I will be live-blogging the CDC’s ACIP Advisory meeting today starting at 11 am, re the use of Pfizer’s vaccine in 5 through 11 year olds

From the journal Health Affairs, the entire May issue focuses on the health effects of exposures to toxic chemicals in the environment.  From the Health Affairs blog: With growing evidence of the link between exposure to toxic chemicals and chronic diseases, especially in children, the United States needs to step up its efforts to protect…

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David Kelly’s dental records went missing for several days, then reappeared, according to his dentist.  It now turns out there were several sets of unidentified fingerprints on Kelly’s dental file. This is not what the Hutton Inquiry was told years ago, when it was assured there were no extraneous prints on the file. Although borrowed…

MUST_READ from NPR (thanks to Marc Crispin Miller) … armed with the firm conviction that he was about to do good in the world, and coincidentally sell a ton of drugs for Merck, Jeremy Allen set out to completely rework the way that bone was measured in America. Now, to do this, he figured, the…

From the organization itself: StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations (especially the Electronic Freedom Foundation) and groups from across the political spectrum. Join the movement at https://rally.stopwatching.us.  This video harnesses the voices of celebrities, activists, legal experts, and other prominent figures in speaking out against mass surveillance by the NSA. Please…

This is an important short piece from Nature (online February 25, 2009) that I missed last February. It explains why the anthrax letter spores did not come directly from Ivins’ flask: they incorporate metals not found in Ivins’ spores, and were therefore grown under different conditions. Their progenitors probably did come from the flask, but…