NEWSLETTER VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1

by Dr. Deborah Baker-Racine 2004-2005

US Senate Bill 3 will PREVENT states from banning mercury in vaccines in addition to individuals being compensated for the harm they have experienced as a result of innoculations.

THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM http://www.nomercury.org/

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Dear Parent/Adovate:

Please look closely at US Senate Bill 3. A copy of the bill is available
at http://www.nomercury.org/

Under the guise of Protecting America in the War on Terror, US Senators Gregg, Frist, Sessions, DeWine, Allen, Santorum, McConnell, and DeMint have introduced S. 3 which calls for many sweeping changes in pharmaceutical product liability, vaccine regulation, policy, research and The Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. This directly impacts those families whose children have suffered adverse vaccine reactions, Gulf War Veterans, and any other veteran who suffers from adverse reactions from the multiple vaccines given (remember the ill-fated anthrax vaccine and small-pox vaccines).

The most recent bill introduced in the U.S. Senate (S. 3) is aimed at liability protection of drugs and vaccines and to prevent state legislation to ban Thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines. This bill is worse than the Eli Lilly provision of the Homeland Security Act and is a direct gift to the pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical industry gave almost $45 million in campaign contributions for Presidential and Congressional elections since 2002 (www.opensecrets.org) and the health care/pharmaceutical industry has over 600 lobbyists in Washington, D.C. alone. If constituents do not weigh in on this horrendous bill, the American people will suffer; having their civil rights violated and state autonomy will be compromised. It is an insult to every state elected official and every American.

This bill is being fast-tracked and is already on the agenda at the National Vaccine Advisory Committee meeting, scheduled for February 8, 2005 at 10:45 am: http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/agenda.html.

It would also severely limit the public access to any information regarding vaccine research, vaccine production, vaccine regulations, including, but not limited to meetings about vaccines and countermeasures for pandemics, epidemics, etc. This bill places severe restrictions on FOIA and will impact your ability to find out about drug/vaccine safety, regulation and policy. The last thing this country needs is to give government the ability to hold more closed meetings without accountability to the media/public.

Furthermore, Sec. 761 (a)(1) would preempt any state legislation regulating vaccines. It would preempt State authority and legislation dealing with vaccines or vaccines components, such as Thimerosal (mercury). Missouri currently has three bills pending to ban mercury (Thimerosal) in vaccines. They are Missouri SB 49, SB74 and HB 131. The States of Iowa and California have already banned mercury in vaccines yet this bill will preempt such legislation forcing states to allow vaccine manufacturers to continue using toxic levels of mercury in vaccines (in excess of Federal EPA safety guidelines). Numerous other states are pursuing similar legislation such as Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. Various other states are also planning to introduce legislation banning mercury in vaccines within the next few weeks/months, such as Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota.

This horrendous piece of Federal legislation would even prohibit the warning or informed consent provisions for drugs, vaccines and biologics. Additionally, this bill would prohibit punitive damages and cap compensatory damages against any pharmaceutical company. This takes the saying to the victor goes the spoils to a whole new and ominous level. If the FDA approves it, the company making it is protected from liability. We have all seen how attentive the FDA has been to protect Americans from dangerous drugs such as Vioxx.

This cleverly crafted legislation includes something nearly every American will understandably want to support: raising the death gratuity for families of soldiers killed in Iraq from $12,000 to $100,000 and increases other military benefits. Including an unrelated but popular provision that should stand alone legislatively seeks only to cloud the issues addressed in the major portion of this bill's language. Every American supports increased benefits for our soldiers and their families and that includes us. As parents and loyal Americans, however, we believe that S. 3 has been carefully crafted to unfairly paint parents who seek justice for vaccine injured children into a political corner. Similar to the legislative sleight of hand employed in the Homeland Security Bill fiasco in 2002 the sponsors of S.3 are manipulating the political process by tying domestic programs affecting every American's health and safety to unrelated anti-terrorism programs. In this way they are attempting to make legitimate opposition to S. 3 politically unacceptable.

We question why politically popular legislation supporting our troops is tied to a bill with far-reaching provisions that affect and the safety of vaccines given to millions of American children. Let's not confuse the issues. We believe that by casting the vaccine safety provisions in the language of fighting terrorism (epidemic countermeasures is S.3's new code word for vaccines--this is truly Orwellian doublespeak) the American people are being misled about S.3's impact on vaccine safety programs. Let's deal with one thing at a time. Taking away the right of states to protect their citizens from dangerous vaccine components and drugs like Vioxx and Paxil does not translate into protecting our children--from terrorism or anything else. All it does is give control of these matters--vaccines and drugs--to a few powerful people who operate behind closed doors. The vaccine safety provisions are pharma support positions, plain and simple, and are not necessary for bio-terror defense, at least not in this form.

It would also overhaul The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to the detriment of children and families. Other parts of this legislation are extremely troublesome as well and you can go to No Mercury and read the bill. This is not a benign bill--this goes directly to counter state and parental efforts to protect children from vaccine injuries.

Read a few excerpts below. If this bill is as concerning to you as it is to other parents and many members of the medical community, please contact all members of the US Senate, particularly your Senators and members of the US Senate Finance Committee (see their contact info below). This is not anti-terrorism--this is Federalism gone wild!!!!

For GREAT information on the dangers of vaccines contact:

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK
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vaccineinfo@tesco.net voicemail US 530-740-0561
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Vaccines - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
Vaccine Dangers On-Line course -
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Homeopathy On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
ANY INFO OBTAINED HERE NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS MEDICAL
OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION TO VACCINATE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE

OR

Sandy at www.vaccinationnews.org

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Researchers find diabetes trigger, possible fix


Researchers in Boston have pinpointed a primary trigger for the most common form of diabetes and have uncovered evidence that simple, inexpensive aspirin-like drugs could keep the disease that affects millions in check.

The researchers, from Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, discovered a genetic "master switch" in the liver that is turned on when people become obese. Obesity has long been linked to diabetes, but the reason, until now, has been unknown. Joslin researchers found that once on, this switch produces low-level inflammation, which disrupts the body's ability to process insulin, causing type 2 diabetes.

But the researchers took the finding one step further. Reasoning that aspirin-like drugs are used to quell inflammation, they successfully used the drugs, called salicylates, to eliminate the symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice. Human tests are already underway in Boston, though no results have been published.

"These drugs, among the safest drugs known, can do a surprisingly good job of toning down this inflammation," said Joslin researcher Dr.

Steven E. Shoelson, lead author of the paper. "These are hopeful ideas for the future."

Shoelson warned against rushing out to get salicylates. Their effectiveness has been proved thus far only in mice.

"No one should go out and take these drugs," said Shoelson. He said losing weight, exercising, and eating healthy are the obvious things to do.

Nonetheless, researchers at Joslin were excited about their findings and are preparing federal grant requests to fund a major, multicity trial of salicylate therapy for type 2 diabetes. And there are indications that the drugs could also help stave off heart disease.

"There is good reason to believe that this could develop into a therapy for diabetes. The evidence is quite good," said Dr. Gokhan Hotamisligil, professor of genetics and metabolism at Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved in the study. "I'm fully convinced this is where the key therapies for diabetes will emerge from."

The findings appeared Sunday in the online version of the journal Nature Medicine. The work was funded by the federal government and the American Diabetes Association.

About 18 million Americans have diabetes, and most have type 2 diabetes.

In type 2 diabetes, the body's cells become resistant to insulin, which transports sugar from the bloodstream into cells, giving cells energy to function. In diabetes, this feeding is blocked, causing sugar to build up in blood.

Those afflicted grow excessively thirsty, exhausted, and confused if the condition goes untreated, and are at high risk for heart disease, stroke, blindness, and amputations. About three-quarters of sufferers are obese or overweight.

Shoelson's team began the experiment seeking the biological connections between weight gain and diabetes. They knew that the livers of obese people accumulate fat faster than any other organ, and that many overweight diabetic patients had high levels of proteins - particularly one called NF-kB - in their livers that normally trigger inflammation.

They zeroed in on it and were stunned to discover its role in diabetes.

The scientists were able to trigger inflammation and the symptoms of diabetes in lean, previously healthy mice by using genetic techniques to turn on the gene that makes NF-kB.

Normally, in response to an infection, the liver produces massive amounts of NF-kB, which triggers a biological process that sends white blood cells to an injury site to fight off infections, causing inflammation in the process. NF-kB acts as a master switch, triggering this complex and life-saving reaction.

But in obese mice, Shoelson's team found that a fatty liver - for reasons still unknown - also flipped on NF-kB, though at far lower levels.

The proteins secreted when this low-level inflammation occurs disrupt the body's ability to process insulin, leading to diabetes.

"We previously knew that in obesity, the liver becomes fatty and that it accumulates fat faster than other organs and tissues," said Shoelson.

"But until now, we didn't know fat in the liver could orchestrate the entire inflammatory process that results in insulin resistance, both locally and throughout the body."

Shoelson's team decided to use salicylates, already used as anti-inflammatory, to try to stop low-level inflammation and diabetes symptoms triggered by NF-kB - and was successful. As long as the mice got adequate doses, their diabetes was held in check. Aspirin is the best known of this family of drugs. But Shoelson found that it would take more than 20 aspirins daily to suppress NF-kB in human diabetics, which would cause severe gastrointestinal bleeding.

In human trials, Shoelson is using a milder, commercially available prescription salicylate called salsalate, used safely by thousands to treat joint pain. He is negotiating with the National Institutes of Health to fund a large-scale national trial.

Another intriguing finding emerged from the study: Within the complex cascade of biological events triggered by NF-kB, Shoelson found that C-reactive protein levels were elevated. C-reactive protein, or CRP, has been found to be a strong risk marker for heart disease.

Shoelson is preparing an experiment to test if salicylates also can reduce CRP and thus heart disease risk.

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