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...especially keen on stressing, imm, since an unexpected shutdown of a major vaccine manufacturer in 2004 left the U.S. with a shortage of shots. "We are thrilled with the approval because it means more manufacturers and more products are on the market, which means we have more vaccine to protect the community," says Dr. Jeanne Santoli, deputy director of immunizations services at the Centers for Disease Control...
...Administration approved a new flu vaccine on Thursday, bringing the total number of flu shots manufactured in the U.S. to five. With the addition of the latest vaccine, the Department of Health and Human Services expects to have an unprecedented 110-115 million doses of the vaccine ready to protect Americans this winter...
...unhappy about marketing forces shaping the world of medicine - a world which for most of us, at least in some part, is truly as sacrosanct as the life and health it aims to protect. Anna's case is an example of the new medical entity called "patient driven medicine." Patient driven essentially means it doesn't matter what we do or say to patients as long as they feel satisfied by their interaction with us. When the problem is complex and the best treatment mediocre, it's far more profitable to smile, cajole and refer on to the next...
...Alumni Association website has, understandably, been taken offline. Facebook members, however, can browse several page groups, including House Pages!, whose page touts "Top Ten Reasons to Date a Page." Number five? "Special orders don't upset us." There's also the strident "The United States House Page Program DID Protect Me, Darnit!" group, which say, "The Page Program rocks hardcore- it's just, some pages are idiots...
...read the interview with human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce [Sept. 18]. Finally, someone has the courage and insight to tell it like it is. It's both astonishing and highly depressing to see the lack of popular reaction in Western democracies to the antiterrorism-globalization steamroller. Labor protections and human rights that our forefathers fought for and, in untold cases, died for are being tossed away as a result of the hype and hysteria being propagated by governments and Big Business. The media are also guilty. What we give away in moments of anguish and fright will be more than...