THE VACCINATION EXTENSION BILL.

Reforming New Jersey's vaccination policy: the case for the Conscientious Exemption Bill.

When New Jersey became the first state to require a flu vaccine for children in 2008, parents protested outside the State House. 1 The new mandate requires children between six months and five years old to get an annual flu shot to attend a child care facility or day care center. 2 According to state epidemiologist Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, New Jersey based its decision to require flu vaccines for pre...

The Drug Control Bill

The Senate Bill

As the crafting of new legislation becomes a drawn-out process, compromises eventually e m e rge, and the resulting proposals often appear to be portions of various proposals spliced together. Such is the case with a farm bill proposal approved Sept. 28 in the Senate Committee on A g r i c u l t u re, Nutrition, and Forestry. As of this writing, the specific language of the bill was being devel...

Footing the bill.

When the discussion turns to the creation of a European Research Council (ERC), a series of questions spring to mind. Answering some of them is now almost trivial—for example, “Why is an ERC needed and timely?”— whereas the answers to others, being more political, are certainly more difficult to envisage for most practising scientists. This is notably the case for the questions: “Who will be th...

The Mental Treatment Bill

The Mental Treatment Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on November 19th, 1929, and was read a third time in that House and the first time in the House of Commons before the Christmas holidays. The Government may be congratulated on the promptitude with which it has directed its attention to this matter and still more on the broadminded attitude which it has adopted in translating the ...