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Daily News 2012-10-05
Fri, 10/05/2012 - 12:02pm — admin
Hospital Employees Threatened With Jobs If They Don’t Get Flu Shot – CBS Denver by The Refusers Opinion: N.J.'s lost faith in vaccines has serious consequences GMO Ticking Time Bomb – Gary Null YouTube by The Refusers (video) US states make opting out of vaccinations harder - Legislative efforts aim to tackle rising incidence of disease. Sanofi to visit San Francisco Walgreens on the next stop of its VacciNation Tour Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Hospital Employees Threatened With Jobs If They Don’t Get Flu Shot CDC Vaccines & Immunizations Meetings & Conferences: 2012 Calendar of Events Treat vaccine refusers like smokers: study Risks of 'vaccine fatigue' in Europe – studies show economic benefits of immunisation programmes Delaware authorities urge flu vaccinations Prevention vs. Fear: New infant vaccine program offered, but concerns caused by MMR make parents skeptical Finding vaccine truth: Crowds hear two takes on dismissed study British Medical Journal Deposition Raises Questions For Brian Deer in Wakefield Lawsuit by Dan Olmsted - Age of Autism wakefieldjusticefund - Dr. Wakefield filed a lawsuit in Travis County, TX, District Court, January 3rd against the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the editor, Fiona Godlee, and writer, Brian Deer for defamation, in part, over a series of articles and editorials in the BMJ in January 2011 that accused Wakefield of committing scientific fraud. Finding vaccine truth: Crowds hear two takes on dismissed study Mexico orders HPV vaccinations for all 5th-grade girls, saying it will end threat of cervical cancer Waco hospitals mandate flu shots for employees CDC probes whooping cough epidemic Communicating with parents about vaccination: a framework for health professionals (pdf) Vaccine-Autism debate reaches La Crosse Using the lie that shaken baby syndrome is a misdiagnosis for vaccine injury to try to exonerate another accused child abuser China close to entering WHO-approved global vaccine market Leading World Bank Demographer: Vaccination Campaigns Part Of Population Reduction Policy Japan’s Takeda Buys Montana Vaccine Maker Will a flu shot keep you healthy? Using the lie that shaken baby syndrome is a misdiagnosis for vaccine injury to try to exonerate another accused child abuser Town announces flu vaccine clinics Meningitis Vaccine Now Recommended for Certain HIV+ Gay Men in NYC Child With PANDAS Custody Taken from Parents via Boston Children’s Hospital Multistate Meningitis Outbreak Investigation Doctor's Data v Barrett Case - The Discovery Dam Has Been Burst... - Part Five: Sorry - I can't volunteer to help look at Barrett's Tax Returns in Chicago... New England Compounding Center (NECC) Potentially Contaminated Medication: Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Missing Data Said to Threaten Trial Integrity Pharma, Pollution & Patchwork Laws: Vic Explains by Ed Silverman - Pharmalot Protect your family this winter with vaccinations Health Ministry Measles campaign to begin in November
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya will conduct a 5.2-million-U. S.-dollar nationwide measles campaign in November, a government official said on Tuesday. Ministry of Public Health Director of Public Health Dr Shahnaaz Sharif told journalists in Nairobi that Nov.
See all stories on this topic » Measles catch-up immunisation campaign in Vadodara
VADODARA: The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) will kick off the Measles Catch-up Immunisation Campaign (MCIC) in the city from Tuesday. The immunisation will be a part of the third phase of the campaign launched by the health department of the ...
See all stories on this topic » Andrew Wakefield tops the “Retraction Epidemic”
My guess is the use of “epidemic” here will rankle one or more of Mr. Wakefield's supporters. One point that I discussed previously was that Mr. Wakefield's ...
US states make opting out of vaccinations harder
More than ten years after a study in The Lancet falsely linked autism to the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine, evidence of reduced immunization rates and rising incidence of disease are spurring politicians to try to make up lost ground ...
See all stories on this topic » Nature.com Adult flu clinic set for October
In years past, the Wrangell Public Health Center has made immunizations available to the community; however the State of Alaska has recently changed its policy and, for the second year running, will no longer be offering flu immunizations to adults at ...
See all stories on this topic » Pfizer: Prevnar 13 Effective in Young Adults
The 13-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine (Prevnar 13) elicits as strong an immune response in adults 18 to 49 as it does in those ages 60 to 64, according to phase III results reported by Pfizer, the vaccine's maker. For each of the ...
See all stories on this topic » MedPage Today Meningitis Outbreak May Have Reached 23 States
Five people have died and 35 have fallen ill in six states as a result of fungal meningitis that's been transmitted in a steroid shot with a solution commonly used to treat back pain, Reuters reports. The first victims were reported in Tennessee, where ...
See all stories on this topic » New York Magazine Meningitis outbreak spreads in TN, nationwide
So far, 35 people who got the possibly contaminated injections from those vials have come down with the rare fungal meningitis, with a total of five deaths in Tennessee, Virginia and Maryland. Dreyzehner said the "attack rate" -- the actual percentage ...
See all stories on this topic » WBIR-TV Meningitis: Berlin practice halts pain shots
BERLIN — A pain management practice in Berlin has stopped administering a shot for back pain after patients in Maryland and across the nation have contracted meningitis from the injection. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, along ...
See all stories on this topic » Hoosiers got meningitis-linked pain med
INDIANAPOLIS – More than 500 patients treated at a southwest Indiana clinic received injections of a recalled back-pain medication that's tied to a widening U.S. outbreak of a rare form of fungal meningitis that's killed five people, officials said ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis outbreak sheds light on compounding drugs and lack of regulation
The growing meningitis outbreak, which has be linked to spiral injections for back pain, has shed light on improper regulation of a certain kind of drug production – one that has had a distressing history, New York Times reported. Instead of being ...
See all stories on this topic » HPV vaccine may increase risk for skin infection, fainting
A study published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine revealed administration of Gardasil led to a higher incidence of fainting and infection immediately after administration compared to accounts documented months later ...
See all stories on this topic » HPV4 Vaccine Is Safe For Girls And Young Women
The HPV4 vaccine, Gardasil, is safe for adolescent girls and young women in routine clinical care, researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland, California, reported in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The ...
See all stories on this topic » GPs warned about measles in gypsy and traveller communities
Oral fluid testing kits for measles serology and PCR are available from the local HPU on request.' GPs are told to inform secondary care staff if they are referring patients with measles to hospital. This is to allow patients to avoid being placed in ...
See all stories on this topic » Prevention vs. Fear: New infant vaccine program offered, but concerns caused ...
“My son took the MMR vaccine rather badly, the reaction to the vaccine was severe -- high fever, weakness -- I thought I had killed my child,” says Ira Poghosyan form Yerevan, whose son is now a year old. “The MMR campaign had a controversial response ...
See all stories on this topic » ArmeniaNow.com Risks of 'vaccine fatigue' in Europe – studies show economic benefits of ...
Polio and smallpox were both successfully defeated in Europe thanks to comprehensive vaccination programmes. Smallpox is now considered extinct, and in 2012 – for the 10th time in a row – the WHO European Region certified Europe as polio-free.
See all stories on this topic » Up to 1000 Minn. patients may be linked to meningitis outbreak
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health estimates that as many as 1,000 patients may have received contaminated steroids that have been implicated in a national meningitis outbreak. Two Twin Cities-based health care groups used steroids ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis Outbreak May Include SC
Washington, DC (CBS) The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday they are advising medical professionals not to use any products manufactured by the New England ...
See all stories on this topic » WLTX.com Roanoke clinic used drug tied to meningitis outbreak
One person is dead in Salem and dozens of people were being evaluated at local hospitals Thursday for a rare form of meningitis as a Roanoke outpatient center said it had provided patients with a steroid injection linked to a widening U.S. outbreak.
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis Outbreak Linked to Spinal Steroid Injections
Loading... Published on Oct 4, 2012 by ABCNews. Over 30 cases of fungal meningitis have been linked to a steroid treatment for back pain. For more on this story, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/rare-fungal-meningitis-outbreak-grows-d.
See all stories on this topic » Five die in fungal meningitis outbreak
Health officials are working to track down everyone who may have been treated with an injection for lower bacl pain that is linked to an outbreak of rare fungal meningitis. So far, 35 people have been diagnosed with the infection in six states and five ...
See all stories on this topic » HPV vaccine safe study says latimescom
A study by Merck of its HPV vaccine finds no serious side effects.
www.latimes.com/.../la-heb-hpv-vaccine-gets-a-mostly-clean-b... Whooping cough vaccine 'sensible approach' in pregnancy
Professor David Salisbury, Director of Immunisation for the Department for Health, said that whooping cough is "very serious and can be fatal" for young children and babies, especially those less than two months old. Professor Salisbury described the ...
See all stories on this topic » Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Influenza in ...
From the American Academy of Pediatrics ... recommendations for routine use of trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine and antiviral medications for the prevention ...
pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/4/780.abstract It couldn't be... chicken pox?
Surely... it couldn't be... chicken pox? For some reason I had in my head that someone with chicken pox was feverish, out of sorts and not eating. Not so him. He'd eaten so much recently I thought he had tapeworm. He'd been running around like a loon ...
See all stories on this topic » Bizzers rally for UN polio-fighting campaign
In light of that, bizzers and health activists met at West Hollywood's Soho House on Thursday to discuss the U.N. Foundation Shot@Life initiative's aims to eradicate polio once and for all. "This is a really exciting moment for all of mankind to ...
See all stories on this topic » Variety Polio awareness: Resource centre inaugurated by Rotary club
KARACHI: The Rotary Club's Pakistan Polio Plus Committee has inaugurated a polio resource centre in the Bright Education Society in SITE area. The centre was established to strengthen routine immunisation in newborn children and infants, which is vital ...
See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune Pfizer Study: Prevenar 13 Shows Positive Results Among Adults Ages 18 to 49
"Prevenar 13 is the first and only pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for adults, and we continue to study the vaccine in new populations with the aim of broadening its availability," said William Gruber, senior vice president, vaccine clinical research ...
See all stories on this topic » Doc: 'Never Seen' Meningitis Outbreak Like This
Published on Oct 4, 2012 by AssociatedPress. A rare meningitis outbreak has infected 35 people in six states, health officials warn. All received steroid injections, a fairly typical treatment. One New York anesthesiologist says "It's the first time I ...
See all stories on this topic » City clinic working with state on meningitis
HARRISBURG - The state Department of Health said Thursday that it is working closely with two pain clinics, including one in Altoona, to identify and contact patients who received a medication linked to cases of an unusual type of fungal meningitis in ...
See all stories on this topic » Rare US meningitis outbreak grows, 5 dead
(AP) — Another fatality from a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis was reported Thursday, raising the death toll to five people, officials said. In all, 35 people in six states have been sickened from a steroid that was distributed to 23 ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis outbreak could widen
New York - The potential scope of the meningitis outbreak that has killed at least five people widened dramatically Thursday as health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who got steroid back injections in 23 states could be ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis outbreak spreads in TN, nationwide
Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the Massachusetts Bureau of Healthcare Safety, answers a reporter's question regarding a meningitis outbreak linked to medicine from a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy, during a news conference in Boston on ...
See all stories on this topic » Maryland clinics respond to meningitis outbreak
As attention from a multistate outbreak of meningitis centered on a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy on Thursday, Maryland clinics reached out to hundreds of patients who may have received injections of the steroid linked to the cases. The outbreak has ...
See all stories on this topic » Deadly meningitis outbreak puts spotlight on custom-mixed drugs from ...
The FDA has said the steroid in the current meningitis outbreak came from the New England Compounding Center, based in Framingham, Mass. The company recalled three lots of the drug last week and has said it has voluntarily suspended operations and ...
See all stories on this topic » Kenya moves to stamp on measles outbreaks
A highly infectious viral disease, measles can spread rapidly, especially in communities where many have not been vaccinated. Having caught the disease, between 1 and 5% of children will then go on to die from the complications which can result.
See all stories on this topic » Arm yourself against the flu
Most local entities received their vaccine in early September, and there is plenty of vaccine available to treat everyone. This year's vaccine covers the same strains — including to H1N1 — as last year. According to the Centers for Disease Control ...
See all stories on this topic » Local hospitals mandate flu shots for employees
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released results from a study that sought to gather information about the 2011-12 flu vaccination habits of people working in health care settings. Here is a quick look at the findings ...
See all stories on this topic » Finding vaccine truth: Crowds hear two takes on dismissed study
Instead, the report's author, Dr. Andrew Wakefield, received payoffs from lawyers who were suing vaccine companies and tweaked the results of the 1998 ...
Follow-Up Lacking for Babies After Hepatitis B Vaccination: CDC
27 (HealthDay News) -- Many U.S. babies born to mothers infected with hepatitis B do not receive recommended follow-up testing after vaccination, a new study finds. About 25,000 infants are born to hepatitis B-infected mothers each year in the United ...
See all stories on this topic » Complete hepatitis vaccination a must for maids, nannies in UAE
According to a report of the news site Emirates 24/7 on Thursday, the workers covered in the vaccination program issued in 2010 face trouble if they cannot present a certificate to prove that they have completed all three doses of Hepatitis B vaccination.
See all stories on this topic » Might Smallpox Virus Help Fight a Lethal Breast Cancer?
MONDAY, Oct. 1 (HealthDay News) -- New animal research suggests it may be possible to use a form of smallpox virus to infect and kill the tumor cells of a particularly virulent form of breast cancer. To date, this novel approach to attacking what's ...
See all stories on this topic » Polio support crucial as disease nearly beat
Polio is now 99 per cent eradicated globally, but without immediate action, the number of children paralyzed each year is expected rise to 200,000 in a decade. Canada contributes $35 million annually towards global polio eradication, but our spending ...
See all stories on this topic » With 2 new cases, KP polio count reaches 40
On Thursday, The National Institute of Health confirmed the presence of polio virus in 36 month old Maria, daughter of Tajbudin from Upper Dir. She was a resident of village Palai Baba from union council Barawal Bandai and had received three doses of ...
See all stories on this topic » Andrew Wakefield Press Conference Today - Capwiz
Researcher and patient advocate Andrew Wakefield, MB, BS, FRCS, FRCPath, will hold a press conference with Midwest autism families at a public park in ...
capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=61911581... rochesterNYwestonaprice : Message: Book Available: Callous ...
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health.groups.yahoo.com/group/.../message/1368 One of 35 cases of fungal meningitis reported nationally may be in Evansville
EVANSVILLE — At least one of the 35 cases of fungal meningitis reported nationwide and suspected to to have been caused by injections of a contaminated steroid medication appears to be local. And officials at St. Mary's Medical Center are bracing for ...
See all stories on this topic » Meningitis puts spotlight on compound medicines
Authorities said all of those infected with fungal meningitis received spinal injections of a steroid solution sold by New England Compounding Center, a specialty pharmacy in Framingham, Mass. It and similar facilities combine, mix and/or alter active ...
See all stories on this topic » Rare form of meningitis infecting people being treated for pain
That new territory has people around the country wondering if they are infected with a form of fungal meningitis that has killed five people so far. "Fungal meningitis is quite serious,” Schaffner continued. “It's often challenging to treat. We have ...
See all stories on this topic » Govt to launch pneumococcal vaccines at EPIs
With the addition of this new vaccine, EPI will be providing coverage against 9 deadly disease through the routine Immunization program which currently covers Polio, Measles, BCG, Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertusis, Hib, Hepatitis B & now pneumococcal ...
See all stories on this topic » News Tribe (blog) NA body meeting: Polio vaccine worth billions of rupees at risk of being destroyed
Polio vaccine worth billions of rupees may be destroyed due to a shortage of funds being faced by the Federal Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Cell. Power to 27 warehouses under the control of the cell might be suspended if bills are not paid ...
See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune Government to introduce pneumococcal vaccines at EPI
The government is introducing pneumococcal vaccine in the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) with the help of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI). With the addition of this new vaccine, EPI will be providing coverage against ...
See all stories on this topic » Thimerosal is the Major Etiological Agent in the Recent Increase ...
Thimerosal is the Major Etiological Agent in the Recent Increase in Autism and Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (amniotic fluid lens down estrogen ...
www.mombu.com/.../t-thimerosal-is-the-major-etiological-age... Whooping cough outbreak slowing, state says
The Minnesota Department of Health says the pertussis outbreak appears to be slowing. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, causes a persistent, severe cough that sometimes lasts for months. In the past two weeks another 190 cases were confirmed, ...
See all stories on this topic » The State's worst measles outbreak in 14 years
New South Wales Health has set up a special immunisation clinic in Sydney's south west to help combat the State's worst measles epidemic in 14 years. The outbreak was initially confined to western and south-western Sydney, but has now spread to the ...
See all stories on this topic » Australia Under Worst Measles Outbreak; Vaccination only Way out
People of Australia's New South Wales (NSW) region have been warned against state's worst measles epidemic. According to the NSW Ministry of Health, in the last 14 years this is for the first time that such a bad outbreak of measles has been noticed in ...
See all stories on this topic » TopNews United States NSW measles epidemic spreads
A total of 145 cases have been reported state-wide this year, including 54 cases diagnosed in the last month, NSW Health says. The state's single largest measles outbreak in more than a decade has spread to the Illawarra region of Sydney after ...
See all stories on this topic » US Adults Believe Immunizations Are Important, But Don't Follow Through
Yet, more than 40 percent don't know which immunizations they may need or even when they last received certain vaccines routinely recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In examining consumer behavior, motivators and ...
See all stories on this topic » ThirdAge Tehama County Health Services: Fewer people eligible for public health vaccines
Tehama County Health Services Agency, Public Health Division, has been notified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of a recent policy change for use of federally purchased vaccine. This new guidance states that as of Oct. 1 this ...
See all stories on this topic » HPV Vaccine Gardasil Proven Safe for Use
According to the Centers for Disease Control, HPV is the cause of nearly all cases of cervical cancer and half of all sexually active American will have some form of HPV in their lifetime. Though there are over 100 different types of strains, but only ...
See all stories on this topic » Afro American Poll: Are Kids' Vaccinations Safe?
The Centers for Disease Control notes 1 in about 14,000 children will have seizures after receiving the DTaP vaccine. The CDC also says a few will suffer brain damage, even comas, but the incidence is so low it's hard to be certain vaccines are behind it.
See all stories on this topic » St. Louis' Esse Health's Pediatric Offices Hold Flu Clinics
LOUIS – Esse Health's five pediatric offices are currently offering flu clinics for patients to receive the seasonal flu vaccine. Esse Health's board-certified pediatricians follow the Centers for Disease Control's recommendation that everyone six ...
See all stories on this topic » Merck's Gardasil earns high safety marks - FierceVaccines
Merck's ($MRK) Gardasil, the human papillomavirus vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, garnered high safety marks in the second large-scale study of side ...
www.fiercevaccines.com/story/mercks-gardasil.../2012-10-02 Andrew Wakefield tries to make himself relevant again
I'm not so motivated by the opportunity to sit down to a glass of wine with unethical people, but let's move on. In an article on the Age of Autism blog, ...
Rising numbers: Another polio case reported in KP
Officials said that after the confirmation of this case, the total number of polio cases in K-P has risen to 17. Three cases have been reported in Peshawar, two each in Mardan, Charsadda and Lakki Marwat, while one case each has been reported in ...
See all stories on this topic » The Express Tribune Christian Science Monitor: Fraud in scientific research: It ...
I'm sure you've guessed it: Andrew Wakefield. Ironically, on the day when Mr. Wakefield is giving a faux press conference in a public park, the Monitor uses ...
Prevnar Pneumonia Vaccine May Also Protect Ages 18 To 49, Trial Suggests
Oct 4 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said a late-stage trial of its vaccine to protect against pneumococcal bacteria suggested it would also work in adults aged 18-49, thereby possibly expanding its sales. The vaccine, Prevnar 13, which already has $3.5 ...
See all stories on this topic » WHY? Speak To London
After all, WHY? have produced some fantastic work over the years, with new album 'Mumps, etc' standing up to its illustrious forbears. As usual, the lyrics grab the main attention but the production, the overall songwriting contains more than enough ...
See all stories on this topic » Clash Magazine Something to cough at
“What we know is that very young kids are the most vulnerable to severe pertussis disease (whooping cough), and it can be really deadly for the infants that have no protection,” Nancy Braden, spokeswoman for Jefferson County Public Health, said. It is ...
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"A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." -- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901 "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820 "What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?" -- Sandy Gottstein "Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?" -- Sandy Gottstein |
