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 […]
Continue reading > Flu shot not effective in preventing hospitalizations in asthmatic children ** Note: There is strong circumstantial evidence showing vaccines can cause asthma. http://www.labspaces.net/97649/Flu_shot_not_effective_in_preventing_hospitalizations_in_asthmatic_children Wednesday, May 20, 2009 The inactivated flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma. In fact, children who get the flu […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
Continue reading > Scientists Learn Why The Flu May Turn Deadly: Influenza Virus ‘Paralyzes’ The Immune System http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504141843.htm ScienceDaily (May 5, 2009) — As the swine flu continues its global spread, researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have discovered important clues about why influenza is more severe in some people than it is in others. In their […]
Continue reading > “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
Continue reading > “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, […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
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Continue reading > 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 […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
Continue reading > 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 […]
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