According to the April 9, 2010 Frederick NewsPost: An Army lab at Fort Detrick said Tuesday it did not follow proper procedures last November when a researcher infected herself with the tularemia bacteria. The researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases was exposed to the bacteria between Nov. 13 and 17,…
Since the start of the declared pandemic, unprecedented things have happened one after the other, at a quicker and quicker pace. It has made everyone’s heads spin. And as our rights were being curtailed, the US populace has mainly acted like deer in the headlights–stunned and immobile. Today’s New York Times reveals that the 2…
Thanks to Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, well known health journalists, for this erudite piece on the limitations of epidemiological data for flu vaccines and antiviral drugs. They are brave women to tackle and publish this piece: kudos! A new GAO report on FDA’s reliance on surrogate endpoints (such as using antibody levels generated by…
Thanks to website “The Flu Case” we have a story in English derived from reports in two German newspapers, Zeit and Tages Spiegel: Wolfgang Wodarg , former SPD member of parliament, and chairman of the European parliament’s health committee, initiated the inquiry. The motion was passed unanimously by his colleagues in the European parliament‘s health…
Healthcare is highly valued by our society, yet it seems that many of our pundits and politicians are willing to create a new healthcare system from whole cloth. In other words, let’s consider this or that experiment, and the winner will be the compromise melange that gets passed by Congress. (Definition of melange: a collection…
Bill Quigley (Loyola University Law Professor) and Vince Warren (both associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights) discuss Obama’s newest Executive Order: one designed to uproot the 5th Amendment’s requirement for due process and the 6th Amendment’s rights of the accused, including the right to a speedy trial. Here is their report on Huffington Post:…