2,610 Infants died of preventable hospital-acquired infections – Chicago Tribune

July 26, 2002 2,610 Infants died of preventable hospital-acquired infections – Chicago Tribune FYI President Bush would limit health care liability http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/26/politics/26BUSH.html . Clearly neither he nor his advisers have considered The Chicago Tribune’s investigative series, Unhealthy Hospitals (excerpt below). This Tribune series should be required reading for members of the various research…

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Critique: U.S. to Vaccinate 500,000 Workers Against Smallpox 7

July 08, 2002 Critique: U.S. to Vaccinate 500,000 Workers Against Smallpox 7 Jul 2002 FYI Dr. Meryl Nass, a member of the board of The Alliance for Human Research Protection and a recognized expert on Gulf War Syndrome and the use and consequences of experimental vaccines, raises serious concerns about…

University of Calif, SF: Patients Rights Violated_SF Chronicle

July 29, 2002 University of Calif, SF: Patients Rights Violated – San Francisco Chronicle FYI The San Francisco Chronicle reports in a front page article that the federal Office of Human Research Protection determined that University of California, San Francisco, violated patients’ rights by conducting medical research without legal informed…

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Anthrax Vaccine Not Safe and Effective – Emergency Medicine News

July 18, 2002 Anthrax Vaccine Not Safe and Effective – Emergency Medicine News FYI In her letter in the July issue of Emergency Medicine News (below) Dr. Meryl Nass cites a body of evidence linking the anthrax vaccine with systemic adverse medical reactions, and 100,000 to possibly 200,000 veterans who…

Infomail Archive

July 9, 2002 Oregonian Editorial: Stop Drug Research on Oregon Kids FYI "…there is no question that suspicionless drug testing, particularly when combined with an outside research study, is an ethical morass and an abuse of school power." Those who approved this experiment have transgressed their authority, teaching children the…

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Corporate influence on medicine, budgets & investors

July 14, 2002 Corporate Influence on Medicine, Healthcare Budgets, Investors FYI Because medicine’s pronouncements are so widely propagated and affect so many people’s lives, corporate influence and manipulation of the truth is more devastating than mere corporate accounting malfeasance. Recent revelations demonstrate how corporate influence and greed – rather than…

Scientifically unsupportable treatments: Hormone replacement therapy and anti-depression drugs

July 12, 2002 Scientifically unsupportable treatments: Hormone replacement therapy and anti-depression drugs FYI July 11th New York Times Editorial said “The news keeps getting worse about the value of hormone replacement therapies for postmenopausal women,” indicating that “The promotional blitz over the years has made hormone replacement therapy sound like…

FDA MedWatch data show olanzapine (Zyprexa) -diabetes risk

July 12, 2002 Babies Exposed to Toxic Vaccines FYI Several recent articles focus on unsafe vaccines: ABC News reports (below) that 3,400 people, half of them children, “received the questionable vaccines from Park Nicollet Clinic in the Minneapolis metropolitan area. The vaccines included polio booster shots, hepatitis A and B…

Prozac Revisited: Concerns About Suicides Surface – Boston Globe

Prozac Revisited: Concerns About Suicides Surface – Boston Globe Eli Lilly’s denial about the risk of suicide for some patients prescribed Prozac was the subject of a series of reports in the Boston Globe. The article (Sunday, June 11) revealed the irony behind the duplicity. Dr. Martin Teicher, who first…