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  • No surprise: Gardasil as good against HPV in men as in women

    02/03/2011 9:29:35 AM PST · by jalisco555 · 62 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 2/2/2011 | Thomas H. Maugh II
    To no one's surprise, a new clinical trial demonstrates that the human papilloma virus vaccine Gardasil is as good at protecting men as it is in protecting women, researchers reported Wednesday. A clinical trial in more than 4,000 boys and men demonstrated that the vaccine was more than 90% successful in preventing genital lesions caused by the four strains of HPV that the vaccine is active against, about the same level of protection demonstrated for women. The vaccine is currently approved in the United States for both males and females over the age of 9, but current recommendations call for...
  • Andrew Wakefield's Lethal Legacy

    01/08/2011 4:02:53 AM PST · by Lonesome in Massachussets · 8 replies
    American Spectator ^ | Robert M. Goldberg
    On Wednesday, the British Journal of Medicine published the first of several articles detailing the systematic fraud Andrew Wakefield engaged in writing a study in 1998 claiming measles-mumps-rubella vaccine triggered autism in 12 children. News outlets have posted accounts of the fraud as 'breaking news." They also note Wakefield's false research led to fear of vaccines and to kids dying from lack of shots. Wakefield's fraud is beside the point. He was able to do so much damage for so long because the media, the scientific community, politicians and trial lawyers found it in their interest to believe and lionize...
  • Report on autism was falsified

    01/06/2011 3:59:54 AM PST · by DBCJR · 51 replies
    ABC ^ | 12:45 AM 1/6/11
    Controversial research claiming a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism has already been discredited, but now the researcher behind the study is accused of making up the data. Dr. Andrew Wakefield made the link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and the development of autism. He claimed, after studying 12 children, eight showed behavioral symptoms, 6.3 days after being vaccinated for MMR. The report caused parents worldwide to stop vaccinating their children. Wakefield's theory was de-bunked in 2009. Now, the prominent British Medical Journal calls Wakefield's study an elaborate fraud. "I think what Dr. Wakefield did was a moral crime, if...
  • Journal says doctor faked data linking autism to vaccines

    01/05/2011 11:50:43 PM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 24 replies
    washingtonpost.com ^ | January 6, 2011 | Reuters
    The British Medical Journal on Wednesday accused a disgraced British doctor of committing an "elaborate fraud" by faking data in his studies linking vaccines with autism. Andrew Wakefield's work convinced thousands of parents that vaccines are dangerous. Such fears have not only caused parents to skip vaccinations for their children, which critics say has led to ongoing outbreaks of measles and mumps, but have forced costly reformulations of many vaccines.
  • Wakefield's paper linking MMR vaccine and autism a fraud

    01/05/2011 8:25:06 PM PST · by Melissa 24 · 131 replies
    LA Times ^ | January 5, 2011 | By Thomas H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield's 1998 report in the journal Lancet purporting to show a link between autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella "was based not on bad science but on a deliberate fraud," says Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal, in an editorial published Tuesday. The editorial accompanies the first of three reports by British investigative journalist Brian Deer that document how Wakefield manipulated data in his attempts to prove something that he "knew" before he started his research. Most of the information in the reports has been published previously, but...
  • Woman Singled out by the TSA, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped up

    11/10/2010 8:18:34 PM PST · by citizenredstater9271 · 118 replies
    Youtube ^ | GeorgeDonnelly
    The TSA chose Meg McLain for special screening. They wanted her to go through the new porno-scanners. When she opted out, TSA agents raised an enormous ruckus. When she asked some question about what they planned to do to her, they flipped out. TSA agents yelled at her, handcuffed her to a chair, ripped up her ticket, called in 12 local Miami cops and finally escorted her out of the airport. Listen to her story as she told it on radio show Free Talk Live last night. Things are truly getting scary.
  • Perry calls Social Security bankrupt 'Ponzi scheme'

    11/10/2010 10:23:46 AM PST · by LibertarianInExile · 89 replies · 3+ views
    San Antonio Express-News ^ | 11/10/10 | Josh Baugh
    ...Calling the New Deal “a glut of federal programs,” Perry said the creation of the Social Security system did very little to end the Great Depression...“Unfortunately, the New Deal has essentially become the third rail of American politics that indiscriminately kills the political careers of any leader bold enough to criticize it or any program it created,” he said.
  • The UN Rights of the Child. The reality check

    11/05/2010 12:33:29 PM PDT · by mainestategop · 1 replies · 2+ views
    Youtube ^ | Mainestategop and Mac Houlton
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMtpCnqIQ&feature=player_embeddedTHE UN RIGHTS OF THE CHILD TREATY IN A NUT SHELL... 1. First of all, the government (unelected in this case)will be the parent not you. Dont like it, you lose them. 2. Your child has a right to be forced to go to a communist indoctrination center (school) to be dumbed down, and conditioned to be a loyal marxist who will never question authority and grow up to be an illiterate factory worker 3. Your child has a right to grow up in a marxist country with no freedom of speech, freedom of the press and has the right...
  • Don't Give Trial Lawyers This Booster Shot

    10/27/2010 10:23:06 PM PDT · by neverdem · 9 replies
    The American ^ | October 15, 2010 | John E. Calfee
    Anyone who thinks the vaccine case now before the Supreme Court is merely a matter of giving injured plaintiffs their day in court has misconceived the stakes for those who reap the benefits of vaccines. The U.S. Supreme Court has just heard oral arguments in the case of Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, in which the parents of a severely disabled child wish to sue the manufacturer of a childhood vaccine for causing their child’s disability. At this stage, the dispute is over a purely legal issue: the scope of federal preemption. The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act largely removed childhood...
  • Microchip Makers Sued

    10/15/2010 10:59:37 PM PDT · by citizenredstater9271 · 33 replies
    MERCK SUED: HomeAgain® PET CHIP IMPLICATED IN CANCER New website, ChipMeNot.com, features details on cancer case and other adverse reactions Nashua, NH (CASPIAN) October 13, 2010 Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. has been served with a lawsuit over claims its HomeAgain® pet microchip induced cancer in a cat. Animal rights attorney Steven Wise seeks "reasonable compensatory damages" for a malignant tumor "likely" induced by a HomeAgain® ID chip implanted in his client's cat, Bulkin. The complaint, "Andrea Rutherford v. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. and Digital Angel, Inc.,"(case # 1052CV1147) was filed last week in Cambridge (MA) District Court. The...
  • To wipe out whooping cough, create a better vaccine

    10/02/2010 9:06:51 AM PDT · by RogerFGay · 39 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | October 2, 2010 | Miranda Walker
    As a Californian and a student studying public health, I find the whooping cough resurgence in California extremely troubling ["Whooping cough makes a comeback," Health and Science, Sept. 28]. People who refuse to be vaccinated, though misguided, are easy scapegoats, but they are not the driving force behind this trend. In the short term, more needs to be done to encourage booster vaccines in teens and adults to protect the most vulnerable: infants too young to be vaccinated.
  • Deadly Whooping Cough, Once Wiped Out, Is Back

    08/14/2010 9:15:14 PM PDT · by markomalley · 70 replies
    NPR ^ | 8/14/2010
    California is in the midst of its worst outbreak of whooping cough in a half-century. More than 2,700 cases have been reported so far this year — eight times last year's number at this point. Seven of the victims, all infants, have died. And here's what really worries pediatricians like UCLA's Harvey Karp: Doctors thought they wiped out whooping cough when they developed vaccines decades ago. The disease hits young children hardest, especially ones who are not vaccinated or who have not yet built up full immunity. The prescribed vaccination regimen begins with a shot at two months and continues...
  • Jab that could put a stop to stress without slowing us down

    08/02/2010 4:19:48 PM PDT · by fightinJAG · 26 replies · 2+ views
    Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | Aug 2, 2010 | Rachel Quigley
    Forget the age-old remedies of yoga, meditation or popping pills. Relieving chronic stress could soon be as simple as having an injection, according to scientists. Academics say they are close to developing the first vaccine for stress - a single jab that would help us relax without slowing down. After 30 years of research into cures for stress, Dr Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University in California, believes it is possible to alter brain chemistry to create a state of 'focused calm'. [snip] 'To be honest, I'm still amazed that it works,' Professor Sapolsky told Wired magazine recently.
  • H1N1 Vaccines Sterilize Mothers and Kill Babies

    07/01/2010 9:09:35 PM PDT · by Jenny Hatch · 7 replies · 2+ views
    Blogging Mothers Magazine ^ | July 1st, 2010 | Jenny Hatch
    Podcast at Blog Talk RadioVideo at One True MediaTen Minute clip of this show on You Tube[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7H8gvPHxjc] Rima Laibows article Squalene, be very afraid part II
  • Bill Gates funds covert vaccine nanotechnology

    05/28/2010 4:41:26 AM PDT · by Scythian · 261 replies · 2,096+ views
    (NaturalNews) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man's scrotum to render him infertile for six months. It might accurately be called a "temporary castration" technology. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the...
  • U.K. Bans Doctor Andrew Wakefield Who Linked Autism to MMR Vaccine

    05/24/2010 6:50:19 PM PDT · by Fight4Freedom1 · 25 replies · 819+ views
    AOL ^ | 5/24/2010
    A gastroenterologist who persuaded millions of parents worldwide that the vaccine used to prevent measles, mumps and rubella might cause autism has been banned from practicing medicine in his native Britain after the country's top medical group said Monday he conducted his research unethically. Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first researcher to publish a peer-reviewed study suggesting a connection between autism, inflammatory bowel disease and the MMR vaccine. In February, Britain's leading medical journal, "The Lancet, "retracted Wakefield's controversial 1998 study just days after Wakefield was found guilty by a British panel of acting unethically in his research on autism....
  • Britain bans doctor who linked autism to vaccine

    05/24/2010 8:44:47 AM PDT · by DJ MacWoW · 234 replies · 1,876+ views
    Associated Press ^ | May 24,2010 | MARIA CHENG
    LONDON (AP) - Britain's top medical group on Monday banned a doctor whose research suggesting a link between a common vaccine and autism caused millions of parents worldwide to abandon the shot for measles, mumps and rubella. Dr. Andrew Wakefield was the first to publish peer-reviewed research suggesting such a connection, even though the study was later widely discredited. The ruling by Britain's General Medical Council found him guilty of serious professional misconduct. Wakefield, 53, then moved to the U.S. and set up an autism center in Texas, where he has a wide following, but faces similar skepticism from the...
  • FDA Revises Recommendations for Rotavirus Vaccines

    05/17/2010 2:38:36 PM PDT · by Rowin3232 · 3 replies · 114+ views
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today revised its recommendations for rotavirus vaccines for the prevention of the disease in infants and has determined that it is appropriate for clinicians and health care professionals to resume the use of Rotarix and to continue the use of RotaTeq.
  • U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses

    05/03/2010 3:52:38 PM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies · 510+ views
    Reuters ^ | May 3, 2010 | Maggie Fox
    Grassley says he is worried about wasting tax dollars. The United States still has 71 million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine that have not been used, but it is not yet time to throw them out, the federal government said on Monday. States and other providers should hang on to the vaccine and continue to offer them to people until drug companies can start distributing seasonal vaccine for the coming influenza season in the autumn, said Health and Human Services Department spokesman Bill Hall. Senator Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance committee, released a letter on...
  • Vaccines made with fetal cells causing autism?

    04/28/2010 1:35:14 PM PDT · by unspun · 18 replies · 600+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | 4/28/2010 | Jill Stanek
    Wednesday, April 28, 2010 MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATHVaccines made with fetal cells causing autism?Exclusive: Jill Stanek looks at potential link between disorder, injections Posted: April 28, 20101:00 am Eastern By Jill Stanek EPA researchers publishing a study in the Feb. 16 issue of Environmental Science & Technology were "surprise[ed]" to find a worldwide jump in the incidence of autism beginning in 1988. Thus, the study concluded, "Although the debate about the nature of increasing autism continues, the potential for this increase to be real and involve exogenous environmental stressors exists." According to the Sound Choice Pharmaceutical Institute, 1988 was...