By: Norma Erickson, Vaccines Examiner The United States government has spent at least $1.8 billion of your hard-earned money to combat an anticipated swine flu pandemic. The current definition of pandemic has taken out any reference to mortality rate. Using this definition, any contagious disease has the potential to reach “pandemic” proportions. Perhaps even the […]
Flu, HPV, norovirus vaccines to be tested here
By: Patti Singer, Staff Writer 04 October 2010 If engineers strive to make a better mousetrap, scientists seek more effective vaccines. Over the next few months, three of their latest efforts will be tested in Rochester. The University of Rochester Medical Center is recruiting volunteers to test the first licensed vaccine against norovirus, commonly called […]
New Adjuvanted Vaccines in Pregnancy: What is Known About Their Safety?
Medscape Today Carla Herberts; Barbro Melgert; Jan Willem van der Laan; Marijke Faas Authors and Disclosures Posted: 01/13/2011; Expert Rev Vaccines. 2010;9(12):1411-1422. © 2010 Expert Reviews Ltd. Abstract The recent introduction of oil-in-water emulsions as adjuvants in several pandemic vaccines, such as the H1N1 vaccine, has challenged regulatory authorities to establish their safety in the general population, as well […]
Deadly Medicine
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.
Child Flu Vaccine Contains Mercury
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.
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