What Doctors Don’t Tell You Australia-NZ – July 22, 2019

Vaccine revenues set

to soar after anti-vax

clampdown

The clampdown on ‘anti-vax’ stories on

social media is producing one big winner:

Big Pharma. Revenues from vaccines will

enjoy “an overwhelming hike” in the next

few years, say industry watchers.

Market research group HTF Market

Intelligence said revenues from the

MMR vaccine will see the hike by 2025,

and other research firms have also been

forecasting big revenue increases for the

global market for all vaccines.

Market research group Research

& Markets estimates revenues for

all vaccines will increase to $57.

billion by 2025, compared to just

$33.7 billion last year. Another market

research group, Transparency, is

forecasting vaccine sales revenues will

reach $48 billion by 2025.

Government initiatives that are

promoting vaccines—and silencing

the anti-vaxxers—are one of the big

drivers of the increase.

Although North America will remain

the largest market for vaccines—

where it is compulsory in most states

and others are dramatically restricting

the types of exemptions they allow—

the biggest growth will be in the

Asia-Pacific region, which has

witnessed an increase in cases

of tuberculosis (TB), malaria

and dengue fever.

But the global market is also

being bolstered by pro-vaccine

government initiatives. “This

strategy has immense potential to

increase patient acceptability and also

increase the rates of immunization,” the

Transparency report says.

markets.businessinsider.com; http://www.prnewswire.com;

investoropinion.co.uk

Most research reviews

don’t report adverse

reactions

Medicine is even more dangerous than

we all thought. One-third of systematic

reviews that claim to assess adverse

reactions and side-effects fail to do so

correctly, if at all.

But a whopping 62 percent of

all systematic reviews on medical

interventions—articles supposedly

designed to synthesize all the

published research on a drug, device or

procedure—don’t even mention the

likelihood of side-effects at all.

Taken together, the numbers show

that this important category of medical

articles—intended to investigate the

safety and effectiveness of drugs and

surgery—are not properly reporting on

side-effects and adverse reactions.

In an analysis of the protocols for 1,

systematic reviews, only 524 of them,

or 38 percent, included adverse events

as an outcome. A sampling of those

revealed that a further 35 percent of the

review articles didn’t assess the adverse

events as they claimed they would—

percent did so only partially, and eight

percent didn’t mention them at all.

In other words, only around a quarter

of systematic reviews recognize the

possibility of side-effects and include

them in their analyses, researchers from

the University of York discovered.

They say they can’t understand why

this important element of healthcare is

not being properly reported, but suggest

that far stricter guidelines need to be

drawn up before a research project even

gets started.

J Clin Epidemiol, 2019; 108: 95–

HRT raises Alzheimer’s risk

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can

increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease—

and women who have taken it for at least

10 years are the most vulnerable, a new

study has discovered.

Women are more likely than men to

develop Alzheimer’s, and taking HRT

increases the risk by a further 17 percent.

The latest research runs counter to

earlier studies that had thought HRT had

a protective effect against Alzheimer’s

and dementia because it kept levels of

estrogen higher.

Researchers from the University of

Helsinki analyzed the medical histories of

more than 84,000 Finnish women who

were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease

between 1999 and 2013 and compared

them to a similar number of women

without Alzheimer’s.

Women taking estradiol-only HRT had

a 9 percent increase in risk, which rose

to 17 percent for those taking the more

common estrogen-progestogen HRT

preparations.

The researchers think that maintaining

levels of estradiol beyond menopause

could be a factor in the development of

Alzheimer’s.

They point out that their research

merely shows an association, and this

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UPFRONT

Parents fund

‘no compulsory

vaccinations’

billboard in

Times Square

A group of parents whose children

were harmed by the DPT (diphtheria-

pertussis-tetanus) vaccine has paid for

a giant advertisement that appeared

in New York’s Times Square in April.

The group, the National Vaccine

Information Center (NVIC), says the

advertisement was a response to the

campaign across the US and elsewhere

to restrict parents’ freedom of choice

over vaccination. California removed

the personal belief vaccine exemption

in 2015.

Further restrictions are expected as

“vaccine proponents whip up irrational

fears to justify attacking human rights,

including freedom of thought, speech,

religious belief and conscience,” said

NVIC’s cofounder Barbara Loe Fisher.

“In a population of 320 million

people, a few hundred cases of

measles is not a public health

emergency to justify

the elimination of the

legal right to exercise

informed consent to

vaccination.”

The NVIC’s

electronic

advertisement ran

with the messages:

“Vaccinations: know the risks and

failures” and “No forced vaccination”

on an electronic display that appeared

three times an hour every day last

April.

The NVIC is a non-profit group

formed in 1982 “to prevent vaccine

injuries and deaths through public

education.”

http://www.thevaccinereaction.org

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