Saturday, July 31, 2010

This year's seasonal flu vaccines

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Flu vaccine is being recommended for the entire US population over 6 months of age, starting this year. The (non-live) vaccines will conta...

July’s Toll Worst for U.S. Troops in Afghanistan/ NY Times

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Excerpts from today's NY Times make clear the Afghans we are supposed to be helping do not appreciate us, to put it mildly. KABUL, Afg...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Imperial Presidency: Demanding Data on US citizens without a court order/ WaPo

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 From the Washington Post : The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of a...

The Imperial Presidency: Wresting $ power from Congress/ NY Times

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Excerpts from the NY Times article titled, "Budget Chief Tried to Tilt Power to Executive Branch" by Matthew Bai: Taken together...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

'Minister ignored advice over swine flu vaccine double dose plan'/ Dutch News

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The Dutch health minister overbought swine flu vaccine, ignoring official advice of authorities in Holland.  What did WHO recommend at that ...

Wikileaks fallout: Why are we continuing to support Pakistan? and only 33% of Americans are happy with Obama's handling of the war/ The Guardian

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When we seem to be providing the operating expenses for those who bomb and shoot our children, what is the point of this war? From the Guard...

US military fails to account for 8.7 Billion in Iraq reconstruction money/ BBC

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From the BBC: Nine billion dollars "from the sale of Iraqi oil and gas, and some frozen Saddam Hussein-era assets" should have be...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Wikileaks Afghanistan documents: What do they reveal about the war?

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Ninety-two thousand Wikileaks documents were provided in advance of their public release today to the NY Times , the Guardian (UK) and Der ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010

David Kelly death and the continuing Chilcott Inquiry into the leadup to the Iraq War

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From the Express : ... Dr Fletcher, a highly ­respected retired pathologist and former chief scientific officer at the Department of Health...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Swine Flu Fizzles Out; WHO May Declare End to Pandemic Alert/ Bloomberg

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There has been almost no swine flu in the southern hemisphere so far this winter.  Finally WHO will announce we are in the post-pandemic pha...
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Monday, July 19, 2010

Deviations from "Good Manufacturing Practices" the rule/ the Australian

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An FDA inspection uncovered multiple significant deviations from standard manufacturing processes, termed "good manufacturing practice...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

F.D.A. Panel Votes to Restrict Avandia/ NY Times

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 Gardiner Harris @ the NY Times follows up on the FDA Avandia review: A federal medical advisory panel recommended Wednesday that Avandia ...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Gaming the Evidence: Evaluating adverse events post-vaccination/ BMJ rapid response

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A letter to the BMJ questions the rationale for using certain new vaccines in India that fail to "result in significant reduction in d...

Caustic Government Report Deals Blow to Diabetes Drug/ NY Times

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The NY Times' Gardiner Harris has covered a crucial issue unpinning the use of drugs in modern medical practice.  As I point out on the ...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Additional questions about the H1N1 scandal/ BMJ letter

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French physician and pharmacoepidemiologist Marc Girard has penned a fiery letter to the BMJ about medical experts, clinical guidelines, dr...
Friday, July 2, 2010

Daily Mail: David Kelly had an elbow injury and could not have cut his own wrist

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Dramatic new testimony has heaped pressure on ministers to reopen the investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly. A female colleague c...

"The Afghan War is Unwinnable" --Reps. Obey and Slaughter, in charge of the war funding vote

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From the Washington Post : ...frustration with the war is so widespread that two lawmakers in charge of shepherding the bill through the Ho...

Tossing away swine flu vaccine in the UK and US, and storing millions of Tamiflu doses

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According to the AP . in the US, " the government placed three orders last year for a combined total of nearly 200 million doses — an u...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Japan anticipates H1N1 vaccine loss at $853 million/Sankei

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From Kyodo News : TOKYO, Jun. 28, 2010 (Kyodo News International) -- Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Monday it has a...

Excellent: FDA Advises Against Routine Antibiotic Use in Animal Feed/WaPo

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After decades of discussion, the most important step has been taken by FDA to reduce the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant bacteri...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Europeans sniff at flu outbreak threats/ Financial Times

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A Financial Times article tells us that Europeans are unlikely to want much flu vaccine this year.   But companies will do well regardless...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Doctors: 29% don't want swine flu shot; another 29% not sure

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UPDATE June 17 from the Times of India : " The imported doses of the swine flu vaccine, specially procured by the Union government for ...
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Concern on Capitol Hill about Afghanistan war grows/ WaPo

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From the Washington Post June 15: ... Senior military and defense officials, none of whom was authorized to discuss relations with the Whi...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

WHO responds to the critics/ WHO

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WHO has published a formal response on its website to many of the criticisms published in the BMJ and by the Council of Europe last week. ...

Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban' -- Why are we in Afghanistan, anyway?/ BBC

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UPDATE June 14 ( NY Times) :  The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan , far beyond ...
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Preventing iatrogenic pandemics of panic/ BMJ

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June 9 BMJ article by Luc Bonneux and Wim Van Damme: The decisions to stockpile antivirals and influenza vaccines to control avian flu (2...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Why is Swine Flu Still a Level 6 Pandemic?/ CDC

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Here is the WHO report on current Swine Flu activity wordwide, and below is the CDC report for the US.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Swine Flu pandemic response due to conflicts of interest? Journal Nature rebuts this claim

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Nature's Declan Butler examines and rebuts the claim that WHO experts' paid consultancies affected the advice they gave WHO on the...
Friday, June 4, 2010

Report condemns swine flu experts' ties to big pharma/ Guardian

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From the Guardian 's Randeep Ramesh: Scientists who drew up the key World Health Organisation guidelines advising governments to stock...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

9 x increase in seizures after swine flu vaccine: Australian gov't investigation

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INVESTIGATOR: Australian Nobel Prize winner Professor Peter Doherty is leading an investigation into Australia's baffling spik...
Friday, May 28, 2010

Environmental Agents Trigger Autoimmune Thyroid Disease/ Medscape

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From the Medscape report from the American Thyroid Association Meeting: Multiple genetic and environmental risk factors can trigger autoim...

"Incidents" at Fort Detrick, 2009: 17 infectious exposures of personnel/ Frederick News-Post

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The local Frederick News-Post filed a FOIA to learn the number and type of infectious incidents and injuries that had been reported over th...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

BP's Top Kill: Just gimme some truth/ NY Times

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From the NY Times :  Both BP and multiple government spokespersons told the world this am that the top kill procedure was going well.  Not u...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bush-Blair (and now Obama) assault on civil liberties being overturned in the UK/ Glen Greenwald

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Over the past months, I have been dismayed, and then alarmed, by the continuing erosion of civil liberties in the United States.  My recent ...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Anthrax vaccine recipients in Israel developing Crohn's Disease/ Haarretz

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From Haaretz : The (Israeli) Defense Ministry has recognized a former soldier who participated in the army's experiments on an anthrax ...
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How much swine flu vaccine was truly used? What does CDC's numbers game tell us?

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Here are some anomalies in CDC's reported data.  Note that all the data come from information provided by CDC on April 1-2, 2010 (using...