From the BBC: Nine billion dollars “from the sale of Iraqi oil and gas, and some frozen Saddam Hussein-era assets” should have been in “a special fund administered by the US Department of Defense, the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), and was earmarked for reconstruction projects. But the report says…
Ninety-two thousand Wikileaks documents were provided in advance of their public release today to the NY Times , the Guardian (UK) and Der Spiegel (Germany).
From the Express : … Dr Fletcher, a highly respected retired pathologist and former chief scientific officer at the Department of Health, said: ‘‘From all the considerable reports I have read, Dr Kelly did not lose enough blood to cause his death. “He would have had to lose three to…
There has been almost no swine flu in the southern hemisphere so far this winter.
An FDA inspection uncovered multiple significant deviations from standard manufacturing processes, termed “good manufacturing practices” at CSL (previously known as Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, and previously an Australian government lab) in its manufacture of flu vaccine for the US market.
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC’S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California 1 , 2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is –…
A letter to the BMJ questions the rationale for using certain new vaccines in India that fail to “result in significant reduction in disease burden” when older, cheaper and proven vaccines costing less than US $1.00 total per child are not being given to half the children in India. The…
The NY Times’ Gardiner Harris has covered a crucial issue unpinning the use of drugs in modern medical practice.
French physician and pharmacoepidemiologist Marc Girard has penned a fiery letter to the BMJ about medical experts, clinical guidelines, drug regulation and the role of Pharma in creating a market for swine flu and hepatitis B vaccines.