Investigators vs. Industry In Clinical Research: Guiding The Hand That Treats Us
The objective was to determine whether the firm should adopt a new research strategy and invest corporate resources into the development of novel therapeutics in this area.
As the intense two-day meeting progressed, it was clear that there are a number of kidney diseases for which there is a pressing need for better treatments. The panelists, all of whom were full-time faculty at university-based medical centers and directly involved in patient care, had a broad array of expertise in the laboratory and clinical investigation of glomerular disease. They forthrightly recognized gaps in knowledge, the frequent lack of identi...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 17, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Howard Trachtman and Arthur Caplan Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Health Professionals Population Health genomics Industry Research Source Type: blogs
Will Governor Brown Take the Risk as the African-American Community Says NO to SB277?
Conclusion
Will Governor Jerry Brown think twice and really risk the wrath of the black community? Will he even read Mrs. Sullivan’s letter or care about the many religious groups opposing vaccinations due to their ingredients?
It appears that more governments worldwide are mandating vaccinations on a daily basis and parents are completely powerless to stop them. Who are these people who make all the decisions, and what right do they have to impose their largely unproven theories that ALL vaccinations are safe and effective for ALL children?
Let’s face it, it does make you wonder what their real agenda is, doesn’t it...
Source: vactruth.com - June 16, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Picks Mandatory Vaccination SB 277 vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs
4 Month-Old Infant From Tennessee Passed Away After Given 7 Vaccines
Parents in Memphis, Tennessee, are mourning the loss of their baby girl Ja’Liyah Cortize Turner, after she passed away in her sleep, less than four days after receiving seven vaccines. Her mother Quavia felt pressured into getting her daughter further vaccinated, even though she didn’t want to, because her daughter had a bad reaction from the round of vaccines given to her earlier.
Ja’Liyah’s autopsy report did not mention the vaccines even though she still had the knots on her legs at the injection sites. Her cause of death was ruled “Unknown, Undetermined.” The autopsy stated Ja’Liyah had no significant...
Source: vactruth.com - June 3, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories dtap Hepatitis B vaccine Infant Mortality Pneumococcal PCV Polio Vaccine Rotavirus Vaccine Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
Michigan Baby Dies, Pathologists Confirm Vaccines Responsible
Conclusion
It is very clear that vaccine-related deaths and injuries are being intentionally hidden. Parents of vaccine-injured children are doing their own investigations and coming forward more, seeking the truth denied to them by health officials.
Inform your friends, family and neighbors that this is going on, that children are dying from the vaccines. Be brave. Help preserve your fundamental right to choose what gets injected into you or your child’s body. Making good medical decisions can only be done when you are informed.
Our hearts go out to Danny and his family and all of the other precious children who have su...
Source: vactruth.com - May 14, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories cytokine storm DTaP vaccine Elijah Daniel French L.J. Dragovic M.D. MMR vaccine Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
Meet Nels Elde and His Team’s Amazing, Expandable Viruses
Credit: Kristan Jacobsen
Nels Elde, Ph.D.
Fields: Evolutionary genetics, virology, microbiology, cell biology
Works at: University of Utah, Salt Lake City
When not in the lab, he’s: Gardening, supervising pets, procuring firewood
Hobbies: Canoeing, skiing, participating in facial hair competitions
“I really look at my job as an adventure,” says Nels Elde. “The ability to follow your nose through different fields is what motivates me.”
Elde has used that approach to weave evolutionary genetics, bacteriology, virology, genomics and cell biology into his work. While a graduate student at the University of Chica...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 7, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Cell Biology Genetics Profiles Source Type: blogs
Hepatitis A in Lebanon
Hepatitis A rates in Lebanon are similar to those reported in neighboring Israel during the 1990’s [see graph]
In 1999 (arrow) Israel became the first country to introduce universal Hepatitis A vaccination, a policy which might help reverse the increasing incidence experienced by Lebanon. [1-3]
References:
1. Berger SA. Infectious Diseases of Lebanon, 2015. 389 pages, 54 graphs, 1,569 references. Gideon e3-books, http://www.gideononline.com/ebooks/country/infectious-diseases-of-lebanon/
2. Berger SA. Hepatitis A: Global Status, 2015. 184 pages, 183 graphs, 1,775 references. Gideon e-books, http://www.gideononline...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Hepatitis A Lebanon Source Type: blogs
Six Month-Old Baby Dies Just Five Days After Receiving 13 Vaccines
Conclusion
Deciding on whether to vaccinate your baby is never easy. In this case, Alisa decided to hold back on having her baby vaccinated until he was older. She was then emotionally blackmailed and forced into having her baby over-vaccinated with a massive cocktail of vaccines, by whom many would call an overzealous doctor.
She was not offered any information on the vaccinations being given to her baby, she was not given any paperwork and she was not offered any advice on any possible adverse reactions.
Alisa trusted her doctor to do the right thing and was let down in the worse possible way and believes that the doctor...
Source: vactruth.com - April 23, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Human Top Stories Dr. Paul Offit Dr. Tomljenovic truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
FDA Acting Commissioner Ostroff Addresses the "State of the FDA"
The 2015 FDLI Annual Conference kicked off yesterday in Washington, DC. The conference hosted a variety of impressive speakers from the Food and Drug Administration, as well as FDA lawyers and in-house counsel. Dr. Stephen Ostroff, the Acting Commissioner at FDA, spoke as the conference's keynote speaker. After congratulating previous Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on an impressive tenure as FDA Commissioner, Ostroff ran through a long list of recent FDA accomplishments--"hitting the highlights," as he called it. Following Ostroff's address, a panel of industry experts provided a "to do list" for the agency for the co...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
New Cures Require New Pricing Policies
One critical incentive for ongoing drug discovery and development is the temporary monopoly pricing that manufacturers can command for novel drugs. Yet this incentive, embedded in current patent and regulatory policy, does not guarantee that manufacturers will deliver novel products with clinically meaningful benefits. Indeed there are many diseases---including Alzheimer’s disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)---that pose significant patient, family, and societal burden but have not benefited from meaningful treatment advances.
Meanwhile, the American public appears increasingly wary of the unintended conseque...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 16, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Rena Conti Tags: Health Policy Lab costs drugs Pharma pricing Source Type: blogs
Nickson Would be Celebrating Life if it Weren’t for Vaccines
Conclusion
Parents need to be able to choose what goes into their child’s body, especially when their babies are not born full-term or have any underlying health problems at birth. When a product such as a vaccine is injected into a child, known to be associated with severe risks, including death, there should be a standard protocol in place for these families to get needed support when the risks outweigh the benefits. No one can predict how a vaccine will negatively affect a person.
Lindsey and other families going through this, suffering the loss of a child likely caused by the vaccine(s) given to them, when no other p...
Source: vactruth.com - April 9, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) vaccine court Vaccine Death VAERS Source Type: blogs
The sense of superiority by those who are pro-vaccine
Thanks to the measles outbreak, the news is full of stories on vaccines and anti-vaxxers. The blogosphere and Twitterverse and all the other social media dimensions are buzzing with invective against ignorant unvaccinated savages and their backward science denial. For the record, I’m a pro-vaccine physician. My children have been and are vaccinated, despite being unsocialized homeschoolers.
I’ve had my own share of needles; Physicians are mandated to have hepatitis B, influenza, and all the other standards. As a former Air Force officer, I also enjoyed the singular delights of typhoid and yellow fever immunization (alt...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 19, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Edwin Leap, MD Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, March 6, 2015
From MedPage Today:
Trends in Teen, Young Adult Suicide Differ by Gender. Patterns of suicides among adolescents and young adults changed dramatically from 1994 to 2012, with major gender differences in these 19-year trends.
Early Hot Flashes May Predict Heart Disease. Early-onset and frequent hot flashes and night sweats in women were associated with poorer endothelial function.
Hepatitis E Vaccine Has Lasting Effect. A vaccine against hepatitis E (HEV) provided protection against the virus for more than 4 years.
Getting Inspired About the Lean, Mean PCMH. As we continue planning our first patient-centered medical home ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News GI OB/GYN Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
California Infant Dies after 8 Vaccines, Family Gets Him Back from Hospital Cremated
Conclusion
As long as vaccine manufacturers avoid doing causation studies, as long as this data doesn’t exist, health officials and published vaccine-promoting, peer-reviewed literature can state there is no proof vaccines cause SIDS or other vaccine injuries.
How can a medical examiner be sure of which vaccine caused a person’s health to decline when multiple vaccines are given at a time? Overstimulating the immune system via vaccination can lead to a fatal outcome. Since it is proven difficult to narrow down which vaccine contributed to a child’s death after vaccination, giving numerous or combination vaccines shou...
Source: vactruth.com - February 26, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Human Top Stories adverse reactions Crystal Downing death dtap hep b HiB Matthew Gage Downing-Powers Pneumococcal PCV rotavirus Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Source Type: blogs
TBT: Looking beyond the money: Crucial steps to getting vaccines to children
Over the past 5 years we have had some great, insightful and inspiring posts, many of whose content is still relevant today. For this reason we are implementing TBT on the blog. Every Thursday we will run blogs from the past. Enjoy!
The following post originally ran on May 8, 2012.
Without money, many nations can’t afford to tackle health care issues and introduce the life-saving vaccines that are critical to child survival in the developing world. But even after a vaccine is introduced and money has been spent, some children never see even the first dose. With so much investment and effort, you wonder — how can t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: TBT Source Type: blogs
