CANCELLED by CDC late June 17: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting on Covid vaccine side effects, Friday June 18

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/fda-approves-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-for-kids-age-5-11-cdc-will-meet-next-week-to-sign-off “Kids ages 5-11 in the United States are now eligible for vaccination against COVID-19. On Friday afternoon, the FDA authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine, Comirnaty. The Pfizer shot is the only COVID jab with an FDA nod for those younger than 18. The shot could be made available for kids soon. First it must…

 From today’s Stat News: “… Tedros also confirmed that the WHO is working with partners to devise new names for the monkeypox virus, the disease it causes, and the clades of the virus, which currently are named after the parts of Africa where the corresponding viruses are found in nature. Over the weekend a group…

This article happens to have been written by the son of a friend, but I read it all the way through because it is amazing.  I think it can spark a conversation that will help mend our families–Meryl Coming Clean My experience of the pandemic in South Africa and the case for a more inclusive…

Identifying an attack with a nerve agent (organophosphate) is not at all difficult.  The symptoms are characteristic:  pinpoint pupils, increased secretions from all orifices, suffocation.  They are the same symptoms experienced by agricultural workers accidentally sprayed with organophosphate insecticides. (I treated one such case 30 years ago.) This is said to be the poison in…

     Disease            Number of New Cases, 2017              Deaths 1.  Gonorrhea                     500,000                                       ? 2.  Syphilis                          100,000                                       ? 3.  HIV                                  33,000   …