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Burton interested in vaccine data.(Dan Burton threatens medical information subpoena)(Brief Article)
2002 MAY 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Insurance companies say a congressman's threatened subpoena of medical information about millions of people could violate patient privacy and force them to close a database that lets the government study vaccine safety.
Another congressman urged Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) a frequent vaccine critic, "to drop your threats" to subpoena the records.
"I know you are deeply interested in the safety of immunizations," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., wrote Burton. But "a subpoena would have the opposite effect, jeopardizing the [database] system and thereby reducing vaccine safety."
Burton's office didn't return phone calls seeking comment.
The Vaccine Safety Datalink, or VSD, contains medical information about 7.5 million Americans provided by several large HMOs. Names and other obvious identifiers are removed.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses the database to study whether vaccines cause various side effects. For example, a diarrhea vaccine was pulled off the market in 1999 after database studies uncovered injured infants.
Scientists are now debating whether a ...
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