The First International HPV Vaccine Information Clearinghouse
Child Health Safety
Posted on January 10, 2011 by childhealthsafety
EDITORIAL
No one has to prove vaccines cause autism anymore. The war is nearly over. What is left is to mop up and clear the diehards from their bunkers.
Is this a premature declaration of ‘VCH Day’ – Victory for Child Health?. It may not be.
But the latest evidence suggests the opposition is in its dying gasps. What key events are bringing the war to an end?
Vanity Fair
By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
January 2011
Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mistakes” can end up in pauper’s graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government’s failure to rein in a lethal profit machine.
You wouldn’t think the cities had much in common. Iaşi, with a population of 320,000, lies in the Moldavian region of Romania. Mégrine is a town of 24,000 in northern Tunisia, on the Mediterranean Sea. Tartu, Estonia, with a population of 100,000, is the oldest city in the Baltic States; it is sometimes called “the Athens on the Emajõgi.” Shenyang, in northeastern China, is a major industrial center and transportation hub with a population of 7.2 million.
Express.co.uk
Sunday January 9, 2011
By Lucy Johnston, Health Editor
UP to a million under-fives have been inoculated against the flu virus with a controversial vaccine containing poisonous mercury.
Pandemrix has been given to almost a quarter of all healthy babies and young children as well as thousands of older children with health problems.
Inquiries by the Sunday Express reveal it contains a preservative made with a form of mercury that was phased out of childhood vaccines in 2004 after fears about its safety.
The One Click Group
Shaken baby syndrome came to prominence after high profile cases
January 9, 2010
Head injuries alone are unlikely to be enough to charge someone with homicide, attempted murder or assault in “shaken baby syndrome” cases, according to new Crown Prosecution Service guidance.
Karen Squibb-Williams, of the CPS, said “careful consideration” would be given to decide if a conviction was possible.
