Extraneous materials in vaccines is an old story. Many have been shown to contain unwanted viruses or even bacteria such as mycoplasma. (I used to have the abstracts posted on my website showing examples.) Anthrax vaccines had flecks of stopper material and fungi in them, noted on visual inspections by FDA in the late 1990s. …
From the Kansas City Star, a McClatchy paper, Frontline and ProPublica authors: A federal judge has blocked, at least temporarily, a Justice Department attempt to back away from court admissions that appeared to undercut previous FBI assertions that an Army researcher was responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks. In an order issued Monday, U.S. District…
Thanks to Ed Silverman at Pharmalot for posting on this issue, and for his links. I’ve blogged in the past here and here about how Merck created a complex scheme to market Gardasil vaccine through mandates from state legislatures. It seemed this was not working, as only one state and the District of Columbia passed such mandates. After…
According to the European Medicines Agency press release: The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) considered that the epidemiological studies relating to Pandemrix in Finland and Sweden were well designed and the results show an association between Pandemrix vaccination and narcolepsy in children and adolescents in those countries. The results indicate a six- to…
After seriously undercutting the FBI claims about Bruce Ivins’ guilt 5 days ago, the DOJ revised its filing yesterday in the case brought by Bob Stevens’ wife against the government. Marcy Wheeler provides great details and links to the filing and other useful documents. Scott Shane gives us the usual FBI response when challenged: “We…
From Mike Wiser, Greg Gordon and Stephen Engelberg come the following story: Justice Department lawyers filed a brief on July 15 that said Bruce Ivins did not have access to equipment in the Fort Detrick hot suites that would have enabled him to make the dried anthrax found in letters to two Senators. … the…
Marcia Angell completes her tour de force analysis of the underpinnings of psychiatry and its medications in the second part of her article, “The Illusions of Psychiatry” in the NY Review of Books.
There has been plenty written about the nefarious tactics of Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp (and other publications) to get the dirt on celebs, politicians, and anyone unfortunate enough to be newsworthy. It is hard to get one’s arms around the scope of these revelations. When Price Charles and the UK’s top police are also victims of…
From Matt Appuzzo at the AP, published in the Washington Post, comes this amusing piece: WASHINGTON — In his 2009 speech to the Muslim world, President Barack Obama announced a new effort to eradicate polio, which persists in three Muslim countries. One of the biggest hurdles had been persuading some local leaders that vaccination campaigns…
Although the DHHS recently field-tested an informed consent document for parents (whose children were sought for an anthrax vaccine clinical trial in the Washington, DC public schools) it was reported that so far there were no takers. This information was stated at a public meeting held July 7 by DHHS to discuss the ethics and…
Today, one Irish website (Irish Medical Times) rejoiced that a study just out in the BMJ showed Pandemrix swine flu vaccine, containing a novel GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) adjuvant, did not cause Guillain-Barre syndrome, a life-threatening form of temporary paralysis from which over 90% survive and make partial to full recoveries. No mention is made in the article of…
I hate to say “I told you so” but here it is, from the NY Times. Now one may ask, why was DSK presumed guilty and treated abominably at the onset of the case? Still think this was not a political frame-up in which the USG was a major participant? From today’s NYT: The sexual…
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