This story was reported today in Science News , and the scientific publication from which the story was derived also came out today in PLOS . The concept is troubling:

One million Americans have received faulty hips, which continue to be promoted by manufacturers according to the British Medical Journal . The cobalt and chromium they release into local and distant tissues destroy muscle and bone and cause so-called genotoxicity, which may translate into cancer.

If you read the second post below this one, you will see evidence from several countries that suggests a previous seasonal flu vaccine may actually increase the risk of getting flu, and may worsen one’s short and long-term immune response to a newer flu vaccine. As if that wasn’t enough…

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On February 8, a federal government vaccine advisory group (NVAC) made five recommendatios to increase healthcare worker flu vaccinations.

Thanks to CDC for these weekly influenza stats

Original Source of Mild flu and very little this year–only 3 deaths in US children since last April have been associated with flu/CDC

J Hosp Infect. 2011 Dec;79(4):279-86.

Damon Winter/The New York Times The NY Times obtained a classified coalition report that acknowledges “a rapidly growing systemic homicide threat, a magnitude of which may be unprecedented between ‘allies’ in modern military history”– i.e., US soldiers are being murdered by the very Afghani forces they are training and…

A new paper on anthrax vaccine safety , presumably published to support DHHS’ desire to test the vaccine in small children, has just been published online.