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Meryl Nass

* Hospitalist, Mount Desert Island Hospital (2003 â?? present) * Private Practice, Freeport, Maine, 4 years (ended 2002 with surgery for a spinal meningioma) * Chair of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (2006 â?? present) * Director of... Full Bio
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Narcolepsy traced to specific vaccine batches/ The Local by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Very interesting:  the Narcolepsy Association discovered that specific lots were involved, after the Swedish Medical Products Agency denied it.  Bad lots may mean that the r ... Read on »
Anthrax vaccine – To the victor, the spoils / Scientific American blogs by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From infectious disease MD Judith Stone at Scientific American comes this comprehensive look at what is behind the push to keep buying anthrax vaccine and even give it to ... Read on »
Additional Forensic Investigation of 2001 Anthrax Attacks by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From the University of Pittsburgh Center for Biosecurity comes this short report, a reiteration that the spores in the anthrax letters could not have come directly from th ... Read on »
SuperPACs: faster than a speeding bullet; able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Is this... by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Why are Super PACs different than all other PACs?  [No, we are not discussing Passover tonight.]  See what the NY Times has to say.  But here is a quick summary: ... Read on »
Are You Unwittingly Sharing Your Health Information? by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The federal government has spent $547 million issuing grants to "independent" "health information exchanges" to collect and share citizens' medica l records.   Each ... Read on »
Emergent plans $108M expansion/ LSJ by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From the Lansing State Journal :  The anthrax vaccine manufacturer, with one product and basically one buyer, YOU (your taxes at work) plans to expand.  But sorry, there won ... Read on »
Study Links Plant Damage to Nanoparticles/NY Times blog by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Thanks to Teresa Binstock for this tip-- An exposure to nano-scale copper oxide particles stunted the shoots and roots of radishes and two species of rye grass. ... Read on »
Treating sinusitis: Politically incorrect drug resistance due to Pneumococcal vaccine by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I have treated so many patients with sinusitis in the last several weeks, I decided to review new guidelines that were issued by the Infectious Diseases Society of America ( ... Read on »
Another request for inquest for David Kelly by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine From Dr. Stephen Frost , one of the doctors making this request of the Attorney General: I am one of the doctors who have been fighting for an inquest into the suspici ... Read on »
Published on Deccan Ch ... by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Published on Deccan Chronicle ( http://www.deccanchronicle.com ) Rise in paralysis cases after polio vaccine Cases of non-polio acute flaccid paralysi ... Read on »
Ireland: Narcolepsy rate 13 fold higher after Pandemrix/Irish Times etc. by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine All the Irish papers report on the government's announcement that Pandemrix swine flu vaccine is associated with many cases of narcolepsy.   The Irish Times report ... Read on »
Drug Data Shouldn’t Be Secret/ NY Times by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Having dissected the false claims made for Tamiflu, which the US government stockpiled to the tune of $1.5 Billion dollars, Peter Doshi and Tom Jefferson draw some important ... Read on »
Sid Wolfe/Public Citizen Warned about YAZ contraceptive 10 years before FDA added warning: for... by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Today FDA said that YAZ, Yazmine, Beyaz and Safyral  (oral contraceptives made by Bayer) cause a higher than usual increase in blood clots in users.   Blood clots are ... Read on »
Emergent and its 44.75 million dose sale of Biothrax for civilians by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine With respect to the 44.75 million doses of anthrax vaccine that Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) has announced it is selling to DHHS for the civilian stockpile (for the past seve ... Read on »
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)/ Wired by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Total information awareness, we can know all about those over here who are plugged in.  But those people over there who aren't, well, they aren't so easy to know about.  ... Read on »
Bye Bye Bill of Rights/ NY Times by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Welcome to the 2012 US Homeland.   Where'd we mislay that old Constitution? Ours is now the land of extrajudicial killings performed by drones; strip searches for speedin ... Read on »
Pennsylvania flu cases drop by 97% over last year/Pennlive.com by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Documented flu cases have dropped by 97 percent compared with this time last year.  There have been NO flu-related deaths registered in Pennsylvania this year. Why are ... Read on »
Medical societies fight CMS efforts to make CME funding more transparent by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine On February 9, 2012, I wrote about how Merck manages to evade FDA regulations on advertising by funneling money through third party intermediaries : educational institutions ... Read on »
Bradley Manning revealed information of major international import/ Bill Blum by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Bradley Manning spent nearly a year in solitary, being tortured with ploys like forced nakedness (perfected in Iraq as a torture method?).  He is unlikely to ever be free.   ... Read on »
Before making generalizations about vaccines, learn some facts by Meryl Nass Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One particularly obnoxious quality of mine is that I do not suffer fools gladly.  I get mad;  I get contemptuous;  and I want to get even.  So when I read this uneducated pa ... Read on »