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Vax Populi
I recently found out that one of my older son's playmates has not been vaccinated at all. I'm not concerned for my older son, who has had all his vaccines, but I am afraid for my one-year-old, who has not yet gotten his full series. What is the risk for him contracting something like measles from this unvaccinated child? And how do I approach this...
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Week 23: Why I Had the Flu Jab
When my doctor told me I really should have a flu jab before winter, I was sceptical. I've never had the flu, neither has my husband. I thought only elderly people routinely vaccinated against influenza. But here I am with a tender left arm after having the flu shot yesterday. Why? Well, I'd done plenty of research, but a friend laid up with...
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What Explains High Autism Rates Among Somali Immigrants?
A medical mystery is brewing in Minnesota, U.S.A, where thirty to sixty thousand Somali refugees and their families have settled and where, increasingly, that community's children are experiencing high rates of autism. According to an article in the New York Times, while about 6% of the Minneapolis public school population is Somali, they repre...
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Vaccine Debate Far From Over
When the U.S. Federal Vaccine Court ruled earlier this month against three families who claimed that vaccines had caused their children's autism, proponents of vaccines rallied, suggesting the discussion was over and vaccines had "won." But the debate is far from over. Though those three cases received all the media attention, the fact is that...
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Bad Science: How The Autism Vaccine Scare Snowballed
Jenny McCarthy as an activist, "Green Vaccines," death threats against pro-vaccine doctors, deadly measles outbreaks: all sprang from one source, a flawed medical study with a tiny sample size, a lead author willing to fudge the facts, and a story the media found too fascinating to fully examine. Writing in this week's Newsweek magazine, Sharon...
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Researcher Fabricated Autism Link In Vaccine
The man who launched a decade's-long fear for parents heading to have their children vaccinated has been proven a forgery. The Sunday Times revealed the results of an investigation today showing Andrew Wakefield, the man who posited that the MMR vaccine was at the root of the increased autism diagnoses, fabricated his research. Published in 1...
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Coroner Finds No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Toddler’s Sudden Death
After hearing testimony from bereaved parents and numerous health care professionals on the sudden death of toddler George Fisher ten days after he received the vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella, a coroner ruled that the child's death was unrelated to the vaccine. Read more...
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We Know Some Toys are Infectious, but This Will Put a Pox on You
Think Chucky in bear form. But the Pox Teddy won't kill you, just infect your kid with a live virus.Worried your kid won't get the chicken pox? You could let him cuddle with his new favorite teddy bear. Just tell him to take deeeeeep breaths because the pressurized capsules of varicella virus will only last 10 minutes after you've...
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