Thursday, February 2, 2012

Officials Recommend the HPV Vaccine for All Boys/ NYTimes

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 Is any doubt left about whether US vaccine recommendations are excessive?  This wretched recommendation will surely expel the last doubt.  ...
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Misconduct pervades UK research/ Financial Times

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From the Financial Times ' Science Editor, Clive Cookson: UK research is plagued with misconduct, according to a survey of 2,700 scienti...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Justice Dept. takes on itself in probe of 2001 anthrax attacks/WaPo

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The Washington Post reviews the spectacle of the Florida DoJ denying that Bruce Ivins had the ability to prepare the anthrax that killed fi...
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Biothrax for Kids is Back! Now for an Ethics Review! / DHHS

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The DHHS' momentum to test anthrax vaccine in kids did not abate after the NBSB advisory committee suggested the pediatric trial should ...

The emperor is marching around buck naked/BMJ

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The validity and quality of research underpin the entire research enterprise worldwide.  However, a number of studies have shown that many r...

Effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccination in healthcare workers: a systematic review.

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J Hosp Infect. 2011 Dec;79(4):279-86.  Abstract is here . Ng AN , Lai CK . Infectious Disease Control Training Centre, Hospital Authority/I...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Afghanistan’s Soldiers Step Up Killings of Allied Forces/ NY Times

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Damon Winter/The New York Times The NY Times obtained a classified coalition report that acknowledges "a rapidly growing systemic hom...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Flu Season Off to Slow Start, So Far/ US News

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From US News and World Report : Relatively few cases reported, experts say, but that doesn't mean a surge can't happen... One bar...
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Mental scores decline precipitously at 30 months after anthrax vaccine, but CDC spins study to say vaccine safe/ Vaccine

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A new paper on anthrax vaccine safety , presumably published to support DHHS' desire to test the vaccine in small children, has just bee...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Anthrax jabs stockpiled in (Olympics) biological terrorism alert/ London Evening Standard

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Interesting that the authorities vaccinated 500 health workers with smallpox vaccine, but are only stockpiling anthrax vaccine, not using it...

Clinical Trial Tests Unsafe Anthrax Vaccine For Post-Exposure Use

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 From The Vaccine Exchange: We have been writing about the anthrax vaccine here at Vaccine Xchange for some time. It seems clear that Emerg...

Compensation paid out for vaccine-related narcolepsy sufferers/ YLE

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Per YLE , the government of Finland is paying out small sums to 80 children who developed narcolepsy after Pandemrix vaccination, while 30 c...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

My interview on vaccine safety with Gary Null and Associates

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Fifteen minutes on vaccine regulation/safety on YouTube.
Monday, January 9, 2012

My Guantánamo Nightmare/ NY Times

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In my view, the term "American exceptionalism"had a meaning, which stemmed from our adherence to the Constitution and Bill of Righ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Proven Ways to Avoid Influenza Safely and Inexpensively

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How well does flu vaccine work? Two major reviews have come out in the past two months.  Michiels et al from the University of Antwerp foun...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Judge says no to inquest on weapons inspector Dr Kelly/ Mail

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And the judge adds insult to injury by asking retired surgeon Halpin to pay Attorney General Grieve's legal costs.  The Mail provides ...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Judge to hear campaigner's plea for inquest into Dr Kelly's controversial death/ Mail

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From the Daily Mail : A retired surgeon campaigning for a full coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly will have his case heard...
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Saturday, December 10, 2011

SIGA's sweetheart deal for smallpox drug questioned by Anderson Cooper/ CNN

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This story, detailed by David Willman in the LA Times (and blogged by me 4 weeks ago) has now been re-reported (in great detail for telev...
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

FDA disqualifies advisory committee member due to "intellectual conflict of interest"/ NJ.com

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Sidney Wolfe, MD, is a well-known drug safety advocate and founder/ director of the organization Public Citizen's Health Research Group ...
Friday, December 2, 2011

Eliot Spitzer: A Secret Scandal/ Slate

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Half the US GDP was loaned to banks with no collateral .  Recall that (former NY Attorney General and Governor) Eliot Spitzer was investigat...
Thursday, December 1, 2011

Fukushima nuclear catastrophe closer than thought/ The Australian

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The Japanese government and TEPCO have released new information (based on simulations, however) on the extent of damage to the Fukushima nuc...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

New Swine Flu Strain Keeps Health Officials on Alert/ ABC News

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ABC News reports that a new strain of influenza has appeared in several states.  CDC officials are worrying that it might become the predom...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Australian Medical Association urges watch on vaccines/ The Australian

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This article is by Natasha Bita, who just won a Walkley journalism prize for her series on flu vaccine dangers in The Australian . UPDATE:...

Unused German swine flu vaccine goes up in smoke (about 250 million Euros worth)/ The Local

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... But the [2009 swine] flu was much milder than expected, and this, combined with safety fears over the new vaccine, led to only around se...

US to pay $2.5M in photo editor's anthrax death/ AP

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From the Associated Press , Maureen Stevens settles with the US government for her husband's death by anthrax, due to lax control of the...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn?/ NY Review

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More details emerge from this piece by Edward Jay Epstein about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair at the New York Sofitel hotel.  This does...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Important Advantage from Actually Getting Flu?

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Infectious Disease News has posted a report of a paper, "H1N1 pandemic less severe among adults with history of flu."  The paper ...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Future cancers from Fukushima plant may be hidden/ AP

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As long as the research is methodologically sound and designed to capture a broad range of possible adverse outcomes from radiation released...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Dr. Joe Mercola's wide-ranging interview with me

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Last month I went to Chicago to do a video interview with Dr. Joe Mercola on bioterrorism issues, anthrax, government responses and some of...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal // aka Biodefense: Giving from the 99% to the 1% / LA Times

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UPDATE:   Senator Claire McCaskill calls for DHHS IG to investigate the government's sole-source contract with Siga. If you are uncon...
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