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RightChange - RightChange Videos - Conservative - Politizoid Inflammation-related effects of adjuvant influenza A vaccination on platelet activation and cardiac autonomic function - Lanza - 2010 - Journal of Internal Medicine Abstract Abstract. Lanza GA, Barone L, Scalone G, Pitocco D, Sgueglia GA, Mollo R, Nerla R, Zaccardi F, Ghirlanda G, Crea F (Istituto di Cardiologia; and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma; Italy). Inflammation-related effects of adjuvant influenza A vaccination on platelet activation and cardiac autonomic function. Background. Methods. Results. Conclusions. Introduction Numerous studies have shown that inflammation has a relevant role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis as well as of acute coronary syndromes [1–3]. Inflammatory stimuli are believed to induce a prothrombotic state [13, 14], but there is a relative lack of data about their effects on platelet activation in the clinical setting [15]. Influenza A vaccination is globally recommended each year for patients with increased risk of life-threatening complications from influenza A disease, including patients with diabetes [23]. Results Thirty patients underwent basal evaluation. Figure 1. Figure 2. Discussion

Companies hiring illegal immigrants may be skirting other laws, Mike Sunnucks Phoenix Business Journal Law enforcement officials and immigration attorneys say companies that hire illegal immigrants also may be skirting unemployment and workers' compensation insurance and tax payments, paying substandard wages, and sometimes committing document fraud related to the hirings. "Other possible charges could be money laundering, tax evasion and overtime violations," said Sandra Raynor, spokeswoman for the U.S. Raynor said employers also could face a number of immigration charges, such as harboring illegal immigrants and encouraging them to come to the U.S. Vincent Picard, spokesman for the U.S. Arizona and other states bordering Mexico have the highest identity theft rates in the country, according to the Federal Trade Commission. "There is a lot of paying off the payrolls, paying in cash going on," said Rebecca Winterscheidt, an immigration attorney and partner in the Phoenix law office of Snell & Wilmer LLP.

Body of Cyprus President Stolen From Grave - International News NICOSIA, Cyprus – Grave robbers stole the corpse of former hardline Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos, digging up his coffin during a thunderstorm just before the first anniversary of his death, police said Friday. The body-snatching horrified people in Cyprus and came as the island's Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders are locked in complex reunification talks that have made limited progress. Police said the tomb raiders struck late Thursday or early Friday. There was no immediate indication of a motive and police would not confirm a state television report that three people were being questioned in connection with the robbery. President Demetris Christofias, who beat Papadopoulos in March 2008 elections, urged Cypriots "to remain calm in the face of this provocative act." "This is an unacceptable, unholy, unethical and condemnable act that damages our tradition, our culture and our respect toward the dead," Christofias said. "What happened is macabre and utterly condemnable.

DRUDGE REPORT 2011® Swine flu jab and narcolepsy may be linked by autoimmune response Scientists appear close to pinpointing why a swine flu vaccine given to six million people in Britain triggered the devastating sleep disorder, narcolepsy, in rare cases. The Pandemrix vaccine, made by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and which was recommended by the UK government to high-risk groups during the 2009-10 swine flu pandemic, was withdrawn after medical records showed a spike in the number of cases of narcolepsy presenting in doctors’ surgeries. But until now it has not been clear why the jab caused the chronic illness, which involves uncontrollable daytime sleepiness, in around one in 55,000 recipients. The latest study suggests that in rare cases, Pandemrix led to patients producing antibodies that attacked and destroyed a critical hub of brain cells that help regulate tiredness. Dr Sohail Ahmed, global head of clinical sciences at Novartis Vaccines and first author of the study, said: “There’s a lot of evidence now to suggest that narcolepsy is an autoimmune disease.

Faults Seen at Agency That Patrols U.S. Borders Article - Mexican Border Issues Faults Seen at Agency That Patrols U.S. Borders By RALPH BLUMENTHALPublished: November 6, 2007New York Times Thousands of travelers who should have been barred from entering the country last year were allowed in by lax procedures of United States Customs and Border Protection officers, the Government Accountability Office reported yesterday. “When C.B.P. does not apprehend a potentially dangerous person, this increases the potential that national security may be compromised,” said the office, an investigative arm of Congress. Persistent weaknesses reported in the inspection program included failures to stop vehicles or question pedestrians crossing the border, even after heightened alerts and stepped-up training. Mike Friel, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection in Washington, responded by saying, “In the post-9/11 environment there continue to be challenges to our overall border security efforts.” But Mr. ~Snip~To read the entire article, Click Here.

White House Christmas Decorations? Yes. White House Christmas Ca A Republican lawmaker with a mission to save Christmas is aiming his latest salvo at President and first lady Obama, who've followed in a recent tradition to eliminate the mention of Christmas in the White House holiday cards. The card selected by the Obamas announces: "Season's Greetings." Inside, it reads: "May your family have a joyous holiday season and a new year blessed with hope and happiness." But Rep. "I believe that sending a Christmas card without referencing a holiday and its purpose limits the Christmas celebration in favor of a more 'politically correct' holiday," Brown told Fox News Radio on Thursday. "This kind of reproach is exactly what my Christmas resolution, introduced to the House of Representatives earlier this week, is against as the resolution expresses support for the use of Christmas symbols and traditions and disapproval of all attempts to ban or limit references to Christmas," he added. Presidents have been sending holiday cards since 1953.

Vaccine McCarthyism. What if the Vaccine Paradigm itself is Deliberately Flawed? Within the mainstream medical and scientific community there is an unassailable pseudo-truth that vaccines are safe and effective, whether administered individually or in combination. Within the vaccine injured children and autism movements there is also an unchallenged belief that vaccines are effective but not always safe. In this case, vaccine-injured children or adult family members were simply one of the rare cases where they received a hot lot vaccine or possessed biomolecular abnormalities, such as mitochondria dysfunction, and suffered the consequences. Even many parents with two children developing neurological complications after vaccination, will continue to follow the recommended vaccine schedule. However, what if all of these individuals and their organizations, their shadow lobbying foundations and think tanks, are wrong? Last year, 2014, may well be the watershed year marking the demise of the vaccine era. Dr. Dr. Americans are rapidly losing confidence in the CDC.

More Than Half Illegals Rounded Up By ICE in "Major Raid&qu By Debbie Schlussel You know all of those phony show-raids that Julie Myers’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does so that she can go on FOX News and tell us how she won’t tolerate illegal aliens in the country and in the workplace? Well, here’s more evidence of what a crock those raids are: More than half of the illegal aliens rounded up and arrested by ICE agents at a Massachusetts leather goods factory, a year ago, are still in the United States. Some are even back at that factory working. Shocker. Do Not Want From MGroves.com (Julie Myers Diet Coke by David Lunde/Lundesigns) While most of the aliens that are still here are fighting their deportation in Immigration Court–and for that, ICE bears no responsibility–there are many who are still here and still working. Heckuva Job, ICE Princess.

Scientists find new evidence on GSK vaccine link to narcolepsy Boston Financier Steps In to Bail Out Illegal Immigrants - WSJ.c Impact of cytokine in type 1 narcolepsy: Role of pandemic H1N1 vaccination ? a AP-HP, Pediatric Sleep Center, CHU Robert-Debré, Paris, Franceb National Reference Centre for Orphan Diseases, Narcolepsy, Idiopathic Hypersomnia and Kleine-Levin Syndrome (CNR narcolepsie-hypersomnie), Francec Inserm UMS20, Centre d’Immunologie Humaine (CIH) Institut Pasteur, Franced Inserm U1061, Montpellier, Francee Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, Francef Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, CHU Montpellier, Franceg Sleep Disorders Unit, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, AP-HP, Franceh Brain Research Institute (CRICM-UPMC-Paris6; Inserm UMR_S 975; CNRS UMR 7225), Sorbonne Universities, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, F-75005, Francei Aviesan/Institut Multi-Organismes Immunologie, Hématologie et Pneumologie (ITMO IHP), France Received 28 November 2014, Revised 23 January 2015, Accepted 18 March 2015, Available online 16 April 2015 Choose an option to locate/access this article: Check access doi:10.1016/j.jaut.2015.03.003 Highlights Abstract

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