Ode to Madness

By VT / June 5, 2010

Suzanne Humphries, MD [medical doctor] ICMV.info June 2010 What fetid madness has man brewed As science morphed into a spoof That throws the dice at natures gate To play with fires of unknown fate? The fearful flock, and stand in line Thinking they will dodge the swine While infants cry their virgin tear And wisdom […]

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Report condemns swine flu experts’ ties to big pharma

By VT / June 4, 2010

Randeep Ramesh Guardian.co.uk 06/04/2010 Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stockpile drugs in the event of a flu pandemic had previously been paid by drug companies which stood to profit, according to a report out today. An investigation by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative […]

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Study: Rise in Autism and introduction of Aborted Fetal DNA in Vaccines Correlate

By VT / June 4, 2010

James Tillman LifeSiteNews.com 06/03/2010 Dr. Theresa Deisher, founder of the pro-life Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute, presented a study revealing the link between autism and aborted fetal DNA in vaccinations at the International Meeting for Autism Research in May. “The temporal connection between the introduction of aborted fetal DNA and autism rises is found over decades […]

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Molecular pumps could make vaccines stronger

By VT / June 4, 2010

VaccineNewsDaily.com 06/01/2010 Scientists at the University of California – Berkeley have found that molecular pumps in Listeria bacteria that expel antibiotics, which make the bug harder to kill with standard drugs, also expel small signaling molecules that stimulate a strong immune response in cells that they infect. The discovery was reported in the May 28 […]

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Mouse vaccine raises prospect of cancer prevention

By VT / June 4, 2010

New Scientist 06/02/2010 PREVENTION is the goal of most vaccines. Not so vaccines against cancer, which rally the immune system to fight an existing disease. That approach might change now that a protein has been found that stops mice developing breast cancer. Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and colleagues took a protein […]

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CDC: GBS risk similar for H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines

By VT / June 4, 2010

Lisa Schnirring CIDRAP 06/02/2010 The risk for the paralytic condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) in people who received pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine was about the same as the risk among those who receive seasonal flu shots, according to preliminary findings released today by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). GBS is a […]

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Letter from a mother with a vaccine injured child

By VT / June 3, 2010

Posted on Neil Miller’s Think Twice Facebook Page. Dear Thinktwice (http://thinktwice.com/), Reading through some of the posts on the site, many parents (such as myself) are questioning their intuition — that gut feeling that “something is wrong” as their child seems different now since the shot, or that their baby is behaving differently (crying, sleeping, […]

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New quandary for parents: Do boys need the HPV vaccine?

By VT / June 3, 2010

Letitia Stein St. Petersburg Times 06/01/2010 On their next visit to the pediatrician, parents of adolescent boys may be asked if they want their sons to get an expensive vaccine they’ve never before considered — the HPV shot. Recently approved for boys, the three-dose immunization has been given to girls to prevent cervical cancer, often […]

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Educated mothers “free-riding” on vaccine herd immunity

By VT / June 2, 2010

Kent Atkinson NZPA 06/02/2010 Concerns educated parents in New Zealand were developing a form of “white flight” over immunisation of children against disease were aired at a Parliamentary select committee today. “There is growing evidence that children of educated parents are…becoming a significant ‘hard to reach’ population,” the Prime Minister’s chief science adviser, Sir Peter […]

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From rabbit virus to cancer vaccine?

By VT / May 31, 2010

John Gibb Otago Daily Times 05/05/2010 A powerful new vaccine therapy for colorectal cancer is likely to emerge from “highly promising” University of Otago research, which is moving closer to human clinical trials. This smart form of therapy uses harmless viral shells derived from rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus to deliver immunising tumour proteins. The same […]

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Split-Virus Vaccine Better of Two H1N1 Shots

By VT / May 31, 2010

Todd Neale MedPage Today 05/30/2010 Of the two vaccines used in the U.K. to protect against pandemic H1N1 influenza, the adjuvanted split-virus vaccine offered better protection for children than the non-adjuvanted whole-virus vaccine, but caused more side effects, a phase II study showed. After two doses, there were higher seroconversion rates with the adjuvanted vaccine […]

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Pfizer sells China swine vaccine unit to Harbin Pharma

By VT / May 31, 2010

Donny Kwok Reuters 05/31/2010 Pfizer Inc, the world’s biggest drugmaker, is selling its swine vaccine business in China to Harbin Pharmaceutical Group for $50 million, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said on Monday. A spokeswoman from Pfizer’s Singapore office confirmed the divestment of its China swine vaccine business to Harbin Pharmaceutical but […]

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