Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - February 3-9, 2003

Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - February 3-9, 2003

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Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - February 3-9, 2003

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Smallpox/smallpox vaccine

Bush's Smallpox Boondoggle

Smallpox vaccine: Sorting out the facts

Smallpox - overview

Bush Asks for More Bioterror Vaccines, Drugs

Researchers look to PCs for smallpox fight

Delay smallpox vaccines, nurses' union says

Injury Concerns Stall Smallpox Inoculation

Vanderbilt bows out of vaccinations - Vaccination 'could pose danger to patients with weak immune systems'

Legal Concerns Slow Smallpox Vaccinations  - "We feel it would be a success if no one received the vaccine but we offered this opportunity to all the right people," he (Henderson) said." ???

Many Balking at Vaccination for Smallpox

CDC system monitors smallpox vaccine side effects

Smallpox vaccinations show no problems yet

BU expert faults CDC for vaccine backlash

ASU researcher seeks safer smallpox vaccine

Drug/Vaccine Manufacturers re: Homeland Security Bill

Other Bioterror-related

(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on February 16, 2003)  http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm

Autism

The United States Autism Epidemic: Our Bitter Harvest

Catching up with autism

Finding Jake - A Mother's Story

Parents of autistic children are finding their own solutions - "(Several university-based studies and a 2001 independent Institute of Medicine report have concluded there is no evidence vaccines cause autism.)" - what the IOM really said

Autism/mercury

Neal Halsey Reaffirms Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism

Tripedia® insert - Note that multi-dose vials still have the same 25 micrograms of mercury they always had....

Mercury Compounds in Drugs and Food; List

Autism/MMR

Autism and vaccines

AIDS/AIDS vaccine

Alzheimer's disease/vaccine

Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome

2 Marines who balked at vaccine deployed - Both go to Kuwait, face penalty later

Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine

Flu/flu vaccine

E-News: Foggy Thinking as Inhaled Flu Vaccine Nears FDA Approval (NVIC)

Haemophilus Influenza Vaccine

Government Told To Start Hib Boosters For All Infants

Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine

Meningitis/meningitis vaccine

Meningitis Vaccine in Short Supply

Study reveals gaps in vaccine program

MMR/measles,mumps,rubella

As Vaccination Rates Decline in Ireland, Cases of Measles Soar

Private Clinics Botched Children’s Vaccines – Report

Government funds MMR study

Pet vaccines

Annual Vaccinations and Titers

Polio/polio vaccine

U.N.: Indian Anti-Polio Program Boosts Efforts To Wipe Out Disease By 2005

With rising polio cases, India dashes global hopes

Whooping cough/DPT vaccine

Parents denied better but dearer vaccine

Other vaccines

Vaccines in general

Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule

Vaccines Under Fire - very one-sided pro-vaccine article

Vaccine additives & contaminants

Adverse reactions/VAERS/VICP

Bad science - on the Alan Yurko case

Man Jailed For Killing His Child May Have Been Wrongly Convicted - on the Alan Yurko case

Vaccine victims forced to wait - 'No fault' settlement system may change as claimants get sick of delay in compensation

"The Condition Our Condition Is In" (The State of Medicine)

Study finds many M.D.s drink when on call

Antibiotics to carry warning labels - It's about time.  What took them so long?

Study Finds Many Doctors Performing Surgery Lack Practice

Conflict of Interest

Effectiveness/herd immunity

Ethics

Funding

Government/science/industry/medicine clearly run amok

1,900 got expired measles vaccine

Legal/legislation

Bad science - on the Alan Yurko case

Man Jailed For Killing His Child May Have Been Wrongly Convicted  - on the Alan Yurko case

Rep. Waxman Introduces Smallpox Vaccination and Compensation Act

*Pending Immunization Legislation - bookmark this link

Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory

West Virginians for Vaccination Exemption - Yahoo! egroup - political action alert

Immunization exemption bill riles senators

Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight

Politics

Research/publishing/other research results

Docs Find Reason For "Yuppie Flu"

Anaesthetics threaten baby brains

CT scans for lung cancer are expensive -- but of little value

Methadone, Once the Way Out, Suddenly Grows as a Killer Drug

Letters From Parents

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