Thursday, May 14, 2015

HR 2322: A One-Size-Fits-All Bill to Vaccinate Every American Child With Every Vaccine CDC/ ACIP Recommend

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Wow!  Who saw that coming?  The Constitution did not specify that medical care was a federal responsibility, so for over 200 years it has be...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Immunocompromised children: what are their infectious risks from the unvaccinated?

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In the last few days there have been multiple news articles and testimonies in the Maine and Vermont legislatures about the need to impose v...
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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Why Would You Vaccinate a Newborn for Hepatitis B?

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My maternal grandfather died in 1968 of what was almost certainly a fulminant Hepatitis B infection (causing rapid liver failure, occurring ...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

DPT vaccine: Is your child at risk from unvaccinated children?/ CDC

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Let's start with  tetanus , the disease we think of when scratched with something rusty or dirty, and develop an abscess. This is a te...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

WHO takes a stand for transparency in clinical trials research / Science

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Pharmaceutical companies conduct pre-clinical (without people) and clinical research (utilizing human subjects) to understand the effects o...
Friday, April 10, 2015

When FDA inspections of clinical trials discover actionable research misconduct, how is the public notified? It isn't / JAMA IM

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JAMA Intern Med.  2015 Apr 1;175(4):567-77. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.7774. Research Misconduct Identified by the US Food and Drug...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Vaccines are very profitable today/ Atlantic

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In that same panel on vaccines, another panelist alleged that vaccines are a low-margin product and a low profit industry.  It was said tha...

Has Merck formed an unholy alliance with influential medical journals, as well as with CDC?

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Yesterday I was in a televised panel discussion about vaccines, and I suggested that Merck might influence CDC by donating to CDC's fo...