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
Voices for Vaccines: 11 Facts Show How it’s a Propaganda Ploy for Emory University, CDC, and Big Pharma
Conclusion
The Voices for Vaccines program at the Task Force for Global Health may be administered by a few mothers, but they are not the ones pulling the strings behind the scenes. The information in this article reveals who keeps the lights on for the website and the Task Force organization as a whole.
Furthermore, the past, present and future relationships with the Centers for Disease Control, Emory University, and pharmaceutical companies should immediately raise a red flag for any parent. Especially when the message calls for you to blindly trust doctors injecting dangerous chemicals into your child.
If you want to ta...
Source: vactruth.com - February 19, 2014 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Alan Hinman Deborah Wexler Emory University Paul Offit Stanley Plotkin Task Force for Global Health U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voices for Vaccines 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
7 Most Disgusting Ingredients Used to Make Vaccines
Parents have the right to understand what is being put into their child’s body. The production of vaccines uses many disgusting ingredients. Additionally, the components used during the manufacturing process may violate your personal, religious, or ethical beliefs.
Lastly, remember that whatever colorful language is used by the scientific community (using such words as purified), using such substances can come with an enormous cost.
As you read this list, understand cell lines and vaccines do become contaminated. This is often hidden under the term “adventitious agents.”
Disgusting Ingredient #1: Cells From Aborted F...
Source: vactruth.com - October 28, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories fetal bovine serum human fetal diploid cells vaccine ingredients vaccine production Source Type: blogs
Pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs Expand throughout the World
Over the last few months, several pharmaceutical companies have announced new donations and programs regarding vaccines, as well as increasing access to medicines for important diseases. Below is a summary of some of these activities and we will try to update the story as we come across other announcements.
GlaxoSmithKline
In late July, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that it would increase its commitment to the GAVI Alliance to provide vaccines to developing countries, helping to protect millions more children against infectious diseases. Under this new agreement, GSK will provide an additional 240 million doses ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - September 6, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Book of Nurses 2013: Catherine.
Catherine is a community nurse working with young people in a high school setting in a primary health role. She is one of only 5 School Youth Health Nurses in Canberra, Australia.
30 yrs ago I pinned on my brand spanking new nurses watch and began the career of a lifetime. It is an old fashioned one that you have to wind every day.
I always knew I wanted to be a nurse – don’t really know why but have always loved the smell of hospitals ( weird huh ).
My mum gave me two bits of advice- always wear support stockings and have proper, good fitting shoes. In those days, sheer relief pantyhose and Halls Orthopaedic s...
Source: impactEDnurse - August 31, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: impactEDnurse Tags: ectopics Source Type: blogs
A review of Do You Believe in Magic, by Paul Offit. And a fine piece of timidity from Nature Medicine
Despite the First Amendment in the US and a new Defamation Act in the UK, fear of legal threats continue to suppress the expression of honest scientific opinion.
I was asked by Nature Medicine (which is published in the USA) to write a review of Paul Offit’s new book. He’s something of a hero, so of course I agreed. The editor asked me to make some changes to the first draft, which I did. Then the editor concerned sent me this letter.
Thank you for the revised version of the book review.
The chief editor of the journal took a look at your piece, and he thought that it would be a good idea to run it past ...
Source: DC's goodscience - August 27, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: badscience Bait and switch herbal medicine herbalism regulation supplements Academia alternative medicine DSHEA Orin Hatch Paul Offit Proxmire quackademia quackery Source Type: blogs
Five Month-Old Baby Dies Just Days After 8 Vaccinations – Parents Are Charged With Her Murder
Conclusion
As with so many of these cases, Baby A did not just receive just one vaccine, so it is therefore difficult to pinpoint exactly which vaccine, if any, may have led to her death. However, it is vital that the doctors involved in this case as with all cases, consider the vaccines as a possible contributory factor.
Sadly, these parents have been accused and charged with the murder of their daughter without any substantial evidence of foul play. There appears to be no evidence of external head injuries or bruising to the upper body to indicate that Baby A had been shaken.
I believe that if this child had been shaken ...
Source: vactruth.com - August 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Adverse Reaction Dr. Viera Schreibner Prevenar shaken baby syndrome Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
Playing with the "UCSC Genome Browser Track Hubs". my notebook
The UCSC has recently created the Genome Browser Track Hubs: " Track hubs are web-accessible directories of genomic data that can be viewed on the UCSC Genome Browser. ". I've created a Hub for the Rotavirus Genome hosted on github at:https://github.com/lindenb/genomehub.My data were primarily described as a XML file. It contains a description of the genome, of the tracks, the path to the fasta (Source: YOKOFAKUN)
Source: YOKOFAKUN - July 15, 2013 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Pierre Lindenbaum Source Type: blogs
Post #39 Vomiting and Diarrhea (Gastroenteritis) in Children: A Practical Guide
It certainly looks, sounds and smells awful, but vomiting and diarrhea are rarely dangerous.Vomiting, not to be confused with spitting up, is the expulsion of food from the stomach. Spitting up is more of a laundry problem than a medical problem, and kids who spit up do not become dehydrated. Diarrhea is a little harder to define, because watery stools are fairly common and most healthy individuals will experience it from time to time for reasons which do not qualify as diarrhea.Frequent stools can be normal too, especially in breast-fed babies, who might dirty the diaper every time they feed, up to 12 times a ...
Source: A Pediatrician's Blog - July 13, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Source Type: blogs
Mapping the annotations of a query sequence on a BLAST hit, my notebook.
This post is the answer to my own question on biostar "BLASTN / TBLASTN : mapping the features of the query to the hit.". I wrote a java program to map the annotations of a sequence to the Hit of a Blast result. The tool is available on github at https://github.com/lindenb/jvarkit.For example, say you want to map the features of the Uniprot record for Rotavirus NSP3 (http://www.uniprot.org/ (Source: YOKOFAKUN)
Source: YOKOFAKUN - July 9, 2013 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: Pierre Lindenbaum Source Type: blogs
Vaccination Causes Autism – Here’s What They Know…
Conclusion
It is obvious from listening to the video that not one person whom Congressman Burton or the panel questioned had any conclusive evidence that vaccines did not cause autism. Instead, leading figures gave false information and avoided all of the questions being asked of them. Many had conflicts of interest with the pharmaceutical industry manufacturing the vaccines and saw no problem with this.
Members of the CDC, the FDA and other organizations sanctioning vaccinations are supposed to be independent. If, like Paul Offit, they hold patents to vaccines or are in collaboration with the companies manufacturing the v...
Source: vactruth.com - July 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories autism Bill Posey Committee on Government Reform 2000 Dan Burton Dr. Bernard Rimland Dr. Paul Offit Dr. Poul Thorsen Merck Source Type: blogs
Circovirus in Shanghai
Recently thousands of dead and decaying pigs were pulled from rivers in Shanghai and Jiaxing, China. Apparently farmers dumped the animals into the water after the pigs became ill. Porcine circovirus has been detected in the in pig carcasses and in the water.
Porcine circoviruses are small, icosahedral viruses that were discovered in 1974 as contaminants of a porcine kidney cell line. They were later called circoviruses when their genome was found to be a circular, single-stranded DNA molecule. Upon entry into cells, the viral ssDNA genome enters the nucleus where it is made double-stranded by host enzymes. It is then tran...
Source: virology blog - March 19, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information China PCV-1 PCV-2 pigs porcine circovirus Shanghai viral water Source Type: blogs
Documents Show Merck Paid This Popular Website $3.5 Million Dollars for Promoting Vaccines
CONCLUSION
The pharmaceutical company pockets run deep. When analyzed, you can see how much influence their money can buy.
Parents want strong children and honest answers. Do you really think Merck invested all of this money to educate you about vaccines or to sell their product? I will leave you to be the judge of that important question.
Lastly, as new documents become available, my hope is that parents will start to see how Big Pharma runs their operations: spending their cash to buy influence. Maybe vaccine safety does have a price tag.
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Source: vactruth.com - January 4, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories Centers for Disease Control (CDC) MedScape Merck Physician Payment Sunshine Act (PPSA) vaccine ingredients WebMD Source Type: blogs
Five Ways to Fight the Swine Flu
View the Swine Flu video here.
Winter in North America brings with it yearly uninvited guests- flu bugs- multiple strains of illness causing viruses just waiting for new bodies to infect. The most common recommendation has been to protect yourself with a flu vaccine. But with virtually all the US flu suddenly resistant to the leading antiviral Tamiflu, health officials are worried about where this could lead. Here are some key guidelines you MUST know if you want to survive this year’s flu season.
How can you distinguish a cold from the flu? First understand that colds are minor infections of the nose and t...
Source: Dr. Donna, MedicineWoman - January 25, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Dr. Donna Tags: breaking news Personal Health public health flu influenza pandemic prevention swine flu tamiflu treatment Source Type: blogs
