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  • ENRONITIS – A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

    02/28/2002 11:53:03 PM PST · by DaRocksMom · 10 replies · 179+ views
    February 27, 2002 | By Jim Rarey/MEDIUM RARE
    ENRONITIS – A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE What at first was thought to be just the outrageous illegal excesses of one company (Enron) is now found to be an outbreak threatening to become an epidemic. In the Enron case, over $80 billion in value has disappeared from investment portfolios including pension funds, private 401K’s, IRA’s and other institutional and private investors. And that’s just the stock effect. Still to come are disclosures of the impact of loans from investment banks and bonds issued by Enron subsidiaries and "partnerships" which will be in the billions of dollars. Before tracing the contagion of the ...
  • WHO CONTROLS ANTHRAX VACCINE BOTTLER?

    01/27/2002 12:14:18 PM PST · by DaRocksMom · 23 replies · 358+ views
    January 23, 2002 | MEDIUM RARE/By Jim Rarey
    WHO CONTROLS ANTHRAX VACCINE BOTTLER? It appears that Bioport, the sole manufacturer of anthrax vaccine in the U.S., has cleared the first of three hurdles toward resuming shipments of its vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced approval of Bioport’s revamped production facilities. The FDA has not allowed shipments of the vaccine by Bioport since 1998 when it bought the laboratory from the State of Michigan. The FDA found numerous problems in Bioport’s production facilities including contamination, fluctuations in potency, inadequate record keeping, mislabeling of product, and intractable problems in the bottling of the product. At the suggestion ...
  • A MEDICAL CAN OF WORMS / On Making Clinical Trials Fair

    01/19/2002 9:05:32 AM PST · by DaRocksMom · 1 replies · 173+ views
    http://www.redflagsweekly.com/nasstrials.html ^ | January 19, 2002 | Meryl Nass, MD
    OPENING A MEDICAL CAN OF WORMS On Making Clinical Trials Fair By Meryl Nass, MD January 19, 2002 - Looking into the subject of human clinical trials and the informed consent of their subjects opens a big can of worms. What pops out at you immediately is how much money is spent to get a drug into the market, and how many human subjects are required. The cost of developing one new drug today, according to the pharmaceutical industry, can typically be as much as $500 million. So, the manufacturer aims to earn this much back, plus profit, before the ...
  • ANTHRAX, GOCO’s AND DESIGNER GERMS

    01/13/2002 3:35:41 AM PST · by DaRocksMom · 10 replies · 443+ views
    Jan. 12, 2002 | Jim Rarey/MEDIUM RARE
    (Part one of three) GOCO’s The following is the result of an in-depth investigation into the current anthrax scare, the anthrax vaccine and the decoding of the human genome. While this writer was among the first to question the ownership, motives and associations of the only U.S. manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine (Bioport), credit must be given to other researchers who have broadened the field of inquiry. Two in particular have opened up the proverbial "can of worms" involved in the scientific progress of biological weapons. Dr. Leonard Horowitz and Patricia Doyle, Ph.D. have zeroed in on a little publicized ...
  • CDC RUSHED PAPERWORK FOR ANTHRAX VACCINATIONS

    12/23/2001 3:23:37 PM PST · by DaRocksMom · 10 replies · 113+ views
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...-2001Dec21.html ^ | Saturday, December 22, 2001; Page A10 | By Shankar Vedantam and Mary Pat Flaherty
    Just hours before 48 congressional staffers received the anthrax vaccine Thursday, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had yet to finish the paperwork that would lay out the risks and benefits of the shots. Washington Post story, read rest of article at source URL.
  • FDA SILENT ON ‘ILLEGAL’ ANTHRAX VACCINE IN U.S. STUDY:

    12/19/2001 1:24:14 AM PST · by DaRocksMom · 24 replies · 317+ views
    FDA is condoning the use in government employees of adulterated anthrax vaccine that CBER director Kathryn Zoon said 12/15 would not be licensed as safe and effective, according to former CBER/CDER compliance deputy director Sammie R. Young. Zoon told FDA Webview in a 12/17 e-mail that Young’s charges raise “several issues that can not be addressed in a short email. I’ll try to get back to you.” At a 12/15 public meeting at the National Academy of Sciences, Young says, he asked Zoon whether adulterated vaccine from old batches at BioPort Inc. would be used this week in studies involving ...
  • CDC: Anthrax Vaccine Not Yet Proven Effective

    12/01/2001 1:49:07 AM PST · by DaRocksMom · 7 replies · 144+ views
    Inside the Pentagon | Thu, 29 Nov 2001
    Medical researchers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta cannot say with certainty that the current anthrax vaccine would be effective in protecting people against the disease strain recently mailed in terror attacks on members of Congress and the news media, CDC officials tell Inside the Pentagon. But CDC currently has studies under way aimed at determining just that. The anthrax vaccine has been administered over the past three and a half years to more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel, according to Defense Department data. The continued uncertainty about the vaccine's effectiveness in the face of a fifth death ...
  • DEADLY DOSES

    11/23/2001 3:16:33 PM PST · by DaRocksMom · 10 replies · 372+ views
    Deadly doses by Nick Davis Photo by Chad Harder “I got so angry I couldn’t see straight,” says Kathy Hubbell, whose son in the Air Force has received anthrax vaccines that have adversely affected fellow airmen. “That’s my son they shot that stuff into.” What’s gone awry with the military’s anthrax vaccine program? While there’s little doubt that some people are born agitators, Kathy Hubbell is definitely not one of them. Until July of 2000, Hubbell, a 17-year Missoula resident who operates a public relations and marketing firm out of her home in the South Hills, was perfectly content ...
  • HAS ANTHRAX VACCINE'S EFFECT BECOME A MILITARY SECRET?

    11/07/2001 2:36:32 AM PST · by DaRocksMom · 23 replies · 624+ views
    The Macomb Daily ^ | November 06, 2001 | Maryanne Kocis MacLeod, Macomb Daily Staff Writer
    BioPort in Lansing is the only U.S. laboratory to make the anthrax vaccine. Until the facility meets Food and Drug Administration guidelines, it is barred from releasing the vaccine. Before he was transferred to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, Maj. Sonnie Bates casually requested his immunization schedule, which included the anthrax vaccine, be put up-to-date. Administrative difficulties, however, prevented that from taking place. Shortly after arriving at Dover in May 1999, Bates found out that was a good thing. The 38-year-old career military man was told 14 base personnel had developed debilitating side effects after taking the vaccine. ...
  • Anthrax Vaccine? No, Not Yet

    10/30/2001 4:45:29 PM PST · by DaRocksMom · 4 replies · 3+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | 10/29/01 | Dave Eberhart
    Anthrax Vaccine? No, Not Yet Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.comMonday October 29,2001 With the U.S. Army and the Institutes of Health (NIH) racing to perfect a minimal side-effects anthrax vaccine, and BioPort, the sole Department of Defense (DoD) supplier benched by the Federal Pure Food and Drug Agency (FDA) for violations, less than 25,000 doses of the controversial vaccine remain available for military use ? and none for the civilian population. Unlike Cipro and other antibiotics that are prescribed for those who have been exposed to anthrax, the vaccine is administered as a preventive measure. The count of remaining doses is ...
  • ANTHRAX – KEYSTONE KOPS OR DENIABILITY?

    10/28/2001 1:18:03 AM PST · by DaRocksMom · 27 replies · 242+ views
    October 26, 2001 | Jim Rarey/MEDIUM RARE
    With the release this week of a on General Accounting Office (GAO) report on the anthrax vaccine and the recent publicity given a California lawsuit filed last year, an incredible series of bureaucratic blunders has been exposed both in handling of the anthrax vaccine and the drug used to treat anthrax exposure. Major players involved in "looking the other way" (or not looking at all) are; the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Also involved are Bioport in Michigan (and its predecessor organizations) and the giant German drug company ...
  • Peter Jennings Caught "Wagging the Dog" for Bayer Company Profits

    NEWS RELEASE Release: No. DITA-69 Date Mailed: Oct. 1, 2001 For Immediate Release Contact: Contessa Morton-208/265-2575; 800/336-9266 Health Activist Reports ABC News to the FBI for Anthrax Story: Peter Jennings Caught "Wagging the Dog" for Bayer Company Profits Sandpoint, ID - Terrorist groups and the mob in New York are not the only ones profiting from the recent attacks on America. ABC News, along with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), are being accused of "wagging the dog" for Bayer, and price gouging the government and panicked American's seeking protection against anthrax. A conspiracy to commit fraud has been ...
  • VACCINE:Complaints To WHO (World Health Org.) About Vaccine Quality

    09/06/2001 6:53:35 PM PDT · by DaRocksMom · 19 replies · 1+ views
    Tuesday, 14 August 2001 | UN Wire: An Independent News Briefing About the UN
    Indian State Complains To WHO About Vaccine Quality Following the detection of 26 new polio cases in India's Uttar Pradesh state, officials there have complained to theWorld Health Organization about the low quality of vaccines they received three months ago.   "We intimated our dissatisfactionwith the stuff being provided to UP and asked them to be careful next time," said Sardar Singh, state minister of family welfare. Some of the 26 cases came from areas with 100% vaccine coverage and from children who have received eight to 10 doses of the vaccine, Singh said.  The WHO dismissed the cases as "insignificant," Singh ...
  • Report Offers NO ANSWER ON ANTHRAX VACCINE SAFETY

    07/03/2001 9:17:24 PM PDT · by DaRocksMom · 208+ views
    The national Institute of Medicine reported Monday that there is inadequate evidence to determine whether the Pentagon's controversial anthrax vaccine causes long-term health problems. An Institute of Medicine committee was asked by the Department of Defense to study the safety and efficacy of the vaccine. Its report Monday was preliminary to a two-year study of the vaccine and was based on available "peer-reviewed literature." The committee said it discovered only one published long-term vaccine safety study discussing follow-up of individuals who received multiple vaccinations, as do the military service members. But the committee said the study of employees at an ...
  • ** VETERANS, PATRIOTS, ALL FREEPERS & LURKERS **

    06/29/2001 6:14:14 PM PDT · by DaRocksMom · 203+ views
    PLEASE visit the new web site of Tom Colosimo. He has changed his format and it looks GREAT!
  • Army urged to embrace biotechnology

    06/21/2001 5:30:45 PM PDT · by DaRocksMom · 165+ views
    UPI | June 20, 2001 | UPI
    Here it comes...the 18 more bio weapon vaccines...ready to go! WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) -- A National Research Council study released Wednesday recommends the Army embrace biotechnology and seek exemptions from some regulatory approval processes to speed up the development of new medical treatments. The NRC is part of the Washington-based National Academy of Sciences, which provides science and technology advice to Congress with a congressional charter. "Although soldiers in 2025 may look much the same as their present day counterparts, they will be drawn from a society that has been armed by biotechnology with increased strength and endurance ...
  • Cutbacks In Military On Who Must Take Anthrax Vaccine

    06/18/2001 3:21:11 AM PDT · by DaRocksMom
    Controversy is shooting through the military once again over the anthrax vaccine. The Defense Department is cutting back the program for the third time. Most people never have to give anthrax a second thought. But some military officials are still waging war on the deadly virus. Lt. Christine Kunz – Dover Air Force Base: “Anthrax continues to be a very real, viable threat to our troops here at Dover Air Force Base. Because of that very real threat, the anthrax vaccine continues to be an effective, prudent measure of force protection for our troops.” But now fewer troops than ...
  • A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (No Captions Please)

    06/17/2001 5:30:17 AM PDT · by DaRocksMom · 429+ views
    Tom Colosimo "All that is necessary for evil to triumph isfor good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke
  • HELP REPEAL BAD MEDICAL "PRIVACY" RULES (DEADLINE JUNE 15th)

    06/14/2001 3:19:24 AM PDT · by DaRocksMom
    HELP REPEAL BAD MEDICAL "PRIVACY" RULES Your Action Needed by 6/15/01 to Help Repeal Federal Rules That Violate Patient Privacy Dear Friend of AAPS: We have another chance to kill the new HHS medical privacy rules that, with your help, we delayed this spring Unfortunately, the AMA told President Bush to go ahead and implement these abominable regulations bequeathed to us by the Clinton administration. That's even though Secretary Thompson was prepared to put the whole mess on hold after AAPS created a grassroots groundswell of opposition this spring -- even overloading the HHS email server with tens of thousands ...
  • **ACTION ALERT** Veterans Your Help Needed/HR612

    06/01/2001 2:20:54 AM PDT · by DaRocksMom
    In 1994, Congress passed legislation (Public Law 103-446; 38 USC 1117) to provide compensation to Gulf War veterans with undiagnosed illnesses. Since then, VA has narrowly interpreted the law so as to limit compensation to Persian Gulf veterans with illnesses that cannot be attributed to any known clinical diagnosis. To date, the VA has denied 75% of the claims for undiagnosed illness compensation (approx. 12,000 applied: 3,000 compensated and 9,000 denied). H.R. 612 seeks to clarify the definition of "undiagnosed illness" so that Gulf War veterans suffering from chronic undiagnosed or poorly defined illnesses are properly compensated. Undiagnosed or ...