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
Are Vaccines Right for Your Child? Debunking the Myths of the DTaP Vaccine
Conclusion
As a journalist and a mother myself, I found Dr. Lewis’s paper to be poorly written, lacking in substance and containing very few credible references. If parents are given poor information and very few facts, how can they ever make an informed decision about vaccinations?
Parents are continually being lied to by the medical profession, the mainstream media, the pharmaceutical industry and world governments, and it needs to stop. How can we trust a person paid to vaccinate our children? Let’s face it – Dr. Karen Lewis is, after all, the Medical Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. She is h...
Source: vactruth.com - August 17, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Dr. Karen Lewis DTaP vaccine dtp Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
AdDRESSing the Causes of Rash
Conclusion: DRESS syndrome is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition with an estimated mortality rate of 10 percent. Suspicion must be high because it may present as a spectrum of nonspecific clinical and laboratory findings.Tags: rash, tox cave, DRESS, DRESS syndrome, RegiSCAR, hepatitis, myocarditis, myositisPublished: 8/7/2014 2:50:00 PM (Source: The Tox Cave)
Source: The Tox Cave - August 7, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
AdDRESSing the Causes of Rash
Conclusion: DRESS syndrome is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition with an estimated mortality rate of 10 percent. Suspicion must be high because it may present as a spectrum of nonspecific clinical and laboratory findings.Tags: rash, tox cave, DRESS, DRESS syndrome, RegiSCAR, hepatitis, myocarditis, myositisPublished: 8/7/2014 2:50:00 PM (Source: The Tox Cave)
Source: The Tox Cave - August 7, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Research and Reviews in the Fastlane 036
This study found that a high percentage (49%) of patients with serious adverse outcomes after an ED visit for COPD were not initially admitted to the hospital. The authors used logistic regression to derive a decision instrument to aid in determining which patients with COPD exacerbation should be admitted based on risk stratification. The study does not show that admission improves outcomes but the instrument may prove useful for risk stratification if it is prospectively validated.
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Emergency Medicine, Critical care, Anaesthetics
Barends CRM ,Absalom AR. Tied up in science: unknotting ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 25, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Nudrat Rashid Tags: Anaesthetics Emergency Medicine Evidence Based Medicine Featured Health Infectious Disease Intensive Care Respiratory Resuscitation critical care literature R&R in the FASTLANE recommendations research and reviews Source Type: blogs
RA meningitis as stroke mimic
Bourgeois P et al. Rheumatoid arthritis presenting with stroke like episodes. Neurology 2014; 82: 1564-5. 70 yo male presented with series of TIA like events over ten days consisting of right leg more than arm weakness. He had poorly controlled RA. MRI was negative for brain parenchyma but there was enhancement of meninges and pachymeningitis. Meningeal biopsy was positive and patient was successfully treated by Solumedrol 1 gram per day followed by 1 mg/kg/day prednisone, tapered over months with no recurrence. Other reported presentations of RA meningiti...
Source: neurologyminutiae - May 17, 2014 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
Can You Avoid Lumbar Puncture in Febrile Neonates?
I don’t have a problem with lumbar punctures in febrile neonates. In fact, my son ended up with three lumbar punctures before aging out of the febrile seizure protocols. I do have a problem, however, with doing unnecessary spinal taps. The emotional stress of a neonatal LP on parents is significant, and the physical stress of the procedure on the infant is also substantial.
The pain of the needle and the unique restraint required for the procedure are also potentially problematic. The pain of the needle can be minimized by EMLA cream (eutectic mixture of local anesthetics [lidocaine and prilocaine]) and local anes...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - May 1, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Can You Avoid Lumbar Puncture in Febrile Neonates?
I don’t have a problem with lumbar punctures in febrile neonates. In fact, my son ended up with three lumbar punctures before aging out of the febrile seizure protocols. I do have a problem, however, with doing unnecessary spinal taps. The emotional stress of a neonatal LP on parents is significant, and the physical stress of the procedure on the infant is also substantial.
The pain of the needle and the unique restraint required for the procedure are also potentially problematic. The pain of the needle can be minimized by EMLA cream (eutectic mixture of local anesthetics [lidocaine and prilocaine]) and local ...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - May 1, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Angiostrongyliasis and Travel
The following chronology of travel-associated angiostrongyliasis is abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series [1]
Four cases of angiostrongyliasis has been reported in Victoria, Australia as of 1999 – including three (one fatal) imported from Fiji.
1982 (publication year) – An outbreak (16 cases) was reported among Korean fisherman in American Samoa – traced to ingestion of giant African snails (Achatina fulica).
1984 (publication year) – Three cases of angiostrongyliasis acquired in Western Samoa were treated at a hospital in New Zealand.
1988 – A French travele...
Source: GIDEON blog - April 12, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Ebooks Epidemiology ProMED Angiostrongylus Travel Source Type: blogs
HHS OIG 2014 Work Plan
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ("HHS") Office of Inspector General ("OIG") released its annual 2014 Work Plan. In addition, the OIG has posted a 25-minute video vignette featuring senior OIG executives discussing the OIG's top priorities for fiscal year 2014. The OIG annually publishes a Work Plan that summarizes new and ongoing reviews and activities that OIG plans to pursue during the applicable fiscal year.
As noted by The Beat at Cooley Health: The inclusion of an item in the OIG Work Plan does not necessarily mean that OIG will seek enforcement with regard to that item, or that all interest...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 14, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Pro vaccination campaign – Mumps
There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and the gibberish peddled by those who think governments shouldn’t advise us on what to do when it comes to health, even if it could save lives. Here are a few answers to the antivax brigade.
Boy with mumps – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumps – Mumps is rarely lethal but can cause orchitis in adolescent and adult male...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 10, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
CDC Announces 2014 Adult Immunization Schedule
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has announced its recommended adult immunization schedule for 2014. Among the key changes to the schedule for 2014 include revised notes on administering vaccines for flu; tetanus, diphtheria, and accellular pertussis; human papillomavirus (HPV); zoster virus; pneumococcal disease and meningococcal disease.
CDC’s easy-to-read immunization schedules are available for health care professionals and the public. Schedules are available for infants and children (birth through 6 years old), preteens and teens (7 through ...
Source: BHIC - February 7, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Lori Tagawa Tags: General Public Health Websites Source Type: blogs
Pathogenic Neisseria
John K. Davies and Charlene M. Kahler present a new book on Pathogenic Neisseria: Genomics, Molecular Biology and Disease Intervention The human pathogens, Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are exquisitely adapted to life within the human mucosa, their only natural niche. N. meningitidis is the causative agent of rapidly transmissible meningitis and septic shock. Vaccines developed to control this pathogen can be rendered ineffective by the pathogen’s ability to undergo antigenic variation. In contrast, there are no current vaccination prospects for N. gonorrhoeae, the causative agent of sexually transm...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - January 31, 2014 Category: Microbiology 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
Father Jailed For Life Without Parole After His 12 Week-Old Daughter Died After Receiving 8 Vaccinations!
Conclusion
Despite Marrie’s obvious concerns that her daughter may have suffered from possible vaccine injuries, vaccines were the last things on anyone’s mind when it came to charging and sentencing Mr. Sanders. In fact, absolutely no expert witnesses from any field of medicine was asked to give evidence in Mr. Sanders’ defense. This case was completely one-sided, hinging on weak, flimsy evidence, all of which was completely circumstantial.
The only way that this prosecution team could know for sure that Mr. Sanders shook his baby daughter to death would have been video evidence or a credible eyewitness ...
Source: vactruth.com - January 16, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories multiple vaccinations Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) Vaccine Death vaccine injury vitamin C deficiency Source Type: blogs
