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Vera Institute of Justice Final Report (2009): 80 NYC Foster Children Died in AIDS Drug Trials

Background: Between 1985 and 2005, at least 532 infants and children in New York City were conscripted as human subjects of clinical trials testing experimental AIDS drugs and vaccines. The New York City Agency for Child Services (ACS), the custodian of foster care children, gave agencies such as Incarnation Children’s Center,…

Immunocompromised children: what are their infectious risks from the unvaccinated?
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Immunocompromised children: what are their infectious risks from the unvaccinated?

Posted by Meryl Nass, MD In the last few days there have been multiple news articles and testimonies in the Maine and Vermont legislatures about the need to impose vaccine mandates to protect immunocompromised children.[1] [2] I attended the vaccine bills’ hearing in Augusta, Maine on May 11, which lasted…

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Safety and Effectiveness of the MMR vaccine

Safety and Effectiveness Information from CDC and DHHS I’ve been asked to contrast the risk from tIhe disease measles with the risk from the measles vaccine, usually the MMR. MMR stands for Measles, Mumps, Rubella (rubella is german measles) and so the MMR vaccine contains 3 live, attenuated (weakened) viruses…

Thalidomide Litigation — Grünenthal Intimidation — Landmark Settlement
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Thalidomide Litigation — Grünenthal Intimidation — Landmark Settlement

1967-1968: Grünenthal executives were put on trial in Aachen, Germany The indictment charged the company with intent to commit bodily harm and involuntary manslaughter.  The central defendant was Dr. Heinrich Mückter, an indicted Nazi war criminal, who was the company’s chief scientist and head of research. Mückter was credited with…

“From the Holocaust to Thalidomide: A Nazi Legacy”
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“From the Holocaust to Thalidomide: A Nazi Legacy”

“How Men Who Blighted Lives of thousands Evaded Justice.” The post-WWII horror story of thalidomide begins in the picture-book town of Stolberg, near Aachen, in western Germany, with the establishment of Chemie Grünenthal, a Wirtz family-owned pharmaceutical company. After WWII, Nazi scientists stared down their pasts and searched for career opportunities;…

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Behind the Smokescreen: Conditional Approval for Anthrax Vaccine Trial in Children

The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released its “[ ] Pediatric Research on Medical Countermeasures” Report and recommendations, on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The Report and the Commission Chair, Dr. Amy Gutmann, who presided over a press teleconference took great pains to convey the impression that above…