►July 1, 2008 - Effect of Timing of Amantadine Chemoprophylaxis on Severity of Outbreaks of Influenza A in Adult Long-Term Care Facilities - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 1, 2008 - Varicella-Zoster Virus and Cerebral Aneurysm: Case Report and Review of the Literature (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 1, 2008 - Comparison of Clinical and Microbiological Response to Treatment of Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease with Metronidazole and Vancomycin - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 1, 2008 - Management of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection in HIV-Infected Patients - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►July 1, 2008 - An Outbreak of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Associated with Sushi Restaurants in Nevada, 2004 (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Drug industry weakens US bill about disclosure of gifts - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Assessing patients’ improvement in clinical trials - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Patient consent—decision or assumption? - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Independent drug watchdog in Canada under funding threat - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Australia to consider further regulation of complementary products - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Should we use large scale healthcare interventions without clear evidence that benefits outweigh costs and harms? Yes (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Should we use large scale healthcare interventions without clear evidence that benefits outweigh costs and harms? No (full text) - journal article (BMJ)

* ►June 7, 2008 - Doctors’ versus patients’ global assessments of treatment effectiveness: empirical survey of diverse treatments in clinical trials - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - More money needed for accurate data on doctors’ performance - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - Antiretrovirals reach more people in poor countries but many still lack access, UNAIDS says - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - Product placement in the waiting room - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - Multidrug resistance responsible for half of deaths from healthcare associated infections in Europe - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - University calls for mobile phone research to be withdrawn after technician admits faking data - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - Lessons in medical school access from America - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - How Our Evolutionary Blueprint Tells Us All We Need to Know About Human Health - The Common Voice

►June 7, 2008 - Fetal scalp sampling in labour - journal article (BMJ)

►June 7, 2008 - A nation of zombies? Sleep deprivation takes toll - Foster's Daily Democrat

* ►June 7, 2008 - Rally in Albany June 10th to Oppose the Worst Vaccine Bill Ever, Support Individual and Family Rights to Vaccine Choice - A-CHAMP.org - "Capitol Steps, Albany, NY Assembly Bill 10942 will require New York children to get every shot approved by the Federal government and would automatically require ever new shot recommended in the future by the vaccine-industry dominated Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices."

* ►June 7, 2008 - For former servicemen, an Ivy League outpost - Dartmouth embraces, learns from war vets (requires registration) - Boston Globe - "By the time the picture appeared in The New York Times the next morning, one bullet had torn through Crist's right arm, a second had lodged in his left leg, and a comrade was dead. Within days, Crist arrived at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he met James Wright, Dartmouth College president and a former Marine, and began an improbable journey to Dartmouth. Crist's classmate Brendan Hart, another former Marine steered to Dartmouth via Wright's efforts, enrolled so weakened by an adverse reaction to his mandatory smallpox vaccination that he needed a wheelchair to traverse the campus."

* ►June 7, 2008 - Law Covers Autism Therapy Payments - Hartford Courant - "Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed legislation this week that requires health insurance policies to pay for physical, speech and occupational therapy for treatment of autism spectrum disorders to the same extent they cover services for other conditions."

►June 7, 2008 - The autism epidemic commeth - Could the "autism epidemic" be something to celebrate? - book review - The Times, UK - "If Grinker is right, the so-called autism epidemic is not to be feared but to be celebrated. It means that children and adults who for centuries have been given the wrong diagnosis, or been missed altogether, are finally being assessed appropriately.....Unstrange Minds (Icon Books, £14.99)"

►June 7, 2008 - Bandh comes in way of polio eradication - Expressindia

►June 7, 2008 - WHO target met on providing HIV drugs in developing world - two years late - The Guardian, UK

►June 7, 2008 - Use diluted bleach to tackle enterovirus, officials say - Taipei Times

* ►June 7, 2008 - CDC: Salmonella illnesses spread to 16 states - AP via WLFI.com

* ►June 6, 2008 - Senate panel hears debate on immunization law in state - Press of Atlantic City - "The Summit woman said vaccines violated informed consent laws and the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Act wrongfully shielded doctors and drug firms from liability. She said at least 141 people are wrongfully in prison nationwide on shaken baby charges she believed were vaccine-caused. Holistic pediatrician Lawrence Palevsky said vaccines could have mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde and antifreeze in them, adding that hepatitis B vaccines can be up to 5 percent yeast. The New York doctor said he risked his medical license questioning vaccines. 'It is heresy in the community of medicine for a person to question the dogma' that vaccines are safe, effective and completely protect children from diseases, he said."

* ►June 6, 2008 - Moments When I Feel God Is Alive and At Work In The World by Kent Heckenlively, Esq. - Age of Autism

* ►June 6, 2008 - Signs of Intelligent Life in Washington by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism

* ►June 6, 2008 - Vaccine Injuries: Beyond Autism by Beth Clay - Age of Autism

* ►June 6, 2008 - Barbara Fischkin: Why An Older Autism Mom Marched With Robert Kennedy Jr., Jenny McCarthy And Jim Carrey At Green The Vaccines - The Huffington Post

* ►June 6, 2008 - A Day of Remembrance: Vaccine Injured March on Capitol Hill by Barbara Loe Fisher - Vaccine Awakening

* ►June 6, 2008 - NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter
 
A Day of Remembrance: Vaccine Injured March on Capitol Hill  by Barbara Loe Fisher

They came by the thousands from all over the America. On June 4, 2008, mothers and fathers with vaccine injured autistic children marched down the middle of Independence Avenue and rallied at the foot of the nation's Capitol. Some parents walked with, held or pushed their children in strollers while others, whose children were too severely brain injured to attend, carried signs and photos. They had come to witness, in one way or another, what had happened to their children after vaccination.

The day broke hot and humid with a threat of torrential rains that would have drenched the marchers. But then, the skies cleared and the sun came out in time for the determined parents and their children to gather on the grounds of the Washington Monument and line up behind Hollywood celebrities Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy leading the march and the "Green Our Vaccines" rally that would follow.

Although the primary message of the march was to call on government health agencies to "remove toxins" from vaccines and "adjust the vaccine schedule" by reducing the numbers of vaccines given to infants simultaneously, NVIC supporters carried signs declaring "No forced vaccination. Not in America." As NVIC co-founder Kathi Williams and I walked past the long line of families waiting to begin the march, we and our now-grown children held up the signs featuring the American flag and statue of liberty. All the way down the line, the families of vaccine injured children clapped and cheered the message of freedom we carried to honor and empower them as we passed.

And while many at the front of the line marching down Independence Avenue chanted "Too many, too soon," those of us bringing up the back of the line chanted "Hey, hey, Ho, ho - forced vaccines have got to go!" with an African American father urging us to shout louder and louder as we approached the Department of Health and Human Services. "Let them hear you," he yelled. "Tell them what you want."

I looked at my 30-year old son, who became multiply learning disabled after a neurological reaction to his fourth DPT shot in 1980 when he was two and a half, as he walked beside me resolutely holding up our sign and shouting in a deep voice "Forced vaccines have got to go." When he was eight years old, I remembered marching in Atlanta in front of the Centers for Disease Control in 1986 with Kathi and the young mothers of babies who had been brain injured or died after DPT vaccination in the 1980's. We were the first generation to march in protest against toxic vaccines and one-size-fits-all government vaccine policies justified by the utilitarian premise that it is ethical to throw a minority of children under the bus in service to others.

The second generation, whose children were born in the 1990's and developed autism after vaccination, held a series of rallies on Capitol Hill sponsored by Unlocking Autism beginning in 2000 when Congressman Dan Burton initiated congressional hearings on the link between autism and vaccines. In the summer of 2005, parents protesting mercury in vaccines marched and rallied on Capitol Hill. Today, the third generation knows that vaccine damage is about more than mercury. It is also about too much vaccination: 48 doses of 14 vaccines given by age six and 69 doses of 16 vaccines federal health officials now say children must get by the time they graduate from high school.

At the rally podium, Jim Carey delivered a remarkable address that was also a sweet love letter to his partner, Jenny McCarthy. He said "Autism is everywhere. It is on every street and in every town" and he asked the CDC "How stupid do you think we are?"

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and physicians such as Jay Gordon, M.D. and professor of chemistry Boyd Haley, Ph.D. called for removal of toxins from vaccines. Jenny McCarthy, who is the celebrity spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism Now (TACA), held up the government's childhood vaccine schedule and said "Parents need to know it is called a recommended schedule, not a mandatory schedule."

Unfortunately, that may not be true in many states in the future. Lobbyists for drug companies making vaccines, medical organizations representing doctors who give vaccines and government health officials are pressing state legislators in every state to pass legislation that would automatically turn CDC new vaccine "recommendations" into state mandatory vaccination laws.

This kind of proposed legislation was beaten back in the California legislature by the education efforts of autism activist Rick Rollens last year. But right now, the New York State legislature is about to capitulate to the Forced Vaccination Lobby and force children in New York to use every vaccine the CDC "recommends" or face punishment, including loss of the right to get an education. A rally of families protesting the proposed legislation will be held in Albany, NY at the Capitol Building at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10. For more information, go to www.mykidsmychoice.com

I will never forget marching with parents and their vaccine injured children in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 2008. Just as I will never forget all the marches that have gone before during the past quarter century that parents have been asking those who operate and profit from the mass vaccination system to make vaccines and vaccine policies safer.

Three decades of begging is long enough. Now it is time for all Americans - both those with vaccine injured children and those with healthy children - to Stand Up and Be Counted for the human right to make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. Our freedom and the biological integrity of this and future generations is on the line. Without the legal right to say "no" to vaccination, the people have no economic or political leverage to protect themselves and their children from toxic vaccines and dangerous vaccine policies.

The next march on Capitol Hill talking about vaccines should be all about freedom.

(To view more wonderful photos of the rally, go to the blog Adventures in Autism).
http://adventuresinautism.blogspot.com/

* ►June 6, 2008 - Autism spectrum can be difficult to see - Julie's Health Club via Chicago Tribune

►June 6, 2008 - 10,000 expected at Manhattanville autism walk - The Journal News - "The Westchester-Fairfield-Hudson Valley chapter of Autism Speaks will host its 7th annual walk at Manhattanville College."

►June 6, 2008 - Phoenix autism school holds 1st graduation - http://ktar.com

►June 6, 2008 - Piano program strikes a chord with autistic kids - Newsday

* ►June 6, 2008 - Mercury poisoning linked to dolphin deaths - The Age, Australia - "Dolphins found dead in Port Phillip Bay and the Gippsland Lakes may have suffered neurological damage due to mercury poisoning. According to an unpublished study that Monash University scientists say raises concerns about the health of Victorian waters, eight bottlenose dolphins washed up on beaches over the past two years suffered mercury contamination more than three times the level considered safe."

►June 6, 2008 - After Settling Suit, FDA Changes Tune On Mercury Fillings - Agency finally concedes mercury dental fillings may be dangerous - Consumer Affairs

* ►June 6, 2008 - Questions Raised About Mercury Tooth Fillings (includes video) - WLNS TV 6

* ►June 6, 2008 - Vaccines: One Small Risk for a Child, One Giant Benefit for Mankind - Quest via KQED.org

* ►June 6, 2008 - No vaccine for the scaremongers - Millions of deaths are prevented by vaccination every year, yet public anxieties and vaccine scares that ignore rigorous science continue to hamper immunization programmes. Jane Parry reports. - Bulletin of the World Health Organization

* ►June 6, 2008 - FDA, Facing Criticism, Bars Doctors From Drug Trials - Bloomberg

* ►June 6, 2008 - FDA adds cancer warnings to J&J foot ulcer cream  - FDA adds most serious warning of cancer risks to Johnson & Johnson foot ulcer drug - AP via CNNMoney

* ►June 6, 2008 - Drop in FDA Warning Letters Signals Enforcement Shift - Wall Street Journal Health Blog

►June 6, 2008 - Fired Female Sales Representative Files Lawsuit Against Eli Lilly For Sexual Harassment - All Headline News

* ►June 6, 2008 - Teen-jab theory over meningitis C - Teenagers may need a booster dose of meningitis C vaccine, say researchers who found immunity can fall over time. (includes video) - BBC

* ►June 6, 2008 - Blockbuster vaccine battle shaping up in meningococcal field (requires registration for full article) - SmartBrief - "Novartis AG is touting its Menveo meningitis vaccine as its next blockbuster, paving the way for the company to 'enter the top tier' of vaccine companies, according to its CEO. Novartis thinks head-to-head comparative trials and its four-dose approach to the infant market will help its candidate compete with Sanofi-Aventis' blockbuster Menactra."

* ►June 6, 2008 - Natural Health Product law brings Stalin to mind - Federal legislation aimed at herbs and vitamins serious overkill - Vancouver Courier via Canada.com - "Small players in the NHP industry don't have the finances to conduct double blind scientific studies of their own. If Health Canada says they have to remove their products from the shelves, they have to comply, and the government is under no obligation to show them documentation why. Under Bill C-51, NHP manufacturers face up to $5 million for an indictable offence and two years in prison."

* ►June 6, 2008 - Suspected Side Effects of HPV Vaccine Raises Concerns (includes video) - KWTX.com - "Katherine Kimzey, 14, told the Dallas Morning News she had headaches and fainting spells before suffering a seizure and being diagnosed with epilepsy. She believes her symptoms are connected to the HPV vaccine, Gardasil. Katherine’s mother, Michelle Kimzey says her daughter’s symptoms mirrored many of the 5,000 reports filed by the public through a national database that monitors the safety of vaccines after they are licensed."

* ►June 6, 2008 - Gardasil Side Effects Still Being Reported - Newsinferno.com

►June 6, 2008 - Reporting vaccine reactions - Department of Health and Human Services via Dallas Morning News

* ►June 6, 2008 - AlphaVax Continues to Expand the Use of Its Vaccine Platform - press release - AlphaVax, Inc. via PRNewswire via The Earth Times - "AlphaVax, Inc. recently received notification from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the granting institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), that it has been awarded a second grant to continue development of a smallpox vaccine based on AlphaVax's proprietary vector platform."

►June 6, 2008 - Canada Strengthens Poultry Avian Influenza Surveillance - Canadian Food Inspection Agency via Government of Canada Newsroom

►June 6, 2008 - Genome Of 150 Different Avian Influenza Viruses Released - USDA/Agriculture Research Service via ScienceDaily

* ►June 6, 2008 - WHO upset over Indonesia's shift in avian flu reporting - CP via CBC

►June 6, 2008 - School, government leaders gather for 'pandemic flu tabletop exercise' - Early preparatory groundwork seen as key factors - Lakeland Times

►June 6, 2008 - Health District Probes Another Hepatitis Case - KXNT.com Las Vegas

►June 6, 2008 - Chickenpox hits Cal Poly - KSBY.com

►June 6, 2008 - MMR vaccine drive - Radio Jamaica

►June 6, 2008 - Japan Offers Over USD 4 Mn for Fight Against Malaria, Polio - AngolaPress

►June 6, 2008 - Campaign to vaccinate women against neo-natal tetanus to be launched Saturday - Saba Net Yemen News Agency

►June 6, 2008 - Lyme Disease Victims Become Tick-Prevention Advocates Echoing CDC Warnings: Lyme is on the Rise - press release - Lyme Alert, Inc., via EINNews.com

►June 6, 2008 - Levittown woman infested with bird mites quarantined - Newsday

►June 6, 2008 - Parents say peanut allergy is life-or-death matter - Newsday

►June 6, 2008 - Army chief sued over boy's death - The Age, Australia - "The chief of the Australian army is being sued over the death of a Melbourne Scotch College student who last year suffered a peanut allergy attack at a cadet camp. Nathan Francis, 13, died while on bivouac after partly eating a peanut-based food pouch supplied by the army."

►June 6, 2008 - Public strongly against cloned animal meat, study reveals - The Guardian, UK

* ►June 6, 2008 - 13,000 in S.F. to discuss diabetes treatments - San Francisco Chronicle - "About 7 percent of Americans have diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Studies suggest that as many as 1 in 3 Americans born in 2000 will get diabetes in their lifetime."

►June 6, 2008 - Anthrax warning as Crossrail threatens to disturb plague pit - Anthrax could be released into Smithfield Market if a 14th century “plague pit” is disrupted during the Crossrail development. - Camden New Journal, UK

►June 6, 2008 - ALSO NOTED: Hospitals begin auctioning unpaid debts online; US stockpiling antivirals against bird flu pandemic; and much more. - Fierce Healthcare

* ►June 6, 2008 - Product Approval Information Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed For Adult Use TENIVAC (pdf) - Sanofi Pasteur, Ltd, License #1726 - FDA/CBER - "The manufacturing processes for both the tetanus and diphtheria toxoid components of the candidate Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed for Adult Use (Td) are essentially identical to those used in the manufacture of Aventis Pasteur Limited’s Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids Adsorbed (For Pediatric Use) (DT) and for DAPTACEL, both of which are licensed in the U.S. These products have a higher amount of diphtheria toxoid than the candidate Td. The DT manufactured by Aventis Pasteur Limited contains thimerosal as a preservative; DAPTACEL contains 2-phenoxyethanol."

* ►June 6, 2008 - Are we over vaccinating our children -- Yes - Renew America

* ►June 6, 2008 - Senators mull proposal to OK vaccine opt-out - AP via The Record - "Barbara Flynn of Summit said her son suffered post-vaccine neurological problems. "Unvaccinated children are nothing to be afraid of," Flynn said. The bill would allow the state to keep unvaccinated students from attending school during a disease outbreak. The state health commissioner could also suspend conscientious exemptions in an emergency."

* ►June 6, 2008 - Indonesia accuses drug maker Baxter of acting too slowly in developing bird flu vaccine - AP via PR-inside

* ►June 6, 2008 - AlphaVax Continues to Expand the Use of Its Vaccine Platform - AlphaVax, Inc. via PRNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

* ►June 6, 2008 - Feds Back Wyeth in Supreme Court Case - The Wall Street Journal

* ►June 6, 2008 - Former Head of NIH Says Link Between Autism & Vaccines Should Be Investigated - American Free Press

* ►June 6, 2008 - Supreme Court Justices Sell Drug Stocks - Pharmalot

►June 6, 2008 - FDA clears H.P.'s Banner to produce flu medicine - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area

►June 6, 2008 - Health Officials Trace Infant Whooping Cough Outbreak at Texas Hospital to Sick Nurse - A 2004 whooping cough outbreak at a Texas hospital has been traced back to a nurse who worked in the nursery at the time of the outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published June 6. - FOX News

* ►June 6, 2008 - GenVec Announces Registered Offering of $17 Million in Common Stock and Warrants - GenVec via BusinessWire via MarketWatch - "GenVec, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutic drugs and vaccines. GenVec's lead product candidate, TNFerade(TM), is currently in a pivotal clinical study (PACT) in locally advanced pancreatic cancer and is being evaluated in additional clinical trials in other tumor types. GenVec also uses its proprietary adenovector technology to develop vaccines for infectious diseases including HIV, malaria, foot-and-mouth disease, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), HSV-2, and influenza."

* ►June 6, 2008 - Bird flu can mix with human influenza virus: research - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

* ►June 6, 2008 - Knowledge about childhood autism among health workers (KCAHW) questionnaire: description, reliability and internal consistency (pdf) - journal article (Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health)

►June 6, 2008 - Number Of FDA Warning Letters Has Plunged - Pharmalot

* ►June 6, 2008 - Redefining Quality — Implications of Recent Clinical Trials (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►June 6, 2008 - Indonesia's bird flu reporting policy draws ire - Reuters

►June 6, 2008 - First 'Molecular Snapshot' Of A Virulence Factor On Bacterial Surface - David G. Thanassi, Ph.D., and co-investigators from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Washington University, and University College in London, are the first to capture a view of proteins during translocation across the bacterial outer membrane. This “molecular snapshot” may enlighten scientists to the process of protein secretion across membranes, a problem faced by all cells, and provide a foundation to understanding certain bacterial virulence factors that allow bacteria to cause disease. - Stony Brook University Medical Center via ScienceDaily

►June 6, 2008 - Nothing Can Stop Novartis! - The Motley Fool

* ►June 6, 2008 - FDA Office Of New Drugs On A Hiring Frenzy - Pharmalot

* ►June 6, 2008 - FDA’s Chief Scientist Asks Science Board Subcommittee to Review Research on Bisphenol-A - FDA

►June 6, 2008 - Bacterial cells, artificial vesicles use sugar components to talk - The Journal Angewandte Chemie via Thaindian News

►June 6, 2008 - Pharma Says ‘What Social Network?’ Fard Explains - Pharmalot

►June 6, 2008 - What is Hydrocephalus? - American Chronicle

►June 6, 2008 - Weather, stomach bugs and climate change: Refining the model - Monitoring extreme weather, such as periods of high temperature, is one way to predict the timing and intensity of infectious diseases like cryptosporidiosis, an intestinal disease that causes upset stomach and diarrhea. - EurekAlert! via innovations report

►June 6, 2008 - FDA Takes Action against Seafood Processing Company, Executives - Repeated federal violations and failure to correct drove action - FDA

►June 6, 2008 - Ombudsman must oversee hospitals in wake of C. difficile death: NDP - Canadian Press via Prince George Citizen

►June 6, 2008 - Government of Canada and AllerGen NCE Inc. Invest $12 Million to Improve the Health of Children Suffering from Asthma and Allergies - Canadian Business

* ►June 5, 2008 - Amid protest, U.S. backs vaccinations - FDA sees health benefits of child vaccines, says it is looking for signs of links to autism - The Baltimore Sun - "I don't believe there is evidence that links vaccines to autism, but I do believe these are concerns we need to take seriously," said Dr. Peter L. Goodman, director of the Food and Drug Administration's vaccines division."

* ►June 5, 2008 - Dynavax expects to resume Heplisav testing - Dynavax via East Bay Business Times - "Tests of the drug, Heplisav, were stopped by the Food and Drug Administration in April because of "a serious adverse event" in a person who received the vaccine during safety and efficacy testing."

* ►June 5, 2008 - Is It A Study Or An Ad? Only Pharma Knows For Sure - Pharmalot - "Open a prestigious and reliable medical journal and you expect to find real studies, yes? Okay, there are also ads for all sorts of items - drugs, for instance. But it should be easy enough to distinguish between the two - unless someone is trying to pull a fast one.And that’s what Geraint Lewish of New York University and Peter Hockey of Harvard Medical School allege in a letter to the BMJ, in which they complain that two ads were dressed up to look like studies. It was only upon closer inspection did they realize the papers didn’t state funding sources, competing interests, ethical approval or peer-review status."

* ►June 5, 2008 - The Mysterious Missing FDA Chantix Video - Pharmalot - "On April 1, the FDA added a video to its Patient Safety News page that discussed Chantix. The 2-1/2 minute clip was meant to update the public on Pfizer’s smoking-cessation pill, which had recently been the subject of a health advisory over neuropsychiatric side effects. But as WhyQuit pointed out, the video was taken down the next day."

* ►June 5, 2008 - CDER Hiring Frenzy: More Reviewers Means Faster Reviews - The Center for Drugs Evaluation & Research is about halfway through its planned hiring process for fiscal year 2008. Luckily for drug sponsors, the Office of New Drugs is receiving the lion’s share of new employees. But some divisions are getting more reviewers than others. - The RPM Report

►June 5, 2008 - Guidance for Industry Q3A Impurities in New Drug Substances - FDA/CBER

►June 5, 2008 - Update 1-EU agency okays Sanofi's Lovenox despite impurity - Reuters

* ►June 5, 2008 - Novartis Says MS Drug Linked to Death, Infection - Bloomberg

* ►June 5, 2008 - Heparin in Medical Devices Linked to 11 U.S. Deaths - Bloomberg

►June 5, 2008 - ePrescribing will lead to more use of the Web for health - World of DTC Marketing

►June 5, 2008 - Jobs at MedImmune (requires registration) - The Scientist

►June 5, 2008 - Pfizer Downgraded As Wall Street Loses Confidence - Pharmalot

►June 5, 2008 - Former Pfizer Reps Press Age Discrimination Case - Pharmalot

►June 5, 2008 - Not A Great Industry To Work For? - Pharmalot

►June 5, 2008 - FDA Announces Limited Return of Heartworm Drug to U.S. Market - FDA

►June 5, 2008 - Information on Genetic Disorders - American Chronicle

►June 5, 2008 - NIH 2009 funding hopes (requires registration) - The Scientist

►June 5, 2008 - $300M Health Initiative Announced - TIME Magazine

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally #2 - March - video - YouTube

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally #3 - RFK Jr. - video - YouTube

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally #4 - Jim Carrey - video - YouTube

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally #5 - Jenny McCarthy - video - YouTube

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally from Washington, DC - video - Autism One

* ►June 5, 2008 - Mandatory Vaccination! Protect Your Rights!! - Natural Solutions Foundation Health Freedom eAlert via Wellness.com - "Legislature to vote June 10th - Compulsory Vaccination Is coming To New York State Kids Unless You Act Now!"

* ►June 5, 2008 - FDA: Possible Risk From Dental Fillings - To Settle Lawsuit, FDA Now Says Mercury From Fillings Might Pose Risk to Some - WebMD - "Neurologist Karl Kieburtz, MD, of the University of Rochester, co-chaired the panel. 'The panel's concern was there are populations that are particularly susceptible to the neurological effects of mercury and might experience these effects at the very low levels of exposure seen with dental amalgam,' Kieburtz tells WebMD. 'That was the tenor of the committee -- 'Let's consider vulnerable populations' -- so we said fair enough, these vulnerable populations should at least get a warning.'"

►June 5, 2008 - Pleasanton parents raising awareness for Autism - Tri Valley Herald via Inside Bay Area

* ►June 5, 2008 - Heparin in Medical Devices Linked to 11 U.S. Deaths - Bloomberg - "Eleven deaths and 86 cases of harmful side effects this year have been linked to use of medical devices containing the blood thinner heparin, U.S. regulators said. Most of the cases involved heparin used to clean intravenous lines, said Karen Riley, a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman, in an interview today."

* ►June 5, 2008 - Merck spent over $1M lobbying government in 1Q - AP via Forbes

* ►June 5, 2008 - Humans Have Ten Times More Bacteria Than Human Cells: How Do Microbial Communities Affect Human Health? - American Society for Microbiology, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS via ScienceDaily

* ►June 5, 2008 - Vitamin D May Cut Risk Of Type 1 Diabetes - Babies, Children Should Be Given Vitamin D Supplements, Researchers Say - WebMD via CBS News

* ►June 5, 2008 - Boston University Angers Neighbors With Ebola, SARS Germ Lab - Bloomberg - "Boston University says the lab will be safe, yield lifesaving research, and help the school, city and region by adding jobs and an estimated $72 million a year in research contracts. Critics say the area's poor won't benefit. The school is likely to prevail because of the lab's potential benefits to society, said Arthur Caplan, an ethicist who follows health- policy clashes. 'It could easily bring in grants in the tens of millions of dollars,' Caplan, 58, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, said in a June 2 telephone interview. 'It is not fair to say that it is money versus ethics, but that at the end of the day the benefits overwhelm the concerns about the risk.'"

►June 5, 2008 - AIDS - Getting the message - Good news on treatment. Bad news on propaganda - The Economist

►June 5, 2008 - Ebola, SARS, the Plague at Boston University - CollegeOTR

►June 5, 2008 - Fresh US guidelines recommend further stockpiles of Tamiflu - Hemscott

►June 5, 2008 - Mercury Seen As Low In Canadian Salmon - Experts: Known Benefits Of Salmon Outweigh Suspected Risks Of Mercury - CBS News

* ►June 4, 2008 - McCarthy links autism, vaccines; Valley doctor disagrees - http://ktar.com

* ►June 4, 2008 - UT Southwestern gets a B in study of drug industry conflicts of interest - The Dallas Morning News - "Also Online Link: Find more details and check medical school scores"

* ►June 4, 2008 - Toy industry seeks more regulation - Politico.com - "Since Kevin was exposed to lead from his Diego and Boots toys, he has exhibited aggressive behavior, a loss of speech and other cognitive problems, his mother said. He has had more than 60 chelation treatments so far to remove lead from his blood, but the damage could be lifelong. 'We want to make sure we don’t use our children as crash test dummies, as guinea pigs,' Schakowsky told the families. The congresswoman is a member of the conference committee."

►June 4, 2008 - Aethlon Medical Submits Biodefense Contract Proposal to US Government - Business Wire via StreetInsider.com

►June 4, 2008 - Expert: Exercise fights addiction - Cincinnati Enquirer - "Researchers are also studying whether a vaccine can help prevent cocaine addicts who have already been through treatment to avoid falling back into using. An experimental vaccine produces antibodies that short-circuit the drug's ability to get users high. It also prevents overdose."

* ►June 4, 2008 - Austin mothers protest vaccines (includes video) - keyetv.com - "Dawn Sefgee saw a difference in her daughter shortly after receiving the measles mumps rubella vaccine. She says, "When the child is about 18 months old that's when [she] gets the MMR. That was the case with my daughter."

* ►June 4, 2008 - Blockbuster Fight in the Vaccine Field: Novartis’ Menveo vs. Sanofi-Pasteur’s Menactra - Novartis has been retooling the vaccine business that it bought with Chiron in 2006. Now, the company has progressed far enough with clinical development of two meningitis vaccines to tell Wall Street to watch out for its move in a new blockbuster class. The one problem: Sanofi-Aventis and Menactra are already there. - The RPM Report

►June 4, 2008 - Prevalence of Influenza A viruses in wild migratory birds in Alaska: Patterns of variation in detection at a crossroads of intercontinental flyways (pdf) - journal article (Virology Journal)

►June 4, 2008 - Tainted cheese fuels TB rise in California - Unpasteurized dairy products linked to reemergence of ancient disease - MSNBC

* ►June 4, 2008 - Pediatric Advisory Committee - FDA

* ►June 4, 2008 - No Freebie Fallout: Doomed Delis In Massachusetts - Pharmalot

* ►June 4, 2008 - A Battle Over DTC Advertising In Canada - Pharmalot

►June 4, 2008 - FDA May Add Suicide Warnings To Epilepsy Meds - Pharmalot

►June 4, 2008 - Tyson bird-flu find curbs exports to Japan, Russia - Japan has temporarily stopped importing chicken from Arkansas, while the United States has suspended poultry exports to Russia from Arkansas for 90 days, a Tyson Foods Inc. executive said Wednesday. - MarketWatch

►June 4, 2008 - AMMA Survey: Overwhelming Support for Follow-On Biologics to Reduce Drug Cost - AMMA via PRNewswire-USNewswire via redOrbit

* ►June 4, 2008 - Walgreen To Pay $35M For Drug Switching Charges - Pharmalot

* ►June 4, 2008 - Court Dismisses Vioxx Medical Monitoring Suit - Pharmalot

►June 4, 2008 - Add brain cells, remove seizures (requires registration) - The Scientist

►June 4, 2008 - Hypothermia for Head Trauma in Children - Hypothermia therapy did not improve neurologic outcomes in children with traumatic brain injury and might have contributed to increased mortality. - journal article (Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

►June 4, 2008 - A Survivor in Greenland: a Novel Bacterial Species is Found Trapped in 120,000-Year-Old Ice - Penn State via Biocompare

►June 4, 2008 - Nothing In The Oven For Pregnancy Complications - Pharmalot

* ►June 3, 2008 - AIDS vaccine trial set to start (requires registration) - The Scientist

* ►June 3, 2008 - Most Med Schools Fail To Monitor Freebies - Pharmalot - "Those crazy kids are at it again. Most US medical schools fail to police the money, gifts and free samples that drugmakers give doctors and trainees, according to a new ranking by the American Medical Student Association. Only 7 of 150 that were ranked received an A and 14 were graded B. But 60 received an F for failing to respond, providing incomplete surveys or for inadequate policies."

►June 3, 2008 - DTC Ad Spending Fell In The First Quarter - Pharmalot

►June 3, 2008 - Smoke & Mirrors: Chantix Site Hides Safety Info - Pharmalot

►June 3, 2008 - Can We 'Wipe Out' MRSA? - 3 basic principles could reduce incidence of MRSA in hospitals - Cardiff University via Biocompare

►June 3, 2008 - Vertex sells HIV drug royalty rights for $160M - Boston Business Journal

►June 3, 2008 - Immune Disease Institute and GlaxoSmithKline in $25M partnership - Boston Business Journal

►June 3, 2008 - The Forecast Calls For Pain: Moody’s Is Negative - Pharmalot

►June 3, 2008 - A Legislative Debate Over Generics In Florida - Pharmalot

►June 3, 2008 - Scientist Study Bacterial Communities Inside Us to Better Understand Health and Disease - American Society for Microbiology via Biocompare

* ►June 3, 2008 - Good News In Our DNA: Defects You Can Fix With Vitamins And Minerals - As the cost of sequencing a single human genome drops rapidly, with one company predicting a price of $100 per person in five years, soon the only reason not to look at your "personal genome" will be fear of what bad news lies in your genes. - University of California - Berkeley via ScienceDaily

►June 3, 3008 - Agent in Red Wine Found to Keep Hearts Young - University of Wisconsin-Madison via Biocompare

►June 3, 2008 - Eating and Weight Gain Not Necessarily Linked, Study Shows - You may not be what you eat after all. - University of California - San Francisco via Biocompare

►June 3, 2008 - E. Coli, Staph Infections Possible Culprits in SIDS - Newsinferno.com

* ►June 2, 2008 - We Win -- FDA Must Classify Mercury Fillings - We have won our ten-year battle to get the Food and Drug Administration to comply with the law and set a date to classify mercury amalgam. (pdf) - Consumers for Dental Choice - "Gone, gone, gone are all of FDA’s claims that no science exists that amalgam is unsafe, or that other countries have acted for environmental reasons only, or that the 2006 Scientific Panel vote affirmed amalgam’s safety. Instead -- see http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/amalgams.html -- FDA has moved to a neutral course, while recognizing the serious health concerns posed by amalgam in particular for children and unborn children, for pregnant women, for those with mercury immuno-sensitivity or high mercury body burdens."

* ►June 2, 2008 - Gardasil… Now Playing At A Theater Near You - Pharmalot - "Last year, Merck was under fire for aggressively promoting its HPV vaccine by convincing lawmakers, such as the governor of Texas and legislators who belong to Women In Government, to get behind mandatory vaccination. The heavy-handed effort backfired, briefly obscuring a meaningful discussion of health benefits and sullying the drugmaker’s reputation.And so Merck scaled back its more visible lobbying, although Gardasil ads continued to run. Now, the drugmaker is getting aggressive again - especially with consumers. Starting this past Saturday and running through June 26, Gardasil ads are appearing in theaters showing ‘Sex and the City,’ ‘Get Smart,’ ‘The Happening,’ ‘You Don’t Mess With The Zohan,’ and some others."

* ►June 2, 2008 - Grassley Decries ‘Vicious Attack’ In Newspaper Op-Ed - Pharmalot

* ►June 2, 2008 - Children's Medicines - BBC - "Children are at last finding their voice in the corridors of big pharma, and any medicine that could benefit children will have to be properly tested and designed with children in mind."

►June 2, 2008 - State Ranks 44th in Children's Health - KAIT 8

►June 1, 2008 - Hiroshima hospital admits reusing blood meters - The Yomiuri Shimbun

►June 2008 - Autism Research Institute Newsletter - http://autism.com

* ►June 2008 - CD8+ T cell efficacy in vaccination and disease - journal article (Nature Medicine)

* ►June 2008 - Nonhuman primate models and the failure of the Merck HIV-1 vaccine in humans - journal article (Nature Medicine)

►June 2008 - The anaplastic lymphoma kinase is an effective oncoantigen for lymphoma vaccination - journal article (Nature Medicine)

►June 2008 - Small interfering RNA–mediated xCT silencing in gliomas inhibits neurodegeneration and alleviates brain edema - journal article (Nature Medicine)

►June 2008 - Persistent activation of an innate immune response translates respiratory viral infection into chronic lung disease - journal article (Nature Medicine)

►June 2008 - From Me to We - The Scientist Community is about to take off. We hope you'll join us. - The Scientist

►June 2008 - Blocking TGF-–Smad2/3 innate immune signaling mitigates Alzheimer-like pathology - journal article (Nature Medicine)

►June 2008 - Genetic and Environmental Influences on Alcohol, Caffeine, Cannabis, and Nicotine Use From Early Adolescence to Middle Adulthood - journal article (Archives of General Psychiatry)

►May 31, 2008 - The price of lead pollution - Children who suffer lead poisoning, researchers find, are more likely to commit crimes. (requires registration or subscription) - Los Angeles Times

►May 31, 2008 - UWI to expand Clinical Trials Centre - The University of the West Indies (UWI) is getting ready to expand its Clinical Trials Centre as it prepares to embark on its 10th clinical trial since it started operations two years ago. - Jamaica Observer

►May 30, 2008 - $7m to train specialist pharmacists - The Business Times

►May 28, 2008 - Researcher Says She Has Developed A Cancer-Fighting Tool - The Suncoast News

►May 22, 2008 - MRI scanners to be examined for cancer link - An investigation into the safety of MRI scanners is to be carried out amid health fears over the effects of the scans. - Telegraph, UK

►December 2003 - The robust health of vaccine-free children - Bronwyn Hancock - Vaccination Information Services

►Baby Gallery - If you have an unvaccinated or partially unvaccinated baby or child that you would like to star on this page, please send your picture via email to us. We only publish first names. You don't have to send any details with the photo. I have included it with the following pictures as they are my children. - Vaccine Risk Awareness

* ►My Kids My Choice - website

* ►Rally In Albany - STOP Bill A10942. ADVANCE the Philosophical Exemption Bill A5468. A bill, which appeared just two weeks ago, increases vaccine requirements for children and adults. - My Kids My Choice - "Join Us Tuesday, June 10. Stop Bill A10942 - Rally in Albany Please see our EVENTS page for trip details."

►Conflict of Interest Policies at Academic Medical Centers - AMSA Scorecard

►When autism is family: What's it like living with a child with autism? - Come meet some families affected by -- and triumphing through -- autistic spectrum disorders. Here we meet some children with and parents for whom autism isn't just a statistic reported in the news, but actually part of the family. - SheKnows.com

* ►June 9, 2008 - Former Head of NIH Says Link Between Autism & Vaccines Should Be Investigated by Melanie Phillips - American Free Press

* ►June 9, 2008 - Senate panel backs autism bill - 2TheAdvocate

* ►June 6, 2008 - Hospital-Acquired Pertussis Among Newborns --- Texas, 2004 - MMWR/CDC

►June 6, 2008 - Public Health Consequences of a False-Positive Laboratory Test Result for Brucella --- Florida, Georgia, and Michigan, 2005 - MMWR/CDC

►June 6, 2008 - QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged >25 Years with Limitation of Activity Caused by One or More Chronic Conditions,* by Education Level and Sex --- National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2006† - MMWR/CDC

►June 6, 2008 - Notice to Readers: Cancer Survivorship --- June 2008 - MMWR/CDC

►June 6, 2008 - Notice to Readers: Assessment Tool for Evaluating Emergency and Disaster Shelters - MMWR/CDC

►June 6, 2008 - Notifiable Diseases/Deaths in Selected Cities Weekly Information - MMWR/CDC

►June 6, 2008 - Prevention of Herpes Zoster - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - MMWR/CDC

►June 6, 2008 - One in five children, 11 to 13, not fully protected against deadly meningitis - This is London

►June 6, 2008 - Texas Grocers Pull Tomatoes Linked to Salmonella Outbreak - MedHeadlines

►June 6, 2008 - Avian Influenza in Britain confirmed as highly pathogenic H7N7 - Xinhua via China View

* ►June 6, 2008 - Vaccinate all kids? Debate rages in N.J. - The Daily Journal - "Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a New York holistic pediatrician, said although the science community has not found a direct link, it may not be "a coincidence" that a child's health problems come after vaccinations. 'If I give you amoxicillin and you have an adverse reaction by developing a rash, I know you have an allergy to amoxicillin,' said Palevsky. 'But when the same thing happens with the other kinds of kids, the medical community turns their backs on these kids." According to the national Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, 19,661 cases of vaccine-related side effects were reported in 2007. This year, 2,652 cases have been reported so far.'"

* ►June 5, 2008 - NJ senators debate vaccine exemptions - AP via Newsday - "A Senate panel Thursday debated whether to let New Jersey parents exempt their children from vaccines, but took no action on a proposed bill."

* ►June 5, 2008 - HPV vaccine's suspected side effects cause concern; CDC says drug is safe (includes video) - The Dallas Morning News - "Katherine Kimzey started suffering debilitating headaches, fainting spells and arthritis-like stiffness last November. Six weeks later, the 14-year-old Dallas resident became so dizzy she could barely walk. She was hospitalized and missed three weeks of school. Then, she had a seizure. For weeks, she bounced back and forth between specialists and was eventually diagnosed with epilepsy. Katherine's mother, Michelle Kimzey, now believes her daughter's symptoms were caused by a new vaccine that was supposed to protect her against cervical cancer. The symptoms started not long after Katherine had her second shot late last year, she said. And they mirrored many of the 5,000 reports filed by the public through a national database that monitors the safety of vaccines after they are licensed."

* ►June 5, 2008 - Mercury Fillings Shattered! FDA, ADA Conspiracy to Poison Children with Toxic Mercury Fillings Exposed in Groundbreaking Lawsuit - NaturalNews.com - ...mercury filling manufacturers and indignant dentists have reaped windfall profits by implanting toxic fillings into the mouths of children, all while insisting that mercury -- one of the most toxic heavy metals known to modern science -- posed no health threat whatsoever. Today, that reign of toxicity is about to end. Thanks to the tireless, multi-year efforts of people like Charles Brown, National Counsel for Consumers for Dental Choice (www.ToxicTeeth.org), the FDA has now been forced to acknowledge a fact so fundamental that, by any measure of honest science, it should have adopted the position decades ago. What position is that? Simply that mercury is toxic to humans."

* ►June 5, 2008 - Pregnant Women, Children Cautioned on Dental Mercury - Bloomberg

►June 5, 2008 - FDA Declares Mercury in Teeth Dangerous - Age of Autism

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally 2008 - Washington, DC - Autism Speaks video - YouTube

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally #1 - Pre March - video - YouTube

* ►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines -- June 4 - video - These are my pics from the Green Our Vaccines March and Rally in Washington, D.C. Enjoy! - YouTube

* ►June 5, 2008 - Celebs Rally for Vaccine Reform - Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy Call on Congress for Change Not Supported by Science by Arthur Allen - The Washington Independent - "Over the decade I’ve reported on this issue, the believers have grown more and more entrenched in their convictions, to the point that it’s difficult to have a discussion because we’ve obviously been reading different material. Google University has many campuses and I’ve been attending a different one."

* ►June 5, 2008 - CBS Lauds Vaccines, Admits 'No Idea of What Actually Causes Autism' - 'Evening News' reminds viewers protection from diseases outweighs potential risks from vaccinations. - Business Media Institute

* ►June 5, 2008 - After the March, How Will the "Green Our Vaccines" Agenda Move Forward? - http://autism.about.com - Comments: The following letter was sent. FDA responded that CDC decides the vaccine schedule. CDC has not to date responded if CDC requires studies on the cumulative effect before adding new vaccines to infant schedule....From: Concerned Grandparents and Clinical Laboratory Scientists Dear Ms/Sirs:
First, we request copies of the actual studies of the cumulative health impact on babies of the recent almost doubling of the number of vaccines."

* ►June 5, 2008 - Jim Carrey Is A Pretty Fantastic Fella - YourCelebrityStuff

►June 5, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey on Perez Hilton by Kim Stagliano - Age of Autism

►June 5, 2008 - Green Our Vaccines Rally - News Anchor Mom

►June 5, 2008 - Jim Carrey Marches On - E! Online

►June 5, 2008 - Jim Carrey's protest march - AhlanLive.com - "Actor JIM CARREY joined hundreds of protesters to take part in a march for autism yesterday. The funnyman joined girlfriend JENNY McCARTHY for the rally in Washington DC on Wednesday to raise awareness of the presence of toxins in vaccines. Actress Jennie has a five-year-old son, Evan who suffers from the condition and claims it was caused by vaccinations he had as a baby."

►June 5, 2008 - Jim Carrey Autism Whisperer - Star talks about his relationship with autistic child - Raisingkids

►June 5, 2008 - Autism hearing packed - Wilton Villager - "The hearing is a result of a petition circulated by 25 parents from Wilton. Their concerns range from inconsistency in the schools' hiring of behaviorists, to the credentials of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) consultant Judy McCarty to a need for a coherent autism program."

* ►June 5, 2008 - URMC to study children with autism, ADHD - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle

* ►June 5, 2008 - Michigan, Florida share Fed autism grant - United Press International - "Florida State University and the University of Michigan will share a $7 million federal grant to study the effects of early intervention in autism."

* ►June 5, 2008 - Brain Stem Cells Reverse Myelin Deficiency in Mice (requires registration) - HealthDay via Washington Post

►June 5, 2008 - FDA warns about toxic effects of mercury in dental fillings - Reuters via Ottawa Citizen

* ►June 5, 2008 - 1 in 5 adolescents are not sufficiently protected against meningitis C - BMJ via EurekAlert! - "One in five adolescents aged 11