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1. Virus in the system

Kirsten Button with baby Saba, 2, who has brain damage from the Fluvax vaccine
In April last year, four days after baby Saba had her flu shot, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, made the unprecedented decision to ban nationally all the seasonal flu vaccines for the under-5s. Fluvax, the predominant vaccine, was triggering febrile fits in one in every 100 children – 10 times the expected rate. The side-effects, in some cases, were severe, and no-one could explain what had caused them. As the mystery continues, even eminent scientists and medical specialists are now quibbling over the efficacy of flu vaccines, how they are tested and how well they are monitored. With another flu season upon us and the medical community divided, what are we, the public, to make of it all? Peter Collignon, professor of microbiology at the Australian National University and director of infectious diseases at Canberra Hospital, believes last year’s flu vaccine might have caused more harm than good in otherwise healt hy children. Collignon has also upset the nation’s top medico by suggesting that regular flu shots for healthy people could weaken their natural immunity against any new wildfire influenza. One Click Note: This is a MUST READ article of the month for parents and medics alike.
The Australian

2. Pneumonia vaccines for pensioners to be scrapped as they don't work

These useless vaccines can kill
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Pneumonia jabs for the over-65s are to be scrapped by the Government because they do not save lives. The vaccine programme is estimated to have swallowed up £100million – with jabs costing around £20 each including GPs’ time – since it was launched in 2005. As recently as January, the Department of Health was issuing promotional leaflets for the jab despite a number of studies questioning whether it works. The jab for older people has been linked to 30 deaths and more than 3,300 reported side effects, including heart disorders and joint and muscle pain, according to official figures from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
Jenny Hope, Daily Mail

3. SC prosecutor suing GlaxoSmithKline over deadly Avandia drug

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC improperly marketed the diabetes drug Avandia to South Carolina consumers, hiding the medication's harmful side effects, according to a lawsuit filed by the state's top prosecutor. In a lawsuit filed May 17 in Spartanburg County, Attorney General Alan Wilson argued that the drug maker acted negligently when it claimed that Avandia did not put patients' hearts at risks and could actually reduce the potential for heart problems. "GSK did not just fail to disclose the potential cardiovascular risks Avandia posed, which include heart attacks and sudden cardiac death, it affirmatively represented that Avandia could reduce diabetics' cardiovascular risks," Wilson wrote. "GSK knew or should have known that these representations were not true and likely to deceive."
Meg Kinnard, Forbes

4. Supreme Court Ponders Cell Phone-Cancer Lawsuits

The Supreme Court is debating whether to allow lawsuits against cell phone companies over health issues, just days after a report warns consumers of the possible link between phone use and brain tumors. The Supreme Court today asked the Justice Department to weigh in on whether the Court should hear a formerly dismissed class action lawsuit against 19 telecoms. As of yesterday, the WHO now categorizes mobile phones as “possible carcinogens,” putting phones in the same bucket as lead, chloroform, and even coffee. Thirty-one scientists from 14 countries combined independent study results and tentatively concluded cell phones have a hand in causing brain tumors.One Click Note: As head of the Mobile Phone Research Unit in the UK, psychiatrist Professor Simon Wessely is set to be deeply embarrassed by these WHO findings. A long-time richly remunerated proponent of big business damage limitation for the govern ment, military defence and industry in its many guises, let's all watch Wessely wriggle on this one.
Kendra Srivastava, MOBILEDIA
Related Links:
* Mobile phones carcinogenic say World Health Organisation experts
Martin Beckford, Daily Telegraph

5. XMRV & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: WPI Response

“We are extremely disappointed that the editor of Science has published an “editorial expression of concern”, regarding the Lombardi et al. study. The authors of the Lombardi study believe that it is premature to conclude that the negative studies are accurate or change the conclusions of the original studies and we fully agree,” said Annette Whittemore, President of the Whittemore Peterson Institute. “Much of the work on this new retrovirus has yet to be performed, and we look forward to new studies which will support the results and findings described by these accomplished scientists. There has been no attempt to fully replicate this study to date. All of the negative studies have failed to use the methods, materials or processes used in the original study and many have been poorly designed. WPI researchers will continue to perform the critical research needed to help the patients who suffer from neuro-immune di sease.” In addition, the WPI will continue to offer other scientific researchers the materials and methods necessary to perform a full and accurate replication study in the future.
Press Release, Whittemore Peterson Institute
Related Links:
* Detection of MLV-related virus gene sequences in blood of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy blood donors
Shyh-Ching Loa, Harvey J. Alter et al, PNAS
* Reply to Science Editors
Dr Judy A Mikovits, Director of Research, Whittemore Peterson Institute

6. Julian Assange Wins Martha Gellhorn Prize Award For Journalism

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has won the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism for 2011. The prize is given in honour of one of the 20th century’s greatest reporters and is awarded to a journalist “whose work has penetrated the established version of events and told an unpalatable truth that exposes establishment propaganda, or ‘official drivel’, as Martha Gellhorn called it”. The citation reads: “WikiLeaks has been portrayed as a phenomenon of the hi-tech age, which it is. But it’s much more. Its goal of justice through transparency is in the oldest and finest tradition of journalism. WikiLeaks has given the public more scoops than most journalists can imagine: a truth-telling that has empowered people all over the world. As publisher and editor, Julian Assange represents that which journalists once prided themselves in – he’s brave, determined, independent: a true agent of people not of power.” The judges’ decision was unanimous.
Press Release, Media Lens Message Board
Related Links:
* WikiLeaks Julian Assange interview: Why the US will stop at nothing to silence me
Shane Doran, Belfast Telegraph
* WikiLeaks: Face-to-face with Julian Assange, an enigma who unleashed the WikiLeaks storm
Paul Connolly, Belfast Telegraph

7. RAP NEWS 8: Osamacide

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RapNews: episode 8. It's the end of an era. The decade which opened with a ferocious attack in the United States of America, closes with the announcement of the death of its greatest and most conveniently disney-like villain, Usama Bin Laden. In a decade which has been dominated by the Empire Strikes Back, our affable and dextrous host Robert Foster invites us to scrutinise the events shrouding the killing of this twentyfirst-century Goldstein. Joining him in this May retrospective are Rap News regulars, General Baxter, the Pentagon's most effusive spokesperson, attempting uncharacteristically to stay 'on message', and his counterpart from the world of alternative academia, the conspiracy industry's favourite son, Terrence Moonseed. What actually happened in Abbotabad? Do the public have a right to see evidence of this event? What is Terrence wearing on his head? Was justice really served? What next? History is happening.
thejuicemedia, YouTube

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