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Flu Vaccines: Who, Where, and How Much
In the Globe and Mail, Francoise Baylis asks the tough questions about how much swine flu vaccine to produce and who should receive it. In the US, our government has just decided that pregnant women should be among those to...

Moms in D.C. Apprehensive about Flu Vaccine
Some mothers-to-be in D.C. are concerned that a new swine flu vaccine has not been tested enough to be administered to pregnant women. Debate stems from the recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American College...

"How PersonhoodUSA Will Hurt All Pregnant Women" and Do People Who Support "Traditional Values" Value Pregnant Women by Lynn Paltrow of Nationa Advocates for Pregnant Women
Please read Lynn's articles on Personhood and watch Dr. Deborah Frank debunk the mythology of "crack babies" "How PersonhoodUSA Will Hurt All Pregnant Women" by Lynn Paltrow http://www...

WHITE HOUSE ON THE DEFENSIVE OVER NEW HPV VACCINE REQUIREMENT FOR GREEN CARD APPLICANTS
When the cable news shows are talking about it, you know something's up. In July, USCIS began requiring female immigrants between 11 and 26 to get a vaccine to prevent the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a virus that is usually sexually transmitted...

Another wrinkle in the vaccine debate
Last week I took my daughter to the pediatrician to receive her MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella). The trip to the doctor?s was spurred by two factors, the first was age, my daughter was now at the recommended age for receiving the vaccine but the second was the fact that she was about to enter daycare and state law requires the shot as a condition of enrollment...

H1N1 Update | Children and pregnant women
The first batch of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, to be shipped the first week of October, will likely be in the form of intranasal spray containing the live attenuated virus, CDC officials said in a press briefing Friday.

Someone wants to give pregnant women a license to kill ... this will end well
Story is from Oklahoma, where a legislator has introduced a bill that would let pregnant women legally use lethal force if they feel their unborn child's life is threatened. It's actually based on a tragic case, where a mother-to-be killed....

Flu Vaccine for All
Sydney Spiesel at Slate.com writes about the wonders of the flu vaccine and argues that a new study from Canada demonstrates that everyone should receive the wonderful shot each year...

Paul Offit in NYT
On the recent Poling vaccine-injury case:The system [the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, financed by a tax on every dose of vaccine] worked fine until a few years ago, when vaccine court judges turned their back on science by dropping...

Protecting Life or License to Kill Oklahoma Moves To Give Pregnant Women Enhanced Rights to Use Lethal Force
The Oklahoma legislature appears on the verge of passing a bill that would give pregnant women the right to use lethal force in response to threats against their babies. The Use of Force For the Protection of the Unborn Act would protect pregnant women from being criminally charged when they kill people who [...

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Gardasil
Merck's HPV Vaccine Linked to Paralysis

DLP
Ohio State to Receive $42 Million in Corporate Taxes Settlement

Poling Family Receives $1.5 Million in First Autism Vaccine Settlement
Poling Family Receives $1.5 Million in Autism Vaccine Settlement

Petrochemical Overruns
ENGlobal to receive $2 million settlement.

Thimerosal Vaccine and Autism
alleging Hepatis B and HIB vaccines cause Autism in children.