Baby Girl Dies Hours After Getting 5 Vaccinations
CONCLUSION Interestingly, the OPV vaccinations were discontinued in the USA in 2000 because they were causing vaccine-associated paralytic polio. Rather than destroy these life-threatening vaccinations, these vaccines, along with many other discontinued and dangerous vaccines, were shipped over to the developing world to be used there. [5] Sickening, isn’t it? Not according to Bill Gates, who says that in six years polio will be wiped off the planet. He said: “We are on the verge of doing something we’ve never been able to do before—reaching the vast majority of children in the remotest places in the world.” ...
Source: vactruth.com - March 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Recent Articles Top Stories Bill Gates Paralysis Polio Vaccine Death Vaccine Safety vaccine schedule Source Type: blogs

Bill Gates Continues ‘God’s Work’, Third World Vaccine Workers Shot Dead
CONCLUSION It appears that Mr. Gates will go to any lengths to vaccinate the world, even if the world makes it very clear that they do not want his vaccines. Rather than vaccinating more children, if he was such a humanitarian, why has he allowed vulnerable, sick children to be dumped in the middle of nowhere to die? Surely the world would applaud him far more loudly if he spent his millions making sure that any vaccine casualties were sufficiently cared for.   References 1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/bill-gates/9812672/… 2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/18/polio… 3. http://www.guardi...
Source: vactruth.com - February 26, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Adverse Events Bill Gates MenAfriVac population control Source Type: blogs

The History of the College and the Advances in American and International Cardiology
This post was authored by John Gordon Harold, MD, MACC, incoming President of the ACC.   Those who know me know that I am a bit of a history buff and have a particular interest in the history of the College and cardiology as a whole. Dr. Berndt Lüderitz, Dr. David Holmes and I recently published an article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology about the history of the German Cardiac Society (GCS) and the ACC.    Those who don’t know the story of how the College was founded, the article is definitely worth a read (it’s short and sweet, I promise!) Here is the ...
Source: ACC in Touch Blog - February 22, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Administrator Tags: Professionalism Source Type: blogs

Health Equity Symposium: Science and Medicine in Africa
Don't miss the upcoming Health Equity Symposium: Science and Medicine in Africa It has been a long standing challenge to help the developing world to battle disease, and while examples of progress have been made, including the eradication of smallpox, and the near eradication of polio, developing nations are still disproportionately burdened by infectious diseases that devastate lives and livelihoods, and put a continuous drag on struggling economies. Some nations are making progress in public health, but a new unexpected burden of chronic, non-communicable diseases has emerged with changes in lifestyle and increasing li...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - February 19, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Africa Novartis Source Type: blogs

Smoke, Mirrors, and the “Disappearance” of Polio
Suzanne Humphries, MD, Internist and Nephrologist speaking on Polio at the Association of Natural Health Conference, November 2012.   You can get more information about Dr. Suzanne Humphries here. References Additional Bibliography (Other references in slides) Suzanne Humphries, 2012, Polio lecture. AONH NFIP quote on firing scientists: Marks H., A conversation with Paul Meier, Clin Trials. 2004: (1) 131 ‐138 PMID:16281468 Boulianne N,Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2001 Nov;20(11):1087‐8. Most ten‐year‐old children with negative or unknown histories of chickenpox are immune. PMID:11734718 Neel JV et. al, 1964. “Studi...
Source: vactruth.com - February 15, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Suzanne Humphries, M.D. Tags: Suzanne Humphries MD Top Stories Polio Vaccine poliomyelitis Vaccine Contamination Vaccine Safety Source Type: blogs

White House PCAST: Rival Countries Gaining on US Medical Research Spending
The Nation once led the world in investments in research and development (R&D) as a share of gross domestic product (GDP), but more recently, the United States has been investing less in R&D than other leading and emerging nations invest.  Moreover, U.S. industry has been shifting its investments toward applied R&D, narrowing the support for basic and early-stage applied research, which is crucial to transforming innovation.   Without adequate support for such research, the United States risks losing its leadership in invention and discovery—the driving force behind the new industries and jobs that have p...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

9 Magic Words Prove Vaccines Are Unavoidably Unsafe
Conclusion If you decide to vaccinate your child, you do so at your own risk. Your doctor can tell you vaccines are perfectly safe and your child will be “protected”, but the ones who are really “protected” are the doctors and the vaccine companies. What can you do? Take action right now. Click on this link and download the vaccine ingredients. Then, look at the vaccine schedule and see what is going to be injected into your child.   References 1. www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/postmarketdrugsafety… 2. www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium-cantaloupe-08-12/index.html 3. www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/CORENetwork...
Source: vactruth.com - February 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Cancer National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) Simian Virus 40 (SV40) vaccine ingredients Vaccine Safety vaccine schedule Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 11th 2013
Discussion - Latest Headlines from Fight Aging!     - An Interview With Judith Campisi     - Parkinson's Disease as Localized Garbage Catastrophe     - An Actuarial Overview on Human Longevity and Mortality     - A Popular Science Article on the Study of the Axolotl     - Telomere Length as Biomarker of Somatic Redundancy     - Being Overweight is Harmful at All Ages, In No Way Protective     - Chromatin and Transposons in Senescent Cells     - Gene Copy Number Vari...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

The Spirit Of The Place: Samuel Shem’s New Book May Depress You
When I was in medical school, I read Samuel Shem’s House Of God as a right of passage. At the time I found it to be a cynical yet eerily accurate portrayal of the underbelly of academic medicine.  I gained comfort from its gallows humor – and it made me feel connected to my peers during the most stressful time of my training. So when I was invited to review Shem’s “bookend” to House Of God, it was with a sense of eagerness and nostalgia that I accepted the challenge. How had the author’s thinking developed since the launch of his first blockbuster in 1978? I hoped to find a kinder, gent...
Source: Better Health - February 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Book Reviews Bill Starbuck Fiction Orville Rose Samuel Shem Starbusol The House Of God The Spirit Of The Place Source Type: blogs

The First Person to Live to 150 Has Already Been Born
Wagering on the proposition that the person who will first reach 150 years of age is already alive is no wager at all, really. It's a very safe bet that at some point in the next century the medical technologies needed for significant human rejuvenation will be developed. The risky bet is on whether it will happen soon enough for those of us in mid-life now - that will take much more advocacy, public enthusiasm, and rapid growth in research funding than has so far emerged. Here is an interview with Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation at Forbes: [Forbes]: Please comment on the myth of aging how how we need not ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Petition to ban intelligence involvement in public health campaigns
A petition has been created which asks the Obama Administration to ban intelligence involvement in public health campaigns: We petition President Obama to amend Executive Order 12333, adding a paragraph after the prohibition on covert action related to US domestic politics. The amendment should ban persons in the intelligence community or acting on their behalf from joining or participating in any activity directly related to the provision of child public health services. Charles Kenny of the Center for Global Development provides background on the petition. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 14, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Information immunization pakistan polio poliovirus vaccine viral virology Source Type: blogs

Poliovirus on Time
Poliovirus has made the cover of Time magazine. The Time cover image for the 14 January 2013 issue is a model of poliovirus bound to a soluble form of its cellular receptor, CD155. I was part of the team that solved the structure of this complex in 2000, together with the laboratories of Jim Hogle and Alasdair Steven. The structure of the same complex was also solved by Rossmann’s group. The image that Time used for the cover was produced by Laguna Design, although I do not know whether they used our structural information or Rossmann’s. The Time cover image is accompanied by the text: One thing stands in the w...
Source: virology blog - January 12, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information cd155 jeffrey kluger poliovirus pvr receptor time magazine viral Source Type: blogs

The Future Of The Polio Eradication Campaign
The week of December 17 was a grim one for the polio eradication effort in Pakistan. Seven Pakistani women health workers and two Pakistani men, all working to ensure the success of the polio campaign, were killed, presumably by members of the Pakistani Taliban. This is a tragedy, for the families of those killed, for the children who will go unvaccinated after the government’s suspension of the vaccine campaign, and for the effort to eradicate polio worldwide. Pakistan is one of only three countries remaining with endemic wild polio virus (the others are Afghanistan and Nigeria). It also had turned a corner in its ...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 11, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Judith Kaufmann Tags: All Categories Global Health Public Health Source Type: blogs

Deans write to Obama about CIA vaccine scheme in Pakistan
Deans of public health schools in the United States have sent the following letter to President Obama, in which they criticize the use of a vaccination campaign by the Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan to hunt for Osama bin Laden. I wonder if he will reply. January 6, 2013 Dear President Obama, In the first years of the Peace Corps, its director, Sargent Shriver, discovered that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was infiltrating his efforts and programs for covert purposes. Mr. Shriver forcefully expressed the unacceptability of this to the President. His action, and the repeated vigilance and actions of future d...
Source: virology blog - January 8, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Events Information CIA hepatitis b virus Osama bin Laden pakistan polio poliomyelitis vaccination viral virology Source Type: blogs

WHO will switch to type 2 inactivated poliovirus vaccine
The World Health Organization’s campaign to eradicate poliomyelitis made impressive inroads in 2012: only 212 cases were reported, compared with 620 the previous year; moreover, India remained polio-free. The dark side of this story is that as wild polio is eliminated, vaccine-associated poliomyelitis moves in to take its place. The landmark decision by WHO to replace the infectious, type 2 Sabin poliovaccine with inactivated vaccine is an important step towards eliminating vaccine-associated polio. A known side effect of the Sabin poliovirus vaccines, which are taken orally and replicate in the intestine, is vaccine...
Source: virology blog - January 8, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information eradication IPV OPV polio poliomyelitis poliovirus Sabin Salk vaccine VDPV viral WHO world health organization Source Type: blogs