. . . Sam Cage Reuters ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s medical regulator recommended patients with serious autoimmune diseases should not use an H1N1 flu vaccine from Novartis, saying there were no studies assessing the innoculation in that population. Swissmedic said on Wednesday it could not be ruled out that either or both of the adjuvant — which can enhance the immune response — and the antigen, or less active ingredient, could lead to an intensifying of autoimmune diseases. Autoimmune diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, are caused [...]

Staff Reporter The Standard Thursday, January 21, 2010 A 37-year-old woman’s child was stillborn on Tuesday – just weeks after she received a vaccination against human swine flu (H1N1). The woman was 28 weeks’ pregnant when she was admitted to Tuen Mun Hospital after she reported decreased fetal movement and no heart sound could be detected. A spokesman for the Centre for Health Protection said there is “no medical evidence presently to suggest that the intrauterine death was related to the vaccination.” But he said [...]

. . . Elias Mbao AllAfrica.com 12 January 2010 Lusaka — A failed clinical trial HIV vaccine that left 46 Zambian women infected with the virus has sparked controversy. The Microbicides Development Programme (MDP) 301 trial, which was testing if the gel PRO2000 would prevent HIV infection took place between September 2005 and 2009. It was conducted at six research centres in South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and 9,385 participated. From the Zambian site in Mazabuka district – about 160 kilometres South West of [...]

. . . Mike Adams Natural News January 17th, 2010 (NaturalNews) The CDC is engaged in a very clever, statistically devious spin campaign, and nearly every journalist in the mainstream media has fallen for its ploy. No one has yet reported what I’m about to reveal here. It all started with the CDC’s recent release of new statistics about swine flu fatalities, infection rates and vaccination rates. According to the CDC: – 61 million Americans were vaccinated against swine flu (about 20% of the U.S. [...]

PHARMAGANDA: A STUDY OF CONFLICTING INTEREST by Leonard G. Horowitz and Sherri Kane Introduction In 2002, The Lancet1 declared the practice of medicine “heavily, and damagingly” tainted by conflicting interests. Alarmed by unethical practices in drug sales and science, the editors envisioned the crippling of the profession due to widespread fraud. Examples included the genetic biotechnology firm Genentech, acquired by Gilead Sciences, and more recently Roche, makers of Tamiflu, an influenza drug questioned for its creation and official sanction under the administration of previous U.S. [...]