Following issuance of a TRO last week, but possibly unrelated to it, NY State governor Patterson suspended the directive that all health care workers must receive influenza vaccinations. The lawsuit will now be moot.
When I do an interview I never have any sense of how it went. I am so focused on trying to get the right words out that I don’t even remember what I talked about when I am done. But I just listened to this and I think I did a good job explaining both…
<img width=”1″ height=”1″ src=”http://s.clickability.com/s?19=990&14=0&6=92807664&7=400599&18=0.3629032722800133″> From Helen Branswell at the Canadian Press: It might seem counterintuitive but it also appears to be true: Parents with more education were less likely to get their daughters vaccinated against HPV during the first year of British Columbia’s free school-based program, a new study shows. The finding of the study,…
IMHO, many cases and deaths have not been included in these numbers because they occurred in areas without the infrastructure to count them, or were hidden. Still the rate of increase in cases is chilling and tells me we have likely lost the battle to contain this epidemic. From the BBC:Cumulative deaths – up to…
From the NY Times: Both BP and multiple government spokespersons told the world this am that the top kill procedure was going well. Not until late afternoon was the truth told: the process had been aborted the night before: As hour after hour passed after the top kill began early Wednesday afternoon, technicians along with…
Thanks to the Mail for pursuing this important case. A more detailed piece the following day is here. Troubling: Dr David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly still worries many thoughtful people. It is easy to see why. Dr Kelly’s concerns about the Government’s case for war in Iraq began a storm of controversy…
UPDATE: This is a 2006 article. Sorry. Too bad we have to get our science from the Mail, but in the era of Conflicts of Interest, maybe it isn’t so strange that we read about the flip side of pharmaceuticals from media outlets that don’t rely on pharmaceutical company advertising to survive. New American research…