* ►July 2008 - Clinical applications of quantitative T2 determination: A complementary MRI tool for routine diagnosis of suspected myelination disorders - journal article (European Journal of Paediatric Neurology)

* ►June 2008 - Two patients with balanced translocations and autistic disorder: CSMD3 as a candidate gene for autism found in their common 8q23 breakpoint area - journal article (European Journal of Human Genetics)

* ►June 2008 - Epithelial-cell recognition of commensal bacteria and maintenance of immune homeostasis in the gut - journal article (Nature Reviews Immunology)

* ►June 2008 - The regulation of IgA class switching - journal article (Nature Reviews Immunology)

* ►June 2008 - Dendritic cells in intestinal immune regulation - journal article (Nature Reviews Immunology)

►June 2008 - Fragile X syndrome - journal article (European Journal of Human Genetics)

►June 2008 - The genetics and immunopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease - journal article (Nature Reviews Immunology)

►June 2008 - Homozygosity mapping in a family presenting with schizophrenia, epilepsy and hearing impairment - journal article (European Journal of Human Genetics)

* ►May 24, 2008 - Human papillomavirus vaccine - Some issues around consent remain unresolved - journal article (BMJ) - "Parental opinion is divided as to whether a girl should be able to seek the vaccine without parental knowledge.2 The principle of "Gillick competence" might apply if a girl sufficiently understands the concepts involved and wishes to make the decision for herself.3 However, given that the long term effects of this vaccine are not known, is it safe for children to be vaccinated without those with parental responsibility knowing? Furthermore, would it be ethical to apply Gillick competence in such a setting?"

* ►May 24, 2008 - Indonesia holding out for bird flu vaccine deal (requires subscription) - New Scientist

* ►May 24, 2008 - WHO chief calls for united front in face of three crises: food, climate change, and pandemic influenza - journal article (BMJ)

* ►May 24, 2008 - Undiagnosed diseases are focus of new NIH programme - journal article (BMJ)

* ►May 24, 2008 - Frequent interruptions linked to drug errors - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - Bloody diarrhoea - Test early for verotoxin producing Escherichia coli - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - World Medical Association scales up training for multidrug resistant tuberculosis to fight epidemic - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - Emergency treatment of anaphylaxis - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - Food additives and hyperactivity - journal article (BMJ)

* ►May 24, 2008 - One in three people in the US want to see "radical change" in health care - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - Walk-in clinics at US retail outlets run into financial problems - journal article (BMJ)

* ►May 24, 2008 - New law bans selling of products with unjustified health claims - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - Health gains do not match investment in health services, says report - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - Electronic health records - Access to your own GP record is available now - journal article (BMJ)

►May 24, 2008 - Overcoming virus early beats hepatitis - DRIVING down the number of circulating copies of the hepatitis C virus to undetectable levels in the earliest stages of infection makes it highly likely that the patient will eventually be cured - even among patients who are also infected with HIV. - The Australian

►May 24, 2008 - No treatment for child's HIV - George Gwaze and his wife Sifiso knew their adopted daughter Charlene Makaza was HIV positive but she received no treatment for the disease. - The Press via www.stuff.co.nz

►May 24, 2008 - The hepatitis C wedding - A couple in Cornwall married at a wedding with a hepatitis C theme. How a killer disease brought two people together - The Times, UK

* ►May 23, 2008 - Biological Product Deviation Reports Annual Summary for Fiscal Year 2007 - FDA/CBER - "Vaccine manufacturers submitted 19 more reports in FY07 (FY06 - 41, FY07 - 60). Most of these reports involved product specifications not met for appearance and stability testing failed."

* ►May 23, 2008 - FDA To Mine Big Databases For Safety Problems - Pharmalot

* ►May 23, 2008 - One in 20 patients want to kill doctor - study - One in 20 want to kill their GP - Thousands of doctors attacked - News Limited, AU - "The researchers from the University of Miami, Florida, found that just over 1 in 20, or five per cent, admitted feeling like they wanted to murder their physician."

►May 23, 2008 - Tamiflu, the anti-flu virus medication - The News Today

* ►May 23, 2008 - US choke point for WHO - Asia Times - "Patents provide companies a monopoly over their knowledge. "If we finance research and development independently from access, we may be getting somewhere." She described the current system as the "blockbuster model", where pharmaceutical companies build their operations around a few blockbuster drugs or drugs that command very high sales. The result is neglect of the diseases that developing countries' populations suffer from."

* ►May 23, 2008 - British Columbia And Its ‘Bizarre’ Task Force Report - Pharmalot - "In an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation*, Cassels says the task force never addresses what he says is $40 million to $50 million in annual savings that TI generates by issuing its recommendations. “They’ve done a fabulous job of both educating physicians and really sort of making drug policy in BC more evidence-based and more reliant on facts,” he tells the CBC. He and others have also criticized the provincial goverment because five of nine task force members have ties to pharma, such as task-force chair, Don Avison, who was touted as a lawyer with experience working for several ministries, although the announcement failed to mention Avison also sits on the board of LifeSciences British Columbia, a lobbying group that includes many drugmakers."

►May 23, 2008 - Former Amgen Rep Fights Arbitration Requirement - Pharmalot

* ►May 23, 2008 - Bayer & Glaxo Linked To Bribes In Italy - Pharmalot
 
►May 23, 2008 - Microglia: Giving out dangerous signals - The release of heat-shock protein HSP60 from injured neurons activates Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) signaling, which stimulates microglia and facilitates neurodegeneration. - journal article (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)

►May 23, 2008 - Soon, a therapeutic vest to lessen anxiety in autistic, ADHD kids - The University of Massachusetts Amherst via BigNews Network

►May 23, 2008 - Allergies that baffle boffins - Mirror, UK

* ►May 23, 2008 - Government recalls measles vaccines - Down to Earth - "India’s Universal Immunisation Programme may suffer yet another blow. The centre has asked all state governments to stop use of measles vaccine manufactured by Indian Immunological Limited, until further orders, after four infants died following inoculation with the drug."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Government Scientists Refused Vaccine Safety Studies - SafeMinds via The One Click Group - "Infant vaccines produce autism symptoms in new primate study by University of Pittsburgh scientists. Routine safety study that government scientists refused to do illustrates vaccine program and mercury health risks"

* ►May 23, 2008 - How Safe Are Vaccines? - Newsinferno.com

* ►May 23, 2008 - F.D.A. to Expand Scrutiny of Risks From Drugs After They’re Approved for Sale (requires registration) - The New York Times - "Finally, Medicare beneficiaries use an average of 28 prescriptions in a year, compared with an average among all Americans of 13 prescriptions. Sorting out which medicine caused any single problem can be difficult in the elderly. To assess the accuracy of the Sentinel system, the F.D.A. will initially conduct studies of drug side-effects that are already well known, Dr. Woodcock said. The agency is in discussions with private insurers to add their records to the system....'If this succeeds, then the use of drugs and vaccines will be safer and better,' said Dr. Richard Platt, chairman of the department of ambulatory care and prevention at Harvard Medical School."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Autism Awareness Gets Help From Jenny McCarthy - The Chicago-born Actress Headlines National Autism Convention (includes video) - CBS2Chicago.com - "'There is no doubt that there has been a dramatic increase in autism,' said executive director of Thoughtful House Center for Children Dr. Andy Wakefield. 'When I was in medical school in 1981 we weren't even taught about autism.' McCarthy is currently working on a documentary about autism with her boyfriend Jim Carrey. She says it's her purpose in life to spread the word that children with autism can get better. Among other things, she promotes a gluten-free and dairy-free diet."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Jenny McCarthy, Katie Wright & Deirdre Imus Join Generation Rescue to Target Prevention and Treatment-Based Research for Autism and ADHD - Age of Autism

* ►May 23, 2008 - Nick's Law In Oklahoma - Age of Autism

* ►May 23, 2008 - Autism Ritalin and Cannabis - Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Physician, Toxicologist and Pharmacologist. He is an expert in medical marijuana treatment. - Salem-News.Com

* ►May 23, 2008 - Dad ends 15-day hunger strike - Toronto Sun - "His son Simon spent many years on a waiting list for intensive behavioural intervention (IBI) without receiving the service. Now 15, Simon is large and difficult to control physically. Marinoiu, who is the only one in his family large enough to handle Simon, said he was warned by his doctor that extending the strike could damage his health permanently. 'I realize there's no point in going on,' he said. 'You can easily get into irreversible internal organ damage.'"

* ►May 23, 2008 - Parents of autistic kids must re-evaluate lawsuit - CP via CTV Toronto

* ►May 23, 2008 - And autism, too - letter - The Ottawa Citizen via Canada.com

* ►May 23, 2008 - JMac delivers hope for overcoming autism - Basketball feat provides basis for helping others to cope with condition - Buffalo News

►May 23, 2008 - Parents successful in forcing public hearing on autism program - Wilton Bulletin

►May 23, 2008 - Dr. Nancy Minshew, Autism Researcher, to Speak at Regional Learning Alliance in Cranberry Township - press release - Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School via PRNewswire via The Earth Times

►May 23, 2008 - Autism is focus of panel - Berkshire Eagle

* ►May 23, 2008 - FDA Opens Public Comment for Safety of Mercury in Dentistry (Action Alert) - NaturalNews.com

►May 23, 2008 - EU set to lock down mercury - European Environmental Bureau via Environmental Expert

* ►May 23, 2008 - Will study staff raise concerns? - Pioneer Press via www.twincities.com - "University of Minnesota officials say they're confident that if people see problems in a drug study, they'll blow the whistle. But a 2006 internal audit of the psychiatry department by the university found: 39 percent of the Department of Psychiatry staff responding to the auditor survey said they did not believe they would be protected from retaliation for blowing the whistle on a suspected violation in the department.  35 percent of the department staff said in the survey they didn't think their managers provided effective oversight."

►May 23, 2008 - Vaccination successes easily forgotten - letter - Galesburg Register-Mail

►May 23, 2008 - Schoolchildren missing vaccines - Barking and Dagenham Post, UK

►May 23, 2008 - Kids Aren't Getting their Medicine - Discover Foothills

►May 23, 2008 - Immunization a powerful tool - Chilliwack Times via Canada.com

* ►May 23, 2008 - Questions About Gardasil - The HPV vaccine Gardasil is proven to help prevent the virus that's a factor in most cervical cancers, but new research is showing that the vaccine may be causing health problems itself. (includes video) - WXYZ.com - "...Deborah experienced pain and paralysis in the left side of her face and body. But when she went to the emergency room…doctors told her it was probably the result of a stroke. They told me if is got worse or went over to the other side that I should come back immediately and that’s exactly what happened over the course of a few hours. When Deborah’s paralysis spread, she linked the problem to the Gardasil vaccine she had received six weeks earlier because that was the only change in her life."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Cervical-Cancer Vaccine Demonstrates Long-Term Safety in Large Cohort: Presented at ESPID - Doctor's Guide - "This study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline."

►May 23, 2008 - Shelley Saw Her Wedding Photographs And Said 'I'm Never Going To Look Like That Again Am I Mum?' - Mother Campaigns In Memory Of Daughter She Lost - Daily Record, UK - "The former nurse is giving her full support to a forthcoming immunisation drive which will see Scotland lead the way in protecting girls from the virus which causes cervical cancer. The jabs will guard against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which is the primary trigger of the disease."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Replikun Biotech To Commercialise A West Nile Virus Vaccine Technology - Medical News Today

►May 23, 2008 - New cancer vaccine target found - Cancer Research UK

►May 23, 2008 - UI reports results of prostate cancer vaccine study - Iowa City Press Citizen

►May 23, 2008 - Occasional shortage of yellow fever vaccine hampers Kenya tourism - Express TravelWorld

►May 23, 2008 - Japanese Encephalitis vaccination drive in UP put on hold - Press Trust of India

►May 23, 2008 - Employers urged to provide staff Q fever vaccination - People working in the livestock industry are being warned to vaccinate against the debilitating Q fever. - www.abc.net.au

* ►May 23, 2008 - Inactivated Influenza Vaccine Reduces Recurrence of Acute Otitis Media: Presented at ESPID - Doctor's Guide - "In all, 54.4% of children who had received the vaccine were diagnosed with 1 or more AOM episodes during follow-up, compared with 82.2% of controls. Among 97 children with a history of recurrent uncomplicated AOM, the infection was diagnosed in 20 (41.7%) compared with 39 (79.6%) controls (47.6% efficacy, P = .0002)."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Novel Influenza Vaccine Induces Immunity Throughout Flu Season: Presented at ESPID - Doctor's Guide - "The trial, presented on May 14, compared the reactogenicity, safety, and immunogenicity of 2 intramuscular doses of the 2006/2007 NH formulation of an MF59 adjuvanted influenza subunit vaccine to a conventional split vaccine....Eight serious adverse events were recorded, 2 among children who received the split vaccine, and 6 among children who received the sub/MF59, but none of these events were deemed to be related to the vaccines....This study was funded by Novartis Pharma AG."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Vietnam about to market H5N1 vaccine - The Army Medical Institute has successfully tested the second dose of type A/H5N1 vaccine on 30 volunteers. Experts say Vietnam can mass produce this vaccine in 2009. - VietNamNet Bridge

* ►May 23, 2008 - Boys die of resistant flu - DutchNews.nl - "Two Dutch boys have died from a flu virus which is resistant to the Tamiflu anti-viral medicine, news agency ANP reports."

►May 23, 2008 - Bird flu virus resistant to drug - Nursing in Practice

►May 23, 2008 - Deadline passes for Tamiflu orders - Logan Herald Journal

►May 23, 2008 - Experts urge cooperation on bird flu at UN biodiversity conference - DPA via The Earth Times

►May 23, 2008 - Avian Influenza in West Bengal - Press Information Bureau, Government of India

►May 23, 2008 - Business interruption coverage for avian flu soon to be made available - Canadian Underwriter

►May 23, 2008 - Report: China child virus that sickened thousands ebbing - AP via USA Today

►May 23, 2008 - 2 measles cases confirmed in Illinois (requires registration) - AP via Chicago Tribune - "A school-age boy was recently diagnosed in DuPage County. Earlier this year, a man visiting from Switzerland had measles."

►May 23, 2008 - Measles - a blast from the past - Bit of a daft word, measles. - BBC - "My GP diagnosed a chest infection and gave me antibiotics. Even with four-hourly paracetamol, I struggled to keep my temperature under 39C, and as for eating, forget it. The next day I came out in a rash and went back to the doctor. He and a colleague toyed with a measles diagnosis, but decided it was probably an allergic reaction to the antibiotic, after establishing that I had had an adverse reaction to it before. But I got no better even with a different antibiotic, and taking anti-histamine tablets. A day later, still with a high fever and no longer able to keep fluid down, my doctor told me to go to A&E."

►May 23, 2008 - Measles plan not working, doctor warns - Tracking potential exposure may be 'futile:' better to vaccinate people at risk (requires registration or subscription) - Globe and Mail

►May 23, 2008 - Pinal officials seek to stem measles cases - East Valley Tribune - "Children don’t normally receive a measles vaccine before their first birthday. However, health officials are recommending they be vaccinated at 6 months old and get booster shots 18 months later."

►May 23, 2008 - Spread of measles continues (includes video) - KVOA News 4 Tuscon

* ►May 23, 2008 - Checking diarrhoea outbreak in Anambra - The Tide - "Some 20 children have been reported dead, while more than 50 were hospitalised following the diarrhoea outbreak....But some people speculate that the disease was as a result of the recently concluded immunisation exercise in the state. This, Ileka refutes saying it has nothing to do with the immunisation. He describes the speculation as ridiculous and geared towards misleading people in the state."

►May 23, 2008 - Polio returns to Benin; Nigeria under WHO pressure - Reuters India

►May 23, 2008 - Hepatitis E virus hits Pader district - New Vision

►May 23, 2008 - Mother Warns of Meningitis - InjuryBoard.com

►May 23, 2008 - Meningitis Is A Killer Disease: British Pilgrims Warned - Association of British Hujjaj (Pilgrims) UK (A.B.H) via Medical News Today

►May 23, 2008 - Akorn-Strides LLC gets FDA OK for rifampin for injection USP - Interactive Investor

►May 23, 2008 - Two babies die of meningitis at a Skopje hospital - Macedonia Online

►May 23, 2008 - Los Angeles reports first signs of West Nile virus - Xinhua via China View

►May 23, 2008 - Sanchez column: The disturbing ethics of medical intervention - Midwest Voices

►May 23, 2008 - Hospital making us sick - VG workers say unit should be shut; health minister agrees - TheChronicleHerald.ca

►May 23, 2008 - Expert praises Uganda on HIV - New Vision, Uganda - "Dr Allan Bernstein was in the country to familiarise himself with the work done in the vaccine area. He arrived on May 19 and held several meetings with ministry officials, civil society, Uganda AIDS Commission, the media and HIV/AIDS service organisations. 'Ugandans should be very proud of the quality of research they have and contribute to global efforts to fight HIV,' he told journalists during a media breakfast at Mamba Point in Kampala last Wednesday."

►May 23, 2008 - Failed HIV Drug Gets Second Chance With Addition Of Gold Nanoparticles - North Carolina State University via ScienceDaily

►May 23, 2008 - NIAID To Advance B-Cell Approach To HIV Vaccines - National Institutes Of Health via eMaxHealth.com

►May 23, 2008 - Science & Medicine | Advocates Call for Increased Funding, Renewed Efforts for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Research - www.kaisernetwork.org

►May 23, 2008 - Nanotechnology virus filtration membranes - Nanowerk

* ►May 23, 2008 - Hints of Progress in Drugs Treating Brain Cancer (requires registration) - The New York Times - "He credits his longevity to the experimental cancer vaccine that he has been taking once a month at Duke. Pfizer recently agreed to pay at least $50 million for rights to the treatment from the biotechnology company Avant Immunotherapeutics."

►May 23, 2008 - New Discovery May Lead To Early Cancer Detection - Oregon Health & Science University via ScienceDaily

►May 23, 2008 - Parents need to take responsibility for their family’s health - The Olympian

►May 23, 2008 - NYC issues warning after aphrodisiac kills man - The Associated Press via Google

►May 23, 2008 - Cattle Update: Express® Respiratory & Other Vaccines To Become Exclusive To Boehringer Ingelheim - Cattle Network

►May 23, 2008 - Infected horse prompts a ‘rabies watch’ in Burrillville - The Providence Journal

* ►May 23, 2008 - Rabies vaccine running low - Utica Observer-Dispatch - "The only two manufacturers of the vaccine approved for use in the United States have experienced production interruptions that could result in a shortage, health officials say. Subsequently, Sanofi Pasteur, maker of IMOVAX, and Novartis, maker of RabAvert, are limiting the use of vaccinations to post-exposure cases."

►May 23, 2008 - Bluetongue vaccine made available - Farmers in parts of Wales are being urged to vaccinate livestock against the Bluetongue virus from next month. - BBC

* ►May 22, 2008 - St. Edward’s students back at school after reactions to vaccine - Marshall Independent - "Several students at St. Edward’s Catholic School who experienced reactions from a vaccine on Monday have recovered and are back in class, St. Edward’s Principal Lori Rangaard said Wednesday. Rangaard said the sixth-grade class received tetanus-diphtheria shots administered by the school nurse on Monday. About 15 to 20 minutes after the vaccination, some students began showing symptoms like paleness and dizziness, Rangaard said. Four students were taken to the hospital."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Generation Rescue to Target Treatment-Based Research for Autism and ADHD - Jenny McCarthy, Deirdre Imus, and Katie Wright Join Board - press release - Generation Rescue via PRNewswire-USNewswire

►May 22, 2008 - How to 'speak autism' - PoliceOne.com

►May 22, 2008 - A Boy's Best Friend - Autism service dogs help alleviate symptoms - National Post

►May 22, 2008 - Boy, 9, overcomes autism to play ball, win essay contest (requires registration) - Sacramento Bee

►May 22, 2008 - Democrats keep fighting for state coverage of autism - NewsOK.com

►May 22, 2008 - A healthier FDA - A proposal to increase funding for the financially starved watchdog agency deserves approval. (requires registration or subscription) - Los Angeles Times

►May 22, 2008 - Guarding health - Our view: The FDA needs more foreign inspection resources (requires registration or subscription) - Baltimore Sun

►May 22, 2008 - Companies urged to provide flu shots - The Lung Institute of Western Australia wants more companies to consider providing flu vaccinations for its employees. - www.abc.net.au

►May 22, 2008 - Allegheny County health reports worst flu season ever - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

►May 22, 2008 - Using theatre to raise awareness of bird flu prevention in Bangladesh - UNICEF

►May 22, 2008 - Mother warns others about meningitis - Evelyn Brooks lost her 21-year- old daughter to the disease. - Roanoke Times

►May 22, 2008 - Pox outbreak - Hollister Free Lance - "Health Officer Dr. Elizabeth Falade said there have been cases found where one dose doesn't guarantee 100 percent prevention and she recommends a two-dose series for 100 percent coverage. According to California School Immunization Law, a child must receive one dose of the Varicella vaccine or have had the illness in order to attend school."

►May 22, 2008 - Analysis Of Millions Of US Births Shows Association Between Birth Defects And Preterm Birth - March of Dimes Foundation via ScienceDaily

►May 22, 2008 - Thousands Still Not Warned of Hepatitis Exposure at Las Vegas Clinics - Two Las Vegas clinics are linked to an outbreak of hepatitis C and HIV. The Nevada Health District sent more than 40,000 "Dear Patient" letters to those treated after March 2004 . Patients treated before March 2004 have not been warned that they are at risk of infection of these contagious diseases. - press release - Hissey Kientz, LLP via PRWeb

►May 22, 2008 - New Antibody Offers Hope for Treating Ovarian, Breast Cancer - East Carolina University via Newswise

►May 22, 2008 - Increased Bacteria at Hospital - KOMU.com - "University Hospital in Columbia reported today it has found elevated levels of bacteria in its water."

►May 22, 2008 - Congress May Make Move On FDA Funding This Week - Medical News Today

►May 22, 2008 - Visiting Veterinarian : Bugs in the system - Martha's Vineyard Times

►May 22, 2008 - Get the lead out (requires registration or subscription) - Chicago Tribune

►May 22, 2008 - The real cause of suspensions - San Francisco Chronicle

►May 22, 2008 - An Academic Does the Right Thing - Freakonomics Blog via The New York Times

►May 22, 2008 - South Dakota Horse Owners Reminded to Vaccinate Against WNV - TheHorse.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Novavax Announces Proprietary Method to Create SARS Vaccine and Renewal of NIH Funding for SARS Vaccine Development - Novavax via PRNewswire-FirstCall via KAIT 8

* ►May 22, 2008 - The role of Toll-like receptor-4 in pertussis vaccine-induced immunity (pdf) - journal article (BMC Immunology)

* ►May 22, 2008 - eFoodSafety Endorses the European Commission's Marketing Authorization of GlaxoSmithKline's Pre-Pandemic Bird Flu Vaccine - efoodsafety.com via World Stock Wire via COMTEX via FOX Business

►May 22, 2008 - Vaccines program set - WilmetteLife via PioneerLocal.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - US congressional investigators says foot-and-mouth decision based on flawed study - AP via International Herald Tribune

* ►May 22, 2008 - Encorium Group, Inc. Announces $3.2 Million of New Business Contracts for Europe and North America - Business Wire - "The therapeutic areas included in these awards are oncology, asthma, diabetes, rheumatology, and immunology/vaccines."

* ►May 22, 2008 - The Emerging Role Of Infection In Alzheimer's Disease - A number of chronic diseases are in fact caused by one or more infectious agents. For example, stomach ulcers are caused by Helicobacter pylori, chronic lung disease in newborns and chronic asthma in adults are both caused by Mycoplasmas and Chlamydia pneumonia, while some other pathogens have been associated with atherosclerosis. The realization that pathogens can produce slowly progressive chronic diseases has opened new lines of research into Alzheimer's disease. - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease via ScienceDaily

►May 22, 2008 - U.N.: Chronic ailments more deadly than infectious diseases - CNN

►May 22, 2008 - Animal Disease Research Debate Heats Up - Administration, Congress Battle Over Safety Of Moving Infectious Disease Labs To Mainland - CBS News

►May 22, 2008 - FDA’s Pazdur: Advisory Panels Are Only Advisory - Pharmalot - "Mention the name Richard Pazdur to anyone with an interest in cancer and watch their reaction. As the head of the FDA’s Office of Oncologic Drugs, Pazdur is at the heart of every important or controversial agency decision. Take the approval of Avastin for breast cancer, which some saw as a major shift in standards for assessing the effectiveness of cancer meds, or the flap over the Provenge prostate cancer vaccine. He held an interesting chat with BusinessWeek and here is an excerpt…"

►May 22, 2008 - Letter: Lyme treatment based on evidence - News Times

►May 22, 2008 - NARSAD Researchers Showcase New Treatment Options For Severe Depression; Provide New Clues About Treating Clinical Anxiety And Schizophrenia - NARSAD's St. Louis Mental Health Symposium via Medical News Today

* ►May 21, 2008 - Cancer's Cruel Economics - Billions of dollars are spent developing cancer drugs, but precious few get approved. Is the FDA part of the problem? - BusinessWeek - "Several cancer vaccines have entered clinical trials and so far none has succeeded. As it happens, though, scientists and statisticians in the U.S. are beginning to warm to the idea of subset analysis. There is tremendous variation in the genetic makeup of tumors, even those in the same location, such as the breast or the lungs. As a result, cancer is not considered a single disease but 200 or more different ones, and a drug that is effective in one patient may achieve nothing in another."

►May 21, 2008 - GlaxoSmithKline: We Wouldn’t ‘Trade Down’ For AstraZeneca (free content) - The Wall Street Journal

►May 21, 2008 - Using twins to study behavioral differences - Daily Herald

►May 21, 2008 - Mystery Solved: The Ashwell Receptor Reduces Mortality During Bacterial Infection - University of California - San Diego via Biocompare

►May 21, 2008 - Protein Key To Neuro-Regeneration - Regenerative activity in the peripheral nervous system could mean regeneration for the central nervous system  - The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry via Biocompare

* ►May 21, 2008 - Once Bitten, Merck Halts Cholesterol Drug Study - Wall Street Journal

* ►May 21, 2008 - McDaniel files suit against AstraZeneca - LegalNewsline - "Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has filed a lawsuit against AstraZeneca over its marketing of anti-psychotic medications. The lawsuit, filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court, claims that AstraZeneca encouraged doctors to prescribe the anti-psychotic Seroquel, used to treat among other things symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, even when it wasn't medically needed."

►May 21, 2008 - Son's autism creates bond forged in love - Treating a child's developmental delay is a long journey - McClatchy Newspapers via Monterey Herald

►May 21, 2008 - Lt. Gov. Kottkamp celebrates autism bill passage at FGCU - The News-Press

 ►May 21, 2008 - Albany Autism Center wants to complete the puzzle - WALB-TV

►May 21, 2008 - UC grad is special - and very able - San Francisco Chronicle
 
►May 21, 2008 - More links found between cancer in men and HPV, but men aren't approved for vaccination - Medill Reports

* ►May 21, 2008 - Earlier the better for autism therapy? - New Scientist

►May 21, 2008 - Waltham Forest: No double-dose MMR to combat measles threat - Epping Forest Guardian

►May 21, 2008 - Action taken to stop spread of measles - Bromley Times

►May 21, 2008 - Cobra wins manufacturing award at vaccine industry awards - SmallCapNews.co.uk

►May 21, 2008 - Modified plants may provide BSE antibodies - Dr. Nat Kav from the University of Alberta, Canada is studying how modified plants - containing antibodies - can protect cattle from developing BSE. - All About Feed

►May 21, 2008 - Don't dismiss fluoride in Grand Rapids - The Grand Rapids Press via MLive.com

►May 21, 2008 - New student health group hosts cancer lecture - NU's chapter of national cancer-fighters Plus Energy brought local speakers to discuss HPV vaccine - Daily Northwestern

* ►May 20, 2008 - Suspension notices issued - Chatham Daily News - "Parents who object to having their child immunized need to file an affidavit with the health unit so officials know, in the event of an outbreak, who is and who is not protected. Of those issued suspension notices, 200 are in secondary schools and 646 in elementary schools."

►May 20, 2008 - Transgene announces 'promising' results for HCV vaccine phase 1 trial - Thomson Financial via Forbes

►May 20, 2008 - Warning about lack of attention given to hepatitis - A report by the World Hepatitis Alliance has called for an increased focus on hepatitis and says the disease should be given the same attention as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. - News-Medical.net

►May 20, 2008 - Canadians with Hepatitis B and C Demand Action to Tackle Life Threatening Disease - Alliance calls recent government funding announcements "woefully inadequate" - press release - The Canadian World Hepatitis Alliance via CNW Group

►May 20, 2008 - Chronic Diseases Top Causes of Deaths Globally: WHO (requires registration) - Reuters via Medscape

►May 20, 2008 - Hepatitis B Foundation and AAPCHO Sponsor Congressional Briefing on 'Zero Tolerance for Hepatitis B' - Spotlights National Hepatitis B Awareness Week - press release - Hepatitis B Foundation via PRNewswire-USNewswire

►May 20, 2008 - Regressing and progressing metastatic lesions: resistance to immunotherapy is predetermined by irreversible HLA class I antigen alterations - journal article (Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy) - "Despite the significant efforts to enhance immune reactivity against malignancies the clinical effect of anti-tumor vaccines and cancer immunotherapy is still below expectations."

►May 20, 2008 - Baby cribs, computers share toxic traces - c/net News

►May 20, 2008 - Incense Is Psychoactive: Scientists Identify The Biology Behind The Ceremony - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology via Biocompare

►May 20, 2008 - What Else May Probiotics Do In Adults? - World Journal of Gastroenterology via Biocompare

►May 20, 2008 - Clinical News Digest - U.S. Pharmacist

►May 19, 2008 - Autistic Girl Overcomes Serious Struggles, Attends College (includes video) - KETV 7, Omaha

►May 19, 2008 - Researchers Bring New Meaning To The Term 'Computer Bug' - BioMed Central via Biocompare

* ►May 19, 2008 - Doctors fear a measles return - Unvaccinated putting state at risk, they say - Colorado Springs Gazette - " Pediatricians say one recurring concern is parents' fear of serious side effects, chiefly autism. 'They are almost always poorly informed people who have strong opinions on the subject,' said Dr. Fred Cox, who works at one of Memorial Health System's two pediatric urgent care clinics. 'I'm very much pro-immunization, and it distresses me greatly when I see people who refuse immunizations. They've generally been misled by some of these crackpot Web sites.'"

►May 19, 2008 - High-Functioning Autistic Teens Benefit From Friendship Training Program (requires registration) - Medscape

►May 19, 2008 - Alexander Rich Wins Welch Award - MIT professor is honored for his lifelong work on DNA and RNA - Chemical & Engineering News

►May 19, 2008 - A surprising federal bill has the health food industry up in arms - Business Examiner Vancouver Island - "Natural health product retailers like Bruce Reid of Victoria’s The Vitamin Shop are warning that Bill C-51 could return the business to the dark ages before 2003, giving draconian powers of investigation and seizure to federal bureaucrats, and severely restrict the marketing and sale of remedies many rely on."

►May 19, 2008 - Toy recalls you might have missed - Julie's Health Club via Chicago Tribune

* ►May 18, 2008 - Editorial: Ounce of prevention - This ubiquitous chemical's effects, especially on children, are reason to ban it in products intended for kids. - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - "Canada gets it. So do an increasing number of retailers in the United States, including the biggest, Wal-Mart. Now, the U.S. government must take action to ban bisphenol A from all children's products."

►May 17, 2008 - Combined modality immunotherapy and chemotherapy: a new perspective - journal article (Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy)

►May 15, 2008 - Greater Richmond Technology Council Announces 2008 Technology Awards Winners - press release - Mighty Casey Media via Business Wire - "Obetech, LLC - Obetech aims to diagnose, prevent, and treat obesity caused by adenovirus-36, a common human virus. They sell diagnostic tests that determine adenovirus-36 infection, and are developing vaccines for prevention and anti-virals for treatment of virus-induced obesity."

►May 15, 2008 - Rotavirus Within Day Care Centers In Oxfordshire, UK: Characterization Of Partial Immunity - Journal of the Royal Society Interface via Medical News Today

►May 15, 2008 - New hay fever jab will lasts for a year - A new generation of hay fever jab that reduces symptoms by a quarter and lasts for up to a year could be available within two years following successful human trials. - The Telegraph, UK

►May 14, 2008 - Dr. Una Ryan Departs AVANT Immunotherapeutics - press release - AVANT Immunotherapeutics via Business Wire - "Over the last fifteen years, Dr. Ryan was instrumental in the development and partnering of multiple products, including Rotarix®--an oral vaccine partnered with GlaxoSmithKline and recently approved by the FDA for protection against rotavirus in infants."

►May 14, 2008 - Resource supply and the evolution of public-goods cooperation in bacteria (pdf) - journal article (BMC Biology)

►May 13, 2008 - Labour rejects compulsory jabs idea - Nursing in Practice

►May 12, 2008 - Cognitive Function Over Time in the Alzheimer's Disease Anti-inflammatory Prevention Trial (ADAPT): Results of a Randomized, Controlled Trial of Naproxen and Celecoxib. - journal article (Archives of Neurology)

►May 12, 2008 - $5M to help scientist probe autism DNA - Windsor Star via Canada.com - "Scherer, who leads one of the biggest genetics laboratories in Canada, said he will use the award money to tap into new technologies 'that will allow us to do experiments we could have only dreamed of before.'...'Our major focus is studying the genetics of autism so we'll be looking at DNA of autistic individuals, trying to find the susceptibility genes involved in autism,' he said."

►May 10, 2008 - Autism fight enjoys might of Flushing mom, says Flint Journal columnist Jackie Braun - Flushing Observer via MLive.com

►May 2, 2008 - Where to Find BPA-Free Products - U.S. News & World Report

►May 2, 2008 - Adaptive design methods in clinical trials - a review (pdf) - journal article (Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases)

* ►May 2008 - Vigilance Urged for Measles Imported Into U.S. - Pediatric News - "Dr. David W. Kimberlin, responded during a panel discussion at the meeting. “There is a growing voice from parents whose children have died of vaccine-preventable diseases,” said Dr. Kimberlin, professor of pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. These groups can be a good resource, he said."

* ►May 2008 - Study: ID-Related Infant Hospitalizations at 43% - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Pediatricians on Board for Medical Home ‘Journey’ - Pediatric News

* ►May 2008 - Dengue Hitting U.S., Mostly in Texas and Florida - Pediatric News - "Vaccines to prevent dengue infection are in preclinical trials. Although an immunized person could have lifelong protection, dengue is an RNA virus with four distinct subtypes. “And there is no crossover immunity if a person is infected with a [different] strain,” Dr. Patrick said. There is a trivalent vaccine being investigated now in field trials, he added."

* ►May 2008 - How to Focus Well-Child Visits on Development - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Iron metabolism and lipid peroxidation products in infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy - journal article (Journal of Perinatology)

►May 2008 - Bacterial Meningitis Score May Be Less Effective in France - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Bocavirus May Not Be a Pathogen in Children - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Isolating E. coli O157 Cases May Halve Its Spread - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Ten ID Articles Likely to Change Your Practice - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Fragile X Syndrome: Awareness Coming of Age - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Newborn SCID Screening Launches in Wisconsin - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - A Primer on Advocating For Children's Issues - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Adenotonsillectomy Doesn't ‘Cure’ OSA in Most: Anti-inflammatories appear to help those with mild sleep-disordered breathing after adenotonsillectomy. - Pediatric News

* ►May 2008 - Early Neglect May Predict Aggression in Children - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - Smile and the Kids Smile With You - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - The Canadian Health Care Conundrum - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - When the Patient Is a Close Friend - Pediatric News

►May 2008 - E-Newsletter May 2008 #1 - Families Helping Families with Autism - TACA Talk About Curing Autism

►April 30, 2008 - Why People Engage In Risky Behavior While Intoxicated: Imaging Study Provides Glimpse Of Alcohol's Effect On Brain - Society for Neuroscience via ScienceDaily

►April 30, 2008 - Why We Like to Drink: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of the Rewarding and Anxiolytic Effects of Alcohol - journal article (Journal of Neuroscience)

►April 2008 - Cost-effectiveness of palivizumab against respiratory syncytial viral infection in high-risk children in Austria - journal article (Clinical Therapeutics)

* ►Volume 49 Issue 5, 2008 - White Matter Abnormalities in Children with Idiopathic Developmental Delay - journal article (Acta Radiologica)

►Volume 26, 2008 - The Master Switch: The Role of Mast Cells in Autoimmunity and Tolerance - journal article (Annual Review of Immunology)

►Volume 26, 2008 - Anti-Inflammatory Actions of Intravenous Immunoglobulin - journal article (Annual Review of Immunology)

►A Program Designed To Protect Children With Autism - North American Press Syndicate

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►June 15, 2008 - Risk Factors and Mortality Associated with Default from Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment (full text) - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►June 15, 2008 - Global Implications of the Emergence of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Indigenous Populations - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►June 15, 2008 - Genotypic Diversity and Serotype Distribution of Group B Streptococcus Isolated from Women Before and After Delivery - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►June 15, 2008 - Combination Antifungal Therapy for Mold Infections: Much Ado about Nothing? - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

►June 15, 2008 - Impact of Lactoferrin Supplementation on Growth and Prevalence of Giardia Colonization in Children - journal article (Clinical Infectious Diseases)

* ►June 1, 2008 - Differential Effects of the Type I Interferons {alpha}4, β, and {epsilon} on Antiviral Activity and Vaccine Efficacy - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►June 1, 2008 - Anthrax Lethal Toxin Enhances TNF-Induced Endothelial VCAM-1 Expression via an IFN Regulatory Factor-1-Dependent Mechanism - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►June 1, 2008 - Regulatory CD4+ T Cells Are Crucial for Preventing CD8+ T Cell-Mediated Autoimmunity - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

►June 1, 2008 - Differential Regulation of Antigen-Specific CD8+ T Cell Responses by IL-12p40 in a Dose-Dependent Manner - journal article (The Journal of Immunology)

* ►June 2008 - Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of a whole-blood interferon-γ assay for determining the risk of exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-vaccinated individuals - journal article (Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease)

* ►May 23, 2008 - Pap smears 'a waste of time' - A cervical cancer specialist has welcomed a drop in screening among young women, saying Australians had finally realised they are "wasting their time" getting pap smears every two years. - AAP via Herald Sun via www.news.com.au - "Dr Wain said he supported changing guidelines to three-yearly screening as recommended by the World Health Organisation, and called for women aged 20 to 24 to be removed from the program all together. 'They have the vaccine, and statistics show their infections invariably go away on their own anyway,' he said."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Women warned not to neglect Pap smear tests - The Australian

►May 23, 2008 - Election promises of extra millions - New Zealand Herald - "The Budget's big-ticket health items have been pre-announced, including elective services, $160 million extra over four years; Gardasil vaccine to reduce the risk of cervical cancer, $164.2 million new money over five years; $40 million for a pneumococcal disease vaccine."

►May 23, 2008 - Disposable cups to dispose of hepatitis - Daily Times, Pakistan

►May 23, 2008 - Polio eradication campaign - The News - International - Pakistan

* ►May 23, 2008 - 1,500 families say no to polio drops - Mumbai, May 22 BHIWANDI: State’s second polio case this year detected in powerloom town that has a huge migrant population, child had not been immunised in UP - Expressindia - "Raj, who migrated to Mumbai in October last year, has been administered the oral polio vaccine since then. His homemaker mother, however, admits that she refused to let her son be injected during a regular immunisation round back home in their hometown in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. 'The only thing was that I didn’t give him the rural injections. But I did give all the polio doses after coming to Mumbai. I hope he gets well, he is my only child,' she says."

►May 23, 2008 - New Hope For HIV Vaccine: Unique HIV Vaccine Formula Elicits Strong Immune Responses - University of Massachusetts Medical School via ScienceDaily

►May 23, 2008 - World No Tobacco Day --- May 31, 2008 - MMWR/CDC

* ►May 23, 2008 - Increased Detections and Severe Neonatal Disease Associated with Coxsackievirus B1 Infection --- United States, 2007 - MMWR/CDC

►May 23, 2008 - QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults* Aged >20 Years with Hypertension,† by Poverty Level§ --- National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, 2003--2006 - MMWR/CDC

►May 23, 2008 - Human Rabies Prevention --- United States, 2008 - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices - MMWR/CDC

►May 23, 2008 - Allowing Pharmacists to Administer Flu, Pneumonia Shots - opinion - Farmingdale Observer - "Permitting pharmacists to immunize is a safe and cost-effective way to prevent illness and save lives. I urge my colleagues in the State Legislature to approve this legislation this session."

* ►May 23, 2008 - Scientist’s Death Remains a Mystery - A deputy director of a Russian research institute died of multi-organ failure after opening a letter containing a white powder. The sender of the letter said it was a harmless quartz sand, and the death remains a mystery at this moment. - Moscow News

* ►May 22, 2008 - Stung By A Vaccination - Eurasian Home - "For their part, Ukrainian immunologists have reportedly argued that there was no urgent need to hold mass vaccination against measles and rubella in Ukraine in the first place, and that the Indian vaccine may be not be right for Europeans (i.e. Ukrainians). No doubt the Ukrainian authorities were right in suspending the vaccinations - not so much for the single tragic death of the 17-year-old boy but because of the numerous health complaints that followed. If any more deaths had occurred, the government would have been roundly condemned for not taking action."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Sabrin: Legalize Freedom For Parents - Dr. Murray Sabrin Exposes Massive Government Harming Of Our Nation's Children - NewsBlaze - "New Jersey conservative Republican leader Dr. Murray Sabrin, the Garden State's strongest advocate of limited government and individual freedom and the front-runner for United States Senate, held a press conference on Friday exposing one of the most egregious and massive harming of our nation's children by governmental interference with parents' rights to control the healthcare of their own children. Dr. Sabrin was joined at the press conference by Louise Habakus along with several other mothers who are strongly against governmental mandating of vaccines. These vaccines have been linked to autoimmunue and developmental disorders including food allergies, eczema, asthma, diabetes, MS, rheumatoid arthitis, autism and ADHD."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Heckenlively On The Omnibus Autism Proceeding: 5/20 - I Know Oxidative Stress and there Isn’t Any Here – The Omnibus Autism Proceeding – Second Set of Hearings (Thimerosal & Autism) – Day Seven – May 20, 2008 By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. - Age of Autism

* ►May 22, 2008 - Vaccines, Mercury, and Autism – Is There a Link? - by Lewis Regenstein - LewRockwell.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - KMOU'S Ashley Reynolds Blogging From Autism One - Age of Autism - "Ashley Reynolds, from KMOU Missouri, will be video blogging from Autism One.  Be sure to visit her blog Combating Autism From Within throughout the weekend!"

* ►May 22, 2008 - Double MMR Jabs in Britain? by Anne Dachel - Age of Autism

►May 22, 2008 - TIME: How Safe Are Vaccines? - Age of Autism

* ►May 22, 2008 - UW researchers seek better clues to autism - Seattle Times

* ►May 22, 2008 - Pa. gets permission to spend Medicaid money on adult autism - AP via Philadelphia Inquirer

►May 22, 2008 - Ohio Autism Insurance Amendment - NASCAR Blogs

►May 22, 2008 - Call for understanding in wake of church autism ban - ChristianToday

►May 22, 2008 - J-Mac inspiring others to triumph - WIVB-TV Buffalo

* ►May 22, 2008 - FDA to keep closer eye on drug, device safety - New computer tracking system designed to identify dangerous side effects - AP via MSNBC - "Called the Sentinel System, the new effort is designed to better track risks that emerge after wider use in the marketplace versus a smaller clinical trial. 'We also will learn things that will lead to new warnings, absolutely,' said Dr. Janet Woodcock, head of the FDA’s drugs division."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Medicare Data to Be Used to Monitor Drug Side Effects - Bloomberg

►May 22, 2008 - eHealth Initiative's Drug Safety Collaboration to Partner With FDA on Sentinel Initiative - eHI's multi-stakeholder "Connecting Communities for Drug Safety Collaboration" conducting drug safety pilots to test and evaluate use of electronic health information to support post-market monitoring efforts - press release - eHealth Initiative via PRNewswire-USNewswire via The Earth Times

* ►May 22, 2008 - FDA Pressed by Lawsuit to Address Mercury Amalgam Safety - NaturalNews.com - "To learn more about the dangers of mercury amalgams to you and your family and the basis for the lawsuit against the FDA, please read the source links below. Mr. Brown of Consumers for Dental Choice has asked the concerned public to contact FDA officials to let them know that you hold them accountable to make a safety ruling on mercury amalgams, and soon. Information regarding this request can be found at (www.toxicteeth.org) ."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Agreement reached on EU mercury export ban - EurActiv.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Fear of Vaccine Dangers Leads Some Families to Opt Out of Routine Care - An increasing fear of alleged dangers from child vaccinations, including autism and allergies, has led to an upsurge in the reported cases of measles this year. Betty Ann Bowser examines why some parents are opting against routine vaccinations for their children. (includes audio) - transcript - NewsHour via PBS.org

* ►May 22, 2008 - Rotavirus Vaccine Can Be Safely Co-Administered With Standard Childhood Vaccines: Presented at ESPID - Doctor's Guide - "The authors concluded that concomitant administration of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine with DTaP-HBV-IPV/Hib was well tolerated, was immunogenic against rotavirus, and did not impair the immune response of any of the coadministered antigens. This study was funded by Merck & Co., Inc."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Ovarian Cancer Vaccine Clinical Trial Begins at Cancer Treatment Centers of America - FDA-Approved Study Aimed at Harnessing Immune System to Fight Tumors - press release - Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) via PRNewswire-USNewswire

* ►May 22, 2008 - The Maybach Journal: Novavax Announces Proprietary Method to Create SARS Vaccine and Renewal of NIH Funding for SARS Vaccine Development - M2 Presswire via Comtex via Trading Markets

* ►May 22, 2008 - Under-vaccinating your child by choice? - MedHeadlines

►May 22, 2008 - Schools expand rules for vaccines - Orlando Sentinel - "Guidelines provided by the state Department of Health outline immunization standards for students enrolled in Florida schools, child-care facilities, and family day-care homes. Students in first through seventh grade will be required to have received all age-appropriate vaccines, including one dose of varicella. This is new for seventh graders."

►May 22, 2008 - HPV Vaccine & Fainting - KIMT News 3 - "The Gardasil website lists fainting as a possible side effect. To be safe rather than sorry, doctors are proposing an easy solution. 'The recommendation as a result of this, is pretty simple.  Just that you give them a vaccine either sitting sown or lying down and you watch them for 15 to 20 minutes just to make sure that they don't have any significant reaction,' said Dr. Larry Glazerman."

►May 22, 2008 - Special feature - Marianas Variety - "Ron Balajadia has been traveling through the outer islands of Yap for the past month conducting a survey on the immunization records for children ages of one, two and six years old."

►May 22, 2008 - Molecular Scaffold That Guides Connections Between Brain Cells Discovered -  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory via ScienceDaily

►May 22, 2008 - World Health Assembly Opens Amid Tragedies, Crises And Opportunities - WHO via Medical News Today

* ►May 22, 2008 - U.S. reports 5 baby deaths from usually mild virus - Reuters - "Coxsackievirus B1, or CVB1, is part of a group of viruses called enteroviruses. It usually does not cause serious infections but can cause more severe and potentially life-threatening illness in newborns."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Baby died of meningitis hours after medics dismissed condition as 'bad nappy rash' - This is London - "Yesterday, as they were awarded a five figure out-of-court settlement, Rachael and Dean Eaves warned other parents to seek a second opinion if they believed their child was seriously ill. Mr Eaves, from the Stoke area of Coventry, said: 'I would urge any parents who find themselves in a similar situation to trust their instincts and, if they are not happy with a diagnosis, to insist on a second opinion.'"

* ►May 22, 2008 - Bangladesh reports its first human H5N1 case - CIDRAP News

►May 22, 2008 - Steve Balzac Helps Facilitate Pandemic Flu Exercise - press release - NewsReleaseWire via ExpertClick

* ►May 22, 2008 - Academic Honesty, Hepatitis B & China’s Missing Women - Wall Street Journal Health Blog

* ►May 22, 2008 - More than 80,000 dead or missing in China quake - Reuters via Montreal Gazette - "The government ordered the urgent shipment of millions of doses of Hepatitis A, encephalitis B, hemorrhagic fever and cholera vaccines to the area, state media reported."

►May 22, 2008 - Possible measles exposure at North York hospital - 680 News

►May 22, 2008 - E China province reports over 10,000 measles cases but lower incidence - Xinhua via China View

►May 22, 2008 - URCS intensifies operations as Hepatitis E cases increase - Uganda Red Cross via ReliefWeb

►May 22, 2008 - Mia backs polio eradication effort - The Press Association

►May 22, 2008 - Kennedy's best hope may lie in cancer vaccine trial - FierceBioResearcher

* ►May 22, 2008 - Research Links Herpes Virus and Brain Tumors - Wired Science - "If Ted Kennedy's cancerous lesion is a glioblastoma multiforme, the most common kind of brain tumor, it may have been caused by a virus from the herpes family. Last year, Duane Mitchell and his colleagues at Duke University learned that cytomegalovirus is present at elevated levels in more than 90 percent of glioblstoma multiforme tumors. Armed with that knowledge, they are testing a vaccine that fights the common virus as a brain-cancer remedy."

►May 22, 2008 - Hijacking a Deadly Bug to Attack Cancer, HIV - Wall Street Health Blog

►May 22, 2008 - Mothers may be infected with medic's HIV - Nearly 200 new mothers are being tested for HIV after a medic who helped deliver their babies was found to have the virus. - The Telegraph, UK

* ►May 22, 2008 - From science to security, Mahmoud aims to improve global health - News at Princeton - "During his tenure as president of Merck Vaccines, Mahmoud spearheaded the development of vaccines against rotavirus, shingles and human papillomavirus, as well as a combination shot to prevent measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. These shots may have the potential to save billions of lives every year, but Mahmoud knows that they are only as effective as the programs in place to distribute them. Mahmoud, a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Parasitic Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO), is now conducting research to understand and overcome roadblocks to more widespread use of the vaccines."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Garnier heckled over GSK's poor share performance - The Telegraph, UK - "Shareholders accused Mr Garnier and his board of underperformance and failing to boost shareholder returns despite billions of pounds of share buybacks. 'I am getting fed up with this underperformance,' said shareholder John Farmer to applause. 'This board is a continuing failure. You are not a philanthropic organisation; you are here to deliver positive shareholder returns.'"

* ►May 22, 2008 - Did Statin Drugs Cause Senator Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor? - NaturalNews.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Has Merck Learned Anything from Vioxx and Vytorin? - It's getting tough to find any Merck drug that can hold up to scrutiny. - AlterNet

* ►May 22, 2008 - Trucking Regulators Warn on Use of Chantix (free preview) - Wall Street Journal - "The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued a warning Thursday on the anti-smoking drug Chantix, advising medical examiners 'to not qualify anyone currently using this medication for commercial motor vehicle licenses.'"

►May 22, 2008 - Idaho to Receive More than $1.1 Million from Vioxx Maker Merck - All American Patriots

►May 22, 2008 - Micromet to Present Clinical Update for BiTE Antibody MT103/MEDI-538 at the International Conference on Malignant Lymphomas - press release - Micromet, Inc. via PRNewswire-FirstCall

►May 22, 2008 - Update on Travel and Quarantine Requirements for the 2008 Olympic/Paralympic Games - United States Equestrian Federation

►May 22, 2008 - Help Create Optimal Show Performance with Vaccination - Merial via United States Equestrian Federation

►May 22, 2008 - Mercury In CFL Bulbs Could Pose Hazard - TurnTo23.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Plan sought for safe fluorescent bulb disposal - Newsday - "Proper bulb disposal is not the only concern, said John Gilmore, executive director of Autism United, a Hicksville-based coalition of advocacy groups. He contends that use of CFLs could increase the environment's overall mercury level, which in turn could lead to increased health problems."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Experts Revisit Food Additives and ADHD - Research Suggests Limiting Food Additives in Diet May Help Kids With ADHD - WebMD

* ►May 22, 2008 - Personalized Catch-Up Immunization Schedules For Missed Childhood Vaccinations - Georgia Institute of Technology Research News via Medical News Today

* ►May 22, 2008 - Vaccination - Summary - About vaccinations - Types and differences - Vaccination schedules - Travel and vaccination - Ongoing research - Questions for your doctor - yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - FDAnews Drug Daily Bulletin - Pharma Blog Watch Federal Vaccine Law Challenged by Georgia Family (Pharmalot) - FDA News

* ►May 22, 2008 - Crucial role for the Nalp3 inflammasome in the immunostimulatory properties of aluminium adjuvants - journal article (Nature)

* ►May 22, 2008 - DTCA for PTCA — Crossing the Line in Consumer Health Education? (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►May 22, 2008 - Peer Review in the Balance (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►May 22, 2008 - Metal Allergies - Summary - About metal allergies - Potential causes - Signs and symptoms - Diagnosis methods - Treatment and prevention - Questions for your doctor - yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Autism - Also called: Autistic Disorder - Summary - About autism - Potential causes - Signs and symptoms - Diagnosis methods - Treatment options - Ongoing research - Questions for your doctor - yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Affected by Autism - Dealing with changes in your childs world, and your too - yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Amalgam Allergy - Summary - About amalgam allergy - Related allergies and conditions - Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & prevention - Questions for your doctor - yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Mainland animal lab poses risks: GAO (requires registration) - The Scientist - "The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not demonstrated that moving foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) research from an island lab in New York to a new mainland animal research facility would be safe, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) told a Congressional committee this morning (May 22)."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Virginia U in secretive tobacco deal (requires registration) - The Scientist - "Another US university has been found in bed with big tobacco, this time on the down-low. The New York Times reported today that Virginia Commonwealth University entered into a contract with Philip Morris in 2006 that severely restricts researchers' ability to disseminate findings from studies funded by the tobacco company."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Who Are The Most Influential People In Pharma? - Pharmalot

* ►May 22, 2008 - Strange Bedfellows? Pharma Likes Those Democrats - Pharmalot

* ►May 22, 2008 - Glaxo Investors Protest Executive Compensation - Pharmalot

►May 22, 2008 - Companies urged to provide flu shots - The Lung Institute of Western Australia wants more companies to consider providing flu vaccinations for its employees. - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

* ►May 22, 2008 - FDA's Sentinel Initiative - FDA - "FDA launched the Sentinel Initiative with the ultimate goal of creating and implementing the Sentinel System--a national, integrated, electronic system for monitoring medical product safety."

* ►May 22, 2008 - New Efforts to Help Improve Medical Products for Patient Safety and Quality of Medical Care - U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

* ►May 22, 2008 - Drugmakers Back Watered-Down Disclosure Bill - Pharmalot

►May 22, 2008 - Schering-Plough Wins The Tin Ear Award - Pharmalot - "Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, a dozen drug and device makers told Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who co-sponsored the Senate bill, they would disclose grants to outside groups. Pfizer is about to do so. But Schering-Plough doesn’t like to disclose very much. As reported previously, the drugmaker wrote Grassley that “we do not publish or have plans at the moment to publish a list of charitable contributions or educational grants that medical organizations have received from us.”

►May 22, 2008 - Merck Halts Study Of Experimental Cholesterol Drug - The Wall Street Journal

►May 22, 2008 - Survey: Laid Off Pharma Employees Finding New Gigs - The Wall Street Journal

►May 22, 2008 - Nickel Allergies - Summary - About nickel allergy - Potential causes - Signs and symptoms - Diagnosis and treatment - Prevention methods - Questions for your doctor - yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com

* ►May 22, 2008 - Minister visits Wyeth’s new HQ - Reading Evening Post - "The American pharmaceutical giant, which supplies medicines and vaccines to the NHS, is relocating from its present home in Taplow, where it has been based for the past 40 years. The new 115,000 sq ft building at 500 Brook Drive will provide state-of-the-art office space and business facilities for the firm’s 450 staff."

* ►May 22, 2008 - Health to get $750M a year - ONE News via TVNZ - "Investing in early years and youth will see $164.2 million over five years dedicated to HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccinations. HPV is a sexually transmitted virus which is known to cause cervical cancer. Oral health services will receive $79 million over four years, and the government will spend $40 million on pneumococcal vaccinations."

►May 22, 2008 - How HIV Guts the Immune System - journal article (NEJM)

►May 22, 2008 - Sublingual Immunotherapy - journal article (NEJM)

►May 22, 2008 - Popular Medicines: An Illustrated History (book review) - journal article (NEJM)

►May 22, 2008 - Comprehensive Pediatric Hospital Medicine (book review) - journal article (NEJM)

►May 22, 2008 - Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine (book review) - journal article (NEJM)

►May 22, 2008 - Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (book review) - journal article (NEJM)

►May 22, 2008 - CLEC5A is critical for dengue-virus-induced lethal disease - journal article (Nature)

►May 22, 2008 - Towards a transgenic model of Huntington's disease in a non-human primate - journal article (Nature)

►May 22, 2008 - Hormone supplements may not aid in halting cognitive decline - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society via BigNewsNetwork

* ►May 21, 2008 - How Safe Are Vaccines? - TIME Magazine - "There is no doubt in my mind that my child's first cause of autism is the mercury in vaccines," says Ginny DeLeo, a New York science teacher whose son Evan, born in 1993, was developing normally until he was a year old. The day the boy received his fourth dose of Hib vaccine, DeLeo had to rush him to the hospital with tremors and a 104 deg F (40 deg C) fever, which later led to seizures. Evan recovered, and several months later he received the first of two MMR shots. Within months, he stopped talking, and autism was diagnosed."

* ►May 21, 2008 - ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Announces Completion of Proof-of-Principle Studies Demonstrating Efficacy of Cancer Stem Cell Vaccine in Preclinical Model - IMUC Cancer Stem Cell Product Candidate Mentioned in Nature Biotechnology - Business Wire

* ►May 21, 2008 - Thousands vie for Gates grants (requires registration) - The Scientist

* ►May 21, 2008 - U.S. policy may widen horizons of Chinese drug makers - Although the media has been quick to pounce on inferior Chinese-made pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the drug regulatory body of the largest pharmaceutical market in the world is not slamming its door entirely shut on the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, one of the fastest growing in the world. In fact, new policies may see more Chinese drug products hit U.S. shores. - Interfax China

►May 21, 2008 - FTC Derides Pay-To-Delay Deals With Generics - Pharmalot

►May 21, 2008 - Arkansas Sues AstraZeneca Over Seroquel Promotion - Pharmalot

►May 21, 2008 - Smoked: Chantix May Cause Many Serious Problems - Pharmalot

* ►May 21, 2008 - Do You Promise To Run Honest TV Ads? - Pharmalot

* ►May 21, 2008 - Personalized medicine for quicker cures - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

►May 21, 2008 - Glaxo’s Garnier Badmouths AstraZeneca - Pharmalot

►May 21, 2008 - Merck Scuttles Another Trial Similar To Enhance - Pharmalot

►May 21, 2008 - What Report? The Vytorin Expert And His Findings - Pharmalot

►May 21, 2008 - Eli Lilly streamlines management in several areas - AP via The Boston Globe

►May 21, 2008 - San Francisco Sues McKesson Over Price Fixing - Pharmalot

►May 21, 2008 - Lab breakthrough seen in lethal dengue fever - AFP

►May 21, 2008 - Hepatitis: many people who are infected don’t know they have the disease - Washington State Department of Health

►May 21, 2008 - Spray said to turn people to pushovers - World News

►May 21, 2008 - Assessing Skeletal Health in Children and Adolescents - The International Society for Clinical Densitometry updates its assessment standards. - journal article (Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

* ►May 21, 2008 - HPA Unable To Link UK Measles Outbreak To MMR Shortfall - What's Going On in SE London? - John Stone - The One Click Group

►May 21, 2008 - Modified Autism Diagnostic Tool Distinguishes Disorder as Early as 12 Months (requires registration) - Medscape

* ►May 21, 2008 - FDA Puts Medical Test Subjects in Danger - The Nation via ZNet - "With hardly a word in the mainstream press, the FDA has gutted the rules restraining drug companies from exploiting clinical trial subjects in developing countries."

* ►May 21, 2008 - Part Ten: Thinking Dirty; Its Role in The Decision To Charge Trupti Patel With Murdering Her Babies - The Charles Smith Blog

* ►May 21, 2008 - Recruiting a Dangerous Foe to Fight Cancer and HIV - Biotechs have high hopes that a bacterium that causes food poisoning can boost the body's immune system as well as be enlisted to build vaccines against deadly diseases - Scientific American - "'When you're dealing with cancer, you want autoimmune responses, and Listeria invokes these responses,' says John Rothman, the vice president of clinical development at Advaxis, Inc., a biotech in North Brunswick, N.J., that is working on a Listeria-based vaccine, Lovaxin C. 'Listeria is a pretty nifty bug for this purpose,' adds Rothman. 'We're co-opting a lot of evolution here because Listeria modifies the immune system in a lot of ways.'"

►May 21, 2008 - Urge to kill doctors increased by pain - New Scientist - "Comment - By Dr M. S. Wed May 21 20:53:55 BST 2008 I concurr As a practicing GP, I have occasionally felt the urge to assault (if not to "delete") patients who were clearly not sick or simply wasting my time. A case of "Doc rage" in my case, but I'm sure the majority of readers interacting with other humans must have felt the same impulse more than once..."
 
►May 21, 2008 - Fly-infested gloves prompt Health Canada probe - Dose.ca

►May 21, 2008 - Mumps warning comes after southern Alberta outbreak - Jasper Booster

* ►May 21, 2008 - Kennedy's brain tumour one of the worst kind - Seventy-six-year-old senator could survive for up to three years, but medical experts say he may have far less time left (requires registration or subscription) - The Globe and Mail - "Another possible treatment for Mr. Kennedy, should he have glioblastoma multiforme, could be a vaccine that has shown promising results in clinical trials in the United States. Winnipeg native John Sampson, a neurosurgeon at Duke University in North Carolina, has helped some patients survive for three to six years after being diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme. Contacted yesterday, Dr. Sampson said he is 'not speaking to the media about this at this time,' although there were reports yesterday that Mr. Kennedy could become a participant in this clinical trial."

►May 20, 2008 - Senator Ted Kennedy Diagnosed with Malignant Glioma Brain Tumor - Associated Content

* ►May 20, 2008 - Advaxis Files Investigational New Drug Application with U.S. Food and Drug Administration - LifeScience Online - "Advaxis' lead Listeria vaccine candidate, Lovaxin C, targets HPV-associated cancers such as cervical and head and neck."

►May 20, 2008 - Hospitals will soon have to monitor hand washing - CTV

►May 20, 2008 - Vaccinated Monekys Show Autistic Signs - Unlocking Autism

►May 20, 2008 - Governor Crist Signs Legislation To Expand Service and Coverage for Autism - press release - Florida Governor Charlie Crist

►May 20, 2008 - Florida Governor Signs Autism Bill into Law - WCTV.tv

* ►May 20, 2008 - Bird flu vaccine to hit the shelves - Europe approves pandemic vaccine; countries must decide own strategies. - news (Nature)

* ►May 20, 2008 - Immigrant kids more likely to get all their vaccinations: study - Canadian Press via C-Health Canoe

* ►May 20, 2008 - Outgoing Glaxo Head Says Drugs Should be Tested Sooner, Better - NEWSInferno

►May 20, 2008 - Scientists 'Paint' Viruses To Track Their Fate In The Body - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology via Biocompare

►May 20, 2008 - Approvable Letter Update - Eye on FDA

►May 20, 2008 - Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Issues $1.4 Million ‘Cancer Research Challenge’ to Support American Cancer Society - AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and Novartis step forward with lead commitments to fund three-year Postdoctoral Fellowship - Business Wire

►May 20, 2008 - Are Low Vitamin D Levels Associated with Nonspecific Pain? - The results of two studies argue against any simple relation between diffuse pain and vitamin D deficiency.  - journal article (Journal Watch)

►May 19, 2008 - Youngest Kids Worst Hit by Rotavirus - Reuters Health via www.immunizationinfo.org - (abstract)

►May 19, 2008 - The Hidden Danger of Tetanus - The News (Pictou County Nova Scotia) via www.immunizationinfo.org - (abstract)

* ►May 19, 2008 - Turning Back The Clock For Schwann Cells - Rockefeller University via Biocompare - "Myelin-making Schwann cells have an ability every aging Hollywood star would envy: they can become young again. According to a study appearing in the May 19 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology, David B. Parkinson (University College London, London, UK) and collogues have pinned down a protein that returns the cells to their youth, a finding that might help researchers understand why myelin production falters in some diseases."

* ►May 19, 2008 - Behind the Counter Drugs - WZZM13 - "While it's still unknown which drugs would fall into this category in the U.S. medications to treat conditions from migraines to high cholesterol are already dispensed this way in several other countries. Now, Steve Giroux says pharmacy groups are calling on the FDA for a third class of drugs to be available here too. "Any time there's a drug that has some side effect potential and yet, for the most part, is relatively safe and relatively widely used, it may be a candidate for behind-the-counter sales." The pharmacists say behind-the-counter drugs would make these medications more accessible for patients and also help lower overall healthcare costs. "They would not have to first go the emergency room or go to a physician's office and get a prescription."

►May 19, 2008 - Sample Letter - Feel Free to Copy and Paste - Autism Salutes - "I need your immediate help. On Tuesday, May 20th, Congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania will introduce an Amendment to H.R.. 5658 (the Fiscal Year 2009 National Defense Authorization Act)."

►May 19, 2008 - Double MMR jabs to fight measles - Babies and toddlers in London are being given emergency double doses of the MMR jab to combat a measles epidemic that is sweeping the capital. - This is London

* ►May 19, 2008 - Thousands of children to get a DOUBLE jab of MMR in 'emergency' move to tackle measles epidemic - Daily Mail, UK

* ►May 17, 2008 - Mom: Son recovers from autism (includes video) - News9.com

►May 15, 2008 - Pretreatment with Cisplatin Enhances E7-Specific CD8+ T-Cell–Mediated Antitumor Immunity Induced by DNA Vaccination - journal article (Clinical Cancer Research)

►May 14, 2008 - Giving Patients the VIP Treatment - TIME Magazine

►May 14, 2008 - Discovery of Cell Linked to Learning and Memory - Research Australia via Biocompare

* ►May 12, 2008 - Lawsuit Alleging Mercury-Autism Link to Begin - HealthDay News via yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com

* ►May 10, 2008 - Denise Richards: argument over vaccinations ended marriage - Blogging Baby

►May 9, 2008 - Gestational diabetes mellitus and vitamin D deficiency: genetic contribution of CYP27B1 and CYP2R1 polymorphisms. - journal article (Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism)

* ►May 2008 - A Curious Case Study: Toxins Should Always Be a Suspect - Pediatric News

►April 29, 2008 - Bergmann Glia and the Recognition Molecule CHL1 Organize GABAergic Axons and Direct Innervation of Purkinje Cell Dendrites - journal article (PLoS Biology)

* ►April 22, 2008 - Facilitating Development of and Access to New Vaccines: An FDA Perspective (pdf) - FDA/CBER

* ►April 2008 - Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council - The Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council provides information and guidance to empower individuals and organizations to develop a community-based advisory council. These councils involve patients, consumers, and a variety of practitioners and professionals from health care and community organizations to drive change for patient safety through education, collaboration, and consumer engagement. - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

* ►March 26, 2008 - Wistar Institute shares cell lines - Cell lines developed by scientists at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia have recently been made available to researchers around the globe through the catalog collection at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research of Camden, N.J. - The Coriell Institute for Medical Research via News-Medical Net - "The monoclonal antibodies produced by these cell lines are useful in the development of vaccines against a variety of influenza strains, including pandemic influenza, Kaufman said."

►Volume 3 Issue 1, 2008 - Prognosis of pediatric epilepsy (full text) - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences)

►Volume 3 Issue 1, 2008 - Cognitive development and pediatric epilepsy surgery (full text) - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences)

►Volume 3 Issue 1, 2008 - Surgical pathology of pediatric epilepsy (full text) - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences)

* ►2003 - SV40 in human brain cancers and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - journal article (Oncogene) - "In summary, the published molecular biology, pathology, and clinical data, taken together, show that SV40 is significantly associated with human primary brain cancers and NHL. In addition, the data strongly suggest that SV40 may be functionally important in the development of selected human malignancies."

* ►1997 - Detection of SV40 T antigen genome in human gliomas. - journal article (Brain Tumor Pathology)

* ►Under Our Skin - an infectious new film about microbes, money & medicine (includes trailer) - website - "A dramatic tale of microbes, medicine and money, this eye-opening film investigates the untold story of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic larger than AIDS. Each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, told that their symptoms are 'all in their head.' Following the stories of patients and physicians as they battle for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of our health care system and its ability to cope with a silent terror under our skin."