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Related News:Health Care · U.S. .Suits Against Vaccine Makers Curbed by U.S. Supreme Court
By Greg Stohr - Feb 22, 2011 11:43 AM PT
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Business ExchangeBuzz up!DiggPrint Email .The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced the shield that protects drugmakers from lawsuits over vaccines, ruling against two parents who blame Pfizer Inc.’s Wyeth unit for their teen-age daughter’s seizure disorder.

The justices, voting 6-2, said a 1986 federal law preempts claims that a drugmaker should have sold a safer formulation of a vaccine. The law, designed to encourage vaccine production by limiting patient suits, channels most complaints into a company- financed no-fault system that offers limited but guaranteed payments for injuries shown to be caused by a product.

“The vaccine manufacturers fund from their sales an informal, efficient compensation program for vaccine injuries,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the majority. “In exchange they avoid costly tort litigation and the occasional disproportionate jury verdict.”
The ruling is a victory for the four companies that supply vaccines for the U.S. market -- Wyeth, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Merck & Co. and Sanofi-Aventis SA. A ruling letting the parents sue Wyeth might have allowed suits by thousands of families that say vaccines caused autism in their children. Since 1988, the no-fault process has led to almost $2 billion in compensation to more than 2,500 families.

The issue for the Supreme Court was whether the 1986 law leaves open the possibility that patients can sue manufacturers when the side effects were avoidable. The Obama administration joined Wyeth, acquired in 2009 by New York-based Pfizer, in urging the justices to bar those types of suits.

‘Regulatory Vacuum’
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented. Sotomayor said the ruling “leaves a regulatory vacuum in which no one ensures that vaccine manufacturers adequately take account of scientific and technological advancements when designing or distributing their products.”

Justice Elena Kagan didn’t take part in the ruling.

Most lower courts that had considered the issue had reached similar conclusions, so the high court ruling won’t mark a change in much of the country.

The case concerned Hannah Bruesewitz, who as an infant began experiencing seizures after receiving the third of five scheduled doses of Wyeth’s Tri-Immunol diphtheria-pertussis- tetanus vaccine in 1992.

Seeking Compensation

Her parents, Russell and Robalee Bruesewitz, sought compensation from the special court that handles vaccine claims. That court rejected the claim, saying there was no proof that the vaccine contributed to Hannah’s problems. The Bruesewitz family then took the case to federal court in Philadelphia.

“We have great sympathy for the Bruesewitzes,” Pfizer Executive Vice President Amy Schulman said in a statement. At the same time, she said the vaccine law “appropriately places the responsibility for determining the optimal design of life- saving childhood vaccines in the hands of expert federal agencies, not a patchwork of state tort systems.”

The family’s Supreme Court lawyer, David Frederick, said the ruling “eliminates the only mechanism for ensuring that manufacturers stop subjecting children to outmoded and unnecessarily dangerous vaccines.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 60,000 doctors, hailed the ruling. President O. Marion Burton said the decision “protects children by strengthening our national immunization system and ensuring that vaccines will continue to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in this country.”

The case is Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, 09-152.

To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Stohr in Washington at gstohr@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Silva at msilva34@bloomberg.net.


I just spent the weekend at a Vaccine symposium in Seattle and these vaccines being pumped into the developing Brain and Nervous system of these defenseless babies is destroying kids at an incredible rate. The child's Blood-Brain Barrier(BBB) is NOT formed until between 18-21 years of age ( Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology) . The Aluminum, Formaldehyde, and Mercury( Thimerosal) in these shots crosses the BBB and damages the Myelin sheaths that protect the neurons. This has similar result as MS patients with neuron misfires.

A gastroenterologist in England who specializes in Autism has found a common thread among Austistic kids and that is Lymphoid masses in the intestines which contain the same virus contained in the MMR shot. These kids have abdominal pain, intestinal blockages(Inteccesation), and he has shown it to be linked to the MMR shot.

Drug manufacturers are being protected by our elected officials because they get $$$$$$$$$$$$$ and most have stock options in Drug manufacturers.

The summary by the US justices said "vaccine manufacturers are not liable because vaccines are inherently dangerous". If they are inherently dangerous why should we put them in babies who have no immune system? This is causing the "Dumbing Down" of American children.

NOTE: Thought I would post something other than WC boat stuff.
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[seapower]

I understand your point and will admit that I've never considered suing any one. But on one hand we want company's to produce medicines (out of components for the most part that don't even belong in our body's, that's why they work), but on the other expect zero complication's. It just can't work. I have a few MD's that are friend's of mine(I know that's hard to believe!!!) and the malpractice insurance is astronomical. They aren't in the medical field to hurt anyone, but are "assumed" to be. I also have an aquaintence that is very involved in medicine development, same story there. People go to a MD/hospital because they are sick. Sick people die, as we all will. Everyone in business these day's just about without exception is just waiting to get sued! Who really win's in a lawsuit? If you get a big settlement, chances are you'll be dead before it is paid. Except for the shmuck that got sued, he's screwd immediately that's how it work's. We both know I'm not talking about folk's that are blatently being irresponsible. This mind set is all to prevelent these day's, "somebody has got to pay for misery",. That's where lawyer's come in. Well some times it's just the hand "life" handed you. They live well while for the most part, our lives just continue to go on. To live is to be at risk. JMO, Frank

[worldcat lemon]

I understand your point and will admit that I've never considered suing any one. But on one hand we want company's to produce medicines (out of components for the most part that don't even belong in our body's, that's why they work), but on the other expect zero complication's. It just can't work. I have a few MD's that are friend's of mine(I know that's hard to believe!!!) and the malpractice insurance is astronomical. They aren't in the medical field to hurt anyone, but are "assumed" to be. I also have an aquaintence that is very involved in medicine development, same story there. People go to a MD/hospital because they are sick. Sick people die, as we all will. Everyone in business these day's just about without exception is just waiting to get sued! Who really win's in a lawsuit? If you get a big settlement, chances are you'll be dead before it is paid. Except for the shmuck that got sued, he's screwd immediately that's how it work's. We both know I'm not talking about folk's that are blatently being irresponsible. This mind set is all to prevelent these day's, "somebody has got to pay for misery",. That's where lawyer's come in. Well some times it's just the hand "life" handed you. They live well while for the most part, our lives just continue to go on. To live is to be at risk. JMO, Frank

You're right in some respects, but these vaccines are an unnecessary danger and we aren't talking about sick babies. A baby left alone unvaccinated will develop a rudimentary immune system in 2 years. You start stuffing Mercury, Aluminum, Formaldehyde and other adjuvants into his system you are doing more harm than good. If we want to cause a strong immune "response" in an infant, why don't we inject a bottle of Drano pipe cleaner into his system? It will definitely cause an immune response, but will the baby ever develop a true immunity to Drano? Crap no! The Sacred Cow of medicine is these vaccines. Do you realize the vaccine manufacturers ADMIT that there is NO TESTING to assess the Carcinogenicity of the vaccines? In other words they do not know if putting KNOWN cancer causing agents into the blood stream will cause cancer. Prior to the 1950's there was virtually no childhood cancers. Today it is rampant! These medical procedures are not just a simple risk we take, like the risk of a splinter when we slide down a wooden slide. This is an avoidable danger. When drug manufacturers aren't held responsible for making unsafe vaccines ("unavoidably unsafe" according to US Supreme court) and the medical system forcing this crap into our children who were born healthy, then adverse reactions will be the norm. I have seen firsthand young children who were born normal become mentally destroyed/ Autistic by vaccinations. It is devastating to the child, the parents and the family. I am completely against putting these unbelievably toxic concoctions into our body. It is all about money, not trying to keep people healthy. I don't blame the physicians, they are simply brain-washed. However, many MD's are beginning to question the missing research and problems with the vaccines. If vaccines were safe, the government wouldn't have paid out the billions of dollars to vaccine damaged children, and only about 2 percent ever get any financial money. The CDC says about 10,000 kids a year get brain damage from vaccines, but they say only 10 percent of physicians are reporting these injuries, so the number is vastly higher. If 10,000 people were developing brain damage from Pepsi every year it would be pulled off the shelf and Pepsi would be sued by the people damaged! Just because a physician doesn't mean to hurt someone doesn't mean they should keep doing what caused the injury.

Harris Coulter exposed the coming epidemic of Autism in the 1980's, long before it was an epidemic, because of his research into how vaccines damage the development of the Myelin sheaths around the neurons of the brain. Now Autism is an absolute epidemic.

If vaccines make us healthy, then why are Americans #44 in infant mortality rates? That means there are 43 other countries whose children survive better than the US children. Don't we have the best medical care? Don't our kids have the best technology? Don't our kids get the most vaccines on the planet? Yes. So what is killing our kids? We need to put a stop to Medical procedures that are nothing more than a money making scheme cuz it puts children at risk of disease and death. That's not my opinion, but fact.

If you want to read a well documented book with over 300 citations, it called " Vaccination is not immunization" by Tim Oshea.

If you have kids or grand kids you owe it to them to find out the truth. I don't receive any money or vacations from vaccine manufacturers for telling patients about this. You have to follow the money trail.

Lastly, if I screw up and hurt a patient I deserve to be sued and they should be compensated. Because medical mistakes is the third leading cause of preventable death in America, it's no wonder malpractice rates are so high. These are people who died not because of being sick, but because somebody screwed up. If you fixed a boat wrong and the owner went out and it sunk due to your mistake, you should be held accountable, you are supposed to be the expert. That's how I look at it. Professional accountability. I think it's fair. JMO

[seapower]

I do have kids (all grown now) and my wife and I made sure they ate heathy and played out doors alot. I know of several parents that thought of us as being unfair, while their kids sat in front of the tube, played game boy and stuffed cheese doodles into their pie hole's, washed down by large doses of Mountain Dew. Our so called diets are killing our kids and adults. Please tell how many family's you know actually sit down to a home cooked meal at least once a day? Mine had breakfast, packed lunch, then a supper cooked by their mom every day. Now a day's the idea of a home cooked meal, comes out of a box and is thrown in the micro wave. I wouldn't feed what folk's call food these days to my dog, because I love my dog. Crappy food, lack of exersise (or manual labor manual labor), we live almost all of our day's inside, etc....... have quite abit to do with our overall lack of health. I know you trade and we think alot alike. But on an average how old did folk's make it to 100 years ago, something's working.
I don't agree with putting just anything into your body, regardless of who say's it's OK. You have the responsibility to be the "parent", they don't come with instruction's, but if taken seriously they can be raised pretty well. I also don't agree with taking someone to court as being your first option. By the way, when are you comin out to get some of these Blue Fins, they're willing. Frank

[worldcat lemon]

I do have kids (all grown now) and my wife and I made sure they ate heathy and played out doors alot. I know of several parents that thought of us as being unfair, while their kids sat in front of the tube, played game boy and stuffed cheese doodles into their pie hole's, washed down by large doses of Mountain Dew. Our so called diets are killing our kids and adults. Please tell how many family's you know actually sit down to a home cooked meal at least once a day? Mine had breakfast, packed lunch, then a supper cooked by their mom every day. Now a day's the idea of a home cooked meal, comes out of a box and is thrown in the micro wave. I wouldn't feed what folk's call food these days to my dog, because I love my dog. Crappy food, lack of exersise (or manual labor manual labor), we live almost all of our day's inside, etc....... have quite abit to do with our overall lack of health. I know you trade and we think alot alike. But on an average how old did folk's make it to 100 years ago, something's working.
I don't agree with putting just anything into your body, regardless of who say's it's OK. You have the responsibility to be the "parent", they don't come with instruction's, but if taken seriously they can be raised pretty well. I also don't agree with taking someone to court as being your first option. By the way, when are you comin out to get some of these Blue Fins, they're willing. Frank

Frank, you hit the nail on the head. We as parents need to be the one's who decide what goes into our kids, not the so called "experts". That is why it bothers me when a parent is told "your kid can't come to school without their shots". Why? Their answer is typically "because your unvaccinated kid puts the other kids at risk". What? Are you serious? Aren't the vaccinated kids protected? Then they look at you like a deer in headlights. If anyone is at risk it is the unvaccinated kid cuz all the other kids are full of diseases. Seems funny but true.

Anyway, in Washington State our Governor is trying to pass legislation that would take away a parents right to decide whether to vaccinate or not, basically remove the exemptions. That is unconstitutional and wrong.

Man, I wish I could come out and catch some big fish. I have been cooped up inside all winter and I could use some R&R and blood on my feet. My associate is out on maternity leave so I gotta man the office. What is the license cost for out of state to fish? How long do the fish hang around? I will look into the airlines and talk to my wife. Do you fish on the weekends or fridays? I can fish from Friday to Sunday.

[seapower]

Frank, you hit the nail on the head. We as parents need to be the one's who decide what goes into our kids, not the so called "experts". That is why it bothers me when a parent is told "your kid can't come to school without their shots". Why? Their answer is typically "because your unvaccinated kid puts the other kids at risk". What? Are you serious? Aren't the vaccinated kids protected? Then they look at you like a deer in headlights. If anyone is at risk it is the unvaccinated kid cuz all the other kids are full of diseases. Seems funny but true.

Anyway, in Washington State our Governor is trying to pass legislation that would take away a parents right to decide whether to vaccinate or not, basically remove the exemptions. That is unconstitutional and wrong.

Man, I wish I could come out and catch some big fish. I have been cooped up inside all winter and I could use some R&R and blood on my feet. My associate is out on maternity leave so I gotta man the office. What is the license cost for out of state to fish? How long do the fish hang around? I will look into the airlines and talk to my wife. Do you fish on the weekends or fridays? I can fish from Friday to Sunday.

WCL,
The fish stick around depending on the weather, like any fish. But where we are, if we have the weather tuna can be caught (usually). As it warms into April/May the wahoo and dolphin will start showing up in good number's. The bad thing about making plans to fly out as you know is the change in weather. With our inlets weather is everything. One good thing about our area is that we have quite a fleet of larger charter boats, with good Capt's, that can sail if the weather won't allow the "mosquito" fleet out. That said if you do have a window of time, give me a shout. I'm sure we can at least find some fish at the fish house, so you don't go home empty handed! Frank

[worldcat lemon]

Roger that! We have 15-30 foot swells right now on 15 second intervals and most boats stay home til at least May.

Will give you a shout if I can get back there. I tore up my shoulder and I see the surgeon on Friday to find out if I will be seeing the wrong end of the knife. Will let you know!