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Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital. Much of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this week by a presidential bioethics commission. The meeting was triggered by the government's apology last fall for federal ...
Universal Flu Vaccine Coming Soon? Researchers Are Getting Close
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsEvery year, the flu shot is something of a gamble. Scientists have to figure out what the most active strains are, then create a vaccine around them. Sometimes, there are shortages and delays in shipping and manufacturing, which can keep people from getting vaccinated. But a new study gives us hope that those headaches may soon go the way of smallpox. Scientists from the U.K.'s Oxford University tested a new universal vaccine on 11 healthy patients, then exposed those 11 and another 11, who did not receive the shot, to the flu. "Fewer of the people who were vaccinated got flu than the ...
Trish Keenan, Lead Singer of Broadcast, Dead at 42: A Musical Tribute [VIDEOS]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsTrish Keenan, who was the lead singer of the electronic-music band Broadcast, has died from complications related to pneumonia. She was 42. Broadcast formed in the mid-'90s in England. The group's first album, "The Noise Made by People," was released in 2000; the group followed up with 2003's "Ha-Ha Sound" and 2005's "Tender Buttons." In 2009, the band released the mini-album "Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age," a collaborative effort with the band the Focus Group. Keenan developed pneumonia after a bout with the H1N1 swine flu, which has hit the United ...
Opinion: Autism Fraud Just the Tip of the Iceberg
By Michael Fumento - AOL News"A deliberate fraud." That's what the British Medical Journal, one of the world's most prestigious periodicals, has written of the study that kicked off the current anti-vaccine movement. It's "clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare," it said in a heavily documented editorial. The lead author of that anti-vaccine study, which also appeared in one most respected medical journals, The Lancet, was British physician Andrew Wakefield. And its consequences include millions of terrified and confused parents, large drops in vaccination rates ...
Is Swine Flu Poised for a British Invasion of the US?
By David Knowles - AOL NewsHere it comes again. An outbreak of H1N1 flu has hospitalized 302 people in England and accounted for 14 deaths in recent weeks, the Guardian reported. Making matters worse, many British citizens, including health workers, have yet to receive flu shots this year after the frenzy of attention paid to H1N1 subsided at the conclusion of last year's pandemic season. This year's flu shot covers both seasonal and the so-called "swine" flu strains, but vaccination rates have been 2.5 percent lower this year than last, the BBC reported. "It was ill-advised not to have the public awareness campaign ...
Opinion: Let's Lift the Roadblocks to Vaccinations
By not in system - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- With the flu season just getting under way, it's a good time to ask this question: In an age of readily available vaccines, why are so many Americans dying of preventable diseases? About 200,000 will be hospitalized and 36,000 will die of the flu between now and when the flu season ends in May. In California, pertussis -- more commonly known as whooping cough -- has re-emerged with a vengeance. This year, nearly 6,000 pertussis cases have erupted -- health officials call this the biggest whooping cough outbreak since 1950. Tragically, pertussis has killed 10 California infants ...
Tobacco-Based Vaccines Could Pwn Future Pandemics
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Pandemics and bio-terror threats might one day be a health hazard of the past. A massive undertaking by the U.S. military is rapidly transforming vaccine production, yielding fast-tracked approaches to wipe out new illnesses before they spread. The military's been after better bio-threat prevention methods since 2005, but it was only last year that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched its Blue Angel program to come up with quicker responses to emerging flu viruses. H1N1 (the virus originally referred to by the media as "swine flu") was the catalyst for ...
Don't Want to Get Sick? Break a Sweat: Physical Fitness Curbs Colds
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 2) -- Incorporating fitness into your daily lifestyle can do more than mitigate stress and help maintain a healthy weight. Just in time for the winter sniffles, a new study concludes that a physically fit body can also ward off the common cold. What did the study determine? Around 1,000 adults were tracked throughout fall and winter. Those who exercised at least 20 minutes a day, five days a week, experienced 43 percent fewer "sick days" due to upper respiratory tract infections than those who didn't work out. The results held steady even after controlling for factors like body mass ...
Former British PM Margaret Thatcher Admitted to Hospital
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Oct. 20) -- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was hospitalized in London last night after failing to recover from a bout of flu. Thatcher, 85, was taken by ambulance from her home in West London's luxurious Belgravia neighborhood to the nearby Cromwell hospital for "routine" tests and treatment, a spokesman told the U.K. media. Her son, Mark, told reporters gathered outside the West London clinic that she was in "good spirits" and "looked well." WPA Pool / Getty Images Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is in the hospital for tests and treatment after ...
Viral Hit of the Worst Kind: Flu Season Meets iPads, Touch Screens
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 14) -- How to keep a hot spot from becoming a hot zone of germs? Over the past year, touch-screen technology has swept the globe. And now, with the start of cold and flu season, the world is about to experience just how social old-fashioned viruses can be. The same week it was announced that Apple had reached a deal allowing Verizon to begin selling Wi-Fi-only versions of the iPad on Oct. 28, a new study released by the Journal of Applied Microbiology cautions against sharing touch screens with others during flu season. "If you're sharing the device, then you're sharing your ...
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