The Scary Facts Most Parents Don’t Know About Vaccine Injury Compensation
Conclusion
Instead of eliminating the preferred methods of submitting vaccine adverse event reports to VAERS, CDC officials must find ways to encourage accurate reporting of vaccine adverse events. Only a tiny percentage of vaccine reactions, injuries, and deaths are ever reported, failing to give parents a true picture of what can actually happen when their child is vaccinated.
The public comment period for this proposal has closed, but you can still make your opinions known about the changes to the VAERS guidelines. Share this article in your social networks to let others know that vaccine injuries and deaths are very re...
Source: vactruth.com - February 19, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Logical Missy Fluegge Top Stories truth about vaccines Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Vaccine Death vaccine injury vaccine injury compensation Source Type: blogs
Forget the ivory tower: We need more Disney in medicine
This isn’t a debate about vaccines.
The fight here has nothing to do with that. For the record, I strongly support the concept of vaccination. Public health is better in the 21st century because of it. Measles? Mumps? Oh, I can find you in the United States, but we aren’t living our lives every day petrified of an outbreak. Smallpox? Polio? Where did you go? Not here, that’s for sure. And, what if you had lived in West Africa in mid-2014? A proven vaccine for Ebola would have been a godsend.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 28, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Rocky Bilhartz, MD Tags: Physician Primary care Source Type: blogs
How do vaccines work? TED-Ed video
The first ever vaccine was created when Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, successfully injected small amounts of a cowpox virus into a young boy to protect him from the related (and deadly) smallpox virus. But how does this seemingly counterintuitive process work? Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut details the science behind vaccines.Lesson by Kelwalin Dhanasarnsombut, animation by Cinematic.There are a few inaccuracies, but overall this is a good video.
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The people who will cure cancer are the patients
Sometimes I tell people I’m learning how to treat cancer, and their first question is ‘why haven’t we cured cancer yet?’
We will. It’s coming.
In medicine we’re much better at treating infections than cancer, but it wasn’t always that way:
We didn’t know washing your hands before delivering a baby wassafer for women until 1847.
The concept of a germ was proposed in 1870.
The first vaccine was made in 1879.
Penicillin didn’t show up until 1928.
The last fatal case of smallpox was reported in 1978, and smallpox was declarederadicated in 1979.
The AIDS epidemic began in 1981 when five previously...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 25, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kenneth D. Bishop, MD, PhD Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
Does Public Health Have A Future?
Ebola’s arrival in the U.S. hit Americans with a jolt. Regardless of how you feel about the response to date, it should remind everyone of the importance of public health.
Fortunately, public health in the U.S. has built an extraordinary track record of success. Smallpox, one of the most dreaded diseases in history, was eradicated worldwide. New vaccines have sharply cut the toll of deaths and disabilities from H flu meningitis, tetanus, pneumococcal sepsis and other deadly diseases.
Adding folate to foods dramatically reduced neural tube defects in newborns. Safer cars and better roadway designs cut fatal crashes per m...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Arthur Kellermann and Mark Kortepeter Tags: All Categories Environmental Health Prevention Public Health Source Type: blogs
"We should not regard aging as a fact of life."
It is not correct to view aging as set in stone, an immutable part of the human condition. Degenerative aging is just another medical condition, an unpleasant one at that, caused by biochemical processes in the body that are just as open to discovery, cataloging, and intervention as those of any disorder. The only thing that separates us from real, working rejuvenation treatments capable of restoring youthful vigor and health to the old is the same thing that once separated humanity from a cure for smallpox or effective management of infant mortality. In other words medical technology. Bringing aging under medical control ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 19, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Would you treat a patient with Ebola?
“If I get a call about smallpox from the ER I’m not coming in,” an infectious disease doctor said to a colleague in the hospital where I was working. It was the early days of 9/11 and anything seemed possible.
“Are you all OK with providing care for Ebola patients?” our section chief asked. Our ICU is the designated unit to care for all adult patients suspected of having Ebola in our system. We would be the ones donning the protective gear, following infection control protocols and caring for any potential patients.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 5, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Denitza Blagev, MD Tags: Conditions Infectious disease Source Type: blogs
Bill Gates Recognizes the Improving State of Humanity
Chelsea German
With the newspapers full of crises, it can be hard to maintain a proper perspective on the progress humanity has made, and to remember that there are individuals striving every day to make the world a better place. In a recent interview, businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates discussed the improving state of humanity, and the work that he is doing through private charity to help those in need. He said,
I think the idea that people are worried about problems, like climate change or terrorism or these challenges of the future, that’s okay. But boy, they really lose perspective of what’s happened ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 23, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Chelsea German Source Type: blogs
Pandemics in History
Smallpox
Paris – 1719
Sweden – 1749-1765
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Treatment of Ebola virus infection with brincidofovir
The Liberian man who was diagnosed with Ebola virus infection after traveling to Dallas, Texas, was treated with an antiviral drug called brincidofovir. This drug had originally been developed to treat infections with DNA-containing viruses. Why was it used to treat an Ebola virus infection?
Brincidofovir (illustrated) is a modified version of an antiviral drug called cidofovir, which inhibits replication of a variety of DNA viruses including poxviruses and herpesviruses. When cidofovir enters a cell, two phosphates are added to the compound by a cellular enzyme, producing cidofovir diphosphate. Cidofovir is used by viral...
Source: virology blog - October 9, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information adenovirus brincidofovir Dallas patient DNA polymerase ebola virus Ebolaviruses herpesvirus phosphorylation prodrug RNA polymerase smallpox viral Source Type: blogs
Curb the soaring costs of vaccines
Few medical interventions have been as successful as vaccines in improving public health.
Whether they are childhood vaccinations, vaccines to prevent healthy adults from contracting influenza or the more recent HPV vaccine for adolescents, these preventive methods have resulted in dramatic benefits for individuals and the public. We have only to think of the eradication of smallpox and the virtual eradication of poliomyelitis to see the enormous benefits vaccines can bring. But at what financial cost — now and in the future?
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 30, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Ruth Macklin, PhD Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
Promoting Health, Science, and Public Trust through Laboratory Safety
As you may know from recent news reports, there have been lapses in safety practices at federal laboratories involving potentially lethal microbes such as avian flu (H5N1) and anthrax, including an incident involving discovery of 60-year old smallpox vials in an FDA laboratory building located on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD. Such lapses, which undermine public confidence in biomedical research and could put people’s health at risk, remind us of the need for constant attention to biosafety standards.
Scientists can never become complacent in routine safety practices—one mistake could h...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus: Rock Talk Blog - August 27, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Sally Rockey, Francis Collins, Lawrence Tabak, and Amy Patterson Tags: Rock Talk biosecurity General Source Type: blogs
Rescue Me: The Challenge Of Compassionate Use In The Social Media Era
TweetThe Development of Brincidofovir And Its Possible Use To Treat Josh Hardy
Last March 4, seven-year old Josh Hardy lay critically ill in the intensive care unit at St Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee with a life-threatening adenovirus infection. His weakened immune system was unable to control the infection, a complication of a bone marrow stem cell transplant he needed as a result of treatments for several different cancers since he was 9 months old.
His physicians tried to treat the adenovirus with an anti-viral agent, Vistide (IV cidofovir), but had to stop due to dialysis-dependent renal failure. Th...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 27, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Arthur Caplan and Kenneth Moch Tags: Access All Categories Bioethics Biotech Consumers Pharma Policy Research Technology 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
Six Smallpox Vials Found in FDA Lab Storage Room
Forgotten smallpox vials from the 1950s have been found in an FDA lab storage room.
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