Hilary's Desk

Edited on 4th September 2013. You will better understand these blogs if you study each link.  In a letter dated 18 May 2012, the Ministry of Health wrote: The pertussis containing vaccines are effective but do not protect all babies. The pertussis vaccine currently used in New Zealand and other developed countries offers protection of around 84 percent after three doses….. Adults ...

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(The purpose of this blog series - and all other blogs I do -is to educate the public, using medical literature which the medical profession has, but does not usually provide to parents, to show parents that there is other information you need to know in order to make an informed choice about vaccination.  Remember, this is medical information, not "opinion".).  You would think, ...

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(While you will get the gist of this blog in the text a much fuller understanding will come from reading the embedded articles).  In a letter dated 18 May 2012, the Ministry of Health wrote: The pertussis containing vaccines are effective but do not protect all babies. The pertussis vaccine currently used in New Zealand and other developed countries offers protection of around 84 percent ...

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What you need to know:  In terms of infection, these three attachments are worth reading  Whooping cough was once called Haemophilus Pertussis, as per the Harrison 7th edition, and is now called Bordetella Pertussis: Pertussis Crowcroft 2006 Pertussis Hallander 12 sweden Pertussis Harrison 77, 7th Edition. In terms of management of the infection, this thread is where you can glea...

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Close Up's programme on whooping cough, was a triumph of emotional blackmail using a cute baby with whooping cough, to push a policy which doesn't work.  But worse than that, was the standard of discussion on Close up's facebook page.  You know that eminence based manipulation has truly scraped the bottom of the barrel when Grant Jacobs obliquely counsels all readers not...

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  Jabbem all they say.....   What next? Forced contraception? Perhaps. Have the public have lost sight of the "real" issues with regarding "choice"?  We were told that the public supports "free contraception for beneficiaries" . But what does the public mean when they voted "yes" on the polls?. Do they mean that they support free contraception being offered ...

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Yesterday, I rambled about X-rays in general, but put nothing specifically about the dangers, and the data. This post is in response to a request for specific data So, the question is, "What are the dangers of a catscan/X-ray for your child?" After all, if you are, as the FDA says, to keep track of your child's imaging history, you have to know what, when, where, why and how, and it's...

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This is called "vaccine education" Australian Government style, from a book supplied throughout schools: Clearly, school children are now considered so dumb that no facts are required. Why would the Australian Government be providing this cartoon book (which had the above picture in it) to all Australian school children? (I have only scanned half of it.) Of interest, this...

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During a trip to the United States in 1993, a fall down a stairwell landed me in St Joseph’s hospital in Atlanta, where I was wheeled in to have an ankle X-ray. As part of the process I was covered with an incredibly heavy, 5 mm thick, lead “drape”. The “drape” was more a tent, because it extended down to the floor covering my head, and going down to the floor...

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Did you know that for decades, ultra intelligent people who went through medical school, truly believed that babies don't feel pain? This bolt from of the blue, hit us on November 24, 1981, with the birth of our first child. Paediatric "paragons of all truth", had done eleven (yes you read that right) needle insertions into the spine of our baby, while a nurse held him,...

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Back to Basics, Part 1 and Part 2, lay the framework for asking the key questions of this blog, which relate to "Just how 'scientific' are vaccines, in principle, in practice, in fact and in application?" In order to understand the implications of that in babies, the lack of understanding about the neonatal immune system (and new discoveries which are very disturbing) - anot...

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 In order to know what vaccines do, and how the body responds to them, you have to understand the immune system in the first place, right?. All parents believe that doctors and immunologists understand the immune system. They wouldn't introduce vaccines if they didn't, right?. You can't possible evaluate "reactions" and problems in the immune system after vaccination unless you understand ...

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There is a fascinating video on medscape website which all parents should listen to, or read the transcript of. The article is titled: "Why Doctors Keep Doing Treatments That Don't Work". The doctor concerned, states: ...."You have talked rather generously about evidence-based medicine. Most of medicine isn't evidence-based. The overwhelming majority is more "eminence-based," to st...

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(This blog - written by Peter - is in response to the world wide move to make vaccine mandatory, to try to remove exemptions and force parents to accept a "one-size-fits-every-baby" vaccination programme.) How can you "justify" a criminal Act?!! As a start, a few definitions need to be born in mind. A FACT: An event, or thing, known to have happened or existed. A truth that can ...

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So said Dr Glenn D Braunstein, M.D., today, in Huffington Post while lamenting the fact that every year, one in 20 people are infected by staff, and 98,000  Americans die, because the medical profession still don't wash their hands.Dr Braunstein is unusual, in that he's speaking out.(Either that, or ... he's naive.) He rolled out the usual stories of Semmelweis, and also exp...

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This week's "The Science" contains an opinion piece on future vaccines for TB which deserves a historic comment.  The title of the article "Opinion: A TB vaccine blueprint" isn't likely to make headlines in the lay media for pretty obvious but unstated reasons.  They relate to the fact that most parents today, are under the "illusion" that the great white plague was vanquished by...

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Dr Archie Kalokerinos died on 1st March, 2012, at the age of 85. How many people even realise that so many people thoughts so well of him, that he appeared on Television's "This is Your Life"? Looking through all the video footage and photos of Archie, and going through the memories, it's hard to know what to say, or where to start, because his death just brings a lump t...

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Readers of the print version of the New Zealand Herald, will have read  "Killing babies 'the same as abortion' " about an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, which discusses the "rationale" that babies should be able to be killed after birth, not just during pregnancy. I failed to find the URL on the Herald website, the only article available, being a sanitised ve...

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Why is it, that everyone else wants to editorialise on other people's choices?  This is an interesting question, after the last blog on the bigger picture of breastfeeding.  Do I care if people want to put artificial formula into their babies?  On the one hand, no I don't because it's their choice, but on the other hand, yes, I do, because it's my experience, that most people do ...

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