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Opinion: "Old" Diseases Still Threaten

Denver Post (CO)

April 17, 2006

More than 600 cases of mumps were reported in Iowa as of late last week, with smaller outbreaks in five nearby states. The highly contagious disease is usually uncomfortable but not life-threatening.

There's been some fear about the safety of vaccines, particularly because of thimerosal, a mercury compound used as a preservative. Some advocates have sought to tie vaccines to sudden infant death syndrome and rising rates of autism. Federal officials have been working to remove thimerosal from vaccines, and the Centers for Disease Control stresses an autism link is yet unproven.

School children in 3 oblasts hospitalized due to TB vaccination

5TV (Ukraine)

April 17, 2006

Twenty children from a school in Vinnytsia oblast have been hospitalized with acute respiratory conditions they contracted after being vaccinated for tuberculosis. This is the third such incident in the country in the past week.

Vinnytsia medical officials have seized the hypodermic needles for analysis. Parents are complaining that their children were vaccinated for TB without their consent. In the past week, children in Khmelnytsk and Kherson oblasts have also been hospitalized after receiving injections intended to prevent tuberculosis.

Let it shine

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA)

by Mary Kaufman

April 10, 2006

With every hand movement, secretary Pat Brigode would flinch at sharp pains she said reminded her of a thick rubber band being pulled and snapped hard. "We added light therapy to my other treatments, and I felt immediate relief," she said."

Professional sports teams and college athletic departments -- including those at Pitt, Penn State and Indiana University of Pennsylvania -- are using light therapy for healing and pain relief. Nursing homes use it to speed wound healing and ease the ache in arthritic joints. Physical therapists and chiropractors say it also works for bursitis, backaches and other muscle and joint pains.

ADHD Experts Head To Washington - Is the FDA Up To The Task?

OpEdNews

by Evelyn Pringle

March 14, 2006

Heavy-hitters from across the country are heading to Washington this month to debate representatives of the pharmaceutical industry during FDA hearings on the controversy surrounding the over-prescribing of attention deficit drugs to children.

The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) will be represented by five of the leading experts on attention deficit disorders at the FDA's Pediatric Advisory Committee's meeting on March 22, to include Dr Fred Baughman, Dr Peter Breggin, Dr S DuBose Ravenel, Dr Grace Jackson, MD, and Dr David Stein. These experts combined have authored hundreds of books, papers and reports on attention deficit disorders.

Bextra - What Did Pfizer Know? Everything

Sierra Times

by Evelyn Pringle

March 14, 2006

Critics say millions of people were needlessly exposed to the risks of Bextra due to intense off-label promotion and advertising that boosted the painkiller to a position near the top of the list of the most widely prescribed drugs in US history.

Although a drug can only be marketed for specific indications approved by the FDA, doctors are allowed to prescribe a drug for any use regardless of whether its approved for a diagnosis and Pfizer spent a fortune on convincing physicians to prescribe Bextra for unapproved uses.

Amendment would establish life at conception

World Net Daily (MI)

March 6, 2006

Citizens have proposed an amendment to Michigan's constitution establishing that a person exists at the moment of conception.

The designation would give any unborn child constitutional rights of due process and equal protection. A backer of the proposal, Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, said the petition drive is "vitally important if we are to insure that Michigan becomes a pro-ife state after Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court."

Bill to kill 'Roe' signed into law

World Net Daily (SD)

March 6, 2006

Abortion ban by South Dakota touches off fierce legal battle

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds today signed into law a highly restrictive anti-abortion bill aimed ultimately at overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The legislation, passed last month by state lawmakers, bans abortion in nearly every case and punishes doctors who perform one with a $5,000 fine and five years in prison.

New study links mercury to autism

World Net Daily

March 3, 2006

A new study shows a direct relationship between mercury in children's vaccines and autism, contradicting government claims there is no proven relationship between the two.

Published in the March 10 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the data show since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders in children not only stopped increasing but actually dropped sharply - by as much as 35 percent. Using the government's own databases, independent researchers analyzed reports of childhood neurological disorders, including autism, before and after removal of mercury-based preservatives.

Whooping Cough Cases Up 400-Percent in Utah

KSL (UT)

by Kim Johnson

March 2, 2006

Dr. Dagmar Vitek: "It lasts forever. It lasts for months and it's very contagious. They spread it very easily, person to person very quickly." Utah has a pertussis problem.

Health officials are concerned because it's not getting better, it's getting worse. The incidence of Pertussis, or whooping cough, in Utah is three and half times the national average. Doctor Vitek says, so far this year, 81 cases of whooping cough have been reported in Salt Lake County. The victims are mostly Jr. High and High schoolers who typically cough a lot, but don't get that sick.

Pesticide risk to babies underestimated

Food Consumer

March 2, 2006

Newborns are far more susceptible to pesticides than previously thought. Babies can be up to 130 times more susceptible to pesticides than adults, researchers reported in the March 2 issue of the journal Pharmacogenetics and Genomics.

The study found some newborns can be 26 to 50 times more vulnerable to certain organophosphate pesticides than other newborns, and 65 to 130 times more sensitive than some adults, Healthday reported.

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