#372
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:29:15 -0700
From: Nathan E CRAWFORD <Nathan.E.Crawford@STATE.OR.US>
Subject: Re: Booster Vaccine May Reduce Whooping Cough in Adolescents
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thanks for the link, Mark. I'm truly amazed that anyone would give it such high
marks as to call it an "excellent" article! Surely an article must do more than
give an opposite perspective to be called well written!
Also read the response by IOM and the response, again, by RFK, Jr.
Nathan
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While on the subject of vaccines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr has written an excellent
article on the subject of the politics of immunizations that appeared in
Salon.com.
Now I now that some of us public health educators dutifully swallow the CDC
endorsed position that "immunizations are good" & dismiss the whole
"immunizations are bad" crowd as a bunch of whacko conspiracy theorists but this
article shows that the truth is somewhere in the middle (okay likely a bit left
of center). If nothing else, it is YET ONE MORE illustration of the politics of
public health.
To get ahold of the articleand you don't subscribeto Salon.com you have 3
options:
1. Subscribe as it is worth the cost
2. Get a free day pass by watching a brief commercial (they don't ask for
personal information) if you want this option click here:
http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosal/index_np.html
3. By-pass Salon (and their hard work at presenting investigative journalism)
and go to Common Dreams where the article reprinted the article in its entirety.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0616-31.htm
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#373
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:01:06 -0400
From: Elbert D Glover <eglover1@UMD.EDU>
Subject: Table of Contents
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Dear HEDIR subscriber:
Below is a copy of the table of contents for the July/August issue of the Am J
Health Behav. Hope you enjoy.
glover
Volume 29 Number 4, July/August 2005
Cultural Perspectives on Diabetes in an Appalachian Population Shannon L. Smith,
MA Irene A. Tessaro, MA, MSN, DrPH
Systems and Individual Factors Associated With Smoking
Status: Evidence from HINTS
Lila J. Finney Rutten, PhD, MPH
Kay Wanke, PhD, MPH
Erik Augustson , PhD, MPH
Social, Attitudinal, and Demographic Correlates of Adolescent vs College-age
Tobacco UseInitiation Margaret S. Stockdale, PhD Hayley L. Dawson-Owens, MA
Lynda M. Sagrestano, PhD
Prevalence of Condom Use Errors Among STD Clinic Patients Diane M. Grimley, PhD
Lucy Annang, PhD Shannon Houser, PhD, et al.
Caregiver Predictors of Adolescent Inhalant Abuse in Rural Appalachia Robert
Pack, PhD, MPH Gururaj Krishnamurthy, MD, MPH Lesley Cottrell, PhD, et al.
The Role of Sex-specific Normative Beliefs in Undergraduate Alcohol Use Dennis
L. Thombs, PhD Jennifer Ray-Tomasek, PhD Cynthia J. Osborn, PhD, et al.
Predictors of Leisure-time Physical Activity Among African American Women Manoj
Sharma, MBBS, CHES, PhD Leslie Sargent, MS, CHES Richard Stacy, MPH, EdD
Perceived Problem Solving, Stress, and Health Among College Students Erin
Largo-Wight, MS P. Michael Peterson, EdD W. William Chen, PhD
Climate Conditions and Physical Activity in the United States Ray M. Merrill,
PhD, MPH Eric C. Shields, BS George L. White Jr., PhD, MSPH, et al.
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#374
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:45:03 -0400
From: Nancy Eichner <neichner@GWU.EDU>
Subject: CHHCS News Alert, June 24, 2005 -- MediKids Health Insurance Introduced
in Congress
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CHHCS News Alert -- June 24, 2005
MediKids Health Insurance Introduced in Congress-Again:
As they have in each of the last three Congresses, senators led by Senator John
Rockefeller (D-WV) and members of the House of Representatives led by
Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA) introduced bills yesterday that would provide
health insurance for all children born in the United States after the year 2006,
regardless of family income.
http://www.healthinschools.org/2005/june24_alert.asp
Nancy Eichner
Senior Program Manager
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools
Phone: (202) 466-3396
Fax: (202) 466-3467
Email: neichner@gwu.edu
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#375
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:51:06 -0700
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Deadly Immunity (was Re: Booster Vaccine May...)
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nathan wrote:
>thanks for the link, Mark. I'm truly amazed that
anyone >would give it such high marks as to call it an "excellent" >article!
Surely an article must do more than give an >opposite perspective to be called
well written!
Nathan,
Of course I hope you would not think that I called the article excellent because
it simply gives an opposite perspective. Opposing perspectives on immunizations
(such as the National Vaccine Information Center http://www.909shot.com/ and
Peggy O’Mara of Mothering magazine http://www.mothering.com) have been around a
very long time. Nor do I simply call the article excellent because it I thought
it was without flaw.
Indeed, there have been three corrections to the article since it was published
and likely some truth to the opposing sentiments of the IOM president.
What I found very interesting and worthy of the word “excellent” is that RFK,
Jr. is a profoundly intelligent lawyer who has committed his career to fighting
for environmental health and justice issues.
His research and involvement in the investigation of Thimersol in immunizations
has elevated the debate, specific to Thimersol, from the realm of
“anti-government conspiracy theorists” and into the realm of public discourse.
As, the article concludes, “If, as the evidence suggests, our public-health
authorities knowingly allowed the pharmaceutical industry to poison an entire
generation of American children, their actions arguably constitute one of the
biggest scandals in the annals of American medicine.”
Early childhood immunizations are “hot button issues”
that causes many parents much angst. I am (barely) old enough to know people who
survived polio (and who did not survive) and could never imagine saying that all
immunizations are bad but even after working briefly as an infant immunization
coordinator for San Diego County, I cannot say that all immunizations are good
either. There is too much money and influence by corporations to give a blanket
approval to everything pumped out of the FDA and CDC, especially when you
consider that nearly half of the FDA’s $400,000 drug evaluation budget is paid
for by the pharma industry and Federal Advisory panels are being stacked with
pharma industry insiders. This article is because it is excellent as an
instructive tool regarding the influence of corporate money and politics on
science.
And I posted the link because I believe that if we as health education/public
health professionals cannot think at the systems level, we fail in our
profession.
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