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Information Release, The One Click Group
Dr Meryl Nass, MD
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Monday it has agreed with Swiss drug maker Novartis (NYSE:NVS) AG to cancel part of a deal for H1N1 influenza vaccine because of a larger-than-expected surplus. The cancellation agreement covers around 8.38 million doses, or 33.5 percent of the 25 million doses the pharmaceutical company had agreed to supply under a contract with the Japanese government. With the cancellation, the government will save about 1.56 billion yen, although it will pay around 9.22 billion yen as an exit penalty, it said. Japan already cancelled part of another deal with GlaxoSmithKline Plc of Britain in March, making the total amount paid to the two pharmaceutical firms around 85.3 billion yen.
Dr Meryl Nass, MD
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Fiona Macrae, Daily Mail
David Deans, South Wales Argus
Bunbury mothers are turning their backs on the influenza vaccine for their children in the wake of a health scare which made more than 250 children ill across the State. Health minister Kim Hames suspended the free influenza vaccine for children under five in April after a significant spike in the number of children who developed a high temperature after receiving the vaccine. Discussions on a Facebook site called Mums and Bubs Bunbury and Surrounds revealed local mothers are shunning the vaccine due to concerns it might be dangerous. The convener of the site said her baby was not vaccinated at all. “Sorry if people don’t like that but it is my decision, I have done the research….and come to the conclusion that there are way too many unsafe chemicals in them,” she said. “I’d prefer to see my son alive with the flu than dead after getting an injection,” Kate O’Neill said. The departme nt said the season flu vaccination program for children under five years remained suspended.
Shanelle Miller, Bunbury Mail
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Suellen Hinde, Sunday Mail, Australia
The pharmaceutical industry has wormed its way into the hearts and minds of the medical professions in any number of ways—wining and dining doctors, sending them off to vacation in splendid spas, and even buying their names to put on industry-written articles promoting different drugs. One little known facet of this drugster-doctor relationship is Big Pharma’s role in continuing medical education (CME) programs, which are important in keeping medical professionals informed and up to date on the fast developing profession. Of the $2 billion-odd spent on these programs every year, nearly half comes from the drug business, which not-so-subtly uses the education programs to push new drugs.
James Ridgeway, Truthout
A secret report on Labour’s controversial child protection database found “significant risks” to security. The official study, which ministers refused to publish for more than two years, disclosed that “residual” dangers remained in ContactPoint despite efforts to make the system safe. It pointed out that security standards differed at councils using the online register of all 11million children in England, while the personal information it contained could be leaked if old computers were sold on eBay. The independent report was carried out by Deloitte, the management consultants, in early 2008 but only a summary was ever made public and attempts to obtain the full version using Freedom of Information requests were rebuffed. Now the Information Commissioner, the data watchdog, has ordered its publication following a long-running battle by children’s rights campaigners although several parts of it remain censored. The con fidential Deloitte “security review” confirms fears that vulnerable young people could have been put at greater risk by ContactPoint, rather than being protected by it.
Martin Beckford & Heidi Blake, Daily Telegraph
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James Slack, Daily Mail
Robert McKie, The Observer
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
In the wranglings over the Summary Care Record, it is always very interesting to see how those on the frontline of the medical profession react to developments. It was the BMA that first raised objections about the total lack of information going to patients, and now the Newcastle Journal is reporting that 3 in 4 doctors in their area would not sign-up to be on the system: GPs in the North East have gone one step further in their fight against the (NHS database) proposals, saying they will not allow their own or their families’ records to be included for fear of serious security breaches. Of the 152 who responded to the LMCs’ survey – the first of its kind in the country – 74% said they would not allow their own medical data to be uploaded and 70% said they would not permit the upload of their family’s personal records. These statistics are damning in the extreme. In theory, these are the people who have seen t he system up close and know the most about it. Yet these are the people who are most vociferous in their objections to the privacy invasion inherent in the Summary Care Record. If even the doctors are refusing to sign up, how many of us would refuse having seen the full horrors?
Dylan Sharpe, Big Brother Watch
An Early Day Motion to repeal parts of the Digital Economy Act (DEA) 2010 has only gained 34 signatories in a month. The motion (EDM17) put forward by Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge hopes to remove some parts of the Act that were rushed through by the last government without proper debate. "That this House believes that sections nine to 18 of the Digital Economy Act 2010 should not have been rushed through in the dying days of the last Parliament; further believes that these sections have large repercussions for consumers, civil liberties, freedom of information and access to the internet; and calls on the Government to introduce early legislation to repeal those provisions": Early Day Motion 17, Effects of Digital Economy Act 2010 on use of the Internet. Cyberdoyle comment: I wrote and spoke to my MP before the bill went through washup. she hadn't a clue what I was talking about but assured me it wouldn't get through because she had checked with colleagues and they told her it was so flawed it didn't stand a chance. She didn't go down to vote against it and the rest is history. Many of us have already written to our MPs, but they don't understand the bill, and the party lines are to leave it alone. Otester comment: Majority of MPs are just parasites, only there for the cash and expenses. Problem is the majority of people that vote aren't very well informed and the media makes this even worse by misinforming and outright lying to them.
John Hunt, thinkbroadband
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Judith Townend, journalism.co.uk
Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
The National Health Federation, the World’s oldest and largest health-freedom organization, has just adopted Canada as one of its member nations, by founding “the NHF-Canada” and welcoming our Canadian allies into the fold as partners in our efforts to protect the health rights of consumers world-wide. NHF President Scott Tips made the announcement today, appointing long-time health-freedom veterans Marilyn Nelson, Dee Nicholson, and Candace Hill as Co-Executive Directors of Canada’s newest Non-Governmental Organization. The three have worked extensively to raise Canadians’ awareness of the dangers to their rights and freedoms, and are well-known and respected in the natural health community across Canada and elsewhere around the World. The NHF-Canada’s first goal will be to fight Health Canada’s Bill C-36, the “Canada Consumer Product Safety Act,” which is the reincarnation of Bills C-51 a nd C-6, both of which threatened the constitutional rights of Canadians and had the potential to virtually destroy the natural health industry in Canada.
Press Release, National Health Federation
Atos Healthcare has the £80million-per-year contract for 7 years to act for Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) to 'assess' sick people claiming Employment Support Allowance (ESA). They have been working to the previous government's target of pushing 1 million claimants onto Jobseekers' Allowance, and there are some well-documented abuses of vulnerable individuals such as refusing to allow note-taking or tape-recording of the assessment, failing to report truthfully where the claimant has demonstrated incapacity, inadequate facilities for those who are ill during an assessment, a computer system which gives garbled versions of examinations to DWP and various other abuses. We, the undersigned, call upon Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg to terminate Atos Healthcare's contract with immediate effect, to pay the enhanced rate to all claimants whose claim is over 13 weeks old and to pay basic rate ESA to all other claimants. We call for a return to family doct ors as the primary source of information as to whether an individual is too sick to work, not a profit-driven plc. We further call for a new approach to the sick by government whereby such vulnerable people cease to be treated as 'scroungers' particularly when many of these individuals as taxpayers have paid into the NHS, in some cases for many years. Sign the Petition.
John Moore, GoPetition
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