Date: October 28th 2008

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1.  McCain Or Obama: Who Will Reform Vaccine Safety?

San Diego, CA, October 27, 2008 - Parents, scientists and clinicians met this weekend in San Diego to discuss the current state of autism research. Organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of voters nationwide, are calling for Senator McCain to state his policy position on vaccine safety publicly and for Senator Obama to officially clarify comments made earlier this fall by noon October 30, 2008 so voters can make a final informed decision for their candidate of choice.
Press Release - Autism Action Network, Autism United, Generation Rescue, Moms Against Mercury, No Mercury, Schafer Autism Report, Talk About Curing Autism, Unlocking Autism and U. S. Autism and Asperger’s Association

2.  Compensation For Spanish Child Damaged By MMR Vaccine

A six year old child who lost 33% of his hearing after being vaccinated has been given compensation of 35,000 € in Valencia. It happened after the child was administered the triple MMR vaccine in November 2002. The courts have ordered the Regional Generalitat Government to make the compensation payment.
Editorial, Spain News
Related Links:
* $250,000 Death Settlement For Baby Killed By MMR Vaccine
KSPR News
* Baby Dies After Measles Vaccine
G Rajasekharan, Express Buzz - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
* Polio Vaccine Victim Awarded $8.5 Million
Chris Blank, Associated Press
* Measles Vaccine Kills Four Babies, Six More Fighting Death
Syed Rizwanullah, The Times Of India
* Measles Vaccine Kills 17 Year Old Boy
Editorial, Kyiv Post
* Glaxo Pneumonia Vaccine Trial - 12 Babies Dead
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
* Vaccination Doubles Asthma Incidence
Sona Chowdhary & Jacob Puliyel, World Health Organisation

3.  Gardasil Grope: Merck Lusts After Adult Women

Never mind that a recent study found its HPV vaccine isn’t cost effective for women over 18 years old and that the FDA earlier this year rejected Gardasil for women between the ages of 27 and 45, Merck continues to push for widespread vaccination for adult women. The hard sell isn’t surprising, after vaccinations fell 33 percent in July and August compared with a year earlier and sales declined 4 percent in this year’s third quarter.
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
Related Links:
* NVIC Slams Gardasil Cover Up Risk Report
Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center
* Dutch Authorities Raid Sanofi/Glaxo - HPV Vaccine
Ed Silverman, Pharmalot
* Fiji Slams HPV Vaccine
Matelita Ragogo, Fiji Times
* Cervarix HPV Vaccine Forced On Diabetic Girl Against Her Will
Lucy Johnston, Sunday Express
* Cervarix HPV Vaccine And The ASO4 Novel Adjuvant System
Lara, Health Advocate
* Dr Ian Gibson MP Promotes Vaccine Cocktail For 11 Year-Old Girls
Lara, Health Advocate
* HPV Vaccine Victims Pile Up: $1.5B for Merck
Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center
* Girls Paralysed By HPV Vaccine Sue Merck
Editorial, NBC4

4.  Harvard Professors Perpetrate Academic Muzzling

A critical article by Drs. Donald Light and Dr. Rebecca Warburton, Ethical Standards for Healthcare Journal Editors: A Case Report and Recommendations, published in the Harvard Health Policy Review, remains at the center of acrimonious controversy. The perpetrators of academic muzzling--Harvard professors, no less--who abused their editorial authority to suppress information that might be harmful to pharmaceutical industry interests, turned their poison weapons on the victims, accusing them of making a "personal attack."
Vera Hassner Sharav, AHRP

5.  ISIS Team Job Vacancy

Lively office assistant / intern needed to join the Institute of Science in Society team to make science work for the public good. The candidate will be working part time as an office assistant in London, UK.
Press Release, Institute of Science in Society

6.  ILADS President Calls For Lyme Dialogue

Dr Daniel Cameron
ILADS Board President
During his closing remarks at the 2008 Scientific Meeting hosted by the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), Dr. Daniel Cameron, ILADS president, stressed the need for more comprehensive dialogue between physicians and researchers regarding the prevention of chronic Lyme disease. Neither the IDSA nor the CDC disclose the existence of the ILADS treatment guidelines, leaving many physicians and patients to mistakenly believe there is only one set of treatment guidelines for Lyme disease.
ILADS Press Release, Medical News Today

7.  New CFS Definition Criticised

People reading this study [Sleep characteristics of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome and non-fatigued controls: results from a population-based study] need to be aware that it uses a new or "unusual" definition of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) so the results may not apply to CFS cohorts as usually defined.
Tom Kindlon - Irish ME/CFS Association, BMC Neurology

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