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How Independent Are Vaccine Defenders?

By VT / May 21, 2009

How Independent Are Vaccine Defenders? Sharyl Attkisson Investigates Vaccine Advocates Taking Funding From The Companies Whose Vaccines They Endorse http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/cbsnews_investigates/main4296175.shtml?source=mostpop_story WASHINGTON, July 25, 2008 | by Sharyl Attkisson (CBS) For years some parents and scientists have raised concerns about vaccine safety, including a possible link to autism and ADD. Many independent experts have sided with […]

Vical reports progress with swine flu vaccine

By VT / May 21, 2009

Vical reports progress with swine flu vaccine http://www.marketwatch.com/story/story/print?guid=8E46DF7F-6D54-4BC3-9450-DE4B6C14C982 LONDON (MarketWatch) — Vical Inc. (VICL 2.25, +0.05, +2.27%) said Thursday that in the two weeks since launching its program to develop a vaccine against H1N1 influenza, or swine flu, it has completed development of a prototype vaccine, produced an initial supply and initiated immunogenicity testing on […]

ATS 2009: Second Wave of H1N1 Flu Feared in the Fall

By VT / May 21, 2009

ATS 2009: Second Wave of H1N1 Flu Feared in the Fall http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703113 by Kristina Rebelo May 20, 2009 (San Diego, California) — In a special panel session here at ATS 2009: the American Thoracic Society International Conference, experts and public-health officials discussed the current situation and ways hospitals can prepare for a potential second wave […]

Summary of oral evidence:Dr John Wood and Dr James Robertson,National Institute for Biological Standards and Control(NIBSC)

By VT / May 21, 2009

    http://royalsociety.org/downloaddoc.asp?id=3521   27 April 2006 Dr John Wood and Dr James Robertson are Principal Scientists in the Division of Virology at NIBSC. Dr Wood and Dr Robertson lead the NIBSC’s influenza group and their responsibilities include the control and standardisation of influenza vaccines. On behalf of the World Health Organisation (WHO) the NIBSC […]

GPO wins flu jab approval

By VT / May 20, 2009

GPO wins flu jab approval WHO signs vaccine pact to prepare for pandemic http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/17027/gpo-wins-flu-jab-approval By: POST REPORTERS Published: 21/05/2009 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: NewsThe World Health Organisation has given Thailand the green light to use an advanced vaccine production technology to make flu vaccines for domestic and global use in the event of a […]

Child vaccination rates hit record levels

By VT / May 20, 2009

Child vaccination rates hit record levels Fri Sep 5, 2008 2:07am EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSCOL47185220080905 By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. toddlers got the recommended vaccinations against childhood diseases at record levels in 2007, federal health officials said on Thursday, as they urged parents to continue to trust vaccine safety. The Centers for Disease Control and […]

Flu Vaccine Given In Microneedle Skin Patches Proves Effective In Mice

By VT / May 19, 2009

Flu Vaccine Given In Microneedle Skin Patches Proves Effective In Mice http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427193232.htm ScienceDaily (May 3, 2009) — Flu vaccine delivered through skin patches containing microneedles has proven just as effective at preventing influenza in mice as intramuscular, hypodermic flu immunization. A team of researchers at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology believes the […]

Russia Works to Develop Vaccine

By VT / May 19, 2009

Russia Works to Develop Vaccine http://www.moscowtopnews.com/?area=postView&id=1093 The Flu Research Institute in St. Petersburg began to recruit volunteers to be artificially infected with the swine flu virus which is currently raging in Mexico and the USA. Doctors will select six test groups of 20 people. Each volunteer will receive a benefit of 5,000 rubles ($150). “The […]

Faster Flu Vaccine – Researchers Apply DNA Biology to Vaccination Technique

By VT / May 19, 2009

Faster Flu Vaccine Researchers Apply DNA Biology to Vaccination Technique http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0204-faster_flu_vaccine.htm February 1, 2006 — Spraying viral genes directly through the skin is a new technique that turns infinitesimal amounts of DNA into an effective vaccine. If approved for use in humans, the new procedure could save lives in case of a flu pandemic, by […]

Quotes on Vaccines and Authority

By VT / May 18, 2009

“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible.” — Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”, 1953, pg 49-50

Quotes on the Importance of Diet & Hygiene

By VT / May 18, 2009

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” —Thomas Edison “I have myself, through Natural Hygiene, over 16 years, treated all forms and hundreds of cases of typhus and typhoid fevers, pneumonia’s, […]

The GAVI effect: How the GAVI Alliance works to protect children from preventable diseases

By VT / May 16, 2009

http://www.gavialliance.org/media_centre/videos/iffim_video.php The GAVI effect: How the GAVI Alliance works to protect children from preventable diseases “… this is entirely different – we are not here asking for charity or philanthropy, we are here with an investment proposition.” Dr Alan Gillespie, IFFIm Chairperson Vaccine Investment Make a fixed return, make a real difference When interest rates […]

Grassley Ups Total of Undisclosed Fees Paid to Prof by Glaxo

By VT / May 15, 2009

Grassley Ups Total of Undisclosed Fees Paid to Prof by Glaxo May 14, 2009, 12:46 PM ET By Alicia Mundy http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/05/14/grassley-ups-total-of-undisclosed-fees-paid-to-prof-by-glaxo/tab/print/ The congressional heat is intensifying on the University of Texas regarding disclosure of payments from Glaxo to UT psychiatry professor Karen Wagner. A new letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley to UT warns that Wagner […]

Pressured, Schools Review Ties to Drug Firms

By VT / May 15, 2009

Pressured, Schools Review Ties to Drug Firms http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122109019382321441-search.html?KEYWORDS=karen+wagner&COLLECTION=wsjie/6month By ALICIA MUNDY WASHINGTON — Some major universities are reviewing the way they handle funding from drug companies in the wake of criticism from Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is pressing the federal agency that controls government health-research money to get tougher on universities that don’t disclose ties […]

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