* ►November 5, 2008 - Data on DNA vaccines discussed by researchers at University of Colorado (requires registration)- TherapeuticsDaily

►November 1, 2008 - Psychological Symptomatology in Siblings of Children With ADHD - journal article (Journal of Attention Disorders)

* ►November 1, 2008 - Disease 'risk' as vaccination payment cut - An immunisation expert says funding cuts to GPs could see the vaccination rate for children drop to 80 per cent, sparking outbreaks of whooping cough and measles. - The Australian - "Since October 1 GPs have no longer been receiving $18.50 each time a child completes one of the six age-linked immunisation schedules, which recommend which jabs should be given by 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 12 months, 18 months and four years of age....A GP can still receive up to $48.40 to perform an immunisation, and eligible practices can be paid about $4200 per year if at least 90 per cent of children among their usual patients are up-to-date with their vaccinations, as recommended in the Australian Childhood Immunisation Schedule....Parents are also motivated to ensure their children are immunised because benefit payments for children under seven are contingent on the child having received all recommended vaccinations for their age."

* ►November 1, 2008 - Lima a hotspot for cervical cancer - Doctors are regarded with extreme suspicion in the crowded slums of Lima, Peru. Women, especially, are wary of the medical profession, having swapped tales about a government campaign of forced sterilisations during the 1990s. - The Australian - "Two weeks ago, the project finally came to fruition. A long line of nervous-looking girls aged 9 to 16 waited patiently with their mothers to receive their shots. Under Douglas's watchful eye, nurses vaccinated 150 of the area's almost 1000 girls and carried out 170 pap smears, many on women who had never before seen a gynaecologist. The gratitude of the women was overwhelming, and the girls too, responded with big smiles once they received a certificate for their troubles."
 

►November 1, 2008 - Ministry to start second HPV dose - Fiji Times

►November 2008 - Elected 2009-’10 president • Dr. Palfrey lays out her agenda (requires subscription) - AAP News

►November 2008 - Call to Action • Immunization Alliance fights vaccine misinformation (requires subscription) - AAP News

►November 2008 - Reducing mother-to-child transmission • Policy stresses importance of universal HIV testing of pregnant women (requires subscription) - AAP News

►November 2008 - Humana to enhance immunization payments, cover phone care (requires subscription) - AAP News

►November 2008 - Study adds to data showing no link between MMR vaccine, autism (requires subscription) - AAP News

* ►November 2008 - Adverse events following immunisation – fact and fiction - journal article (Paediatrics and Child Health) - "Post-immunisation surveillance plays a key role in detecting possible adverse events but interpretation of these temporal associations may be complex and can be misleading. This can be problematic when trying to achieve optimal vaccine uptake rates as it becomes difficult for parents to differentiate between fact and fiction. Knowledge of vaccines, their mechanism of action and their potential adverse effects is crucial in providing clear advice to parents."

* ►November 2008 - New vaccines for children - journal article (Paediatrics and Child Health) - "From September 2008, a new primary immunisation programme against cervical cancer will be introduced for adolescent girls. In the future, we may see the introduction of licensed rotavirus vaccines against infant gastroenteritis and broader use of varicella, influenza and hepatitis B vaccines. Higher valency meningococcal conjugate vaccines, vaccines against meningococcus group B disease and vaccines against respiratory viruses are available, approaching licensure or in clinical trials in children in the UK."

* ►November 2008 - Young multiethnic women's attitudes toward the HPV vaccine and HPV vaccination - journal article (International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics) - "Promotion of the HPV vaccine should take account of social and cultural acceptability. The findings will help develop strategies for effective vaccination initiatives in a multiethnic and multireligious Asian society."

►November 2008 - Fatal Outcome of Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) Infection in a Traveler with Incomplete HAV Vaccination and Evidence of Rift Valley Fever Virus Infection - journal article (Journal of Clinical Microbiology)

►November 2008 - Investigation of recurrent infection - journal article (Paediatrics and Child Health)

►November 2008 - International Adoptees: Another Risk Factor for Hepatitis A Infection - journal article (AAP Grand Rounds)

►November 2008 - Time is ripe for health-care reform. An interview with Paul Krugman. - WHO Bulletin

►November 2008 - Universal coverage of health services: tailoring its implementation - WHO Bulletin

►November 2008 - Research capacity for mental health in low- and middle-income countries: results of a mapping project - WHO Bulletin

►November 2008 - Allergens to wheat and related cereals - journal article (Clinical & Experimental Allergy)

►November 2008 - Food Allergy as Seen by an Allergist. - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition)

►November 2008 - Increased Gastrointestinal Permeability and Gut Inflammation in Children with Functional Abdominal Pain and Irritable Bowel Syndrome - journal article (The Journal of Pediatrics)

►November 2008 - Growth Hormone Treatment for Growth Failure in Pediatric Patients with Crohn's Disease - journal article (The Journal of Pediatrics)

►November 2008 - Prenatal exposure to household pets influences fetal immunoglobulin E production - journal article (Clinical & Experimental Allergy)

►November 2008 - Using umbilical cord tissue to detect fetal exposure to illicit drugs: a multicentered study in Utah and New Jersey - journal article (Journal of Perinatology)

* ►October 31, 2008 - The Vaccine Debate (includes video) - KSPR News - "1 year old Madysen Williams died after she received her MMR vaccine at a Springfield pediatric center. It caused a high fever and seizures that didn't stop. The federal government paid the Williams family $250,000 dollars from the Vaccine Compensation Fund. Her father Gary says the family will not vaccinate their two youngest children. The Centers for Disease Control recommends 31 shots by the age of six, 37 if you get a flu shot every year. "Our vaccines are more purified than they were when you and I were children" Springfield Doctor Robert Steele serves on Missouri’s Advisory Committee for Childhood Immunizations. He says because of our more purified vaccines, children nowadays are actually receiving fewer antigens in their body even though they're getting more shots."

* ►October 31, 2008 - New Jersey and Autism Perfect Together! By Katie Wright - Age of Autism - "Deirdre Imus organized and moderated an amazing vaccine forum last week at Hackensack University Hospital. To my recollection it was the first time staunch defenders and architects of our infant and toddler vaccination schedule have spoken to the public and taken uncensored questions from parents of vaccine injured children."

* ►October 31, 2008 - National Autism Conference to be Held in Weston, FL November 13-16 - press release - National Autism Association via PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch - "The conference will feature keynote speaker U.S. Congressman Dave Weldon....Conference speakers include Dr. Andrew Wakefield, Dr. Jeff Bradstreet, David Kirby, author of the New York Times bestseller 'Evidence of Harm,' Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh and Neurofeedback expert Dr. Michael Linden who was recently featured on 'The Doctors' television show."

* ►October 31, 2008 - GMC Wakefield MMR Vaccine Trial Hearing Hangs In The Balance - Future Of GMC Wakefield Hearing Hangs In The Balance - GMC Stonewalls Over Wakefield Panel Trial Chairman Shareholdings - The One Click Group

* ►October 31, 2008 - Death Threats, Hate Mail: Autism Debate Turns Ugly - Vaccine Researchers, Autism Community React to Account of Death Threats - ABC News - "A prominent infectious disease specialist's accounts of death threats he received from vaccine opponents exposes a kind of harassment in connection to fears of a link between vaccinations and autism, vaccine researchers say....But some people connected to groups that believe a vaccine-autism link exists say that they, too, have been the targets of hateful speech. 'I've been called a baby killer,' says Rebecca Estepp, national manager of the autism support group Talk About Curing Autism. 'One woman got into my face this summer and told me I was going to cause millions of children to die. Emotions are running high because this involves the health of our children.'"

* ►October 31, 2008 - Autism in the election spotlight (includes video) - WSBT South Bend

* ►October 31, 2008 - New Jersey To Mandate Cradle Past Grave Vaccination! By Kim Stagliano - Age of Autism

* ►October 31, 2008 - Examiner Online Allows Parents to Speak Out on Vaccination Choice - Age of Autism

►October 31, 2008 - Ask Wolf Blitzer To Question Obama: CALL TODAY! - Age of Autism

►October 31, 2008 - Live From The Pediatrician's - Age of Autism

►October 31, 2008 - Autism Community Accepts Denis Leary's Apology - They call off a nationwide protest, but want a percentage of the book's proceeds donated to autism research. - Momlogic

►October 31, 2008 - Speaking out on autism - Since its beginnings in 2005, Autism Speaks has raised $30m in funding for autism research in the US, making it the nation’s top private fundraiser. Its founders, former NBC chairman Bob Wright and his wife Suzanne, have been campaigning for better awareness and funding since the discovery that their three-year-old grandson had developed the disorder. They speak about their journey from family tragedy to public crusade - Guardian Weekly, UK

* ►October 31, 2008 - FDA Fails To Protect Public Health From Unsafe Drugs Use - Congress Report High Ranking FDA Officials Objected to Preemption Policies - Alliance for Human Research Protection via The One Click Group

►October 31, 2008 - Experts say FDA findings on compound misleading - CNN

►October 31, 2008 - Sanofi-Aventis Ups EPS Forecast for 2008 on Slight Improvement in Q3 Performance - Embattled French pharma champion Sanofi-Aventis eagerly awaits U.S. approval for Multaq as drug sales growth remains muted. - Global Insight via PharmaLive

►October 31, 2008 - Chief medical officer speaks out on syringe reuse - Edmonton Journal via Canada.com

►October 31, 2008 - Alta.'s top doctor raises alarm over syringe misuse - Canwest News Service via Canada.com

►October 31, 2008 - Second case of syringe reuse shouldn't alarm public: Liepert - Vermilion/Lloydminster MD's name withheld as Alberta Health investigates - The Edmonton Journal via Canada.com

►October 31, 2008 - Merck Goes Back to School to Push HPV Vaccination - Seeking Alpha

►October 31, 2008 - Gardasil(R) Vaccine Honoured With International Galien Prize For Pharmaceutical Research - Medical News Today

►October 31, 2008 - SRMC’s girls night out Monday - Stuttgart Daily Leader - "Holsted said that at the event, there will be goody bags for the participating women, door prizes, plenty of food and information on timely topics such as HPV and breast cancer."

* ►October 31, 2008 - Anthrax leaves drum-maker critically ill - Health protection officers seal off east London man's workshop - The Guardian, UK

►October 31, 2008 - FBI: Anthrax hoaxes from Calif. man still in mail - The Associated Press via Google

►October 31, 2008 - Worth a shot? - Flu shots aren't perfect but doctors insist they're worth the momentary pain - Canadian Press via TheRecord.com

►October 31, 2008 - Sierra Leone: Sabin Vaccine Institute Director Visits Health Ministry - Concord Times (Freetown) via AllAfrica.com

* ►October 31, 2008 - Vaccine didn't stop whooping cough - Omaha World-Herald - "St. Robert Bellarmine School in west Omaha is enduring an outbreak of whooping cough, or pertussis. Of 12 children there who had it late this week, most had been vaccinated against it, said the principal, Sandra Suiter."

►October 31, 2008 - Whooping Cough Outbreak In Douglas County - A dozen cases alone at one Omaha school - WOWT.com

►October 31, 2008 - HISD Student Dies From Meningitis - MyFox Houston

►October 31, 2008 - School Chicken Pox Scare - NBCSandiego.com

►October 31, 2008 - Measles outbreak warning - Rochdale Online

►October 31, 2008 - Research Into Hepatitis B Continues - AsianWeek

►October 31, 2008 - Anti-Cancer Vaccine For Hep B - AsianWeek

►October 31, 2008 - Diabetes Rate Nearly Doubles; More Scrutiny of Avandia - Wall Street Journal Health Blog

* ►October 31, 2008 - Halloween Warning: Candy Made in China May be Contaminated with Toxic Melamine - NaturalNews.com

* ►October 31, 2008 - Vitamin C Slows Cancer Down - And, Doctors Say, Can Reverse It as Well - press release - Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

►October 31, 2008 - CFS/ME Course For Physicians Available For Viewing - The One Click Group

►October 31, 2008 - Rituximab Therapy May Lower Vaccine Effectiveness in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Presented at ACR-ARHP - Doctor's Guide

►October 31, 2008 - Wrangle over mercury - Baltimore Sun Bay & Environment Blog

* ►October 31, 2008 - Northeast States Petition EPA To Require Mercury Reductions - Hartford Courant

* ►October 31, 2008 - Wyeth To Supremes: Waxman Carries ‘No Weight’ - Pharmalot

* ►October 31, 2008 - Former FDA Lawyer: Preemption & The Flood Gates - Pharmalot

►October 31, 2008 - WHO disease spending 'skewed', say experts - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

►October 31, 2008 - 1.5m children receive vaccination against polio, measles countrywide - The Guardian, UK via IPPmedia.com

* ►October 31, 2008 - In Case of An Outbreak, A Containment Policy - The Hoya

►October 31, 2008 - Housing crisis leads to uptick in West Nile - Mosquito-borne virus breeds in vacant pools - Concord Monitor

* ►October 31, 2008 - Media Affects Public Perception of Infectious Diseases - Study found people thought certain illnesses were more dangerous if publicized - HealthDay News via U.S. News & World Report

►October 31, 2008 - Nation's #1 Respiratory Hospital Enters Agreement to Co-Promote IgE Blood Testing - National Jewish Health via PRNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

►October 31, 2008 - The Lancet’s new online medical journal helps clinicians find practice-changing evidence - PublicTechnology.net

* ►October 30, 2008 - Placebo Treatments in Clinical Practice: Results of National Survey - Within the previous year, 55% of surveyed physicians had recommended at least one placebo treatment.  - journal article (Journal Watch General Medicine)

►October 30, 2008 - Withheld Bird Flu Samples Endanger World, U.S. Says - Bloomberg

►October 30, 2008 - Four New Pharmaceutical Chief Executives Speak Out - The CEOs of Pfizer, Roche, Eli Lilly, and Bristol-Myers Squibb address topics from dealmaking to the pharmaceutical industry's image problems - BusinessWeek

►October 30, 2008 - New Role For Critical DNA Repair Molecule In Immune System - The human immune system is a brilliantly adaptable weapon against foreign invaders. But it all depends on the work of specialized cells called lymphocytes that have made a risky evolutionary gambit to mutate their own DNA. New research published in Nature shows for the first time that a molecule devoted to DNA repair plays a broader role in this genetic reshuffling — called recombination — than scientists had thought. - Rockefeller University via ScienceDaily

►October 30, 2008 - Private health market 'shrinks' - Spending by individuals on private healthcare has seen the first significant fall since the mid 1990s, figures show. - BBC

►October 30, 2008 - Groups asking state to crack down on mercury - Two plants targeted by three environmental organizations (requires registration or subscription) - Baltimore Sun

* ►October 30, 2008 - People should be informed about the science, dangers of vaccines - letter - Allentown Examiner

* ►October 30, 2008 - Green our vaccines and administer them with greater care - letter - Allentown Examiner - "Thank you for the editorial on parents asking for vaccine choice in New Jersey. Many times the press fails to present the real issue here. Most of the parents who came to Trenton were there because they've seen first-hand the damage done by vaccines."

* ►October 30, 2008 - New Jersey should not mandate flu shots for schoolchildren - letter - Allentown Examiner - "Thank you so much for your editorial on vaccine choice. You summed up the situation perfectly.  New Jersey has one of the strictest laws in the U.S. concerning vaccines. I have permanent physical and neurological damage from the flu vaccine. My doctor has stated for the record that my problems have been caused by the flu shot."

►October 30, 2008 - FBI Busts Anthrax Mail Hoaxer - Global Security Newswire

►October 30, 2008 - Fla. ruling will help widow's anthrax lawsuit - A Florida Supreme Court ruling issued Thursday will help the widow of an anthrax victim make her case that the government was ultimately responsible for her husband's death. - FOX News

* ►October 30, 2008 - Nobel honours controversial HPV discovery - The Strand - "At a public lecture at Toronto's MaRS Centre on October 23, Dr. zur Hausen himself dismissed the controversy surrounding the HPV vaccine. 'I feel it is an act of responsibility to vaccinate all the daughters,' he told a crowd of 400."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Bharat Biotech sells over 150 mn Hepatitis B vaccines - IANS via Thaindian.com - "'The next generation REVAC-Bmcf (thiomersol and cesium chloride free) recombinant Hepatitis-B vaccine manufactured by us are cost-effective and address the safety concerns expressed by parents and members of the medical profession,' said Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Biotech....REVAC-Bmcf vaccine contains the same components utilized in previous Hepatitis-B vaccine, but now it is supplied preservative-free in a single-dose vial. The preservative thiomersal which contains mercury is used in the production process for many vaccines. There are trace amounts of thiomersol left over from the production process that cannot be removed, but these amounts are so small that regulatory agencies consider the vaccine to be preservative-free."

►October 30, 2008 - Measles outbreak in Cheshire prompts MMR plea - Chester Chronicle

►October 30, 2008 - Parents move to avert measles epidemic - Lancashire Evening Post - "Around 14,000 letters were sent out to families of under-18-year-olds who have not yet received two MMR jabs, urging them to book an appointment with their GP or to attend one of the drop-in sessions."

►October 30, 2008 - 108 suspected measles cases - Liverpool Daily Post

►October 30, 2008 - Marathon run in memory of son - South Devon Herald Express

* ►October 30, 2008 - There was a lapse in communication - Guelph Mercury - "Four-year-old Isabella Dibucchianico died Thursday, two days after she first became ill....The final results of tests taken on the child prior to her death were received on the weekend, and medical officer of health Dr. Nicola Mercer said Monday they proved negative for meningitis. The cause of death has been determined, Mercer said, but is not being publicly released for reasons of confidentiality....Bella's parents say they have been informed by a coroner that the child died of pneumonia. It's somewhat troubling, however, that they have doubts about that diagnosis."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Coconut Oil May Help Fight Childhood Pneumonia - HealthDay via Yahoo!

* ►October 30, 2008 - Former U.N. rights boss to chair vaccines group - Reuters via Yahoo!

* ►October 30, 2008 - GlaxoSmithKline to limit payments it makes to US doctors to $150 000 a year - journal article (BMJ)

* ►October 29, 2008 - Ebola vaccine under development in Germantown lab - Company co-founder says disease could be less of a threat in 10 years - Gazette.Net - "Warfield said two Russian scientists accidently infected themselves on two separate occasions a few years ago and died from the virus. Another scientist, at Fort Detrick, was unharmed in 2004 after an accidental needle prick from a syringe containing the virus, she said. Warfield said she was never afraid during the six years she spent at Fort Detrick, a period that included seeing animals that had been infected by Ebola during experiments. "I have a family of four children," she said. "You just have to be aware of the dangers you're taking or you shouldn't be working there."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Lab weathers storms, not concerns? (requires registration) - The Scientist - "Still, some say that locating a lab working with dangerous pathogens such as Ebola and Marburg virus in a geographical area so vulnerable to storm damage is risky. "As destructive as it was, Hurricaine Ike was only a Category 2 storm," Ken Kramer, director of the Sierra Club's Lone Star Chapter told the Times. "A more powerful storm would pose an even greater threat of a biohazard release."

►October 29, 2008 - Ouray County parents warned of new chickenpox outbreak - OurayNews.com

►October 29, 2008 - Scientific Advisers Criticize FDA’s Exoneration of BPA - Wall Street Journal Health Blogs

* ►October 29, 2008 - Deputy Director from the FDA's Office of Critical Path Programs to Deliver Rare Address at Clinical Trials Congress - press release - Institute for International Research via Business Wire - "The Institute for International Research is pleased to announce a featured presentation by Leonard Sacks, Deputy Director of the Office of Critical Path Programs from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) at the 7th annual Clinical Trials Congress (CTC). Dr. Sacks will illuminate how key stakeholders in public health and drug development should be forming partnerships with the FDA to advance the critical path to drug development."

* ►October 29, 2008 - US Rep Waxman: FDA Officials Objected To Regulation Moves - Dow Jones via CNNMoney - "The Food and Drug Administration has enacted a slew of rules to weaken the ability of states to sue drug companies despite objections from top agency officials, according to internal FDA documents released Wednesday by Rep. Henry Waxman."

►October 29, 2008 - FDA denies ignoring harm in bottle chemical - Reuters

►October 29, 2008 - Panel Faults F.D.A. on Stance That Chemical in Plastic Is Safe (requires registration) - The New York Times

* ►October 29, 2008 - Just 1 in 131 children turned up for measles jab at emergency clinic - Liverpool Echo

►October 29, 2008 - South Cheshire measles outbreak worsens - Crewe Chronicle

►October 29, 2008 - Meningitis – living with the after effects - Kidderminster Shuttle

* ►October 29, 2008 - Study confirms movement of bird flu from Asia to North America via birds - ANI via DailyIndia

►October 29, 2008 - Heat From FDAAA: Time For New GPP - PharmExecBlog

►October 29, 2008 - Biotech faces investment downturn (requires registration) - The Scientist

►October 29, 2008 - HHS/FDA Grants Tentative Approval for 75th Generic Anti-Retroviral Drug as Part of President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - FDA

* ►October 29, 2008 - Discovery zone: The Yale Child Study Center - Yale Daily News

►October 29, 2008 - Researchers Find New Chemical Key that Could Unlock Hundreds of New Antibiotics - University of Warwick via Biocompare

►October 29, 2008 - Study of the acceptability of antibiotic syrups, suspensions, and oral solutions prescribed to pediatric outpatients - journal article (European Journal of Pediatrics)

* ►October 28, 2008 - Should influenza immunisation be mandatory for healthcare workers? No - journal article (BMJ)

* ►October 28, 2008 - Should influenza immunisation be mandatory for healthcare workers? Yes - journal article (BMJ)

►October 28, 2008 - U of M sets flu shot record, breaking Mayo Clinic's mark - AP via Post-Bulletin

* ►October 28, 2008 - NICE should produce guidance on infant mental health - journal article (BMJ)

►October 28, 2008 - Doctors issue measles warning - Wigan Today

►October 24, 2008 - Solihull NHS Care Trust campaigns to beat measles threat - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is launching a new initiative aimed at getting the media to report the good as well as the bad news from Africa. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Red Cross headquarters in Geneva. - Solihull Care Trust

►October 16, 2008 - Correlation of Gut Hormones with Irritable Bowel Syndrome - journal article (Digestion)

►October 16, 2008 - CXCL12 (SDF-1{alpha}) suppresses ongoing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by selecting antigen-specific regulatory T cells - journal article (The Journal of Experimental Medicine)

* ►October 2008 - Autism Research Institute Newsletter - www.autism.com - "ARI's big three-day Defeat Autism Now! conference is set for October 24-26 in San Diego....November 1st and 2nd, ARI will host the opening of the Edgeware Gallery, housed in the same building as ARI. Mark Rimland will be the resident artist. Proceeds from the sale of the artworks will be used to fund research on effective treatments, so if you live in the southern California area, mark these dates on your calendar and plan to join us."

►October 2008 - E-Newsletter October 2008 #2 - TACA Talk About Curing Autism

* ►October 2008 - Reduced Protection from Simian Immunodeficiency Virus SIVmac251 Infection Afforded by Memory CD8+ T Cells Induced by Vaccination during CD4+ T-Cell Deficiency - journal article (Journal of Virology)

►October 2008 - Neonatal Neural Progenitor Cells and Their Neuronal and Glial Cell Derivatives Are Fully Permissive for Human Cytomegalovirus Infection - journal article (Journal of Virology)

►October 2008 - Viral Cell Entry, circa 1980 (requires registration) - The Scientist

►October 2008 - Progress in understanding norovirus epidemiology. - journal article (Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases)

►September 9, 2008 - Age-related brain structural alterations in children with specific language impairment - journal article (Human Brain Mapping)

►September 2008 - Treating adult ADHD with stimulants. - journal article (CNS Spectrums)

►December 2008 - Are there real unprovoked/unprecipitated seizures? - journal article (Medical Hypotheses)

►November 2008 - The Relationship between Body Mass Index and Behavior in Children - journal article (The Journal of Pediatrics)

►November 2008 - A comparison of IFNγ detection methods used in tuberculosis vaccine trials - journal article (Tuberculosis)

* ►November 2008 - Immunological Basis and Management of Food Allergy. - journal article (Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition) - "Constant allergen exposure and other environmental factors determine whether a sensitised individual will become chronically allergic and experience persistent symptoms. Management of food allergies in children focuses on minimising sensitisation and encouraging immune system maturation through the exposure of children to exogenous stimuli known to prime the immune system. Hypoallergenic molecules or allergen avoidance can also be used to induce tolerance in allergy-prone children."

* ►November 2008 - Content of β-casomorphins in milk of women with a history of allergy - journal article (Pediatric Allergy and Immunology) - "The aim of this study was to determine the β-casomorphin-5 and -7 (BCMs) in colostrum and milk of 12 breast-feeding women with a history and clinical manifestation of food allergy. The results were compared with the data obtained from a control group of healthy age-matched breast-feeding women. The level of BCM in women with food allergy was constant during lactation, whereas the highest level of opioid peptides was found in colostrums of healthy women with a subsequent rapid decrease in mature milk. These differences in BCMs profile between allergic and healthy breast-feeding women suggest that BCM content in the human milk may be an indicator of allergic conditions."

►October 31, 2008 - American Diabetes Month and World Diabetes Day - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - State-Specific Incidence of Diabetes Among Adults --- Participating States, 1995--1997 and 2005--2007 - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - Update: Progress Toward Global Eradication of Dracunculiasis, January 2007--June 2008 - MMWR/CDC

* ►October 31, 2008 - Progress Toward Elimination of Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome --- the Americas, 2003--2008  - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - Revised Product Labels for Pediatric Over-the-Counter Cough and Cold Medicines - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - QuickStats: Percentage of Children Aged 5--17 Years Who Missed No Days of School Because of Illness or Injury During the Preceding 12 Months,* by Race† --- National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2007 - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - Notice to Readers: Application Deadline for The CDC Experience Applied Epidemiology Fellowship --- December 5, 2008 - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - Notifiable Diseases/Deaths in Selected Cities Weekly Information - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - Prevalence of Selected Risk Behaviors and Chronic Diseases --- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), 39 Steps Communities, United States, 2005 - MMWR/CDC

►October 31, 2008 - Leading Medical Groups Advise Against Avandia (free content) - The Wall Street Journal

* ►October 30, 2008 - Pharmaceutical Immunity Inexcusably Sought Over Objections of Career FDA Officials - InjuryBoard.com - "I start with the simple question: Does the Food and Drug Administration exist to protect the public health, or to shield pharmaceutical giants from responsibility for defective drugs or inadequate labeling? After reviewing an astonishing report just submitted to Representative Henry Waxman's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I regrettably conclude that for the last 7 years the current adminstration has carried on an unprecedented and relentless assault upon this agency with the sole purpose of removing any meaningful protections for the consuming public in favor of insulating pharmaceutical interests from responsibility for the harms their products cause."

* ►October 30, 2008 - David Kirby: New Study: Mercury, Other Toxins May Cause Autism - The Huffington Post - "If small amounts of methylmercury from fish can cause permanent brain damage in unborn children, and if ethylmercury from vaccines has two-to-four times more potential for causing brain damage in primates, then isn't time to get rid of thimerosal (in flu shots, in adult vaccines, and in the millions of childhood doses shipped overseas each year?)"

* ►October 30, 2008 - David Kirby: What I Said at the Vaccine Forum By David Kirby - Age of Autism

* ►October 30, 2008 - Keep On Self-Incriminatin' By J.B. Handley (includes video) - Age of Autism

* ►October 30, 2008 - Doctor disputes autism, vaccine link - In his new book, author says his life has been threatened as a result (includes video) - TODAY Show via MSNBC

* ►October 30, 2008 - NBC's Snyderman: Vaccine-Autism Link 'Not Controversial' - 'Today' medical editor defends pharmaceuticals against activists who 'hijacked' debate, warns against polio and measles outbreaks. - Business & Media Institute

* ►October 30, 2008 - Olmsted on Offit: In Newsweek! - Age of Autism

* ►October 30, 2008 - Since When is US Medicine "Law?" - Age of Autism

* ►October 30, 2008 - Autism Is Political: Bob Wright and a UK Perspective By Lisa Blakemore Brown - Age of Autism

* ►October 30, 2008 - Listen to Robert Krakow Interview with Newsweek - The Autism Action Coalition

* ►October 30, 2008 - Should Drug Manufacturers have immunity from legal liability if their drugs get FDA approval? - InjuryBoard.com

* ►October 30, 2008 - Some at FDA Oppose Rules Against Suing Drugmakers (requires registration) - AP via Washington Post

►October 30, 2008 - FDA Memos Undercut Stance On Pre-Empting Drug Suits (free content) - Wall Street Journal

* ►October 30, 2008 - Former UN rights boss to chair vaccines group - Reuters - "Former Irish President and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson was elected on Tuesday as chair of the board of GAVI, a group that buys vaccines for the world's poorest children."

* ►October 30, 2008 - ECN Acknowledges Psycho Drugs Risk For Children - Antipsychotics Harm Children European College of Neuropsychopharmacology - Alliance for Human Research Protection via The One Click Group

* ►October 30, 2008 - Teenager's MMR Death Spurs Vaccine Questions - Kyiv Post via The One Click Group

* ►October 30, 2008 - Methylmercury Warning - Recent studies hint that exposure to the toxic chemicals, such as methylmercury can cause harm at levels previously considered safe. A new analysis of the epidemiological evidence in the International Journal of Environment and Health, suggests that we should take a precautionary approach to this and similar compounds to protect unborn children from irreversible brain damage. - Inderscience Publishers, via EurekAlert! via ScienceDaily - "The researchers point out that until recently research into the effects of pollutants on the brain has been clouded by the lack of information on actual exposure. Moreover, finding a direct link between specific problems with the brain and exposure relies on statistical, or epidemiological, analysis rather than case-by-case understanding. The researchers say that neurodevelopmental disorders of possible environmental origin affect between 5% and 10% of babies born worldwide, leading to dyslexia, mental retardation, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, cerebral palsy, and autism."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Bayhill Therapeutics and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Announce Research Collaboration for the Clinical Development of a Novel Immunotherapeutic DNA Vaccine for Type 1 Diabetes - Bayhill Therapeutics via Business Wire via MarketWatch - "BHT-3021 is an antigen-specific immunotherapeutic DNA vaccine designed to reverse the underlying autoimmune disease process in diabetes, and slow down or halt further loss of pancreatic beta cell function."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Do Newly-Released FDA Memos Hurt Wyeth’s Preemption Argument? - The Wall Street Journal Law Blog - "Now, in the run-up to the arguments, documents released yesterday in a congressional investigation show that career officials at the FDA have dissented on the issue of the FDA blocking consumer lawsuits against drug makers. As the WSJ reports, internal memos contradict the FDA’s position in the Wyeth case. The FDA says federal drug-approval and warning-label standards should trump stricter state laws. But two FDA officials said in the memos that it’s wrong to assume that FDA-approved drug labels are completely reliable, or that they are based on full disclosure of safety risks by drug makers."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Doctors Get Meals And Money From… Insurers - Pharmalot - "All the doctors had to do was show up, enjoy a free dinner at an elegant Rochester, New York, restaurant specializing in steaks and expensive wines, and pocket $100 on the way out the door. No, this wasn’t a big drugmaker showing largesse. Health insurers invited the docs to hear a pitch about the benefits of prescribing generics instead of pricier brand-name meds, the Associated Press writes."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Merck Goes Back To School - Pharma's Market - "I picked up a copy of the "Daily Trojan" just to check out the student paper I once had to work at for a semester back in the day. As I'm paging through the edition I quickly take notice of a series of ads that appear with factoids about HPV, the sexually transmitted virus that a lot of college girls get. There's no mention of Gardasil—Merck's HPV vaccine. But sure enough, on the last page, in the last ad, there's a little Merck logo in the upper right hand corner. The ads simply send people to www.hpv.com and advise young co-eds to go to the student health center for more info, er, buy Gardasil."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Elan, Biogen Plunge After Brain Illness Strikes Tysabri Patient - Bloomberg

►October 30, 2008 - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Sertraline, or a Combination in Childhood Anxiety (full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Voters and Health Reform in the 2008 Presidential Election (full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - IDPH revising pandemic flu plan - The Times, Ottawa

* ►October 30, 2008 - Public Citizen Petitions FDA To Ban Glaxo’s Avandia - Pharmalot

►October 30, 2008 - Diseases spreading by air passenger travel - University of Hawaii via CarRentals.co, uk

►October 30, 2008 - 5 ways to keep everyday chemicals from making you sick - Dallas Morning News

►October 30, 2008 - Aggressive vs. Conservative Phototherapy for Infants with Extremely Low Birth Weight - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Novartis Tries To Makeover Its Image In India - Pharmalot

►October 30, 2008 - Amgen and Wyeth announce positive data from arthritis drug study - Trading Markets

►October 30, 2008 - Flu vaccine is completely reformulated - The Montreal Gazette via Canada.com

►October 30, 2008 - Nobel Laureate gives HPV talk - Dr. Harald zur Hausen speaks at 2008 Gairdner lecture - The Ontarion

►October 30, 2008 - Boon for children - Our Opinion: UM participation in national study can improve child healthcare - Miami Herald

►October 30, 2008 - Colleges Seeing More Autistic Students - Experts work to accommodate growing number of autistic students (includes video) - NBC San Diego

* ►October 30, 2008 - PETA's New 'Got Autism?' Billboard Has Stark Warning for St. Louis Parents - Recent Studies Find Link Between Cow's Milk and the Debilitating Disease - press release - PETA - "In light of two scientific studies that link milk consumption to autism in children, PETA will be displaying a new billboard parodying a ubiquitous milk ad."

►October 30, 2008 - Autism in the News - Autism Speaks

►October 30, 2008 - 16-year-old beat autism to become leader of the band - Nashua Telegraph

►October 30, 2008 - AfME Charity Coughs Up Observatory Group Names - The One Click Group

►October 30, 2008 - Rate of Diabetes Cases Doubles in 10 Years: CDC - The obesity epidemic is fueling the type 2 disease epidemic, officials say - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report

►October 30, 2008 - Recommendations for Partner Services Programs for HIV Infection, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, and Chlamydial Infection (early release) - MMWR/CDC

►October 29, 2008 - Single Vaccine Safety Warnings - The One Click Group

* ►October 29, 2008 - Vaccines And Autism - Thank You Bob Wright - Bob Wright, ex Head of NBC and co-founder of Autism Speaks, one of the biggest autism charities in the world, speaks out in UK about vaccines and autism in answer to comments made by Lisa Blakemore-Brown, UK Psychologist Specialist in Autism and related disorders. - The One Click Group

* ►October 29, 2008 - CryShame Leaflet Launched - MMR May Harm Your Child - The One Click Group - "DOWNLOAD THE LEAFLET MMR MAY HARM YOUR CHILD Is The Government Hiding Vaccine Damage"

* ►October 29, 2008 - MMR Doctors - General Medical Council Inquiry - The Sunday Post via The One Click Group

* ►October 29, 2008 - UK Petition - Special Educational Needs - The One Click Group

* ►October 29, 2008 - Psychiatrists answer questions about drug-induced brain damage - Alliance for Human Research Protection

►October 29, 2008 - Discovery zone: The Yale Child Study Center - Yale Daily News

►October 29, 2008 - Hearing for autistic child starts today - Suffolk News-Herald

* ►October 29, 2008 - Wyeth latest drugmaker to narrow focus of research - Like many of the top pharmaceutical companies, Wyeth is narrowing its research focus to far fewer diseases as it tries to produce more successful new drugs, particularly for conditions lacking good treatments. - AP via Seattle Times - "The six areas of focus now are vaccines; cancer; inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and severe asthma; metabolic conditions including diabetes and obesity; musculoskeletal disorders such as arthritis and spinal fractures; and neuroscience, including treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, depression, schizophrenia and chronic pain."

►October 29, 2008 - Packet labeled 'anthrax' mailed to UT, others; suspect arrested - San Diego Union- Tribune

* ►October 29, 2008 - BTv6 in the Netherlands - update - NFU Online - "The EU reference laboratory has confirmed that the bluetongue virus detected in four animals in the Netherlands corresponds with the vaccine virus strain. The vaccine (which is a live modified vaccine) is used for BTv6 and other serotypes in South Africa (and possibly elsewhere). This type of vaccine is not registered for use in the EU currently so there are serious questions about how this ended up in the Netherlands."

►October 29, 2008 - Health Department Vaccinations At Risk - KKTV.com

►October 29, 2008 - Lifewatch: Flu test - WECT TV6

►October 29, 2008 - Haddock, active in '40s, '50s fight to prevent polio - Obituary - Houston Chronicle

* ►October 29, 2008 - Galveston National Laboratory set for Nov. 11 dedication - Houston Business Journal

►October 29, 2008 - Living With Asperger's Syndrome -- A Candid Memoir About a Woman Who Would Not Give Up On Her Son's Condition - Globe Newswire

►October 29, 2008 - Exposure to Nontraditional Pets: It’s a Jungle Out There - Exotic animals are not good pets! - journal article (Journal Watch Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

►October 29, 2008 - Interferon could be a key to preventing or treating multiple sclerosis - Washington University in St. Louis

►October 29, 2008 - New Horizons in the Management of Epilepsy: Highlights From the 8th European Congress on Epileptology (ECE) CME (requires registration) - Medscape

►October 29, 2008 - GlaxoSmithKline to Acquire Genelabs Technologies to Increase Focus on Novel Small Molecule Therapies for Hepatitis C - GlaxoSmithKline and Genelabs via PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX via MarketWatch

* ►October 28, 2008 - Health Benefits of Universal Influenza Vaccination Strategy (full text) - journal article (PLoS Medicine)

* ►October 28, 2008 - The Effect of Universal Influenza Immunization on Mortality and Health Care Use (full text) - journal article (PLoS Medicine)

* ►October 28, 2008 - The Effects of Influenza Vaccination of Health Care Workers in Nursing Homes: Insights from a Mathematical Model (full text) - journal article (PLoS Medicine)

* ►October 28, 2008 - Off-Label Promotion, On-Target Sales (full text) - journal article (PLoS Medicine) - "Skilled pharmaceutical representatives can solicit questions about off-label use from doctors. After “cueing” the doctor to ask an off-label question, the rep can fill out a postcard or call the company to send a packet of off-label information from the medical affairs office. The packet may contain company-approved reprints and a “standardized letter,” created by the drug information department of the company, discussing any research on the off-label use. The US is considering loosening restrictions on the distribution of reprints regarding off-label uses by pharmaceutical representatives. In February 2008, the FDA released a draft guidance for industry that would allow distribution of reprints from peer-reviewed publications with genuine editorial boards."

►October 28, 2008 - Vaccination Programmes Avert 3.4 Million Deaths: GAVI Alliance - AFP via www.immunizationinfo.org (abstract)

►October 28, 2008 - Seeking Membranes: Positive-Strand RNA Virus Replication Complexes (full text) - journal article (PLoS Biology)

►October 28, 2008 - 3-Substituted Indolones as Novel Therapeutic Compounds for Neurodegenerative Conditions  - Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine via Biocompare

►October 28, 2008 - Brain Growth Receptors Control Lifespan (full text) - journal article (PLoS Biology)

►October 28, 2008 - Using Both Sides of Your Brain: The Case for Rapid Interhemispheric Switching (full text) - journal article (PLoS Biology)

►October 28, 2008 - Brain IGF-1 Receptors Control Mammalian Growth and Lifespan through a Neuroendocrine Mechanism (full text) - journal article (PLoS Biology)

►October 28, 2008 - PLoS Biology at 5: The Future Is Open Access (full text) - journal article (PLoS Biology)

►October 28, 2008 - Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience (full text) - journal article (PLoS Biology) - "Recently, countries from China and Brazil to Malaysia and South Africa have passed laws promoting the patenting of publicly funded research  and a similar proposal is under legislative consideration in India. These initiatives are modeled in part on the United States Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Bayh-Dole (BD) encouraged American universities to acquire patents on inventions resulting from government-funded research and to issue exclusive licenses to private firms, on the assumption that exclusive licensing creates incentives to commercialize these inventions."

►October 28, 2008 - Sedative Could Be Deadly in People With Seizures - At high doses, propofol tied to cardiac arrest in patients with a form of epilepsy - American College of Chest Physicians via HealthDay News

►October 28, 2008 - A High-Fat Diet Could Promote the Development of Alzheimer's - Université Laval via Biocompare

►October 27, 2008 - The Mental Health Dangers of Birth Hypoxia - Elsevier via Biocompare

* ►October 26, 2008 - Building the Blood-Brain Barrier - Rockefeller University Press via Biocompare

* ►October 26, 2008 - Angry grandad drags top docs before GMC - Bill slams Government
experts over MMR jabs (pdf) - The Sunday Post via The One Click Group

* ►October 26, 2008 - Massive flu vaccine dose protects elderly better - Reuters

* ►October 23, 2008 - British doctor chooses Gardasil shot over Cervarix - Reuters

►October 22, 2008 - African HIV/AIDS Trials Are More Likely to Report Adequate Allocation Concealment and Random Generation than North American Trials (full text) - journal article (PLoS One)

* ►October 21, 2008 - Arctic Sentinels (full text) - Global mercury emissions have stabilized over the past decade, yet levels in Arctic marine mammals have risen by an order of magnitude. Scientists struggle to explain why. - journal article (PLoS Biology)

* ►October 21, 2008 - Today autism is more common than all other child development conditions combined - HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY MMR! - press release - CryShame

* ►October 2008 - FDA Career Staff Objected To Agency Preemption Policies (pdf) - United States House of Representatives Committee On Oversight and Government Reform

►October 2008 - Effector detector (requires registration) - The Scientist

* ►October 2008 - Intake of Paracetamol and Risk of Asthma in Adults - journal article (Journal of Asthma)

►October 2008 - Chimeric Maternal Cells with Tissue-Specific Antigen Expression and Morphology are Common in Infant Tissues. - journal article (Pediatric and Developmental Pathology) - "Maternal microchimerism (MMc) has been purported to play a role in the pathogenesis of autoimmunity, but how a small number of foreign cells could contribute to chronic, systemic inflammation has not been explained."

►Volume 2 Issue 3/4, 2008 - Development neurotoxicity: implications of methylmercury research - journal article (International Journal of Environment and Health)

►Tobacco Industry Statements - video - Technorati

►James S. Benson Director/Chairman of the Board Cytomedix, Inc. - Forbes - "...he held numerous senior positions at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over a twenty year period. He retired from the FDA as director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). Earlier, he served as deputy commissioner of the FDA, and also as its commissioner for a one-year period."

* ►November 15, 2008 - Herpes Zoster with Skin Lesions and Meningitis Caused by 2 Different Genotypes of the Oka Varicella-Zoster Virus Vaccine - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases) - "A previously healthy boy who had received varicella vaccine developed herpes zoster with meningitis. The vaccine strain recovered from scabs of 3 skin lesions had the wild-type allele at position 108111, a vaccine marker never previously associated with vaccine-associated adverse events. The vaccine strain from cerebrospinal fluid also contained mutations never previously observed at vaccine-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms that would alter amino acid sequences in ORF54 and ORF59. The presence of distinct strains in skin lesions and cerebrospinal fluid indicate that >1 variant strain may reactivate to cause herpes zoster."

* ►November 15, 2008 - Respiratory Disease, the Environment, and the Military: Important, Unexplored Frontiers (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►November 15, 2008 - Exploration of the Effectiveness of Social Distancing on Respiratory Pathogen Transmission Implicates Environmental Contributions (full text) - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►November 15, 2008 - Cross-Protection between Successive Waves of the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic: Epidemiological Evidence from US Army Camps and from Britain - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

►November 15, 2008 - Respiratory Syncytial Virus Persistence in the Lungs Correlates with Airway Hyperreactivity in the Mouse Model - journal article (The Journal of Infectious Diseases)

* ►November 2008 - Five-Fold Increase in Pediatric Parapneumonic Empyema Since Introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) - "A retrospective review of medical records for all pediatric parapneumonic empyema (PPE) patients admitted to our hospital from 1996 to 2006 revealed that PPE increased 5-fold in the post-heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) period (2001-2005) relative to the pre-PCV7 period (1996-2000), from 13 cases to 65. Most of this increase was associated with culture-negative empyema, which accounted for 61% of all post-2000 cases; 19% was culture-positive pneumococcal empyema. Our analysis indicates that non-PCV7 serotypes became more prevalent at our institution after introduction of the vaccine."

* ►November 2008 - Health Benefits, Risks, and Cost-Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination in Children. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) - "Although meta-analyses have cast doubt on the wisdom of the universal vaccination of children, high-quality clinical trials have demonstrated efficacy against laboratory-confirmed infection. The distinction between this positive benefit and the wider issue of effectiveness against ILI in the community poses difficulties for determining policy. Mathematical models examining this issue are populated with data that are mostly estimated: therefore, the sensitivity analysis is critical and the conclusions are invariably accompanied by reservations. National policies based on demonstrated cost effectiveness are desirable, but these should not become a barrier to parents wishing to secure a benefit for their child or family, provided there is clear evidence of clinical efficacy."

* ►November 2008 - Emerging Data on the Safety and Efficacy of Influenza Vaccines in Children. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal) - "LAIV should be considered, for reasons of efficacy, the preferred influenza vaccine for children. However, safety concerns will limit its use in children <24 months of age. An alternative method for improving efficacy of influenza vaccination might be the use of adjuvanted injectable vaccine. A pilot study with MF59 adjuvanted vaccine has shown it to offer superior immunogenicity over conventional TIV, and further studies are in progress."

* ►November 2008 - Pneumonia After Implementation of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Program in the Province of Quebec, Canada. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►November 2008 - Antibody Responses After Inactivated Influenza Vaccine in Young Children. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►November 2008 - The Global State of Influenza in Children. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►November 2008 - Prevalence of Pertussis Antibodies in Umbilical Cord Blood Samples in Catalonia, Spain. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►November 2008 - Early atopic disease and early childhood immunization--is there a link? - journal article (Allergy)

* ►November 2008 - TMEM70 mutations cause isolated ATP synthase deficiency and neonatal mitochondrial encephalocardiomyopathy - journal article (Nature Genetics)

* ►November 2008 - Amoxicillin for Postexposure Inhalational Anthrax in Pediatrics: Rationale For Dosing Recommendations. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►November 2008 - Spatial and Temporal Clustering of Kawasaki Syndrome Cases. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►November 2008 - Gender difference, sex hormones, and immediate type hypersensitivity reactions. - journal article (Allergy)

* ►November 2008 - Allergen tolerance versus the allergic march: the hygiene hypothesis revisited. - journal article (Current Allergy and Asthma Reports)

►November 2008 - Trends in Nasopharyngeal Carriage of Streptococcus Pneumoniae Among Children Attending Daycare Centers in Southeastern France from 1999 to 2006. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►November 2008 - Epstein-Barr Virus Load in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Chronic Active Epstein-Barr Virus Infection. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►November 2008 - Human Bocavirus Infection in Children With Respiratory Tract Disease. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

* ►November 2008 - Diagnostic Inaccuracy and Subject Exclusions Render Placebo and Observational Studies of Acute Otitis Media Inconclusive. - journal article (The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)

►November 2008 - Specialized neuronal adaptation for preserving input sensitivity - journal article (Nature Neuroscience)

►November 2008 - Millisecond-scale differences in neural activity in auditory cortex can drive decisions - journal article (Nature Neuroscience)

►November 2008 - Palmitoylation-dependent neurodevelopmental deficits in a mouse model of 22q11 microdeletion - journal article (Nature Neuroscience)

►November 2008 - Forebrain steroid levels fluctuate rapidly during social interactions - journal article (Nature Neuroscience)

►November 2008 - Does the relationship between IgE and the CD14 gene depend on ethnicity? - journal article (Allergy)

►November 2008 - Phospholipase A2 reduction ameliorates cognitive deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease - journal article (Nature Neuroscience)

* ►October 30, 2008 - Acetaminophen Poisoning - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Incorporation of a non-human glycan mediates human susceptibility to a bacterial toxin - journal article (Nature)

►October 30, 2008 - Activity-dependent regulation of inhibitory synapse development by Npas4 - journal article (Nature)

►October 30, 2008 - The Challenge of HIV-1 Subtype Diversity - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Immunotherapy on Trial for New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Waste, We Know You Are Out There (free full text) - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Clostridium difficile — More Difficult Than Ever - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Molecular Epidemiology: Applications in Cancer and Other Human Diseases (book review) - journal article (NEJM)

►October 30, 2008 - Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life (book review) - journal article (NEJM)

* ►October 30, 2008 - The most heavily vaccinated are the most sick - letter - Allentown Examiner - "I did not arrive at my distrust of vaccines without just reason. My daughter, now 44 years of age, and the mother of three of my five grandchildren, at the age of 4 was diagnosed with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, which 'experts' assured my wife (25) and I (27) was a blood disorder so rare that her condition could only be described as bizarre. In any event, after a long hospital stay, my daughter's spleen, which had inexplicably began to destroy her own blood platelets, was removed. No one mentioned her blood disease may have been caused by a vaccine but decades later when my grandson was diagnosed autistic, I discovered the blood disease that was 'rare' had become just one of the myriad of problems of Gulf War veterans — all heavily vaccinated prior to deploying to the Gulf area. Indeed, I have since learned there is a danger of vaccines called molecular mimicry, where a vaccine virus becomes a host in a patient's otherwise healthy organs — the heart, liver, or, in my daughter's instance, her spleen. In any event, three of my five grandchildren have problems. Two boys (9-18) have serious allergies and asthma. One boy has autism. His first cousin, a boy twin, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes within three weeks of receiving eight vaccines during a 'well visit.' His twin sister broke out immediately in the pediatrician's office with hives that scared everyone and a shot was administered to calm her system down."

* ►October 30, 2008 - Parents everywhere need more vaccination choices for children - Allentown Examiner - "I'd like to commend you for your excellent editorial of Oct. 23 titled 'Parents fight for vaccination choice.' I am the father of Alex, 21, who has autism, is nonverbal and hyperactive, measures 6 feet 3 inches and is over 200 pounds, but is athletic. He needs one-on-one assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. When he was vaccinated in California in 1987 (under the brand-new law, the first of its kind in 1986) at 1 month, 6 months and 9 months old, we, the parents, were not even informed about the contents of thimerosal, which is about 50 percent mercury."

* ►October 30, 2008 - FDA staff, White House disagreed on drug lawsuits, papers show - Waxman releases documents showing that regulators tried to guard injured patients' right to sue as the Bush administration pushed to shield drug makers. The Supreme Court takes up the issue Monday. (requires registration) - Los Angeles Times

* ►October 30, 2008 - Study finds many EU pesticides may damage human brain - Many pesticides used in the European Union may damage brain growth in fetuses and young children, according to a study published on Friday. The study urged the European Union to tighten restrictions. - Reuters via BusinessWorld Online

* ►October 30, 2008 - I wouldn't change our autistic boy for the world: An admission about their son from the ex-wife of author Nick Hornby - Daily Mail, UK - "Scientists are confident that there is a genetic susceptibility, and this seems to be triggered by a variety of causes  -  environmental, diet, possibly too much foetal testosterone, and, controversially, the MMR vaccine."

►October 30, 2008 - Hit & Run: Rock'n'role stars - Lily's only got herself to blame for feeling flu - The Independent, UK - "Had Lily Allen followed NHS advice before rushing out to get a flu jab, she wouldn't now be feeling "like death". She is less than half the age at which getting a jab is recommended (65) but the 23-year-old thought she would 'give it a try' anyway. Anyway, a few days later it turns out the poor girl is "burning up" with – you guessed it – flu-like symptoms. Those prankster docs actually sneaked some of the virus into the jab that's supposed to prevent it."

►October 30, 2008 - Parents warned about baby virus - Parents are being warned to be on the look out for a potentially-fatal winter baby infection. - BBC - "Chest infections due to RSV are the most common cause of hospital admissions for young children, with about 20,000 under ones being admitted each year."

►October 30, 2008 - Security vulnerability mars anti-Polio drive - The Nation, Pakistan

* ►October 30, 2008 - 'Authorities should push for all children to get measles shot' - Jerusalem Post

* ►October 29, 2008 - Teenager’s death spurs vaccination questions, fears - Kiev Post - "Anton Tyshchenko, a 17-year old from Kramatorsk, died from a measles vaccine in May this year. The serum was developed in India and apparently wasn’t tested in Ukraine, according to the findings of two investigation commissions. They also found the boy did not actually need a vaccination at all because he had already been immunized twice. Tyshchenko was vaccinated in school on May 12. A few hours later, he started feeling sick and developed a fever. He was hospitalized the same night, but died eight hours after the vaccine was injected. 'There is a direct cause-effect relation between Anton Tyshchenko’s death and his vaccination for measles and rubella,' Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko said in his interview with Fakty daily last month....As more gruesome details about mass vaccination come out into public light, more Ukrainians are turning away from vaccinations. Some data suggests that the number of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children has grown two or three-fold this year, and even more in Kyiv."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Safety fears over single measles vaccine - Case reports have emerged suggesting single vaccines for measles and rubella may be associated with anaphylactic shock, after a spate of reports in the south west of England. (requires registration) - Pulse, UK

* ►October 29, 2008 - BBC Claims Anaphylactic Shock After Measles Vaccine an "Anomaly" - NaturalNews.com - "Health Ranger comment: The mainstream media is at it again, claiming any side effects from vaccines must be 'anomalies' rather than linked to the vaccines. Meanwhile, autism rates are at an all-time high, teen girls are dying after HPV vaccine injections, and the vaccine pushers claim to have no idea why any of this is happening, but they're sure it couldn't be related to vaccines since they have such 'good data' on that."

* ►October 29, 2008 - One-Armed Musician, Wyeth Clash on Patient Lawsuits - Bloomberg - "Children's musician Diana Levine watched her right hand gradually turn black in the six weeks after she was injected with a Wyeth anti-nausea drug. The pain, so powerful even morphine couldn't mask it, subsided only when doctors amputated the arm just below the elbow."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Precautionary Approach To Methylmercury Needed - Inderscience Publishers via Medical News Today - "Philippe Grandjean of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston, and the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, explains that the causes of suboptimal and abnormal mental development are mostly unknown....'Until there is enough evidence to rule out effects of certain chemicals on the developing nervous system, a cautious approach would involve strict regulation of suspected developmental neurotoxicants and prudent counseling of expectant mothers regarding exposures to untested substances,' the researchers conclude."

►October 29, 2008 - States team up vs. mercury - Kennebec Journal via MaineToday.com

►October 29, 2008 - Step 1 in curbing mercury emissions: Find their source. - Unique ‘fingerprints’ of coal beds will help scientists track airborne toxin – and agree on controls. - Christian Science Monitor

►October 29, 2008 - Vermont seeks mercury relief - BurlingtonFreePress.com

►October 29, 2008 - EPA Finalizes Plan to Address Contamination At Mercury Refining Superfund Site - press release - EPA via http://yosemite.epa.gov

►October 29, 2008 - Child Warriors: Gavin - Age of Autism

* ►October 29, 2008 - Military Wife Asks Obama About Vaccination Beliefs - This is Angela Warner, military wife, autism Mom, advocate. She has created an iReport (the link is here) on CNN. Angela runs the blog Autism Salutes. - Age of Autism

* ►October 29, 2008 - Vaccination: Avoiding Immunization Puts Children at Risk of Serious Illness - Measles has once again been declared an epidemic, and deaths have been reported in the United Kingdom. In the U.S., 11 new cases of measles were recently reported in the San Diego area, all among non-immunized children. David Tayloe, Jr. M.D, FAAP, President-elect, American Academy of Pediatrics warns that unproven concerns about vaccine safety have created a backlash that threatens to unleash, once again, deadly diseases on our children. - press release - Sixty Second Parent via PRWeb - "'I have been giving vaccines to children in our community for over 30 years and have yet to document a single case where a child has suffered a permanent injury as a result of immunization,' said Dr Tayloe, whose children and grandchildren have all received the vaccines recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Doctor disputes autism, vaccine link - In his new book, author says his life has been threatened as a result - In his book, "Autism's False Prophets" Paul A. Offit, a national expert on vaccines, recounts the history of autism and challenges the idea that vaccines lead to autism. An excerpt. - Today via MSNBC

* ►October 29, 2008 - Not immune to concern - Doctors strongly encourage vaccines to prevent disease, but some parents wonder if they do more harm than good. - The Saginaw News via MLive.com - "Brandy Hull, 32, of Saginaw said her daughter, Kayla, now 13, became sick after every immunization she received as a baby. So when her son, Ashton, 10, was born, Hull skipped all shots for him, she said. 'I decided it wasn't worth it. I signed a waiver for school. Doctors told me he should have them, but I believe he didn't need them.'"

* ►October 29, 2008 - 76% of Americans Unaware Flu Shots Contain Mercury By J.B. Handley - Age of Autism

* ►October 29, 2008 - Flu widow's message: Get your flu shot - Minneapolis Star Tribune - "He was a healthy 44-year-old with two jobs, two kids and the strength of an ox. No one, least of all his wife, suspected that a bout of the flu would kill him. 'I hate the word 'flu' because it sounds so innocuous,' she says now, 20 months after Barry, her high-school sweetheart, died. Looking back, Linda DeLude believes her husband could have survived if he had had a flu shot."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Vaccine risks still on parents' minds - South Florida Sun-Sentinel via Los Angeles Times - "For the new child-based, flu-control strategy to work, families of children ages 5 to 18 must embrace the recommendation. And that won't happen easily. Cost is not likely to be an obstacle. Rather, the potential problems are inconvenience and public distrust of vaccinations."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Flu shots urged for all kids in school - Those 5-18 have highest infection rate - The Tennessean

* ►October 29, 2008 - Study: Universal flu immunization lowers death rates - CIDRAP News - "Viboud and Miller credited the authors of the study for the thorough sensitivity analyses they conducted to control for factors that weren't related to vaccine uptake. However, they noted that observational studies lack statistical power. Though they wrote that the study was likely underpowered to evaluate the direct and indirect benefits of universal immunization, cluster-randomized trials might provide a more powerful tool to evaluate the effects. 'The increasing pressure to improve influenza control may eventually generate sufficient interest in sponsoring such large-scale and costly randomized studies,' Viboud and Miller wrote. 'Ironically, there is only a short time window of opportunity for these studies—once pediatric or universal vaccination policy becomes established, there is no ethical 'control' community left.'"

►October 29, 2008 - Universal Vaccination Associated with Reductions in Influenza-related Deaths, Hospitalizations and Doctor Visits - Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) via Newswise

►October 29, 2008 - Fly-by flu shot - No need to get out of the car - vaccination is available at hospital's drive-through (requires registration) - Boston Globe

►October 29, 2008 - FluMist: The No-Needle Approach to Flu Vaccination - HealthNews

►October 29, 2008 - Vaccinating Family Members Offers Important Flu Protection To Newborns - Vaccinating new mothers and other family members against influenza before their newborns leave the hospital creates a "cocooning effect" that may shelter unprotected children from the flu, a virus that can be life-threatening to infants, according to researchers at Duke Children's Hospital. - Duke University Medical Center via ScienceDaily

* ►October 29, 2008 - Controversy, truth and exaggeration - Kelowna Capital News via BCLocalNews.com - "Recently in the news, there was a story about a man who had received a flu shot in Canada and he became paralyzed from it. He had complications, which eventually led to what is called Guillain-Barre Syndrome."

* ►October 29, 2008 - PTAs join health care provider in flu vaccine effort - Several upcounty schools plan clinics - Business Gazette - "David Greiff, president of Flu Busters, said his company approached the national PTA to form a partnership to administer flu vaccines through local PTAs after the CDC issued its vaccine recommendation this year."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Flu Vaccine Could Prevent 357,000 Deaths in Pandemic - HealthDay via Forbes - "'Our research shows that routine pneumococcal vaccination is a proactive approach that can greatly reduce the effects of a future flu pandemic,' Klugman said. 'Countries that have not yet implemented a pneumococcal vaccination program may want to consider this as part of their pandemic flu preparedness.' Klugman is a paid consultant for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which funded the study."

►October 29, 2008 - West Texans Scrambling for Flu Shot Vaccines (includes video) - NewsWest9.com

►October 29, 2008 - Cold, Flu Season Not So Bad For Kids Thanks To New Vaccine - WTAE Pittsburgh

►October 29, 2008 - Flu shots worth people’s time and taxpayers’ money - Elliot Lake Standard

►October 29, 2008 - Hundreds get flu shot - 300 seniors attend free clinic - Delhi News-Record

►October 29, 2008 - Holt Asking Hard Questions About Anthrax - Town Topics

►October 29, 2008 - FBI investigating mailings labeled 'anthrax' - AP via KMPH Fox 26

►October 29, 2008 - Anthrax Threats Mailed Throughout Northern Ca. - KCRA-TV, U.S. Congressman's Office Receive Similar Packages - KSBW.com

►October 29, 2008 - Universal Detection Technology Receives Purchase Order for Its 5-Agent Bioterrorism Detection Equipment From the City of Conway, Arkansas Fire Department - Purchase Order Comes After Recent Spate of Suspicious Powder Mailings to Major Banks - press release - Universal Detection Technology via Marketwire via Comtex via MarketWatch

►October 29, 2008 - Spatio-temporal Waves And Targeted Vaccination In Recurrent Epidemic Network Models - Journal of the Royal Society Interface via Medical News Today

►October 29, 2008 - Threat From Infectious Diseases Growing - Report points to globalization, drug resistance and climate change as culprits - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report

►October 29, 2008 - New Report Finds Rising Risk of Infectious Diseases in America - press release - Trust for America's Health via PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

►October 29, 2008 - Weill Cornell's Dr. Nathaniel Hupert Named Inaugural Director of CDC's New Preparedness Modeling Unit - He Will Lead Computer-Modeling Efforts to Prepare for Public Health Emergencies - Weill Cornell Medical College

►October 29, 2008 - Parents fight for vaccination choice - News Transcript

►October 29, 2008 - West Nile virus found in donated blood (requires registration) - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - "The infected man has shown no ill effects from the virus, which is not uncommon. 'He’s shown no symptoms,' Elisa said. 'Perfectly healthy.'"

►October 29, 2008 - Mum's the word on cervical cancer vaccine - A vaccine against cervical cancer, the second leading form of cancer among Jamaica's women, and a leading cause of death here, is available, but it is not on the government's immunisation schedule. - Jamaica Gleaner

►October 29, 2008 - Take HPV vaccines global to fight cervical cancer - opinion (requires registration or subscription) - The Globe and Mail

* ►October 29, 2008 - Our Vote to End Cervical Cancer - opinion - Washington Post - "The United States has another opportunity to show our belief and leadership in the powers of innovation and technology, by this commitment to improve lives of families, communities and nations. We urge our delegation to GAVI to vote "yes" on the commitment today in Geneva."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Fight begins to eradicate fatal parasite; first vaccines delivered. - Scientific Frontline - "A vaccine developed by University of Melbourne researchers that could eradicate a fatal form of brain disease will be delivered to Peru next week, and could soon be commercially available thanks to multi-million dollar funding. The parasite Taenia solium causes 50 million tapeworm infections and 50,000 deaths from brain disease in the developing world each year. A major cash injection from the British Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation means that the vaccine will be registered and be produced on a commercial scale."

* ►October 29, 2008 - Nabi Biopharmaceuticals Announces Successful Final Results of NicVAX(r) Immunogenicity Study - Increased Antibody Response Sustained in Vast Majority of Subjects; New Dose Regimen Well-Tolerated - press release - Nabi Biopharmaceuticals via GlobeNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWire

* ►October 29, 2008 - Iraq: House-to-house polio vaccination will reach more than five million children under the age of 5 - World Health Organization (WHO) via ReliefWeb

►October 29, 2008 - Fears rise over measles outbreak - The North West of England could be on the verge of a measles epidemic, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) says. - BBC

►October 29, 2008 - MMR jabs chance - Great Yarmouth Mercury

* ►October 29, 2008 - Mercury immune toxicity in harbour seals: links to in vitro toxicity (pdf) - journal article (Environmental Health)

* ►October 29, 2008 - Making Cents in Penny Stocks - The Motley Fool - "Considering the decline that Novavax has suffered, you might be excused if you steer clear of the vaccine maker. But the beaten-down biotech is developing a new type of bird flu vaccine. Since 2005 it has invested more than $100 million in developing multiple vaccines, and is committed to spending an additional $150 million over the next three years."

* ►October 29, 2008 - FDA Staff Objected To Preemption Policy: Report - Pharmalot

* ►October 29, 2008 - Outlook Is Cut for U.S. Drug Sales (requires registration) - Gain of 1%-2% Now Seen; Emerging Markets Increasingly Picking Up Some Slack - The Wall Street Journal

* ►October 29, 2008 - Numerous Deaths Could Be Prevented And Costs Reduced By Pneumococcal Vaccine During Flu Pandemic - Emory University - "The research was funded by Wyeth Research. Dr. Klugman is a paid consultant for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals."

►October 29, 2008 - Washing Hands Halts Flu Symptoms - Age of Autism

►October 29, 2008 - Influenza Virus Vaccine 2008-2009 Season - FDA/CBER

►October 29, 2008 - Needle Jones - Philly Flu Shots wants you to get vaccinated. - Philadelphia Weekly

►October 29, 2008 - The World Is Flat: US Sales Outlook Is Cut - Pharmalot

►October 29, 2008 - Exceptions and Alternative Procedures Approved Under 21 CFR 640.120 - FDA/CBER

►October 29, 2008 - Biotechs Getting Squeezed By Financial Crisis - Pharmalot

* ►October 29, 2008 - (Taiwan) Merck opens Asian Technology and Training Center in Taiwan - Biotecheast.com

►October 29, 2008 - HIV Doctors May Treat All Infected, Adding Thousands - Bloomberg

►October 29, 2008 - Science Scene - Scientists erase bad memories from brains of mice - Vaccine decreases children's hospitalization rates - Higher temperatures create higher risk of illnesses - The California Aggie Online 

►October 29, 2008 - As Seen On TV: BPA Safety Guide - Learn How to Tell If Your Baby's Bottle Is Safe From BPA - ABC News

►October 29, 2008 - Drinking Milk to Ease Milk Allergy? - Johns Hopkins Medicine via Newswise

►October 29, 2008 - NYT: Kidney Stones on Rise in Children - Age of Autism

►October 29, 2008 - The Use of Monoclonal Antibodies to Detect Gluten in Foods - Celiac.com

►October 29, 2008 - Breast-Fed Baby May Mean Better Behaved Child - Psychological woes less likely compared to bottle-fed kids, study found - HealthDay via U.S. News & World Report

* ►October 29, 2008 - Vitamin E Prevents Lung Cancer - News Media Virtually Silent on Positive Vitamin Research - press release - Orthomolecular Medicine News Service - "Researchers at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center have found that taking more vitamin E substantially reduces lung cancer. Their new study shows that people consuming the highest amounts of vitamin E had the greatest benefit. When they compared persons taking the most vitamin E with those taking the least, there was a 61% reduction in lung cancer risk. (1)"

* ►October 28, 2008 - Wyeth says new form of Prevnar fares well in study - Reuters - "Standard pneumonia vaccines now available have little or no effectiveness, and are therefore not sold in many countries, Emini said. Combined future annual sales of 13-valent Prevnar for adults and young children could eventually exceed $4.5 billion, Wyeth said."

* ►October 28, 2008 - New flu shot record - The University of Minnesota set a Guinness world record for the most flu shots given in a single day. - video - Minneapolis Star Tribune

* ►October 28, 2008 - Nanoemulsion-Based Intranasal Vaccine Adjuvant System Represents Paradigm Shift in Vaccinology - Meridian Institute

* ►October 28, 2008 - Neutralizing human monoclonal antibody against H5N1 influenza HA selected from a Fab-phage display library (pfd) - journal article (Virology Journal)

* ►October 28, 2008 - FDA Has a New Guard Dog: He’s a Wolfe - The In Vivo Blog - "Wolfe has headed Public Citizen's Health Research Group for 36 years. There are only a handful of products during that period with safety issues, where the issues were not brought to the public attention by Wolfe. He earned a MacArthur genius award in 1990 acknowledging his ability to use the political/media/regulatory system to question the safety and use of pharmaceuticals."

* ►October 28, 2008 - Complete Immunity For Drug Companies? Doctors and Attorneys Both Say "No"! - InjuryBoard Honolulu

* ►October 28, 2008 - FDA Statement on Release of Bisphenol A (BPA) Subcommittee Report - FDA - "The FDA agrees that, due to the uncertainties raised in some studies relating to the potential effects of low dose exposure to bisphenol A, additional research would be valuable. The FDA is already moving forward with planned research to address the potential low dose effects of bisphenol A, and we will carefully evaluate the findings of these studies."

* ►October 28, 2008 - Pharma: Clarify UK Law Governing Drug Info - Pharmalot

* ►October 28, 2008 - FDA Warns Bayer About Aspirin Marketing - Pharmalot

* ►October 28, 2008 - Statin Side Effects — Targets of Ongoing Research - In particular, researchers are looking at cognitive and musculoskeletal effects of statins. - journal article (Journal Watch General Medicine)

►October 28, 2008 - Thousands of cancer patients could be denied a new drug - A cancer drug which could prolong the lives of thousands of patients, has been ruled not cost effective by the NHS drugs watchdog. - Telegraph, UK

►October 28, 2008 - Gene Against Bacterial Attack is Unraveled - Infection Control Today

►October 28, 2008 - Wyeth Slashes Some Early-Stage Research - Pharmalot

* ►October 28, 2008 - BIO Starts Web Site To Dispute CBS TV Show - Pharmalot

►October 28, 2008 - How Toxic Environmental Chemical DBT Affects The Immune System - University of California, San Diego via Medical News Today

►October 28, 2008 - Novartis Secures Two FDA Approvals for Parkinson's Drug Stalevo - Novartis via PharmaLive

* ►October 27, 2008 - Adaptation to cell culture induces functional differences in measles virus proteins (pdf) - journal article (Virology Journal)

* ►October 27, 2008 - Is There a Link Between Administration of RotaTeq and Intussusception? (requires registration) - Pediatrics via Medscape Pediatrics

* ►October 27, 2008 - The FDA Is Missing Lots Of Deadlines This Year - Pharmalot

* ►October 27, 2008 - Pfizer May Reach Deal With Nigeria Over Trovan - Pharmalot

* ►October 27, 2008 - Early infections may increase arthritis risk -study - Reuters - "Previous studies have suggested infections somewhow trigger the autoimmune condition later in life but the Swedish findings raise the possibility infections may somehow change the way an immature immune system develops, the researchers said."

* ►October 27, 2008 - 21-Year Study of Children Set to Begin (requires registration) - The New York Times

* ►October 27, 2008 - Diabetes drug costs soaring, top $12B last year - AP via The Guardian, UK

* ►October 27, 2008 - Paediatric food hypersensitivity and allergy. - Evidence-Based Medicine via www.guideline.gov

* ►October 27, 2008 - Editor sorry for drug cost article (requires registration) - The Scientist - "In response to the article, Richard Frank, one of the editors of the JHE, wrote Huang an Email, saying that the article in the Review was biased against him and his colleagues. "The site was temporarily taken down because we panicked," Huang wrote to the Pharmalot blog in an Email. "We thought that we might have inadvertently published something that was potentially very biased and/or unsubstantiated."

►October 27, 2008 - Persistent Pesticides Detected in Groundwater Again - Beyond Pesticides

►October 27, 2008 - German monkey studies nixed (requires registration) - The Scientist

►October 27, 2008 - In Mice, Anxiety Is Linked To Immune System - In the first study ever to genetically link the immune system to normal behavior, scientists at Rockefeller and Columbia universities show that mast cells, known as the pharmacologic bombshells of the immune system, directly influence how mice respond to stressful situations. - Rockefeller University via ScienceDaily

►October 27, 2008 - Warning Letter: Bayer HealthCare LLC - Drug Labeling/Promotional Claims/Misbranded - FDA

►October 27, 2008 - Merck Fails To Charm Investors - AP via Forbes

* ►October 27, 2008 - Heroes, Prophets and Presidential Candidates - You can add presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain to the national autism discussion. And, with that, add an unsettling note for vaccine manufacturers during the next four years. - The RPM Report

►October 27, 2008 - Does Childhood Bipolar I Disorder Persist? - It did for a large proportion of participants in this longitudinal study, and morbidity was high. - journal article (Journal Watch Psychiatry)

►October 27, 2008 - Accumulated stress can get under your skin: Study - Ottawa Citizen via Canwest News Service via Canada.com

►October 27, 2008 - Statins associated with lower risk of death from pneumonia - JAMA and Archives Journals via EurekAlert!

* ►October 27, 2008 - Big Pharma's Pills Contaminated with Machine Parts at Pill Factories - NaturalNews.com

►October 27, 2008 - Immune Adjuvants and Cancer Vaccines: Hemispherx's New Enhancement Strategy To be Unveiled At Upcoming 23rd Annual Biotherapy Conference - GlobeNewswire via COMTEX via MarketWatch

►October 27, 2008 - A Study in Hollow Brand Values - Branding Strategy Insider

►October 25, 2008 - The Good News for Biotech: New Regulation Opens a New Path to Profitability - The financial markets are working against biotech, no doubt. But the regulatory system is tilting in biotech’s direction. - The RPM Report

►October 24, 2008 - New Report Offers a Comprehensive Forecast of the Global Vaccines Market through to 2023 - Piribo, the online destination for business intelligence for the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, has added a new report offering a detailed outlook of the global vaccines market. - Live-PR.com

►October 23, 2008 - Group provides vaccines, tests to day laborers - The Advocate

►October 23, 2008 - HKU receives $100,000 grant for AIDS vaccines study - Xinhua via China View

►October 23, 2008 - Mouse Genes Guide Search for Human Anxiety Disorder Genes - Elsevier via Biocompare

* ►October 23, 2008 - Flu Shots For The Elderly Are Ineffective - press release - Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

* ►October 23, 2008 - N.J. parents should have vaccine choices - editorial - Allentown Examiner

* ►October 22, 2008 - Vaccines of the Future Could be Delivered by Mosquitoes - Environment News Service

►October 22, 2008 - ERYtech Pharma Proposes New Anticancer Vaccine Technology - press release - ERYtech Pharma via Business Wire via MarketWatch

►October 21, 2008 - Researchers Examine Evolution Of Genes That Trigger The Body’s Immune Response To Viral Infection - Virginia Commonwealth University via Biocompare

►October 15, 2008 - Ancient Chinese Salad Plant Transformed Into New Cancer-killing Compound - University of Washington via ScienceDaily

►October 14, 2008 - Resveratrol, red wine compound linked to health, also found in dark chocolate and cocoa - The Hershey Company via EurekAlert!

►October 8, 2008 - Fan Use Linked to Lower Risk of Sudden Baby Death - AP via LiveScience

►October 2008 - Use of a Fan During Sleep and the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - journal article (Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine)

►October 2008 - Outcomes of facial palsy in children. - journal article (Acta oto-Otolaryngologica)