Medicare and Vaccination
Posted by vaccinexchange on May 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has long operated using a number of “core measures” to determine the quality of care provided by hospitals. This year, CMS is launching a new program through which hospitals will be rewarded according to how well they score on these core measures. Beginning October 2012, one percent … Read more
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Arguing for a Police State: Slate Suggests Google Censor Vaccine Safety Advocates
Posted by vaccinexchange on January 25, 2012 · 1 Comment
A recent article at Slate.com suggests that search engines such as Google have a responsibility to police online content, specifically that which questions, among other things, vaccine effectiveness. In the author’s opinion, websites that suggest that vaccines may be less than 100% safe should be marked with a banner or some such thing that advises … Read more
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West Virginians Have No Right to Decide What Is Injected Into Their Children
Posted by vaccinexchange on January 13, 2012 · 2 Comments
Yesterday’s post highlighted the way in which our right to informed consent is under threat by the very people we depend upon to protect it. This video shows how in West Virginia, this right has already been taken away. Please watch it and share with your friends and family — it’s important that more people … Read more
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Does the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics Comprehend the Ethics of Informed Consent?
Posted by vaccinexchange on January 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, Virtual Mentor, has devoted its January 2012 issue to the question of vaccine ethics. Unsurprisingly, none of the articles deal with the very real problems that taint vaccine trials and present a false view of vaccine safety. Apparently, using reactive placebos that hide the true rate of serious … Read more
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Does the HPV Vaccine Really Fight Cancer?
Posted by vaccinexchange on January 4, 2012 · 1 Comment
A new paper published in the Annals of Medicine argues that, as we have said for some time now, the HPV vaccine may not be as effective as health authorities claim. The paper begins by summarizing one of the key points in the vaccine safety debate: since vaccines are given to healthy people to guard … Read more
Filed under aluminum adjuvants, cancer, cervical cancer, drug trials, Gardasil, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, HPV, informed consent, placebos, studies, vaccine choice, Vaccine Injury, Vaccine Science, vaccines · Tagged with aluminum adjuvants, cervical cancer, drug trials, Gardasil, informed consent, placebos, scientific studies, vaccine adverse reactions, vaccine choice, vaccine damage, vaccine injury, vaccine science
Greater Good Movie Playing in NYC on Friday
Posted by vaccinexchange on November 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
We’ve been talking about the new documentary on vaccine safety, The Greater Good, on this blog for some time. This Friday, the movie will be playing at the International Film Center. After the screening, there will be a Q&A session with Leslie Manookian, who wrote and produced the film, as well as Barbara Loe Fisher, … Read more
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Pro-Pharma Groups Boycott Delta For Airing Ad on Vaccine Safety
Posted by vaccinexchange on November 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The National Vaccine Information Center has been airing an ad promoting awareness of vaccine safety issues on Delta Airlines’ inflight video service. The ad is fairly innocuous: Unsurprisingly, however, certain pro-pharma groups are mounting a boycott to suppress this message. We cannot tolerate threats and the suppression of this information by corporate interests – we … Read more
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Contagion: Nothing More Than Propaganda
Posted by vaccinexchange on November 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
A month or so ago we wrote here about the movie Contagion and the way in which it seemed to be nothing more than a marketing vehicle for vaccines. We were unsurprised, therefore, when we saw that this week, the American Public Health Association featured the movie in one of their … Read more
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