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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | yesterday
In an ironic twist to the relationship between tobacco and human health, it would seem that the future of the plant may lie in growing vaccines against cancer. Researchers in the US took antibodies from patients with a type of lymphoma, grew them in tobacco plants, extracted them, and reinjected the individualized vaccines back [...]
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ANTI NEW WORLD ORDER (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Children of the current generation receive 24 mandatory vaccinations . A generation ago, only 10 were required. Through vaccinations , children receive 400x the amount of mercury deemed safe by the FDA . The Hep B routinely given to newborns contains so much mercury preservative that it would normally only be considered safe under...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
In an ironic twist to the relationship between tobacco and human health, it would seem that the future of the plant may lie in growing vaccines against cancer. Researchers in the US took antibodies from patients with a type of lymphoma, grew them in genetically modified tobacco plants, extracted them, and reinjected the individualized vaccines back into the patients, where in most cases it produced...
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Pharmalot (Free subscription) | yesterday
Depends who you ask. But Contract Pharma magazine decided that a biopharma company is one that makes more than 40 percent of its drug revenues by selling biologic products, including biotherapeutics, vaccines and other proteins. As the mag’s editor, Gil Roth, says: No royalty-based companies allowed! (That means you, ImClone). This can be limiting, though. [...]
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SignalBlog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wyeth, the world’s No. 12 drug company by revenue, reports earnings for the second quarter on Wednesday morning. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. OVERVIEW: Wyeth had been benefiting from a diverse product mix, with seven drugs or vaccines each producing annual sales of $1 billion or [...]
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The Open Piehole (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Plants may be a powerhouse for researchers making personalized vaccines for patients with follicular lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The basic idea is to use plants as a factory to quickly and inexpensively grow vaccines tailored to each patient’s follicular lymphoma. That approach worked and was safe in a small, preliminary test noted in Proceedings of [...]
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Epi Wonk (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Weekend Sick Humor Edition On Friday, both Orac and PalMD had posts covering the issue of science education about vaccines and immunization. I highly recommend both posts and the discussion (comments) after each article. Even “Framing” theorists Matthew Nisbet and Chris Mooney got into the discussion at Respectful Insolence. (See also A Paediatricians Series on Vaccinations.) One [...]
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SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
Merck & Co., the world’s No. 8 drugmaker by sales, reports earnings for the second quarter on Monday morning. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. OVERVIEW: Merck, best known for its cholesterol, diabetes and heart drugs and vaccines for children and adults, has been zapped with repeated [...]
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Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Federal officials have opted to halt plans to advance a promising new HIV vaccine into a large human trial after deciding they just don't know enough about how it and other such vaccines works--or how the vaccine might affect the human immune system. The decision by Dr. Anthony Fauci , the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, fits into the his explicit opinion--stated...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis have figured out how some dying cells signal the immune system. They say the finding eventually could have important implications in the treatment...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) announced a breakthrough with preliminary clinical trial data demonstrating that DNA vaccines can safely achieve significant immune responses against H5N1 pandemic influenza in humans.
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Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Cookie Magazine has found itself getting a lot more traffic than normal as of late. Amanda Peet was featured and spoke out for vaccines. Lock the doors! How could someone say vaccines are good! Well, we all know how people…
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Left Brain/Right Brain (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
...about the word parasite but at the same time, she holds her ground on the issues surrounding vaccines. She notes that the term “parasites” was “mean and divisive”. I wanted to address my comment in Cookie magazine that “parents who…
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Blogs for the NC State Community (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Apparently the anti-vaccination celebrity crowd has a celebrity opponent: Amanda Peet . And it's high damn time. This nonsense about vaccines causing autism is getting out of hand. Studies find that the link all these anti-vaccination celebrities and fear-mongering parents on television claim exists between vaccines and autism is bogus . More importantly, who the hell are you kidding? Are you going...
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Ecademy: user blogs (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Dr NICK HODGSON Being a woman has become a medical procedure. I have a theory that because health care has largely been dominated by the male species, the female experience has become an issue of control. Female infants receive more vaccines than their male counterparts despite the unknown long-term effects of the new cocktails being injected directly into the depths of the immune system, and in spite...
