Cool: Google Flu Trends

w/ flu call musculoskeletal complaints concommitants
( notes on week 4 Taylor lecture )

FASCINATING FACTOID ( Read more... )

( came in late )

I heard it on NPR. Wakefield is the doctor who linked autism to vaccines. They're blaming current outbreaks of measles and mumps on him. They're not discussing his actual research or findings, beyond saying that some of Wakefield's small sample were children who already had symptoms of autism. Wakefield's study involved looking at the microbes ( Read more... )

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EENT Study Questions - Throat
( handmedown )

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/28/how-the-media-gets-away-with-lying-about-vaccine-information.aspxRead more... )

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/728703?src=mpnews&spon=34&uac=89474MTRead more... )

Pneumococcal Vaccine Dosing Schedule Linked to Higher Risk of Acquiring Multiresistant Strain and
Guidelines Updated for Use of 23-valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine in Adults
medscape articles posted by Laurie Barclay, MD
( notes from medscape keeping up with concerns and ACIP, these notes pulled for black book )

(Reuters) - People with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes are more likely to develop plaques in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease, researchers in Japan reported on Thursday ( Read more... )