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Environmental Agents Trigger Autoimmune Thyroid Disease/ Medscape
From the Medscape report from the American Thyroid Association Meeting: Multiple genetic and environmental risk factors can trigger autoimmune thyroid disease in humans, according to experts here at the American Thyroid Association (ATA) Spring 2010 Meeting. Gregory A. Brent, MD, professor of medicine and physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University…
New vaccine technologies on horizon but face roadblocks/ CIDRAP
from the UMinn’s CIDRAP: “… It will be several more years before we are able to wean ourselves away from egg-based vaccine, but we are committed to moving ahead with 21st century vaccine development,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a taped opening statement. Federal investments made since 2005 should improve…
Just how much COVID-19 vaccine money (and how many doses per person) is on the table? A whopping $157 Billion through 2025, report says (and 8 doses apiece)/ Fierce Pharma
It is hard for me to fathom what is going on. The article below indicates that the Pharma industry does not think Covid will be going away; instead it will switch from pandemic to endemic, with outbreaks here and there–apparently justifying lots of vaccine boosters. Harvard’s Marc Lipsitch, PhD had this interesting comment in the…
Asymptomatic cases may be of great value in containing the pandemic
From the August 9, 2020 Washington Post: So, when you start screening asymptomatic people who you think may have been exposed, you find lots of positives. They are then called cases. But they were not sick. Did they spread the infection farther? If they did not spread it farther, then we can all stop…
Senate Veterans Affairs Testimony on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses
My testimony to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee was written to answer many persisting questions about these illnesses. It discussed the myths and the facts, while reviewing the recent research on Gulf War Syndrome. I tried to highlight what has been missing from the studies, and provide some ideas on where to go from here….
The extraordinary story of how patient access to COVID treatments was denied, eventually involving witch hunts of physicians who dared to treat patients
First came the Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine suppression In 2020, I compiled a list of over 50 ways authorities and pharma companies in multiple countries stopped the use of the chloroquine drugs for COVID. This was (and is) a stunning collection, which has been widely read and reproduced on many websites. When you read it, you are astounded…