minx

then call me when you get two.

too many guys don't know how to use the one they've got. throw in an extra and that just can't be good

i just did not need to see that...my neck hurts

yes i'm sure diet is going to solve my whooping cough problem

oh goody, i hope some great geniuses like that will twitter about me when i keel over

doug i don't know who you are nor do i really care but you seem rather antognistic. my thoughts on MJ have to do with his prior erratic behaviour with his own children (think balcony incident). Further, think about the burden of being raised by a man with such a reputation and even his fame. Perhaps it will be better to for them to be raised with the ongoing suspicion and jokes about their father? i didn't wish the man dead but i'm not sure it doesn't have some perks. i know my death will.

didn't have to watch long... am i the only one that thinks this is the best possible thing for his kids?

how would i know? hmmmph!

kimmo will be keeping her child in a bubble so that it never faces even the remotest possibility of physical harm. psychological...well living in a bubble will do that to you.

pudgey or not...he's still way hawter than you, dru. (Note: bitterness from not getting a call from dru while i was in canuckleville)

let me, know i can handle that name change for you

alas...you have still avoided answering about your own reluctance to accept the scientific method. i'm bored now. y ou win

why, are you a scientist? you are the one who brought it up... so a) why does it matter if he's a scientist. don't want to debate someone who might be educated on the subject? b)why not answer the question?

well PP was the many of my dreams...not interested in small talk or my prana top, just wanted me to go strange places and swap belays.... and then he quit calling. why can't there be more men out there like that?

adjuvant MF59: APPROVAL OF THE FIRST NON-ALUM ADJUVANT FOR A VACCINE. M Hora1 , J Fang2 , S Tuck3 , V Levi4 1Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA, 2Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA, 3Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA, 4Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, CA, Enhancement of immune response of vaccine antigens by combining them with an adjuvant has been an active area of research for the vaccinologist for many decades. Alum is the only adjuvant which is present in approximately one dozen out of the nearly fifty vaccines currently approved for the US market. The modern, well-defined antigens based on subunit and envelope proteins are safer than the older whole cell or bacterial vaccines but may generate a weak or incomplete immune response. So, there is an even greater need for adjuvants for use with the newer antigens for eliciting an optimum immune response. Adjuvants based on particulate or cellular materials have been evaluated for many decades. However, none of them have resulted in successful development of a product thus far. To be commercially viable, an adjuvant must have the appropriate pharmaceutical properties (consistent product profile, acceptable shelf life and reproducible manufacturing process) in addition to the desired immunological attributes. We have developed an emulsion adjuvant using squalene, which is a metabolizable oil, having a well defined, submicron particle size distribution and predictable characteristics. This adjuvant, identified as MF59 (or MF59C.1), has been tested extensively in clinical studies with many antigens and can be produced at a commercial scale. Development of an emulsion with a particle size similar to the pore size of the membrane, through which it must be filtered for obtaining a sterile product, posed many challenges to the process scientist. In addition, the formulator and analyst had to stabilize MF59 against degradation of key components to ensure that the adjuvant had a commercially meaningful shelf life. An MF59-adjuvanted influenza vaccine (FluAdÔ) has been fully developed as a commercial product and is on the market in Italy since 1997. Development of a commercial formulation and manufacturing process for MF59 will be discussed in the presentation. In conclusion, MF59 is a well-characterized, safe and powerful adjuvant that can be produced at a commercial scale in a consistent and reproducible manner for administration with traditional and recombinant antigens.

not to quibble she also calls out hep a

kill him...with a crowbar?

does it matter if he's a scientist and i apologize, i shouldn't have used the word many but there asome vaccines w/o alum adjuvants. further, one of the benefits of the multivalent vaccines is the reduction in overall alum content for the vaccination process. now why on earth would you not vaccinate a child for a hepatitis? they are some of the biggest hand to mouth transmitters of all sorts of things. kids are not clean.

well bosterson, yes we can get to discussing those problems but kimmo is going to have to chime in. i can discuss the problems in short v. long whips but beyond that i'm done for the day. have a nice evening.

alright...before i go. let me also add, that many vaccines no longer use aluminum adjuvants. further the discontinuation of mecury as a preservative (thimerosal) has made delivery of basic vaccines to developing countries far less cost effective when the preserved version of the vaccine is unavailable or no longer manufactured. the risk of mecury toxicity from the amount of mecury in these vaccines is nearly nothing. thanks...at least someone appreciates it when i'm feeling fiesty. bosterson...take it easy cupcake. yeah i do something that involves whips and leather not much rubber though. but frankly, regardless of how intersting that might sound a) it probably isn't to you and b) you won't ever know.

aluminum toxicity? the amount of adjuvant in vaccines is relatively minute to compared to the amount that your child is going to get from aluminum cans and other packaging by age 5. if you are uncomfortable with the amount of vaccines given concurrently, please feel free to space them out and take as many trips to the physician as you'd like. unnecessary vaccines are certaily a matter of opinion. some i would not question your decision on. for others the consequences are grave. chicken pox v. polio. herd mentality ...clever. whatever. herd immunity is valid concept. you're dismissal with the clever use of language does not make it any less relevant to community health.

Are we talking about disagreements on how to interpret statistical results (probabilities, error boundaries, etc.)? Or do you have some sort of fundamental problem with the scientific method (eg, solipsism)? both, and then some. i believe this is where you questioned the scientific method

Are you some sort of BDSM rubber duck biologist? That's hot. i retired last year. i do something else now involving leather and whips

not only have i read up on my T-cell lit for this argument, i've read up on my recombinant, attenuated, and whole cell vaccine +/-thiomerosal, as well as initiated a vaccine clinical trial for non-ininferiority of a new vaccine formulation.

no this is logical deductive reasoning. not drawing his own conclusions. based on your comments, regardless of your willingness to acknowledge the implications of your own remarks, the logical conclusion is that you're only looking out for your own self interest. it is the same conclusion i drew in an early post. if that were the case, then her child would be safe, since it was immunized. Immunity is not 100%, but really what you seem to be implying is that we should only look out for our own self-interest. If your kid has some candy, I'm totally stealing it. you seem to be drawing your own conclusions here....