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1. It's Time To Bring UK Family Law To Book
Mother and child are often torn apart by our system of forced adoption
I have never, in all my years as a journalist, felt so frustrated as I do over two deeply disturbing stories of apparent injustice that cry out to be reported but which, for legal reasons, I can refer to only in the vaguest terms. To cover them as they deserve, and as the victims so desperately wish, would challenge a part of our legal system shrouded in an almost impenetrable veil of secrecy. Two weeks ago I recounted four examples of what I described as one of the greatest scandals in Britain today – the seizing of children by social workers from loving families, on what appears to be the flimsiest and most questionable grounds. It is high time the veils of secrecy were ripped from this national outrage; that politicians intervened to call the system to order; and that the press was free to bring properly to light family tragedies such as those I have only been allowed to hint at in this article. One Click Note: Has yo ur family been abused by Social Services and the Family Courts in Britain? If so, consider joining the Class Action of over 100 families being put forward at the International Criminal Court in The Hague arguing that your Human Rights have been breached. Fight for your rights and those of your family. Class Action contact details are published on One Click.
Christopher Booker, Daily Telegraph / The One Click Group
Related Links:
* UK Social Services & Familiy Courts Face International Criminal Court Class Action
Rebecca Lefort, Daily Telegraph
2. GMC Sanctions Paedophile Doctor To Work With Children
Dr Stuart Ruthven told the GMC, "I was bored..."
(Caption & Logo Pic Courtesy of One Click)
A DOCTOR caught with a stash of 5,000 child porn pictures has been working at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Stuart Ruthven worked in the hospital last month as part of a training programme. In 2003, the then Royal Navy surgeon was convicted of making indecent photographs of children. He was sentenced to an 18-month community rehabilitation order and made to sign the Sex Offenders Register for five years. A review panel of the General Medical Council (GMC) ruled that Dr Ruthven could continue to practise, with the condition he didn’t treat under-16s. But in December 2008 that condition was revoked, meaning he can now work with children and in entering the hospital he was breaking no laws, court orders or GMC rulings. Children’s charity Kidscape says they have grave concerns about the medic’s freedom to practise. Director Claude Knights said: “The possession of indecent images of children represents a vile crime, whi ch is even more despicable when the perpetrator is a doctor. The downloading of indecent images of children is never a victimless crime and encourages this deplorable trade. Some people would question whether this doctor's sentence reflects fully the horror of his crimes.” Dr Ruthven was today unavailable for comment.
John Sutton, Liverpool Echo
3. 98% Of Pharma Drugs Labs Have Problems
Deficiencies have been uncovered at 98 per cent of the pharmaceutical laboratories audited by the drugs regulator in the past year. The federal government's Therapeutic Goods Administration yesterday revealed that only three of the 139 labs it audited last financial year were problem-free. The TGA confirmed it was "evaluating matters" arising from last month's audit of CSL -- which produced vaccines for swine flu and seasonal flu -- following a scathing assessment by the US Food and Drug Administration of some manufacturing methods. The federal government paid CSL $131 million last year for a stockpile of 21 million doses of the swine flu vaccine Panvax, as well as $9m to conduct clinical trials, the government's contracting website reveals. The seasonal flu jab has been suspended for use in healthy under-fives since April, when it was found to trigger febrile fits in young children at nine times the expected rate. Australian National University microbiologist Peter Collignon yesterday demanded the federal government introduce "active" surveillance of any new vaccines for children before they are fully rolled out. "I can't understand how it's ethical to do this again to children without having at least done good studies into the first couple of thousand children through active surveillance" he said.
Natasha Bita, The Australia
Related Links:
* Flu Vaccine Killer Comes From Multiple Vaccine Batches
ABC News
* Australia Launches Flu Vaccine Inquiry As Children Convulse And Die
Cortlan Bennett, Sydney Morning Herald
* Toddler Ashley Jade Epapara, 2, Dies After Flu Vaccine
Suellen Hinde, Sunday Mail, Australia
4. U.S. Flu Shots On Hold After Australian Bans Vaccine For Children
U.S. health authorities are holding off approval of this year's seasonal flu shot as they probe Australia's ban on the vaccine, which has been found to induce fever in young children, The Australian reported Thursday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is collaborating with Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to "assess any potential implications for the U.S. flu season." The FDA has also written to Australian pharmaceutical giant CSL — which manufactures the controversial Fluvax vaccine — detailing its "number of significant objectionable conditions" relating to CSL's compliance with American "good manufacturing practice." The TGA admitted that vials of multi-dose swine flu vaccine Panvax, stockpiled by the Australian federal government, contain the same preservative that is the subject of the FDA's concerns. The audit was carried out the week Australian authorities suspended use of the Fl uvax vaccine after it triggered febrile fits in children younger than five.
Fox News
5. Flu Expert Failed To Disclose Links To Drug Firms
Dr Lance Jennings
A leading virologist who helped develop New Zealand's influenza pandemic response has been accused of not properly disclosing his ties to drug companies. Dr Lance Jennings has been promoted as an independent expert on influenza but has received payments, airfares and accommodation from drug companies including Roche, which manufactures Tamiflu, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which makes Relenza, another anti-viral drug. The criticism comes after similar concerns were raised by a British Medical Journal investigation, which found World Health Organisation advisers who wrote 2004 guidelines recommending stockpiling drugs in a pandemic had received payments from Roche and GSK for lecturing and consultancy work. That advice led to governments around the world stockpiling billions of dollars' worth of anti-viral drugs – most now sitting in warehouses. New Zealand stockpiled 1.2 million Tamiflu doses from 2005, of which only 20,000 courses have been used. Je nnings, the Ministry of Health's leading influenza spokesman, and who has pushed vaccines as the best influenza protection, has links to numerous pharmaceutical companies.
Tony Wall, Sunday Star Times, New Zealand
Related Links:
* WHO And The Pandemic Flu Conspiracies
Deborah Cohen & Philip Carter, British Medical Journal
6. Sixth British Politician Charged In Expenses Scandal
LONDON — Prosecutors said Friday they were charging a member of the House of Lords for allegedly claiming thousands of pounds in fraudulent expenses, the sixth person charged after a major scandal. Lord John David Beckett Taylor, who was a member of Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party until he was ejected in February because of the police investigation, faces six charges of false accounting. Taylor, the first black Tory peer, is accused of dishonestly claiming more than 11,000 pounds in parliamentary expenses between March 2006 and October 2007 and will appear in court on August 13.
AFP
Related Links:
* Expenses Scandal MPs Granted Legal Aid
Big Pond
* Revolting MPs Abuse Their Sleaze Watchdog In Expenses Row
Alison Little, Daily Express
* £2M-A-Year Second Homes Scandal - MPs Rip Off British Taxpayers' AGAIN!
Alison Little, Martyn Brow and Padraic Flanagan, Daily Express
* Greedy Bankers And Corrupt MPs Squander Britain's Wealth
Michael Winner, Daily Mail
* Lobbygate - Dirty Law Political Rent Boys & Girls Rule OK In Britain
Jane Bryant, The One Click Group
7. Courts Service & DWP Staff Breaching UK Government Database Of Personal Information Continuously
Staff working for Her Majesty's Courts Service have breached security on the government database that stores personal data about everyone in the UK. Also, local authorities sacked 26 employees last year for snooping on personal data stored on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System (CIS), which, with 90 million records, is one of the largest databases in Europe. Public sector workers have been repeatedly caught snooping on personal data stored by the DWP since the department gave other government agencies access to the database in 2005. So far, 180 CIS users are known to have breached its security by looking up personal data about or on behalf of friends, relatives, colleagues, celebrities and themselves. At least 35 public sector workers have been sacked. The Ministry of Justice said it had not retained records of breaches committed by Courts Service staff before 2008. About 200,000 public sector staff have regular access t o the CIS.
Mark Ballard, Computer Weekly
8. NHS Data Chaos Puts Lives At Risk
Up to 200,000 patients’ lives are being put at risk because of errors in a controversial new central database of medical records. The Department of Health has now launched a review of the system that allows patient records to be shared between health organisations. The database, the Summary Care Record, known as The Spine, is being rolled out at a cost of millions of pounds. Experts have uncovered shocking evidence of errors on medication or allergies. The scale of mistakes, involving out-of-date details, could lead to fatal medical errors and has led to calls for an immediate suspension of the system. The doctors’ governing body, the British Medical Association, yesterday called for an immediate freeze on the uploading of all new care records. It said access to existing records should also be suspended.
Lucy Johnston, Sunday Express
Related Links:
* UK Coalition Government U-Turns On Own Medical Database Policy
Ian Quinn, PULSE
* Stunningly Incompetent UK Department Of Health Screws Up Care Records Database Cancellation
Ian Quinn, PULSE
* Opt Out Form
NHS Patient Database
* The UK Database State Scandal
Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
9. XMRV Research Non-Publication. Caution or Conceit?
David Tuller observed in The New York Times: "Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, citing a need to re-evaluate their data, have delayed publication of a new study believed to provide evidence of a link between chronic fatigue syndrome and a little-known retrovirus (XMRV). Federal officials said publication was delayed because the findings contradicted those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." That this has already happened with XMRV should have been an indication to the CDC and NIH/FDA that while differing results might be frustrating and potentially embarrassing, this is an acceptable part of the learning-curve with new developments in science. Withholding publication of contradictory findings could be construed as unethical. By withholding publication, albeit temporarily, the NIH/FDA have created an imbalance.
Peter Kemp, MEshare
Related Links:
* CDC XMRV Virus/CFS Paper Is Out. Where's The FDA/NIH Paper?
Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal Blogs
* US Researchers In Conflict Over XMRV Virus & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal Blog
* FDA And NIH Confirm XMRV Findings In ME/CFS Patients
Esme, Press Release from the Netherlands
* Detection of an Infectious Retrovirus, XMRV, in Blood Cells of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Judy A. Mikovits et al, 10.1126/science.1179052, Science Express
10. XMRV Virus & ME/CFS - Public Demonstration, Boston USA
This is the first time in my 20 year struggle with CFS (much of it bedridden or homebound) that I have been excited: The news regarding the association between CFS and the newly discovered retrovirus XMRV is thrilling. Have we found the cause of CFS? Are treatment options on the horizon? But I'm nervous and scared that this link between CFS and XMRV will be swept under the rug, especially on the heels of the NIH/FDA paper being pulled from publication (the paper confirms this XMRV and CFS association). Haven't we waited long enough for this illness to get legitimacy? With this in mind, I would like to hold a 1 hour Boston-area public gathering where we put public pressure on the government to expedite research on CFS and XMRV and where we ask for clinical (medication) trials. All we need is 1 news photographer to take one photo and get it in one newspaper. This will act as a clear message to Kathleen Sebelias, head of HHS. Anyone interested in joining me? Friends and family members encouraged to join us. Contact rr2rr44@verizon.net.
Information Release, XMRV Virus Public Demonstration
Related Links:
* Australia Bans Blood Donations From People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Australian Red Cross Blood Service
* Canada Bans Blood Donations From People With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Canwest News Service, The Gazette
* New Zealand Blood Banks Plan To Reject ME/CFS Patients
Kent Atkinson, NZPA
11. Lightning Process Pilot Study, ME/CFS Children 8 To 18
In his response "Failure to appreciate pain is a symptom not a diagnosis is what leads to bad medicine", Dr Munglani, Consultant in Pain Medicine, West Suffolk Hospital, recommends the Lightning Process . The Lightning Process is a three-day course said to be based on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and life coaching. It is marketed not as a therapy or a treatment but as a "training program". It is unregulated and its practitioners are trained and "licensed" by the Phil Parker organisation. Many of those who train to become Lightning Process instructors are former "trainees", themselves. On 16 June, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) published an adjudication against a Bournemouth company following its upholding of a complaint about a Lightning Process advertisement. No rigorous RCTs into the application of the Lightning Process in adults with CFS and ME have been undertaken. There are considerable conc erns that an NHS paediatric CFS unit should be planning a study involving children as young as eight for £164,000 when no rigorous trials have first been undertaken into the safety, acceptability, long and short-term effects of the application of this controversial and unregulated "process". Not only is it feasible to carry out research into the application of the Lightning Process using adults with ME and CFS, many feel it unethical not to do so first.
Suzy Chapman, British Medical Journal RR (as yet unpublished) / The One Click Group
Related Links:
* Unethical Lightning Process And ME/CFS Children
ME Agenda
* Dr Esther Crawley, ME/CFS Children & The Lightning Process
Suzy Chapman, Health Advocate
* ME/CFS Patients Damaged By Lightning Process Fight Back
John Sayer
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