Friday, May 31, 2013

GMO's unacceptable elsewhere, good enough for Americans: Japan Suspends Some Imports of U.S. Wheat

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Most US corn, sugar, canola oil and soy produced and sold in the US is genetically modified. That includes most food for human as well as a...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

She's at it again! (Margaret Chen blowing smoke about the next pandemic) / CBS

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Beginning in April, 2009 we heard from the talking health heads, especially WHO Director General Margaret Chen's, about the world-threat...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Hysterical Takedown of Bioethics and Bioethicists/ Richard John Neuhaus

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Neuhaus got in so many great jabs in this piece I was nearly rolling on the floor.  Though published in 2002, it is as timely today, and t...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

More data link increase in narcolepsy cases to Pandemrix vaccine in ADULTS aged 20-64/ AFP

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From AFP : HELSINKI — Finnish researchers unveiled new data Thursday to link the Pandemrix flu vaccine to a higher risk of the sleeping ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The SUPPORT Trial: Good intentions in medical research are not enough--especially when lives are at stake--you also need to avoid hurting patients and to use a design that will yield useful info

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Medical research is necessary:  there are innumerable unanswered questions about how to best treat patients.  When lives are at stake, answ...
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Monday, May 6, 2013

Time to learn what is in the vaccines you receive

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Two years ago a bill was brought to the Maine legislature asking for a list of ingredients to be provided to parents with each childhood vac...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Medical Research: An Ethical Breakdown / NYT Editorial

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From today's NY Times  on yet another medical research project (performed at 23 top academic medical centers) that was done sloppily, mi...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Rights Groups, in Letter to Obama, Question Legality and Secrecy of Drone Killings/ NYT

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Finally, human rights advocates are asking the US government on what legal basis it can choose to assassinate people, and b...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Association between Guillain-Barré syndrome and influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent inactivated vaccines in the USA: a meta-analysis/ Lancet

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A US government-Harvard-Hopkins study confirmed what was obvious from many prior, similar studies:  flu shots cause occasional cases of ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

Boiling down the Presidential Commission Recommendations on Testing Anthrax Vaccine in Children

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Here’s the verbatim recommendation (from the Commission press release ) about testing anthrax vaccine in kids: "Recommends that mul...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Tower of Babel as Reporters Try to Decipher Bioethics Commission Report

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Reading 26 media reports describing the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues' report on testing anthrax vaccine a...