Anthrax Vaccine -- posts by Meryl Nass, M.D.

This blog began in 2007, focusing on anthrax vaccine, and later expanded to other public health and political issues. The blog links to media reports, medical literature, official documents and other materials.

Friday, April 24, 2009

Research Advisory Committee on GW Illness Chairman explains how Institute of Medicine was Made to Perform Studies Whose Conclusions Were Predetermined

Jim Binns, chairman of VA's Research Advisory Committee on GW Veterans' Illnesses since its inception, authored a detailed memo , wi...

Army Nearly Done With Probe of Fort Detrick Lab/ Wash Post

No Signs of Criminal Misconduct Found Yet in Disappearance of Virus, Official Says This rather inconsequential article (lackin...

Monday, April 20, 2009

The 2008 Naval Environmental Health Center Study by Dr. Margaret Ryan et al. on anthrax vaccination during pregnancy: a critique and historical review

Comments on: Ryan, MAK, et al. Birth Defects among Infants Born to Women Who Received Anthrax Vaccine in Pregnancy. American Journal of Epi...

Friday, April 17, 2009

Redesigning Healthcare: Don't Miss This Reinhardt Gem!

Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton's healthcare economist who has previously been featured in this blog, has posted a very interesting article to ...

Sunday, March 29, 2009

One step could dramatically improve hospital care and patient safety

Information has many ways of falling through the cracks in hospitals and medical practices. The wrong test may be mistakenly ordered by the ...

Friday, March 27, 2009

MK Shai calls for anthrax vaccine experiment probe

from YNet : Kadima Knesset Member and former Israeli Defense Force spokesman Nachman Shai on Friday...

More on the Israeli anthrax vaccine experiment on soldiers

From the Jerusalem Post From the AP Excerpts from today's Ha'aretz : Dr. Reuven Porat, who chaired the medical committee, told Haar...

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Medical panel: Anthrax experiments on IDF soldiers were unjustified

Another fascinating article on the Israeli anthrax vaccine experiments by Yossi Melman in Haaretz. Excerpts follow. It seems no one in I...

Friday, March 13, 2009

Preventing Bioterrorism (Op/Ed by Rep. Rush Holt)

Preventing bioterrorism: Thursday, March 12, 2009 BY RUSH HOLT Last year, the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Pr...

Saturday, March 7, 2009

FBI Press Release details the meaning of the ASM presentations in Baltimore last week--with comments

For Immediate Release March 6, 2009 Washington D.C. FBI National Press Office (202) 324-3691 FBI Responds to Science Issue...

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Israeli Ministries take 'full responsibility' for anthrax vaccine trials

Article in THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 4, 2009 Yaakov Lappin The Defense Ministry, Health Ministry and IDF said they took "full responsibi...

Remembering the anthrax attack

Glenn Greenwald 's March 4, 2009 Salon article on Representative Rush Holt's bill and the ramifications of the anthrax attack is a ...

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

HOLT INTRODUCES ANTHRAX COMMISSION LEGISLATION

For Immediate Release Contact: Zach Goldberg March 3, 2009 202-225-5801 HOLT INTRODUCES ANTHRAX COMMISSION LEGISLATION Bill...

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Examining Other Healthcare Models

Healthcare is highly valued by our society, yet it seems that many of our pundits and politicians are willing to create a new healthcare sys...

Saturday, February 28, 2009

NY Times "Postscript" to Scott Shane's article on Ivins of Jan 4, 2009

A two-paragraph article in today's NY Times, sans byline, appears to end discussion of the so-called "chemical signature" sai...

Friday, February 27, 2009

Revealed: Scientific evidence for the 2001 anthrax attacks

from an article by Debora MacKenzie, who has been knowledgeably reporting on anthrax and bioterrorism at the New Scientist for more than a...

How to Heal the Ailing FDA

Six spot-on suggestions from Steve Nissen, MD to the Obama administration.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Anthrax investigation still yielding findings: Chemical composition of spores doesn't match suspect flask.

Nature article by Roberta Kwok discusses the American Society for Microbiology's Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting in ...

Monday, February 2, 2009

NICE on Mars

Merrill Goozner discusses a BMJ article by Nigel Hawke about Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and how...

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Good for Business, Bad for Patients?

Excerpts from Dr. Jon Abramson's ABC News Op-Ed : It's perfect. Pfizer buys Wyeth 's pipeline, the behemoth marketing power of P...

Saturday, January 24, 2009

More pictures +/- the complete exosporium

Here (or here , if you are having trouble viewing the first set of images) is a side by side comparison of the Sandia pictures (from Anonym...

More on health financing (NYT Blog): How Do Hospitals Get Paid? A Primer

Wonderful article by economist Uwe Reinhardt clarifying bizarre hospital charges and third-party reimbursements, and how much of the health...

Friday, January 23, 2009

Army releases some e-mails from anthrax suspect/Frederick News-Post

Article by Justin Palk The U.S. Army released 33 pages of Bruce Ivins' e-mails Thursday from his account at Fort Detrick. The e-mails,...

Monday, January 19, 2009

Defense attempting to block report about anthrax trial/Haaretz

Excerpts from the article : ... IDF soldiers were given seven doses of an anti-anthrax vaccine developed by the Nes Tziona biological instit...

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Fixing the financial incentives in medicine

Medco (this is the pharmacy benefits company that settled for $155 million over charges of defrauding the federal government and paying kic...

Coated and uncoated spores may look alike

Pictures of coated and uncoated spores are here , courtesy of Anonymous.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Litigants Argue U.S. Regulators Lacked Basis to OK Anthrax Vaccine

Global Security Newswire article National Journal Group Friday, Jan. 16, 2009 By Elaine M. Grossman WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administ...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Critique of the "chemical signature" assertion and other points by Barry Kissin

Barry Kissin, an attorney in Frederick, Maryland, analyzes several assertions in Scott Shane's January 4 article , by reviewing media a...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Frederick Police Report out

The Frederick Post has made available a pdf of the Frederick Police Department report regarding its investigation of Ivins' last days. ...

Monday, January 5, 2009

NYT: Portrait Emerges of Anthrax Suspect’s Troubled Life

Scott Shane's newest, detailed exploration of Bruce Ivins can be summarized in Shane's statement, "unless new evidence were to ...

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Rockefeller vows fight on Gulf War syndrome

Excerpted from an article in the December 29 Charleston, W.V. Daily Mail: .... The senator said it was shameful that neither the Departmen...

Monday, December 29, 2008

Correction:

There are 2 errors in what I posted below about the forensic analysis discussed in Professor Jacques Ravel's slides. The first correct...

View web version

Who Am I?

Meryl Nass, M.D.: Most-cited papers of mine include one investigating Zimbabwe's major anthrax epidemic and a review of anthrax vaccine's usefulness in biological warfare. A November, 2001 Congressional testimony in response to the anthrax letters may also be of interest. Below, I've posted photos taken when I'm not at work or in front of the computer. Contact me at merylnass@gmail.com or 207 412-0004 when I'm home.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.