - The Government’s Response, continued - Direct Examination of Dr. Dean Jones - Age of Autism

* ►June 18, 2008 - Eli Lilly Knew of Thimerosal Dangers for Decades - Newsinferno

* ►June 18, 2008 - A good read regarding mandatory vaccination - CDC via LiveJournal

* ►June 18, 2008 - Board use of psychic blasted - Allegation of sex abuse stems from 'vision' of letter V - Toronto Sun - "The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was 'completely unprofessional' to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused based on a psychic's perception."

►June 18, 2008 - A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight (requires registration) - The New York Times

►June 18, 2008 - Time short in search for autistic man, 25 - Teams scour rural Wisconsin woods after he wanders away from camp - Pioneer Press via TwinCities.com

►June 18, 2008 - How To Survive Autism By Cyndi Kershner - Age of Autism

* ►June 18, 2008 - Row over cervical vaccine choice - A new vaccination programme to protect schoolgirls from cervical cancer later in life will be using the wrong vaccine, say campaigners. - BBC

* ►June 18, 2008 - Government chooses HPV vaccine for campaign - The government has opted for the bivalent vaccine Cervarix for its new routine immunisation programme against human papillomavirus and cervical cancer. - Nursing Times, UK - "The decision to pick the GSK product comes at the expense of Gardasil, a quadravalent HPV vaccine that protects against four virus types including one that causes genital warts, developed by Sanofi Pasteur MSD. 'It is difficult to understand why the Department of Health has missed a huge opportunity to protect an entire generation of young women against genital warts by not choosing the Gardasil vaccine,' said Julie Bentley, chief executive of the Family Planning Association."

* ►June 18, 2008 - DH awards contract for HPV vaccine - Nursing in Practice - "However, this decision hasn't been universally welcomed. The manufacturer of Gardasil, which protects against four strains of the HPV virus, has warned that the decision made by the UK authorities choosing a two-type HPV vaccine for their immunisation campaign over their four-type vaccine, will be selling UK school girls short."

►June 18, 2008 - Cervical cancer vaccinations to be given in schools by September - Hundreds of thousands of girls will be vaccinated against cervical cancer when they return to school for the new year in September. - The Telegraph, UK

* ►June 18, 2008 - Keeping promises may be difficult - ScreenAfrica.com - "As an example of company which had achieved its 'claims of virtuous intention', he cited drug company Merck’s promotion of its Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer. Merck set up a 'blank wall' on Facebook and invited women to express themselves. On the first day, 5,000 women signed the wall and it now has 45,000 signatures. They took the initiative further by undertaking to vaccinate some one in the Third World, every time a signature was added to the wall."

* ►June 18, 2008 - Family Fight to Save Grace - IrishAbroad.com - "Grace, 2, has cancer, neuroblastoma — stage four — the last stage. Her little delicate body has been undergoing rigorous treatment since October, yet through it all Grace never complains, not when needles are inserted into her tiny body on a daily basis, not when she has to spend endless hours in the hospital for tests, and not even when doctors surgically removed a tumor the size of her dad’s fist from her belly."

* ►June 18, 2008 - World's Top Vaccine Scientists To Discuss The Latest Research - press release -WHO via PharmiWeb

* ►June 18, 2008 - Nventa Develops Proprietary Vaccine Adjuvant - Potent Adjuvant is a Toll-Like Receptor 3 (TLR3) Agonist - Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation via PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX via FOX Business

* ►June 18, 2008 - Smoking Vaccine Being Developed - The Lancet via Ivanhoe - "For smokers who are having trouble kicking the habit, science is working to find help. Although it’s still in the very early development stage, research on an antinicotine vaccine is in preliminary trials."

►June 18, 2008 - Government-Owned Inventions; Availability for Licensing - National Institutes of Health Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX via Trading Markets - "SUMMARY: The inventions listed below are owned by an agency of the U.S. Government and are available for licensing in the U.S. in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 207 to achieve expeditious commercialization of results of federally-funded research and development....Use of Amyloid Proteins as Vaccine Scaffolds....Immunostimulatory Combinations of TLR Ligands and Methods of Use"

►June 18, 2008 - Washington County public health staff train for pandemic flu outbreak - Hagerstown Morning Herald

►June 18, 2008 - Farmer's shock after bird flu slaughter - Oxford Mail, UK

►June 18, 2008 - Alaska pathway seems free of deadly bird flu - AlaskaReport

* ►June 18, 2008 - Drive to end polio gets huge boost from WHO - Rotary International - "In a historic moment, Chan was joined at the plenary session by the heads of the other spearheading partners of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative: Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Ann Veneman, executive director of UNICEF; and Robert S. Scott, chair of The Rotary Foundation’s Board of Trustees and Rotary’s International PolioPlus Committee. It was the first time leaders of all four partners have appeared together on stage and given a joint address....Gerberding described Rotary as an extraordinary pillar of a dream partnership that brings out the best in all four organizations. Stating that 1,313 children were infected with polio in 2007, she called on Rotarians to take that number and turn it into something positive."

►June 18, 2008 - Rubella row gathers steam - The Statesman

* ►June 18, 2008 - False-Positive Oral Fluid Rapid HIV Tests --- New York City, 2005--2008 (early release) - MMWR/CDC

►June 18, 2008 - CDC counts 383 salmonella cases from tomatoes - AP via Google

►June 18, 2008 - 106 more salmonella cases reported; origin may never be known - USA Today

►June 18, 2008 - Are Mercury Spills Cause for Alarm? - WSAV.com

►June 18, 2008 - Mercury spilled at Nevada State Prison - Nevada Appeal

►June 18, 2008 - Mercury flow meters targeted at NY water plant - Water Technology Online

* ►June 18, 2008 - Children's Vaccination Programme to Expand in HK (audio) - CRIEnglish

►June 18, 2008 - Anderson County residents exposed to rabies by bats - WIS News 10

* ►June 18, 2008 - Are immune systems becoming lazy? - New parents are often advised to maintain a bacteria-free environment for babies by sterilising bottles and dummies, as well as washing their hands regularly. Many antibacterial soaps and wipes are marketed to children, parents, and caregivers. In addition, the majority of children are vaccinated against several serious bacterial viruses before the age of three. The DIABIMMUNE study, backed by the EU with EUR 6 million in financing under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), is now asking whether by removing all bacteria, we are not actually weakening our children’s immune systems. - Europa

►June 18, 2008 - Vaccination with Toxin to Prevent Travelers’ Diarrhea? - journal article (Journal Watch Infectious Diseases)

* ►June 18, 2008 - Consumers Want Gifts To Docs Disclosed: Survey - Pharmalot

* ►June 18, 2008 - Did Motrin Blind A Little Girl? A Court Battle Begins - Pharmalot

* ►June 18, 2008 - Stress during childhood increases the risk of allergies - Moving house or the separation of parents can significantly increase the risk of children developing allergies later on. - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) via innovations report

►June 18, 2008 - Can Wyeth Fool American Women Twice? - OpEdNews - "Can Wyeth win back the 40 million Premarin and Prempro users it's lost since 2002--along with $1 billion a year in profits--with a new menopause drug?"

►June 18, 2008 - Electrical Pollution Linked to Autism in Children? - PressMediaWire

►June 18, 2008 - United States and China Outline Progress on Agreement on Food and Feed Safety - U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)

►June 18, 2008 - Experimental Meds & The Terminally Ill: A Petition - Pharmalot

►June 18, 2008 - Fighting epidemics 'still big task' - China Daily

►June 18, 2008 - Sanofi-Aventis Bids $2.6 Billion For Generic Maker - Pharmalot

►June 18, 2008 - Indiana U scientists uncover potential key to better drugs to fight toxoplasmosis parasite - Indiana University via EurekAlert!

►June 18, 2008 - Soy milk link to peanut allergy a myth - The suggestion that drinking soy milk or soy-based formula can trigger a peanut allergy in children has been dispelled as a myth. - The Australian

►June 18, 2008 - Luna Innovations granted $2.1 mln 3-Yr contract to develop novel therapeutic for infectious diseases - Quick Facts - Luna Innovations via RTT News

►June 18, 2008 - Marlboro boy recovering from 'miracle' operation - New Transcript

►June 18, 2008 - How modern science and old-fashioned detective work cracked the salmonella case - USA Today

►June 18, 2008 - Experimental cancer treatment saves Oregon man - KVAL.com

►June 18. 2008 - Life sciences computer in $100m bid to seek medical cures - A Melbourne supercomputer will be developed here in a $100 million plan to seek cures for cancer and a string of other life-threatening conditions. - Herald Sun, AU

►June 18, 2008 - Roche Buys Cancer Drug From ThromboGenics, BioInvent - Bloomberg

* ►June 17, 2008 - Mumps making a comeback - BCLocalNews.com

* ►June 17, 2008 - ‘Lab Rats At $30 A Month:’ The VA And Chantix - Pharmalot - "The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an investigation by The Washington Times and ABC News."

►June 17, 2008 - An individual-based network model to evaluate interventions for controlling pneumococcal transmission (pdf) - journal article (BMC Infectious Diseases)

►June 17, 2008 - UN bird flu chief cites improvement despite continued threat of pandemic - PR-inside

* ►June 17, 2008 - Edmonton dentist tests positive for hepatitis B; 1400 patients to be informed - Canadian Press via  myTELUS.com 

* ►June 17, 2008 - FDA hopes to open China offices by year end - Reuters

►June 17, 2008 - Canada boosts its bird flu surveillance - The Times via Canada.com

* ►June 17, 2008 - Ala. attorney: 2 drug companies cheated Medicaid - AP via Forbes

►June 17, 2008 - Bird Flu Report Published - meatinfo.co.uk

* ►June 17, 2008 - Revise HIPAA: Health researchers (requires registration) - The Scientist

►June 17, 2008 - UK govt, industry reach drug pricing deal-sources - The Guardian, UK

►June 17, 2008 - Statins use may reduce caesarean births - Pregnant women could receive statins to lower their cholesterol in an attempt to reduce Britain's soaring caesarean sections rates, it has been suggested. - Telegraph, UK

►June 17, 2008 - Diabetes Drug May Prevent Early Puberty in Young Girls (requires registration) - HealthDay News via The Washington Post

►June 17, 2008 - New drug for children affected by Crohn's Disease - Ivanhoe via News 8 Austin

►June 17, 2008 - A War Against Generics, State By State - Pharmalot

►June 17, 2008 - Medicis to buy Seattle company - $300 million price for high-tech fat removal - The Arizona Republic

►June 17, 2008 - Bernanke: Improving health care is critical challenge - Bolstering the performance of the U.S. health care system is one of the biggest challenges facing the country, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday. - AP via The Seattle Times

►June 17, 2008 - J&J And The Red Cross Resolve Trademark Suit - Pharmalot

►June 17, 2008 - Can Lifestyle Changes Bring Out the Best in Genes? - New research shows diet and exercise may change how genes act - Scientific American

* ►June 17, 2008 - David Kirby NYU Vaccine Lecture Venue Change - David Kirby via The One Click Group

* ►June 17, 2008 - Primates: Adverse Reactions To Childhood Vaccines - Sally Beck is a British national newspaper journalist writing on vaccine issues for The Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, Daily and Sunday Express and women's magazines. She recently contributed to a feature in the Daily Telegraph. This news report is an extended version of the Telegraph contribution entitled MMR: The debate that won't go away, published 26 May 2008. - The One Click Group

* ►June 17, 2008 - Follow-Up-Harvard Conflicts of Interest - Alliance For Human Research Protection

* ►June 17, 2008 - Vandervalk: Vaccines - shots in the dark? - The Record via NorthJersey.com

* ►June 17, 2008 - Autism: If only vaccines were tomatoes - Witoozy.com

►June 17, 2008 - Benefits of Broad Genetic Testing Still Limited - Mayo Clinic via Newswise - "Experts caution that current tests don’t identify all genetic variants that combine to predict vulnerability or resistance to a disease. And even then, an accurate test might not provide useful information."

►June 17, 2008 - Contact 13: State Ready To Charge More Doctors In Hepatitis Investigation (includes video) - KTNV ABC 13

►June 17, 2008 - Sanofi Pasteur to donate 60 million doses of bird flu vaccines - Pocono Record

►June 17, 2008 - Weighing Nondrug Options for A.D.H.D. (requires registration) - The New York Times

* ►June 17, 2008 - Our view on drug safety: FDA vet tracks dog deaths, gets smeared in the process - Tale of ProHeart 6 raises questions about who calls the shots at agency. - USA Today

►June 16, 2008 - Joint Attention in Autism - A pivotal skill for literacy learning - ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists

►June 16, 2008 - Early Intervention Underutilized - ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists

►June 16, 2008 - Brain Lesions - ADVANCE for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists

►June 16, 2008 - A healthy objection? - More parents shun vaccines for their kids, and experts are worried - The Washington Post via Charlotte Observer

►June 16, 2008 - Changes in prostate gene expression in men undergoing an intensive nutrition and lifestyle intervention - journal article (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

►June 16, 2008 - Why Drug Companies Do Not Want You to Take Supplements - NaturalNews.com

►June 15, 2008 - Diagnostic tests for Food Allergy - journal article (Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology)

* ►June 15, 2008 - Forced Vaccination - Alliance For Human Research Protection - "Stand Up! Be Counted. Your health and your freedom is on the line. Vaccines are biological products used to suppress or eradicate infectious diseases. Medical interventions like vaccination can have benefits and risks. Just as with medical procedures and prescription drugs, vaccines carry the risk of side effects, injury, and death. Some people have a higher risk than others for having an adverse reaction to vaccination. Vaccination should be a choice."

►June 14, 2008 - Otitis Media - journal article (Clinical Reviews in Allergy and Immunology)

* ►June 13, 2008 - School of Shock - Eight states are sending autistic, mentally retarded, and emotionally troubled kids to a facility that punishes them with painful electric shocks. How many times do you have to zap a child before it's torture? - The Texas Observer

►June 13, 2008 - Arnold family speaks out - WSTM NBC 3 - "Karen Upcraft also points to ongoing research world-wide that casts doubt on commonly held beliefs about 'shaken baby syndrome.'  Upcraft says it has never been 'scientifically proven' that shaking can kill or cause brain damage to a child."

►June 13, 2008 - Schizophrenia Susceptibility Genes Directly Implicated in the Life Cycles of Pathogens: Cytomegalovirus, Influenza, Herpes simplex, Rubella, and Toxoplasma gondii - journal article (Schizophrenia Bulletin)

* ►June 12, 2008 - Soliman: Kids must get inoculations - opinion - The Record via NorthJersey.com

►June 11, 2008 - Symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease in severely mentally retarded people: a systematic review. - journal article (BMC Gastroenterology)

►June 11, 2008 - Psychiatrists under fire supported by Mass. General - Boston.com

►June 9, 2008 - Device Preemption Ruling Threatened by Draft Bill - FDAnews - "Congress is turning up the heat on a preemption win for devicemakers as prominent lawmakers say they will soon introduce a bill to make the U.S. Supreme Court decision moot."

* ►June 8, 2008 - Appearance of Conflict of Interest: NJ Mandatory vaccines - Alliance for Human Research Protection - "Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, deputy health commissioner of New Jersey, stated that he was most proud of making two children's vaccinations mandatory. One of the mandated vaccines, Merck's Haemophilus influenza type B (HIB) vaccine, had 1.2 million contaminated doses recalled in Dec. 2007: [Link] Dr. Bresnitz who was instrumental in pitching the NJ flu vaccine plan announded that he was leaving public office at the end of June to become medical director of vaccines at Merck & Co. See: "Devastating" flu consequences possible Wednesday, June 4, 2008 BY BOB GROVES, June 4, 2008, The Record, North Jersey: [Link]"

* ►June 8, 2008 - Harvard Researchers Fail to Reveal $3.2 Million Payola - Alliance for Human Research Protection

►June 6, 2008 - Deirdre Imus Joins Generation Rescue’s Board of Directors - The Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology

* ►June 5, 2008 - Scientific integrity: critical issues in environmental health research (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

* ►June 5, 2008 - Societal and ethical issues in human biomonitoring – a view from science studies (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

* ►June 5, 2008 - Human biomonitoring data interpretation and ethics; obstacles or surmountable challenges? (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

* ►June 5, 2008 - Applying bioethical principles to human biomonitoring (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

►June 5, 2008 - A proposed framework for the interpretation of biomonitoring data (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

►June 5, 2008 - Risk communication and human biomonitoring: which practical lessons from the Belgian experience are of use for the EU perspective? (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

►June 5, 2008 - Communicating human biomonitoring results to ensure policy coherence with public health recommendations: analysing breastmilk whilst protecting, promoting and supporting breastfeeding (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

►June 5, 2008 - The human anti-interleukin-1b monoclonal antibody ACZ885 is effective in joint inflammation models in mice and in a proof of concept study in rheumatoid arthritis patients (pdf) - journal article (Arthritis Research & Therapy)

* ►June 4, 2008 - "Devastating" flu consequences possible - The Record via NorthJersey.com - "The eight-pound, four-inch-thick document, based on federal guidelines, is not the last word, however, Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, the state epidemiologist and deputy health commissioner said today....Bresnitz, 58, also announced that he will be retire at the end of June to become medical director of adult vaccines at Merck & Co. at its West Point, Pa. plant outside Philadelphia. He has served in the state health department in various positions since 1999."

* ►June 2, 2008 - NIMH Funds Research to Find Best Treatments for Children with Autism and ADHD Symptoms - The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) - "The researchers will assess the safety and effectiveness of two treatments: (1) atomoxetine (also called Strattera), a nonstimulant medication for treating ADHD, and (2) parent management training (PMT), in which parents learn how to use behavioral interventions (another conventional ADHD treatment)."

►June 2008 - Clinical predictors of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children - journal article (Pediatrics International)

►June 2008 - Peer Rejection and Physical Health Problems in Early Adolescence. - journal article (Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics)

►June 2008 - Epidemiologic risks for food allergy - journal article (Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology)

►June 2008 - The Round Window Membrane in Otitis Media - journal article (Archives of Otolaryngology Head& Neck Surgery)

►April 29, 2008 - Body mass index in male and female children with pervasive developmental disorders - journal article (Pediatrics International)

►April 2008 - Clinical genetics evaluation in identifying the etiology of autism spectrum disorders. - journal article (Genetics in Medicine)

* ►April 2008 - Seizure Dog - Epilepsy requires adjustments by man and dog alike. - Gun Dog - "Or, I wondered, was it a result of the inoculations he’d gotten only two days earlier, a potent cocktail that included a combo shot for distemper, Parainfluenza, heptospirosis, Adenovirus, and Parvo, along with a Lyme’s shot? (I’ve been particularly suspicious of the shots since; when, one year later, my son took his Lab to the same vet clinic, they wouldn’t administer the full batch of shots at once but spread them out over two visits. Even more curious, the vet stressed my son should be particularly attentive to any reactions, almost as if to say, “We’ve had problems with these inoculations in the past,”without coming right out and actually saying it.)"

* ►March 24, 2008 - Journal of American Medical Association 1948 publication on thimerosal - Autism Speaks Forum

►September 18, 2007 - BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) - The BioInitiative Report

►November 13, 2003 - Title:  The Neurological Significance of Abnormal Natural Killer Cell Activity in Chronic Toxigenic Mold Exposures - journal article (TheScientificWorldJOURNAL)

* ►CELL PHONE HAZARDS - THE EVIDENCE IS IN By William Thomas - WillThomasOnline.net

►Autism TSO - website