CDC Lying About Financial Conflicts of Interest and Failing to Disclose Big Pharma Funding When It Releases Statements About E-Cigarettes
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) makes a multitude of recommendations regarding the prevention and treatment of a variety of diseases and adverse health conditions. Many of these recommendations involve the promotion of specific pharmaceutical products, such as antibiotics, vaccines, or smoking cessation drugs.For this reason, it would seem important that the CDC remain independent of any corporate influence and that the agency not accept funding from corporations, especially from Big Pharma.In fact, the CDC claims to have no financial interests or other relationships with any manufacturers of commercia...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - June 11, 2015 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
FDA OPDP Issues Fifth Letter of Caution for the Year, Cites Oak Pharmaceuticals For Exhibit Banner
Almost like clockwork, the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) has released its fifth enforcement letter of 2015—they have issued one letter in January, February, March, April, and now, as of the past week, one in May. OPDP sent the Untitled Letter to Oak Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a subsidiary of Akorn, Inc.) regarding the company’s barbiturate anticonvulsant, Nembutal. View the promotional material here. The agency found that Oak’s table exhibit banner was misleading because it omitted “important risk information associated with the use of Nembutal,” and also omitted materi...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
As Vaccination Rates Dip, Parents Walk A Tightrope Between Doubt And Risk
The recent re-emergence of measles in the United States following a 15-year period of occasional cases provides a compelling example of an unresolved societal tension in public health: that between the value of autonomous decision-making and the need for social responsibility. The outbreak---more than 700 cases since January 2014---reveals not only this tension, which also plagues other arenas of health care reform.
It also reveals the tenacity of doubt about vaccine safety that has led to a tipping point in undermining herd immunity. (That is, within a community, high rates of immunization protect both individuals and th...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 23, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Sharon Kaufman Tags: Featured Population Health Public Health autism risk awareness vaccines Source Type: blogs
Six Month-Old Baby Dies Just Five Days After Receiving 13 Vaccines
Conclusion
Deciding on whether to vaccinate your baby is never easy. In this case, Alisa decided to hold back on having her baby vaccinated until he was older. She was then emotionally blackmailed and forced into having her baby over-vaccinated with a massive cocktail of vaccines, by whom many would call an overzealous doctor.
She was not offered any information on the vaccinations being given to her baby, she was not given any paperwork and she was not offered any advice on any possible adverse reactions.
Alisa trusted her doctor to do the right thing and was let down in the worse possible way and believes that the doctor...
Source: vactruth.com - April 23, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Human Top Stories Dr. Paul Offit Dr. Tomljenovic truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
No, Lawrence Solomon, UNICEF and WHO are not trying to sterilize women with tetanus vaccines!
There are some antivaccine lies that just never die. Well, actually, most of them are very much like Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Freddy Krueger in that, just when you think you’ve killed them at the end of the latest confrontation, they always come back. Always. As an example of this, let’s go back four… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - March 23, 2015 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine News of the Weird Politics Religion beta-hCG Catholic Bishops Financial Post immunocontraception Joseph Obanyi Sagwe Kenya Kenyan Catholic Doctors' Association Lawrence So Source Type: blogs
TBT: Looking beyond the money: Crucial steps to getting vaccines to children
Over the past 5 years we have had some great, insightful and inspiring posts, many of whose content is still relevant today. For this reason we are implementing TBT on the blog. Every Thursday we will run blogs from the past. Enjoy!
The following post originally ran on May 8, 2012.
Without money, many nations can’t afford to tackle health care issues and introduce the life-saving vaccines that are critical to child survival in the developing world. But even after a vaccine is introduced and money has been spent, some children never see even the first dose. With so much investment and effort, you wonder — how can t...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - February 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: TBT Source Type: blogs
Vaccination and the Social Contract
Patrick J. Michaels
There are two distinct classes of vaccinations: those for communicable diseases like measles, rubella, and chicken pox, and those for non-communicable ones like tetanus.
There is no reason to be vaccinated against non-communicable diseases if you don’t want to. If you believe that your small chance of getting tetanus isn’t worth the (very, very) much smaller risk of crippling Guillan-Barre syndrome after the vaccination, that’s your business.
But vaccination for communicable diseases is part of a social contract that maintains civil society with a general ethic that no one has the right to ha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 4, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Patrick J. Michaels Source Type: blogs
Reconsidering Pauly And Coauthors’ ‘Economic Framework For Preventive Care Advice’
In the November issue of Health Affairs, Mark Pauly and coauthors criticize the lack of cost-effectiveness considerations in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which mandates that health plans include preventive care free at the point of use. The bodies critiqued, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, convene health experts to develop recommendations for immunizations and other preventive services.
According to the authors, the task entrusted to these bodies by the ACA, of offering sound advice on preventive care without considering its cost-effectiveness, is “im...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 12, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Claudia Chaufan and Greg Harris Tags: All Categories Health Care Costs Policy Prevention Public Health Research Spending Source Type: blogs
This is Why You Should Not Blindly Follow Your Doctor’s Advice to Vaccinate
Conclusion
Most of us have been trained to believe that vaccines are safe and prevent disease. It is very confusing to first realize that this may not be true.
Tremendous pressures exist from physicians, hospitals, family and the public school systems to vaccinate ourselves and our children. Physicians are taught to recommend vaccinations as a first-line defense against disease, while they are not taught the serious health damages created by vaccines.
Physicians often blindly follow the recommendations of their professional organizations to vaccinate, without doing any independent research. Those few physicians and nurses ...
Source: vactruth.com - January 2, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) American Medical Association (AMA) Hepatitis B vaccine Vaccine Exemption Source Type: blogs
Eyebrow Laceration and Repair, If You Dare!
Picture this: It’s Dec. 31 at 11:59 p.m. You’re spending your designated holiday working the overnight. You’re eating some leftover fruitcake in the nurse’s lounge, and you see the following complaint sign into triage: “Drunk/face pain.”
This could mean just about anything when ethanol is on board. You lift your head just slightly over the computer screen and see a young gentleman staggering in the hall. His chart is labeled “SLC” for “streamline care.” Everyone knows that intoxicated patients are never appropriate for your streamline care area, but you decide to take a chance, and hope this guy ha...
Source: The Procedural Pause - December 26, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Eyebrow Laceration and Repair, If You Dare!
Picture this: It’s Dec. 31 at 11:59 p.m. You’re spending your designated holiday working the overnight. You’re eating some leftover fruitcake in the nurse’s lounge, and you see the following complaint sign into triage: “Drunk/face pain.”
This could mean just about anything when ethanol is on board. You lift your head just slightly over the computer screen and see a young gentleman staggering in the hall. His chart is labeled “SLC” for “streamline care.” Everyone knows that intoxicated patients are never appropriate for your streamline care area, but you decide to take a chance, and hope this guy has ...
Source: The Procedural Pause - December 26, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts 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
African Women Injected With Vaccines Laced with Anti-fertility Hormones
Conclusion
Looking back through the history of hCG-spiked tetanus vaccines, there is no doubt in my mind that vaccines containing the hCG hormone have been used on women of childbearing ages in Kenya in what can only be described as a deliberate attempt to reduce the population.
I feel that, instead of criticism that the masses are currently lobbying at Dr. Wahome Ngare, they should instead applaud his brave actions. After all, not many doctors would have been prepared to put their life on the line for young women in Kenya and around the world by sharing the truth about these dangerous vaccines.
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Source: vactruth.com - December 10, 2014 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Dr. Wahome Ngare Fertility regulating vaccines hCG infertility Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association population control Professor Marleen Temmerman Tetanus Vaccines Unicef World Health Organization Source Type: blogs
Catholic doctors and priests versus the tetanus vaccine in Kenya
Of the many lies and myths about vaccines that stubbornly persist despite all evidence showing them not only to be untrue but to be risibly, pseudoscientifically untrue, among whose number are myths that vaccines cause autism, sudden infant death syndrome, and a syndrome that so resembles shaken baby syndrome (more correctly called abusive head trauma)… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 13, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Complementary and alternative medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking Bill Gates depopulation infertility Kenya tetanus Source Type: blogs
When treating neo-Nazis, should physicians have a choice?
What I found most disturbing about the man’s arm was not the deep, stellate laceration on the underside of his biceps.
It was the swastika tattoo next to it.
“Sir,” I said, “we’ll have you fixed up in no time. I’m going to numb up the wound, irrigate it, then repair the laceration with sutures and send you home on antibiotics and pain medication. The nurse will update your tetanus shot. But before I start, I need to point out that I find your tattoo offensive.”
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Alberto Hazan, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Source Type: blogs
