Canadian Vaccine Study Raises Questions

A recent Canadian study showed  that those who received a season flu vaccine were twice as likely to contract the swine flu. The WHO (World Health Organization) attributed the possible reason for the Canadian results as due to some statistical flaws or selection biases, yet no one on the 4 1/2-hour teleconference was able to [...]

Swedish News on H1N1 Vaccine

The headline’s read (translated roughly of course):
190-tal effects of the vaccine
As of Thursday, adding MPA every week out all the unwanted effects of the vaccine against swine flu on its website. To date, a 190-voice side effects reported to the Authority.
More than half a million doses of influenza vaccine Pandemrix has been sent to the [...]

Menopause

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I’ve heard that women going through menopause experience changes in their hormone levels that cause mood swings. Since I’m a recent inductee to this club I can say from my own personal experience that this is rubbish. It isn’t the hormone levels that cause us to be crabby, we’re just pissed [...]

Define Frivolous?

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Ten years ago I developed a strange cough and thought I had pneumonia. After doing a weeks worth of laundry and finding it increasing difficult to breath I went across the street to the hospital emergency room and I waited my turn to be seen. After explaining my difficulty breathing I [...]

Adverse Reaction to Swine Flu Shot?

Vaccine injury has been so prevalent that U.S Dept of Health and Human Services established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which as of October 1, 1988, also includes the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
According to statistics some 4,000 people fell ill after taking the swine flu vaccine in 1976; 500 contracted a [...]

Message Mr. Cleaver…

I woke up yesterday, ran my fingers through my hair and thanked God for effective drugs, I was beginning to fear that Father Time had finally caught up with me…like the ticking clock in Peter Pan, and I’d be stuck with permanent puffy bags, dark circles and cross hash wrinkles, for good.  Whatever infected me [...]

The Best Healthcare Debate Tweet

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“I don’t care where you fall on the healthcare debate, yelling at Arlen Specter looks like fun.”
-Badbanana via Twitter

Body Image

Last weekend I spent Saturday and Sunday bouncing from party to party until I returned home at about 8 P.M. Sunday night. One party was a wedding, the other a birthday and the other party was a graduation. What was unusual was that at all parties I saw people I hadn’t seen in over a [...]

The Last Day of School

Yesterday was Alexa’s last day of school. It was a bittersweet day that Alexa both looked forward to and dreaded.
When Alexa’s Dad died 2 years ago she wrote and read a tribute at his funeral, a good-bye letter if you will. In her letter she said that she feared the big days ahead, like graduation [...]

Wisecracks

I went shopping yesterday and decided it was too early for me to have taken on such an activity. I got half way through shopping and everything felt surreal,  fuzzy and I felt bit feverish.
Throughout the day I kept attempting tasks unsuccessfully then I slept about 16 hours, lost about 3 lbs over 3 days [...]