TWiV 331: Why is this outbreak different from all other outbreaks?
On episode #331 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV team discusses the possible association of the respiratory pathogen enterovirus D68 with neurological disease.
You can find TWiV #331 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 5, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology acute flaccid myelitis acute flaccid paralysis chronic fatigue syndrome enterovirus enterovirus D68 mecfs neurological disease picornavirus poliomyelitis poliovirus viral Source Type: blogs
HeLa RNA is everywhere
The first immortal human cell line ever produced, HeLa, originated from a cervical adenocarcinoma taken from Henrietta Lacks. The cell line grew so well that it was used in many laboratories and soon was found to contaminate other cell lines. Now HeLa RNA has made its way into human sequence databases.
Although the cause of Henrietta Lacks’ cervical tumor was not known in her lifetime, we now understand that it was triggered by infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) type 18. When this virus infects the cervical epithelium, the viral DNA may integrate into the host genome, causing the cells to become transformed and ...
Source: virology blog - April 1, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information contamination HeLa henrietta lacks next generation sequencing nucleic acid sequencing PCR RNA-seq TCGA TGCA The Cancer Genome Atlas viral virus Source Type: blogs
TWiV 329: Pox in the balance
On episode #329 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV team reviews identification of immune biomarkers in CFS/ME patients, and how a cell nuclease controls the innate immune response to vaccinia virus infection.
You can find TWiV #329 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - March 24, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology cfs/me chemokines chronic fatigue syndrome cytokines eIF2 endoribonuclease immune marker innate immunity mRNA cap poxvirus PRK RNAseL systemic exertion intolerance disease vaccinia virus viral Xrn1 Source Type: blogs
Bully Doctor “Loses It” After Informed Mother Asks Questions About Vaccines
Conclusion
Luckily my error was in that assumption, not in a permanent, irreversible decision of letting my kids get injected with harmful substances. I will find a doctor who partners with me on my children’s health, not against me.
I hope your pediatrician is more professional and adept at discussing recommendations than mine. If not, perhaps it is time to look for a new doctor as well. You are your children’s best advocate.
Follow your heart. Follow your instinct. Don’t be pressured to do something you are unsure about. Ask questions. And by all means, do what is necessary for the health and welfare of your childr...
Source: vactruth.com - February 15, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Logical Top Stories adverse reactions Bullying informed consent Source Type: blogs
TWiV 320: Retroviruses and cranberries
On episode #320 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent speaks with John Coffin about his career studying retroviruses, including working with Howard Temin, endogenous retroviruses, XMRV, chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer, HIV/AIDS, and his interest in growing cranberries.
You can find TWiV #320 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 18, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology AIDS cancer chronic fatigue syndrome cranberries endogenous retrovirus HIV-1 prostate cancer reverse transcriptase viral xmrv Source Type: blogs
Osgood Schlatter disease-MRI
Thickening of the tibial insertion of the patellar tendon along with bony fragment in relation to the tibial tuberosity. Findings likely suggest chronic fatigue injury of the tibial tuberosity or osgood schlatter disease. From Sumer's Radiology Site http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com -The Top Radiology Magazine. Teleradiology Providers at www.teleradproviders.com Mail us at sales@teleradproviders.com (Source: Sumer's Radiology Site)
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - January 8, 2015 Category: Radiologists Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Upcoming 11/3/2014 FDA-DOC Meeting; Concerns About FDA Biosimilar Guidance(s)
At this point, I don't think its really necessary for me to repeat too much of the content that is already circulating within the diabetes online community of blogs about the forthcoming Monday, November 3, 2014 meeting from 1:00 pm-4:00 pm ET with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But I WILL say that collectively, over the past year, the diabetes patient community was able to accomplish something truly quite extraordinary. You should know about that, and even better, you also have a chance to participate in that!Specifically, in 2013, the diabetes online community started a petition (see http:...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 20, 2014 Category: Endocrinology Tags: biogenerics Biosimilar diatribe FDA hypoglycemia Lantus Lilly Sanofi Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Injury Stories: the Sacred Cows of the Internet?
When I first started looking into vaccines, I had no idea that an anti-vaccine movement even existed. I came across claims that the vaccines were toxic and dangerous; the diseases, it was claimed, were not. I have some background in science, so I was able to dismiss those claims as inaccurate, but I couldn’t help but be drawn in by tragic, angry and deeply personal stories from parents who claimed their children were harmed by vaccines.
I dared not question them, but I still couldn’t understand…
If vaccine injuries were occurring on a scale like this, why wasn’t anybody doing anything about it? And why wasn’t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 19, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Access Advocacy Publc Health Source Type: blogs
Alternative medicine: There should only be one standard
“Doctor, what do you think of alternative medicine?” a patient with chronic fatigue syndrome asked me the other day. She was interested in doing something more for her severe fatigue. “Would acupuncture help me?”
I paused and, as I have done many times before, answered that my training and most of my clinical experience has been in Western, allopathic medicine. (Ironically, the word “allopathic” was first used as a derogatory term by the classically trained physician Samuel Hahnemann, who founded homeopathy after becoming disillusioned by medicine as it was practiced in his era.)
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 16, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: A Country Doctor, MD Tags: Meds Heart Medications Source Type: blogs
How does chronic pain management work? A self concept hypothesis
In my previous post looking at how chronic pain management works, I put forward the hypothesis that
“What DOES change is [people's] self efficacy or belief that they CAN do what’s important in their lives – by hook or by crook. And even more importantly, they have something to DO that’s important to them. Maybe something that hasn’t been studied in sufficient detail is what a person wants to be able to do, what’s their motivation, what are their valued occupations? That’s a hypothesis about therapeutic change I think we need to ponder.”
Later in the comments I mentioned the idea of renegotiating sel...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - August 31, 2014 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Coping strategies Motivation Research Resilience/Health Return to Work biopsychosocial Chronic pain Clinical reasoning function pain management rehabilitation treatment Source Type: blogs
Eight Month-Old Baby Dies Just Weeks After Hepatitis B Vaccination; His Innocent Father Is Still In Jail 20 Years Later
Conclusion
After reading Dr. Al-Batati’s report in full and hearing Bryant’s own account of what happened on the night that Jordan died, I believe that Bryant Arroyo is an innocent man and that this case is in fact an elaborate cover-up by the medical profession, the police and US judicial system to hide the facts of what really happened to baby Jordan on the night that he died.
I say this because the facts speak for themselves.
Jordan was an extremely sick little boy, particularly in the months prior to his death. On many occasions, doctors neglected to diagnose that he was suffering from a life-threatening genetic il...
Source: vactruth.com - April 7, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Bryant Arroyo the truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
This Study Reveals Children are Being Vaccinated With Toxic Levels of Aluminium Causing Neurological Damage and Autism
Conclusion
Aluminum, as these papers have demonstrated, is extremely toxic, especially when children are repeatedly vaccinated with vaccines containing aluminum over the recommended limits. The FDA and ASPEN recommend 25 mcg to be a safe limit and yet, as Dr. Sears has shown in his article, many of the childhood vaccinations contain aluminum far in excess of this amount.
The papers that I have studied make it abundantly clear that the more vaccines that children receive containing aluminum, the greater chance they have of developing autism, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and neurological deficits in the future....
Source: vactruth.com - January 28, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Aluminum Adjuvant autism Dr. Sears Dr. Tomljenovic truth about vaccines vaccine ingredients Source Type: blogs
Gliadin: The Universal Human Poison
Autoimmunity is the process describing an immune response waged against our own organs. The complex collection of mechanisms consisting of T and B lymphocytes, antibodies, and others, meant to provide protection against viruses, bacteria, and other body invaders, is misdirected against proteins of the body’s organs, such as liver, pancreas, thyroid, or brain. Autoimmune conditions now affect 8% of the American population–it is increasingly looking like diseases of autoimmunity are out of control.
Dr Alessio Fasano was recently awarded the Linus Pauling Award, the highest award from the Institute for Functional...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 7, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Autoimmunity Gliadin Source Type: blogs
De-discovering pathogens: Viral contamination strikes again
Qiagen spin column at right. The silica layer is white. The spin column is placed in the microcentrifuge tube, left, to remove liquids and elute nucleic acids.
Do you remember the retrovirus XMRV, initially implicated as the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, and later shown to be a murine virus that contaminated human cells grown in mice? Another virus thought to be associated with human disease has recently been shown to be a contaminant, derived from a piece of laboratory plasticware that is commonly used to purify nucleic acids from clinical samples.
During a search for the causative agent of seronegative hepatitis (di...
Source: virology blog - September 18, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information circovirus contaminant diatom parvovirus Qiagen retrovirus silica spin column viral xmrv Source Type: blogs
De-discovering pathogens: Viral contamination strikes again
Qiagen spin column at right. The silica layer is white. The spin column is placed in the microcentrifuge tube, left, to remove liquids and elute nucleic acids.
Do you remember the retrovirus XMRV, initially implicated as the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome, and later shown to be a murine virus that contaminated human cells grown in mice? Another virus thought to be associated with human disease has recently been shown to be a contaminant, derived from a piece of laboratory plasticware that is commonly used to purify nucleic acids from clinical samples.
During a search for the causative agent of seronegative hepatitis (di...
Source: virology blog - September 18, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information circovirus contaminant diatom parvovirus Qiagen retrovirus silica spin column viral xmrv Source Type: blogs
