http://medicalconsumers.org Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:23:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://medicalconsumers.org http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/03/22/4741/ http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/03/22/4741/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:20:04 +0000 medconsumers http://medicalconsumers.org/?p=4741 ]]> http://medicalconsumers.org/2010/03/22/4741/feed/ 0 Maryann http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/12/04/swine-flu-update/ http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/12/04/swine-flu-update/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:43:32 +0000 medconsumers http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/12/04/swine-flu-update/ ]]> http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/12/04/swine-flu-update/feed/ 0 Maryann http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/24/why-the-h1n1-virus-is-not-a-major-threat/ http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/24/why-the-h1n1-virus-is-not-a-major-threat/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:37:57 +0000 medconsumers http://medicalconsumers.org/?p=3088 online version [September 11, 2009] of the New England Journal of Medicine. I have four problems with this study, which was done in Australia. 1) It was tiny, only 240 adults. The authors made reassuring statements about Guillain–Barré syndrome, which is ridiculous because GBS occurs in one out of 750,000 to 1 million vaccinations, and this study only had 240 participants; 2) one third of these volunteers had side effects that resembled influenza-like illness (headaches, sore throats, etc.), so they were vaccinating to prevent symptoms that they were causing; 3) there was no placebo arm in the study [a group that was injected with an inert vaccine], yet there’s no ethical excuse for not having a placebo arm because these are experimental vaccines; and 4) the description of what additive substances were in the vaccine was unclear. We know that there is thimerosal [mercury] in this H1N1 vaccine, but its manufacturer did not say whether there are additional substances like aluminum, which can be found in many other vaccines. We just don’t know. And they are advising this vaccine for pregnant women and children over six months of age!" ]]> http://medicalconsumers.org/2009/09/24/why-the-h1n1-virus-is-not-a-major-threat/feed/ 19 Maryann http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/03/01/those-ubiquitous-gardasil-ads/ http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/03/01/those-ubiquitous-gardasil-ads/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:45:04 +0000 medconsumers http://medconsumers.wordpress.com/?p=2105 ]]> http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/03/01/those-ubiquitous-gardasil-ads/feed/ 0 Maryann http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/02/01/how-vaccine-policy-is-made-the-story-of-merck-and-gardasil/ http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/02/01/how-vaccine-policy-is-made-the-story-of-merck-and-gardasil/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:52:37 +0000 medconsumers http://medconsumers.wordpress.com/?p=2111 ]]> http://medicalconsumers.org/2007/02/01/how-vaccine-policy-is-made-the-story-of-merck-and-gardasil/feed/ 0 Maryann