According to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, your children should be the first target for mass swine flu vaccinations when school starts this fall.
This is a ridiculous assumption for many reasons, not to mention extremely high risk.
1. An "informal" [e.g., illegal] clinical trial of the Avian Flu vaccine on about 200 Polish vagrants resulted in 11 immediate deaths and an additional set of 20 later deaths (approximately 15% of the test population). The doctors and nurses involved were charged with murder. (Fact. 2008)
With his August deadline now dead,
President Barack Obama must hope the prospects for health reform this
year haven’t expired as well — but the backsliding and bitter words on Capitol Hill this week show just how much his sweeping plan is at risk.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision
Thursday not to seek a Senate vote on health reform before the recess
means the House most likely won’t act either — putting the votes off
until September.
Worldwide, in excess of 12 million humans contract cancer
annually with seven million dying. Experts expect those figures to double by
2030. Lung cancer, caused by tobacco,
killed 100 million people in the last century and experts expect it to kill 1.0
billion humans in the 21st century.
I'm the former insurance industry insider now speaking out about how big for-profit insurers have hijacked our health care system and turned it into a giant ATM for Wall Street investors, and how the industry is using its massive wealth and influence to determine what is (and is not) included in the health care reform legislation members of Congress are now writing. Although by most measures I had a great career in the insurance industry (four years at Humana and nearly 15 at CIGNA), in recent years I had grown increasingly uncomfortable serving as one of the industry's top PR executives. In addition to my responsibilities at CIGNA, which included serving as the company's chief spokesman to the media on all corporate and financial matters, I also served on a lot of trade association committees and industry-financed coalitions, many of which were essentially front groups for insurers. So I was in a unique position to see not only how Wall Street analysts and investors influe
Here is what this “efficiency” would mean in stark terms: severely restricting healthcare services to our elderly, and the severely and terminally ill. “Efficiency” here means providing services to millions of young and healthy, who do not need much of it, and cutting healthcare to seniors and the severely ill who “statistically do not have as much to lose by not getting good healthcare.” ....
on these issues: government “health” agencies, federal research, children's medical care & parental rights, experimental treatments, the First Amendment, Medicare/Medicaid & other government managed/regulated health care, and morality.
A Minnesota judge has ruled that a 13-year-old boy with a highly treatable form of cancer must seek conventional medical treatment over his parents' objections.
... "medically neglected" and is in need of child protection services.
Relatively few people, none of whom would make a bearable dinner companion, share Comrade Gore's insistence that saving the environment should be the "central organizing principle" of human society.
Like the H1N1 flu virus that is the focus of growing public alarm, the Homeland Security State is a recombinant entity. The H1N1 pathogen is composed of strains of influenza that don't naturally fuse together. In similar fashion, the Homeland Sec
The outbreak of a new flu strain—a nasty mash-up of swine, avian, and human viruses—has infected 1,000 people in Mexico and the U.S., killing 68. The World Health Organization warned the outbreak could reach global pandemic levels.
A vaccine for the new swine flu in humans could take at least six months to manufacture and distribute widely. The reason: Vaccines must be developed from the specific flu strain, tested for safety, sent to manufacturers for mass production, and then
Two million dead. Hospitals overwhelmed. Schools closed. Swaths of empty seats at baseball stadiums and houses of worship. An economic recovery snuffed out. Government leaders at all levels have spent 4 years planning for
The swine flu epidemic crossed new borders with the first cases confirmed in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region, as world health officials said they suspect American patients may have transmitted the virus to others in the U.S.
Amid surging worries about a global pandemic, the United States launched border screening for swine flu exposure. U.S. officials at border checkpoints were "asking people about fever and illness, looking for people who are ill."
• Huffington Post (I stubled in there by accident!)
"...we need more independent vaccine research not done by the drug companies selling the vaccines or by organizations under their influence. Studies that cannot be internally suppressed."
DEERFIELD, Ill. - Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. will work with the World Health Organization to develop a vaccine that could stem an outbreak of a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico.
LOS ANGELES, April 24 (Reuters) - The swine flu outbreak is likely to benefit one of the most prolific and successful venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Thomson Reuters Private Equity Week reported on Friday
First the good news: bird flu is becoming less deadly. Now the bad: scientists fear that this is the very thing that could make the virus more able to cause a pandemic that would kill hundreds of millions of people.
The Government Accountability Office was able to register with the Health and Human Services Department a fictitious institutional review board, a panel of doctors and scientists that must approve any medical drug or device to be used in federally fu
U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson is demanding to know what's behind a decision by federal regulators to put depleted uranium in the lowest-hazard category for radioactive waste. Now they can ship it all to Utah.
Last week, the parents of yet another child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were awarded a lump sum of more than $810,000 in compensation by the Court, which ruled that the MMR vaccine had caused acute brain damage.
Fluoride ingestion does not reduce tooth decay, making water fluoridation something that should be ended. [edit: "...and increased fluoride content of foods, they report."]