Sunday, August 28, 2011

Doctors unleash legal challenge over inquest Dr David Kelly never had/ Mail Online

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From Miles Goslett at the Daily Mail : Doctors are preparing to challenge the Government’s decision not to hold an inquest into the death o...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Imperial Presidency -- Why Is That a Secret?/ NY Times Editorial

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From the NY Times Editor : A former top official in charge of ensuring that real secrets are kept secret has delivered a stunning repudiati...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Certain Hip Replacement Failures Zoom, but Getting the Data Nearly Impossible/ NY Times

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The following excerpts from today's NY Times article point to serious failures of data collection, analysis, and commitment to safety a...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Prosecutor to drop Strauss-Kahn case: report/Reuters

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From Reuters and the NY POst: Prosecutors will ask a judge to dismiss all charges in the [ criminal ] sexual assault case against former I...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The explosive truth behind Fukushima's meltdown/ The Independent

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From McNeill and Adelstein at The Independent : It is one of the mysteries of Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis: How much damage did the 1...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Remembering a humble giant of biological and chemical weapons control/ Bulletin Atomic Scientists

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Well-known arms control/disarmament/nonproliferation expert Jonathan Tucker died last week at 56.  Paul Walker, who follows a similar career...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Anthrax investigators hope to learn where exposure occurred/ CIDRAP

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Someone got inhalation anthrax along the old west cattle trail.  This is where cattle in decades pa...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Charred shrink wrap in Merck vaccines/ WSJ

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Extraneous materials in vaccines is an old story.  Many have been shown to contain unwanted viruses or even bacteria such as mycoplasma.  (I...
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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Judge: You can't change anthrax filing yet. Government must "show good cause"/ McClatchy

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From the Kansas City Star, a McClatchy paper, Frontline and ProPublica authors: A federal judge has blocked, at least temporarily, a Just...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

Pro-HPV Vaccine Chutzpah/ Pharmalot

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Thanks to Ed Silverman at Pharmalot for posting on this issue, and for his links. I've blogged in the past here  and  here  about h...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

European Medicines Agency confirms that Pandemrix vaccine caused narcolepsy/ EMA

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According to the European Medicines Agency press release : The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) considered that the ep...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"Oops! We hoped you wouldn't notice"/NYT, CIDRAP, Glenn Greenwald, Marcy Wheeler

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After seriously undercutting the FBI claims about Bruce Ivins' guilt 5 days ago, the DOJ revised its filing yesterday in the case brough...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Justice Department Filing Casts Doubt on Guilt of Bruce Ivins, Accused in Anthrax Case/ PBS, McClatchy, ProPublica

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From Mike Wiser, Greg Gordon and Stephen Engelberg come the following story : Justice Department lawyers filed a brief on July 15 that sai...
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The Illusions of Psychiatry (part 2) by Marcia Angell/ NY Review of Books

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Marcia Angell completes her tour de force analysis of the underpinnings of psychiatry and its medications in the second part of her article,...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hugh Grant gets back at Newscorp by bugging the guy who hacked him/ New Statesman

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There has been plenty written about the nefarious tactics of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp (and other publications) to get the dirt on celeb...

FACT CHECK: Obama tells Muslim world vaccines aren’t CIA front, then runs CIA vaccine front/ AP

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From Matt Appuzzo at the AP, published in the Washington Post, comes this amusing piece: WASHINGTON — In his 2009 speech to the Muslim wor...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

DHHS continues to push for testing anthrax vaccine in children

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Although the DHHS recently field-tested an informed consent document for parents (whose children were sought for an anthrax vaccine clinical...
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In Ireland, Pandemrix vaccination associated with narcolepsy, but we're to rejoice it did not cause Guillain Barre/

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Today, one  Irish website  (Irish Medical Times) rejoiced that a study just out in the BMJ showed Pandemrix swine flu vaccine, containing a...
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Friday, July 1, 2011

Case Against Strauss-Kahn for Rape Falls Apart/ NY Times

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I hate to say "I told you so" but here it is, from the NY Times.  Now one may ask, why was DSK presumed guilty and treated abomina...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Doctors who were paid $12-16 million pimped for Medtronic's poor quality spinal fusion material / NY Times

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Finally, members of my profession are fighting back against corrupt doctors and the companies who pay lavishly for their undeserved testimon...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? / NY Review of Books

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This June 23, 2011 article by Marcia Angell , a former NEJM editor and a Harvard professor of medicine, is a must-read .  Actually, this art...
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Memo reveals intelligence chief wrote dossier on Iraqi WMD knowing that "in terms of WMD Iraq is not that exceptional"/ Guardian

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From the Guardian, an article provides new information on how Tony Blair's administration lied to make the case for war in Iraq. What d...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Use of Psychological Profile to Infer Ivins's Guilt Is Problematic/ Clinical Psychiatry News

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Dr. Annette Hanson penned the following piece on the ethically impaired "Expert Behavioral Analysis Panel" paid for by FBI: In ...
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FDA Anger over Australian flu vaccine investigation/SMH

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From the Sydney Morning Herald comes this piece that says our FDA found CSL's "investigation" of why so many children had sei...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

What DHHS proposes to tell parents about giving anthrax vaccine to their children

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In order to meet the requirements of 45 CFR 46.407 , a federal advisory panel must review the proposed pediatric research, agree that it ...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Fukushima lesson: You can't rely on govt or industry when a real crisis comes along/ NY Times

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Most detailed look yet at the flawed decision-making and terrible information sharing between TEPCO, government bureaucrats, political leade...
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