Vaccination NewsLetter : Top Stories - January
13-19, 2003
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Vaccination NewsLetter : Top Stories - January
13-19, 2003
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Smallpox/smallpox vaccine
Doctors Are Ironing Out Details for Giving the Smallpox Vaccine
HEALTHWATCH -
Vaccine: Risks could outweigh benefits
Little legal recourse for people injured by smallpox vaccine
Caregivers P rotected
Against Smallpox Lawsuits - Bush Plan Would Not Compensate Patients for
Vaccine's Side Effects or Accidental Exposure to Virus
CDC Says
Smallpox Plan Ready to Go
States
Lag at Start of Smallpox Program
Despite concerns, smallpox vaccination program moving ahead, officials say
Unions Want Delay on Smallpox Vaccine
On
the Vaccine Scene
Scientific panel recommends go-slow approach for smallpox vaccinations
CDC
plans to proceed with vaccines
Thousands sign up for vaccine - Smallpox shots to prepare health workers for
crisis
Officials Press Ahead With Smallpox Shots
Panel
Urges Informed Consent on Smallpox Vaccine - Recipients should know medical,
financial risks
Smallpox vaccine signup is less than expected
Drug/Vaccine Manufacturers
re: Homeland Security Bill
Lilly vaccine issue will get front-door hearing it deserves - good, short
overview
He's no aw-shucks doctor - Bill Frist is knee-deep in Big Medicine.
"Senate to Repeal Law Shielding Drug Giants"
Burton vows to reform vaccination laws
Buncombe woman: Rider repeal wonderful, but doesn't end fight for day in court
with vaccine makers
Other
Bioterror-related
(More Homeland Security
related articles
posted
starting on January 25, 2003)
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm
Autism
Breaking The Silence - 60 Minutes - incredible report - For more on this
read:
A Boy, a Mother and a Rare
Map of Autism's World and
Breaking Through - Boy
Sheds Light on Autism Mysteries
Enter
the World of Real-Life 'Rain Men'
My Life With Autism:
Implications For Educators
Rapid responses to: "US
study shows 10-fold increase in autism over the past 20 years" - BMJ
Autism/mercury
Time to banish this threat to our children
Fresh
fears over child vaccines
Thimerosal-Free Vaccines May Not Work as Well: UK
Evidence for delayed neurotoxicity produced by methylmercury. Note:
ethylmercury, not methylmercury, is the form of mercury in thimerosal.
Autism/MMR
Autism and vaccines
The autism-vaccine disaster - by Bernard Rimland, PhD
Shot
down?
AIDS/AIDS vaccine
Alzheimer's disease/vaccine
Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf
War Syndrome
GAO :
Shots Led to Military Attrition - excellent article
Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine
Flu/flu vaccine
Hepatitis A/hepatitis A
vaccine
Hepatitis B/hepatitis B
vaccine
All
children may be given hepatitis B vaccination - For another point of view go
to: Scandals -The
CDC and The New Math, where 1 + 1 does not equal 2
Meningitis/meningitis
vaccine
Children get a shot at stopping meningitis - Mom of dead boy urges earlier
warnings
MMR/measles,mumps,rubella
'Make mumps vaccine available'
Pet vaccines
Polio/polio vaccine
Whooping cough/DPT vaccine
U.S. Whooping Cough Outbreak Shows Vaccine Need
Other vaccines
Vaccines in general
Vaccine additives &
contaminants
Adverse reactions
U.S.
Halts Gene Therapy Studies Over Risk
Second Child in French Trial Is Found to Have Leukemia
also see the next group
"The Condition Our Condition
Is In" (The State of Medicine)
Physicians, Public
Not Overly Concerned About Medical Errors
Incidence of adverse
drug reactions in hospitalized patients: a meta-analysis of prospective studies.
- journal abstract
How many deaths occur annually from adverse drug reactions in the United States?
- journal abstract
Drug-related deaths
in a university central hospital. - journal abstract
Adverse drug reactions as cause of hospital admissions: results from the Italian
Group of Pharmacoepidemiology in the Elderly (GIFA). - journal abstract
Adverse drug events cause hundreds of infant deaths annually
Conflict of Interest
Ethics
Government/science/industry/medicine clearly
run amok
Planting Hope - yikes
Drug Sales Reps Sitting in on Exams
California sues grocers over mercury in fish - But, hey, inject mercury into
infants? No problem.
Legal
Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory
Worship Optional: Joining a Church to Evade Vaccine
Pharmaceutical
industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight
Accuracy of
pharmaceutical advertisements in medical journals
FDA:
Patients get prescriptions when they ask about advertised drugs
Drug Sales Reps Sitting in on Exams
Politics
"Smallpox Tender Rivals Crying Foul"
Research
Letters From Parents
Miscellaneous
Whom
do you trust?
Clothes clean drinking water - Filtering with an old sari cuts cholera cases by
half.
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