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Swine flu: Baxter to make vaccine for British government

By VT / May 18, 2009

Swine flu: Baxter to make vaccine for British government Deerfield-based drugmaker also says 2 patient deaths not related to heparin blood thinner By Bruce Japsen | Tribune reporter May 16, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat-baxter-flu-heparin-may16,0,144102.story Baxter International Inc. on Friday reported that it will make a swine flu vaccine for the British government and said the quality of […]

New panel will study recation(sic) to vaccines

By VT / May 18, 2009

New panel will study recation to vaccines 16 May 2009, 0151 hrs IST, Madhavi Rajadhyaksha, TNN http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/New-panel-will-study-recation-to-vaccines/articleshow/4536828.cms MUMBAI: A one-month-old boy born to Mulund slumdweller Shivani Gaikwad died in February, a day after he was administered his first shot of routine immunisation for DPT (diptheria, pertussis and tetanus) and Hepatitis B at a local health […]

InTheory.tv Interview: May 16th, 2009

By VT / May 18, 2009

VacTruth.com from VacTruth on Vimeo. In Theory TV broadcasts live on Saturdays at 10 am MST, noon EST. Watch at InTheory.TV or at BoldVoices.TV on channel 22. Follow InTheoryTV on Twitter and get updated when the show is on.

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 […]

Sen. Grassley Blasts Psychiatrist for Failure to Disclose Industry Funding

By VT / May 15, 2009

Sen. Grassley Blasts Psychiatrist for Failure to Disclose Industry Funding http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/09/11/sen-grassley-blasts-psychiatrist-for-failure-to-disclose-industry-funding/ By Scott Hensley Karen Wagner, a child psychiatrist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, is the latest academic psychiatrist to be criticized by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for failing to fully disclose drug industry ties. Grassley said in a letter that Wagner didn’t […]

A UT System researcher’s ties to drug firms is questioned

By VT / May 15, 2009

A UT System researcher’s ties to drug firms is questioned 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, May 9, 2009 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-drugresearch_09tex.ART.State.Edition1.4c7383e.html By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News eramshaw@dallasnews.com AUSTIN — An influential U.S. senator has told a federal investigator that a University of Texas System researcher may not have properly disclosed her financial relationship with […]

Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim (Update1)

By VT / May 15, 2009

Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim (Update1) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afrdATVXPEAk&refer=worldwide# By Jason Gale and Simeon Bennett May 13 (Bloomberg) — The World Health Organization is investigating a claim by an Australian researcher that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error. Adrian Gibbs, 75, who […]

[1774] Benjamin Jetsy’s grave stone indicated that he utilized cow pox material to inoculate his wife and 2 sons in 1774, 22 years before Jenner’s experiments in 1796.

By VT / May 14, 2009

Benjamin Jetsy’s grave stone indicated that he utilized cow pox material to inoculate his wife and 2 sons in 1774, 22 years before Jenner’s experiments in 1796. Benjamin Jesty was a successful farmer, who lived at Yetminster and then moved to Downshay. He dealt in cattle and maintained a herd. In the year 1774, small […]

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