Even amid the current shortage of swine flu vaccine, government officials, infectious disease experts and public health experts everywhere have touted the vaccine as the best way to protect against the H1N1 virus.But what if they're all wrong?

Many French remain hostile to H1N1 vaccination, which begins this Thursday for three priority groups: families of babies 6-month old and younger, health personnel and people weakened by other health conditions. An online poll carried in today’s issue of French daily Le Figaro, which tends to draw an informed, educated readership, asks “H1N1: Should we get (our) children vaccinated?”

GPs at the centre of one of the summer’s swine flu hotspots have been offered bonuses worth thousands of pounds extra for hitting vaccination targets, Pulse can reveal. NHS managers in Birmingham are so worried about the prospect of a winter outbreak that they have offered practices up to 50% over and above the payments agreed between the GPC and NHS Employers if they vaccinate a high proportion of the population.

Reports of mumps outbreaks are breaking out all over, along with fear mongering and pushes to get vaccinated, not to mention pointing fingers of blame at the unvaccinated. These reports are rife with flaws; almost nothing is as described. As a rule, the unvaccinated are blamed for the outbreaks. The severity of the disease is grossly distorted. Nothing is as it seems, if you take your guidance from news media.

Hundreds of women every year are having treatments for breast cancer, including surgery and chemotherapy, that are unnecessary because nearly one-third of cancers detected by screening tests are not dangerous.

We are always subjected to antigenic burdens. The important question has to do with our ability to limit the inflammatory response to these burdens. In MS, it is clear that the inflammatory process itself is destructive, and that estrogen is a major predisposing factor. Unsaturated fatty acids, and dietary imbalance of amino acids interact closely with hyperestrogenism and hypothyroidism to produce the autoimmune degenerative diseases.

Families in several provinces were expressing outrage and concern Tuesday after they said their children got double the recommended dose of the H1N1 vaccine, but at least one medical expert said there's little need for concern. Parents in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia have reported that their children received the amount in the adult dose instead of the pediatric dose of the swine flu shot.

Older people with stronger muscles are at reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease compared to their weaker peers, a new study shows.

People who walk fast are less likely to die earlier than those out for a leisurely stroll, it has been claimed.

Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises. It is in Dr. Oz's own financial interest, in other words, to hype up vaccines and get more people taking them so that his own financial investments rise in value.