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Adult Vaccines: Raising Awareness, Improving Access
November 2009

"large numbers of Americans above the age of 18 remain vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases"
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With a New Ideologue in Charge, It's (Bad) Business as Usual at EPA (from Investor's Business Daily)
By Henry Miller and Dr. Gilbert Ross. The only things being protected these days by the Environmental Protection Agency are the insupportable, unscientific views of radical activists...
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Taxpayer-Paid Prayer? (from the New York Post)
By Jeff Stier. It turns out that government-run health insurance means politician-decided health benefits...
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Patients Will Feel Feds' Bullying (from the Orange County Register)
By Henry Miller and Jeff Stier. The Pelosi health care juggernaut, if it becomes law, will hurt critical industries and endanger all Americans...
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Stop the (Health Reform) Juggernaut (from Forbes.com)
By Henry I. Miller and Jeff Stier. Politics has been called the art of the possible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's brand of politics might be dubbed the art of...
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Shutting Off the Miracle-Drug Spigot (from New York Post)
By Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right last week...
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Christian Science and Health Reform (from FutureofCapitalism.com)
By Jeff Stier. The Los Angeles Times draws attention to news that, as part of the health-care overhaul, "A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine"...
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No Placebo for Lower Costs (from the Washington Times)
By Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller. There must be a self-satisfied smirk on the face of the executives at big pharmaceutical companies...
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Council Votes to Boost Butts (from New York Post)
By Jeff Stier. The City Council this week voted 46-1 to ban many flavorings in a variety of tobacco products -- and the result will be far more damaging to safer tobacco forms such as smokeless -- and safer nicotine delivery systems such as e-cigarettes -- than to the cigarettes that really kill Americans...
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NYC's School Snack Attack Is an Insane A-Salt (from the Daily News)
By Dr. Gilbet Ross. This week, the city's Department of Education is rolling out new rules for beverage and snack-food vending machines...
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Public Enemy No. 1 (from Forbes.com)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. Despite the ongoing epidemics of cigarette-related disease, novel influenza and obesity, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson is focusing on a very different set of purported health risks...
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An Empty Nod to Tort Reform (from the American)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. In an apparent attempt to sway at least one undecided Republican senator to sign on to his healthcare reform program...
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Phthalate Risks, Phthalate Regulation, and Public Health: A Review (from Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health)
By Michael A. Kamrin, Ph.D. An overview of the facts and health-scare exaggerations related to the chemicals called phthalates...
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FDA's Drug and E-Cigarette Warnings Counterproductive (from The Hill)
By Jeff Stier. A major policy shift is underway, and it is bound to have a dangerous unintended consequence...
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Toys, Lead, and Unintended Consequences (from National Review Online)
By Dr. Gilbert Ross. With enforcement of the misleadingly named Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) now fully in place...
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