[NVIC] NVIC's October 2009 Vaccine Conference: It's About Informed Choices

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> NVIC Vaccine E-Newsletter

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> NVIC's October 2009 Vaccine Conference: It's About Informed Choices

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> by Barbara Loe Fisher

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> As many parents head for the Autism One conference in Chicago next

> week to learn how to heal their children's vaccine-related brain and

> immune system dysfunction and worldwide anxiety about the swine flu

> lingers, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is opening

> registration for the Fourth International Public Conference on

> Vaccination to be held Oct. 2-4, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in

> Reston, Virginia near Dulles International Airport and Washington,

> D.C. The largest and oldest non-profit vaccine safety organization

> in North America, founded in 1982, is sponsoring the event to

> provide a public forum for open discussion about vaccine issues of

> concern to parents and health care professionals. The conference

> theme " Show Us the Science & Give Us A Choice " reflects NVIC's three

> decade pro- education and pro-informed consent stand defending the

> right of citizens to make fully informed, voluntary vaccine

> decisions for themselves and their children.

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> More than 35 speakers from the U.S. and traveling from Canada,

> United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and Kenya will speak about the

> science, policy, law and economics of vaccination; the human right

> to informed consent to vaccination; as well as holistic health care

> options for preventing illness and staying well. Pre-conference

> state organizing sessions start Thursday evening, Oct. 1, and Friday

> and Sunday advocacy training, holistic health education and vaccine

> injury family networking sessions precede a post-conference Monday,

> Oct. 5 bus trip to Capitol Hill.

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> Friday, Oct. 2 Highlights: Peggy O'Mara, founder & editor of

> Mothering Magazine and Jane , founder & editor of the UK

> internet news service, One Click, start the first day with a

> discussion about freedom of the press. The keynote address will be

> delivered by renowned bioethicist s, JD, MPH, Chair of

> the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights at Boston

> University School of Public Health. HPV vaccine researcher Professor

> Diane Harper, MD, MPH of the University of Missouri, Kansas City

> School of Medicine, will examine informed consent issues involving

> Gardasil vaccine. Evidence for influenza vaccine efficacy will be

> reviewed by Italian epidemiologist and physician Tom Jefferson, MD,

> Cochrane Vaccines Field Coordinator.

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> Coming all the way from Kenya is cell biologist and vaccine

> researcher Bonnie Dunbar, PhD, who co- founded the Africa Biomedical

> Center, to inform the audience about the multi-disciplinary approach

> to meeting unique health challenges in Africa. She is joined by

> Canadian pediatrician Colin Forbes, MD, who will recount his more

> than 40 years of experience caring for children in Kenya and how he

> helped reduce child mortality in some of the most impoverished child

> populations in the world.

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> Returning briefly from a health research position in Japan, MIT

> doctoral candidate Doshi will outline the impact on democracy

> of U.S. and global vaccine policies. Human rights activist Shiv

> Chopra, B.V.Sc., M.Sc., PhD, who was former scientific advisor to

> Health Canada, and is author of " Rotten to the Core " will give a

> presentation entitled " Public Health or Corporate Interests? "

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> During what promises to be an historic conference, pediatrician Bob

> Sears, M.D. offers an alternative schedule for use of 16 U.S.

> government recommended vaccines and will debate pediatrician

> Lawrence Palevsky, M.D., who presents an alternative view of how to

> maintain health and prevent chronic illness. Holistic health

> pioneers Joe Mercola, DO and Null, PhD will talk about how good

> nutrition and understanding how to make healthy life choices is the

> key to staying well, while holistic veterinarian and immunologist,

> Pitcairn, DVM, PhD, will teach the audience about how good

> nutrition and homeopathy can keep pets well and Life University

> Professor McCoy, DC, MPH will give a chiropractic

> perspective on informed consent to vaccination.

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> " Will the Law Protect Health Freedom? " is the question that

> constitutional and federal law experts, along with leading medical

> privacy and health freedom advocates will discuss. Vaccine injury

> and product liability law will be the topic explored by attorneys,

> who have won vaccine injury cases in the federal Vaccine Injury

> Compensation Program, and also have expertise in vaccine

> contamination and use of experimental vaccines in soldiers. Longtime

> vaccine choice lobbyists like PROVE President Dawn will

> join longtime autism activists M.I.N.D. Institute co-founder Rick

> Rollens and Unlocking Autism President Reynolds and others

> to help parents organize to educate legislators and protect the

> right to make informed vaccine choices.

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> During the past few years, there have been calls for elimination or

> severe restrictions of vaccine exemptions by doctors with ties to

> the vaccine industry and by government health officials seeking a

> 100 percent vaccination rate with all government recommended and

> mandated vaccines. NVIC has long taken a public stand for the basic

> human right to protect bodily integrity and the October conference

> provides a public forum not only for those, who want the freedom to

> make voluntary choices about using pharmaceutical products and

> medical interventions that carry known and unknown risks, but also

> for scientists, doctors, journalists and health safety advocates to

> present information and defend their right and responsibility to

> investigate and speak about improving vaccine science and policies

> to protect individual and public health.

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> The conference is supported by an educational grant from the Albert

> and Dwoskin Family Foundation, which has made it possible for

> NVIC to keep the registration fee for those registering by August 30

> at $195 for the three day, three night conference featuring top

> speakers from around the world. There is a low $95 per night hotel

> rate, which is unheard of in the Washington, D.C. area for a fine

> hotel like the Hyatt Regency. Meeting and hotel room space is

> limited in the only hotel in the village of Reston. Conference

> registration and hotel room reservation is on a first come, first

> serve basis. For more information about speakers, sponsorship

> opportunities and registration, go to www.NVIC.org

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