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Flu Vaccine/ UpToDate
From UpToDate, the highly regarded online textbook of medicine, on flu vaccine: It has been difficult to demonstrate an improvement in survival after influenza vaccination in elderly patients in randomized controlled trials because mortality is a rare end-point. The systematic review cited above found a significant reduction in death from influenza or pneumonia [46], but…
Millions of H1N1 vaccine doses may have to be discarded/ WP
From the WaPo: Despite months of dire warnings and millions in taxpayer dollars, less than half of the 229 million doses of H1N1 vaccine the government bought to fight the pandemic have been administered — leaving an estimated 71.5 million doses that must be discarded if they are not used before they expire…(and 25 million…
Great information on the 1976 Swine Flu Vaccination Program
I am aware of two very useful sources of information on the 1976 swine flu vaccine fiasco. Both are available in full on-line. The first is a short article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1996, written by Maurice Hilleman, PhD. Hilleman was America’s pre-eminent vaccinologist until his death 5 years…
Ontario’s Physician Licensing Agency Tells Doctors they may not communicate with the public over government policies under threat of investigation and loss of license
Both physicians and private citizens may sign the petition, as long as they specify if they are Canadan docs, international docs, or concerned citizens. Click on the “Support” button to sign. DECLARATION OF CANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR SCIENCE AND TRUTH The Declaration We are a broad and diverse group of Canadian physicians from across Canada who…
Gardasil: 49 US deaths reported to VAERS/ Washington Examiner
From the Washington Examiner: Cervical cancer accounts for less than 1 percent of all cancer deaths, so it was somewhat surprising when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration fast-tracked approval of Gardasil, a Merck vaccine targeting the human papilloma virus (HPV) that causes the disease, in 2006. As of Jan. 31, 2010, 49 unexplained deaths…
Syria: Claims Without Evidence, Expanding Obama’s Mandate for War / NYT
Kerry persists today in making outsize claims that he fails to support. My comments are in parentheses. Secretary of State John Kerry, in his remarks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged Congress to vote in favor of the president ordering a military strike and argued that “the risk of not acting is greater than…