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AstraZeneca Cashes In On Global Swine Flu Windfall

August 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment

MedImmune is putting its FluMist nasal spray technology to the test against swine flu. FluMist, which got off to a shaky start in the U.S., brought in only $104 million last year, a fraction of what the big global manufacturers have been able to earn with their flu shots. But all those naysayers who scorned the terms of the MedImmune buyout in the face of such weak performance could well be silenced by the rewards available when a pandemic hits. AstraZeneca plans to make 200 million doses of swine flu vaccine by next spring.

Filed Under: Inconvenient Woman, Influenza A Virus H1N1 Strain Tagged With:

Historical facts about the dangers (and failures) of vaccines

August 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Natural News
Saturday, August 29, 2009
by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases.

Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the pro-vaccine propaganda put out by drug companies (who profit from vaccines) and health regulators (who serve the drug companies). One of those sites is www.VaccinationDebate.com , which lists the following historical facts about vaccines:

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STIGMA - A Wrong Diagnosis of Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy

August 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment

NHS Exposed
September 22, 2008

I dedicate this article to Debbie Storey, a very dear friend who unfortunately lost her life because of the stigma of wrong diagnoses of MSBP - A Story of Mis-understanding

What is MSBP

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy or MSBP is a diagnosis given to a mother or care giver to describe aspects of their behaviour. This behaviour usually includes subjecting [what appears to be] a previously healthy child to unnecessary and often painful tests or medical interventions i.e. scans, x-rays and even surgical procedures to gain attention from the medical profession.

Filed Under: Menstrual Suppression, Social/Political, Vaccinations, Women's History, Women's Politics

Is Merck Overselling a Cancer Vaccine?

August 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Fresh controversies are heating up over the marketing of products to prevent cervical cancer

Business Week
August 28, 2009
By Arlene Weintraub

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration is gearing up to make critical decisions about two controversial vaccines. On Sept. 9 an FDA advisory committee will consider whether Merck (MRK)’s Gardasil, given to girls to prevent cancer-causing human papilloma virus (HPV), should be approved for use in boys, who can be HPV carriers. The same panel will also advise the agency on whether it should allow a new HPV vaccine, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)’s Cervarix, to enter the U.S. market. The FDA doesn’t have to follow its panels’ recommendations, but it usually does.

Filed Under: Cervarix, Cervical Cancer, Immunizations, Mothers & Daughters, Pharmaceuticals, Social/Political, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: , ,

Mercury is ok in fish and vaccines but not in tea

August 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment

American Chronicle

By Christina England
August 30, 2009

On the 28th August 2009, in the UK a man narrowly escaped a jail sentence when he poisoned his wife’s tea with mercury in a bid ‘TO SAVE THEIR MARRIAGE’. His wife had decided to leave him so he decided to put mercury in her tea and poison her, to make her ill so he could nurse her back to health and she would love him again. Suspended term for tea poison man the BBC News reports:-

“A man who poisoned his estranged wife’s tea with mercury has been given a 350-day suspended sentence. William Dowling, 69, from Colne, Lancashire, poisoned 64-year-old Maureen Dowling’s drink so she would become ill and dependent on him.”

Filed Under: Environmental Health, Immunizations, Infants, My Sister's Song, Pharmaceuticals, Social/Political, Swine Flu Vaccine, Vaccinations, Women's Politics Tagged With: , ,

One Less for Gardasil- Comment of the Week

August 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Age of Autism
August 29, 2009

Rosemary is our commenter of the week on THIS post from Barb Loe Fisher’s blog. Didn’t win but still want a “The Bull Stops
Here” T-shirt? See below.

Filed Under: Autism, Gardasil, Immunizations, Mothers & Daughters, Vaccinations, Women's Health Tagged With:

RAND advises pharmaceutical company on strategies in vaccinating low-income students

August 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Jeffry John Aufderheide
VacTRUTH
August 26, 2009
The pieces of the pandemic puzzle are coming together as the H1N1 Swine Flu hysteria is reaching new heights. A largely uncovered white paper published by RAND Corporation in March of 2009, sponsored by pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur, identifies parental consent laws, medical homes, and lack of access to medical records as main barriers “for immunizing low-income adolescents.” The solution proposed to Sanofi Pasteur? Turn schools into a vaccine wonderland.

Filed Under: Immunizations, Social/Political, Swine Avian Flu, Swine Flu Vaccine, Vaccinations Tagged With:

The New Normal in Puberty

August 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment

The Mark
August 19, 2009
By Kathleen O’Grady
Writer; Research Associate, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University; Principal of QUOI media group.

Most endocrinologists in North America agree that girls begin to menstruate at a younger age than in decades past. What is not as clear – and the subject of much debate – is why this is happening, and what – if anything – needs to be done about it.

Filed Under: Estrogen, Hormone Cycles, Mothers & Daughters, Puberty, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: ,

Anti-cancer Gardasil drug causes illness, study shows

August 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Daily Telegraph.com
August 20, 2009

ANTI-CANCER drug Gardasil, which has been given to millions of Australians, has caused fainting, nausea, dizziness and blood clots among thousands of US women, a major study has found.

A safety review published in the latest Journal Of The American Medical Association said 12,424 Gardasil vaccine recipients in America had suffered a number of side effects and even death since June 2006.

Filed Under: Adolescent Girls, Cervarix, Cervical Cancer, Global Gardasil/Silgard Concerns, Mothers & Daughters, Social/Political, Teens, Vaccinations, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: ,

Pensioner who put mercury in wife’s tea spared jail

August 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment

Telegraph.co.uk
August 28, 2009
A pensioner, William Dowling, who poisoned his estranged wife by putting mercury in her tea in a misguided attempt to win her back has escaped jail.

Dowling, 69, of Colne, Lancashire, duped Maureen Dowling into drinking tea laced with mercury on at least five occasions because he planned to win her affection, when she became ill, by nursing her back to health.

He received a 350-day prison sentence, suspended for two years, at Preston Crown Court today. Judge Robert Brown also imposed an 18-month supervision order.

Filed Under: Social/Political, Vaccinations, Women's Health, Women's Politics Tagged With: ,