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• The Highly Profitable Business of Vaccines

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  eTagLive Exactly how the swine flu story will play out remains to be seen, but there is one business sector that may secretly be hoping for the worst — vaccine manufacturers, that are more than $1 billion richer, a number that will soar far higher if, in fact, the winter outbreak is as bad as many fear. ...
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• HPV vaccine intake low among targeted population

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  Completion of vaccine series is low among eligible adolescents with important disparities by medical specialty, race, and insurance status. UMHS Newsroom University of Michigan December 2, 2009 ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Three years after the vaccine to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) was approved for use in ...
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• Should women keep in mind the lessons of Thalidomide when listening to ads about GARDASIL®?

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  Create Help Files It was developed by the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal and hit the market in October 1957. Two years later, it was approved for use in Canada. The United States held off — the Food and Drug Administration demanded more data on the drug’s safety before it would agree to approve it. As ...
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• Coming: Vaccine That Fights Prostate Cancer

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  US News & World Report On Men by Ford Vox, MD December 04, 2009 04:41 PM ET Women were the beneficiaries of the first cancer vaccine―Gardasil, approved in 2006 to prevent cervical cancer. Several weeks ago, the same drug was made available to young males to prevent genital ...
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• Sir Roy Meadow Removes Himself From The General Medical Council Register

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  One Click Group By Lisa Blakemore Brown Psychologist Dec. 2, 2009 On 1st October 2009, Sir Roy Meadow relinquished his status as Doctor/Professor after applying to have his name removed from the UK GMC Register. To check these facts, go to the GMC website , then to Check a Doctors Registration on the right of ...
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• NY Ups Efforts To Vaccinate College Students

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 154
  ALBANY—New York is undertaking special efforts to vaccinate college students in the State against the H1N1 flu virus, according to the Governor’s Office.New data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that of the populations at highest risk to get the H1N1 flu, 18- to ...
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• Flu Away

  
  K-Squared Ramblings — Authority: 135
  I finally got my H1N1 flu shot today. My allergist called me this morning to say that they’d gotten five — yes, just 5 — doses of the vaccine, and wanted to know if I wanted one. The CDC has been recommending for months that anyone with chronic respiratory conditions (*cough* asthma *cough*) get both the ...
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• Only 1.3% of Israelis accept H1N1 vaccine

  
  Divining the News (DTN) — Authority: 417
  Is it wisdom? Is it conspiracy?
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• More trouble with Gardasil

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  Cape Cod Times By CYNTHIA McCORMICK STAFF WRITER December 03, 2009 The list of local teens who believe they have experienced adverse reactions to the Gardasil vaccine has grown, with two sisters from Sandwich reporting medical problems following their shots. Brianna Faiella, 15, developed aches, fever ...
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• Gardasil Damage Stories Everywhere, When Will the FDA Act?

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  Age of Autism December 3, 2009 By J.B. Handley Here is an except from my appearance on Larry King Live back in April of this year: LARRY KING: J.B. Handley, they were saying earlier that they’re not against you. They’re open to listen to you. They just disagree with what you’re saying. HANDLEY: The AAP ...
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• Health officials expect long lines for H1N1 vaccinations

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  With supplies of the swine flu vaccine likely to remain relatively scarce for at least the next few weeks, the Dallas and Tarrant county health departments were both asking the same question Tuesday about their first vaccination clinics: How many will come? Tarrant County goes first, on Friday. Dallas County’s ...
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• Swine flu spawns an email phishing scam thatll give you a nasty virus

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Healthcare Its bad enough that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic has caused such widespread public anxiety, and its worse that the vaccine has become its own source of concern, whether due to the shortage or spurious fears about its safety. Now, the bottom-feeders known as phishing scammers are exploiting ...
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• Study links real-time data to flu vaccine strategies

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 641
  Adaptive vaccination strategies, based on age patterns of hospitalizations and deaths monitored in real-time during the early stages of a pandemic, outperform seasonal influenza vaccination allocation strategies, according to findings reported Dec. 3 by researchers, including two from Arizona State University, in the ...
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• Thornett Award for the Promotion of Reason for 2009 goes to the brave parents of Dana McCaffery

  
  Skepfeeds-The Best Skeptical blogs of the day — Authority: 112
  You remember the sad story of little Dana McCaffery who, unfortunately contracted and succumbed to whopping cough when she was only a few weeks old, thus too young to be vaccinated. I’ve linked to blog posts about this  story in the past, one was written by her father , David a while back. The AVN (Assholes ...
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• Protection from HPV Vaccine Lasts Longer than Six Years

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: December 02, 2009 Reviewed by  Zalman S. Agus, MD ; Emeritus Professor University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Med Page Today Cervarix, one of two FDA-approved vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV), protects against infection for more than ...
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• Will guidelines mean more teen STDs?

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  NewsBlog November 29, 2009 The fear is that some teen girls may misinterpret the new guidelines and miss out on important discussions with a gynecologist. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Some worry that STDs, teen pregnancies could go up without Pap tests to prompt doctor’s visit New guidelines say young women ...
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• Federal Case Against HPV Vaccine - Pt. 1

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  BlackCommunityCenter.com UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NDABA Washington DC 20001 Plaintiff V.        Case No. 09-0117 (RMU) January 16, 2009 COMPLAINT The plaintiff alleges as its complaint as follows: 1. The plaintiff brings suit against the defendants ...
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• Q&A: Vaccines are success, but some have reactions

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  Newsadvance.com BY TAMMIE SMITH Media General News Service Published: November 30, 2009 Question: There have been a lot of questions about the safety of flu vaccine and all vaccines, really. One friend told me her child’s doctor told her to “run” from the flu vaccine. She took her child elsewhere to ...
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• Vaccine Appears to Have No Impact on Pregnancy Outcome

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 142
  But recommendation is still to avoid the human papillomavirus vaccine during pregnancy Modern Medicine November 24, 2009 There is no evidence that vaccination with the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is harmful to the fetus, but vaccination during pregnancy is still not recommended, ...
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• Africa: One in five HIV infections caused by medical staff

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Source: Telegraph Nearly five million new cases annually are caused by erratic health practices, according to the authors of a series of papers in a publication backed by the Royal Society of Medicine. The findings raise questions the international effort to combat HIV and Aids, which focuses largely on ...
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