Profit over Safety – Centers for Disease Control Names 271 New Vaccinations
Conclusion
How many vaccinations will be considered to be a sensible number? If all of the vaccinations currently under development are deemed a success, how many of them will be added to the schedule? As there is little research to determine which ingredients are in the vaccinations listed as “under development” by the CDC, many parents are concerned about their toxicity and how best to protect their children.
I will leave you with the wise words of Robert F, Kennedy Jr: “Vaccine industry money has neutralized virtually all of the checks and balances that once stood between a rapacious pharmaceutical industry and ou...
Source: vactruth.com - August 3, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories Centers for Disease Control (CDC) PhRMA Robert F. Kennedy Jr. World Health Organization (WHO) Source Type: blogs
Introducing an incidental informationist
An Incidental Informationist
I’m Tobin Magle, the Biomedical Sciences Research Support Specialist at the Health Sciences Library on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. I’m so excited to be a guest writer for the Krafty Librarian as she takes on her responsibilities as MLA president.
My dirty little secret is that I don’t have a library degree: my background is in research science. I have a PhD in microbiology, and my research focused on parasites like Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agent of malaria.
While working on studying these pathogens is a very worthwhile...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - July 24, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Tobin Magle Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Aging as the Greatest Disease of All
Here I'll point you to a discussion paper published last month on the topic of whether or not aging is a disease: it is on the whole eminently sensible and well worth reading, and it is a pity that the vast majority of the people who would most benefit from looking over this paper will never even notice that it exists.
In recent years a large amount of ink has been spilled in the debate over whether or not aging should be either colloquially or formally defined as a disease, although this is a discussion almost entirely restricted to the scientific community, invisible to the world at large. As I've noted in the past this...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 14, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
The End of the End Times
Ed Brayton, who must have a cast iron cerebral cortex, spends his days traversing the malaria infested swamps of wingnutistan. Lately he has come back with a remarkable harvest of reactions to the Supreme Court's decision on same sex marriage, from such as megapreacher Robert Jeffress, Tony Perkins, not the original psycho but a more modern one, Glenn Beck associate Matt Walsh, and various others. Visit his blog and you can see them all!What is passing strange about all this is that we have had same sex marriage in many states for many years now, not to mention most of western Europe and a few other places around the world...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 5, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Horizons: Extending Lives, Defying Mortality
Here is a link to the presentation page for a recent BBC program on initiatives aiming to give us control over aging and death, with video clips on cryonics and SENS rejuvenation research:
We are in an era of disruptive technologies and innovation. Keeping resources, property and people safe and in good health, protected from the environment, disease and the passage of time are all imperative for mankind to thrive in the decades ahead. For instance some scientists think that we're close to a breakthrough in radically delaying ageing, if not halting it entirely. This comes at a time when life expectancy is increasing and t...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 27, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Threat To Global Health?
Lost in the political discussions over the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a trade agreement currently being negotiated in secret between the U.S. and 11 other Pacific-Rim nations—is the very real negative impact it would have on global health.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works in over 60 countries, and our medical teams rely on access to affordable medicines and vaccines. We are deeply concerned that the TPP, in its current form, will lock-in high, unsustainable drug prices, block or delay the availability of affordable generic medicines, and price millions of people...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 8, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Deane Marchbein Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Equity and Disparities Featured Global Health Public Health Doctors Without Borders fair trade generic drugs obama trade deal TPP Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership Source Type: blogs
Health Care Equity Needed To Fight Ebola
Many of us have felt helpless watching the devastation caused by Ebola in West Africa, which has killed nearly 11,000, and sickened thousands more. After a disgracefully sluggish start to the international aid response, Liberia has celebrated a milestone with no new cases for five consecutive weeks, and there have been no new health worker infections for the last two weeks. However, Sierra Leone and Guinea are still fighting to eradicate the disease.
Faced with the daunting realities of the Ebola epidemic, health care professionals across the U.S. raised their collective voice to advocate for equity as a key weapon again...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 1, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Andrea Christopher Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Global Health Health Professionals Public Health Africa Ebola Health Care Spending health equality health equity infectious disease Millennium Development Goals mortality Vaccine WHO Source Type: blogs
On The Pulse - 01st May 2015
Vaccine offers partial protection against malaria (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - May 1, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: blogs
NLM Project to Improve Malaria Diagnosis Wins HHS Funding
Researchers at the National Library of Medicine are collaborating on a software tool to speed up the diagnosis of malaria. They’ve developed an automated system for detecting and counting parasites in blood films. The goal is to develop a version for smartphones so it can be used in the field. The project, “Watch it, Parasite!,”… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - April 23, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Research & Development Source Type: blogs
A Potential Approach to Clearing Cytomegalovirus
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a herpesvirus that causes few if any noticeable issues in most people when they are first exposed to it. By the time old age rolls around, near everyone tests positive for CMV. It is thought that the presence of this virus goes some way towards explaining the age-related decline of the adaptive immune system. The immune system has in effect a limited number of cells at any given time since the replacement rate is low in adults. Since CMV cannot be cleared from the body, and continually reemerges to challenge the immune system, ever more immune cells become devoted to battling CMV rather than defend...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 8, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Bumper Stickers
Proud to be an AmericanYou seem to think that's an achievement, something you earned by hard work and merit. I'll bet 100 to 1 you were born here. It's just a circumstance in which you found yourself, fortuitously if that's how you feel about it. I don't see how it's anything to be proud of. As a matter of fact, I would also wager that people who actually did achieve the status are people you don't particularly like.God Bless AmericaSo apparently as far as you know God has no plans to bless America, but you're hoping he'll see your bumper sticker and say, "What the heck, let's throw them a blessing." Is that really how he ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 5, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
To Advance Medical Innovation, Put International Best Practices In A National Context
Editor’s note: This post is part of a series of several posts related to the 4th European Forum on Health Policy and Management: Innovation & Implementation, held in Berlin, Germany on January 29 and 30, 2015. For updates on the Forum’s results please check the Center for Healthcare Management’s website or follow on Twitter @HCMatColumbia.
Innovation is a driving force of any nation’s economy, shaping the delivery of new services and the development of new products. Nowhere is this more true than in the US health care system which represents nearly a fifth of GDP. Medical innovation has catalyzed improvements i...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 4, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: David Roye and Kevin Wang Tags: All Categories Health IT Innovation Policy Research Science and Health Technology Source Type: blogs
Non-Embryonic Stem Cells and Malaria Treatment
A recent study from MIT (available here) has found that stem cells developed from blood and skin samples can be manufactured into liver like cells. The implications of this are exciting on two different levels: 1) this is another success for ethically derived stem cells; 2) this study is being used to develop treatment for malaria – a disease that has a lifelong impact on those it... // Read More » (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 17, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Courtney Thiele Tags: Health Care Stem Cells bioethics Consent / Research syndicated Source Type: blogs
Disappointing Comments on Longevity Science From Bill Gates
In a recent Reddit discussion, philanthropist Bill Gates had this to say about the present growth in research aimed at extending healthy life spans:
It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer. It would be nice to live longer though I admit.
The comments were of course replicated far and wide in the echo chamber of the press: Gates has a soapbox of an enviable size, even among billionaires. The context here is the Silicon Valley network of wealth that, in quite different ways, funds both Google Venture's new California Life Company investment and th...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
