Meningitis has infected nearly 16,000 people and killed 1670 in sub-Saharan Africa in the past two months, despite an extensive vaccination campaign, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
On January 26, 1909, New York Press publishes a report by W.B. Clark which states, "cancer was practically unknown until cowpox vaccination began to be introduced. I have seen 200 cases of cancer, and I never saw a case of cancer in an unvaccinated person."
While the mainstream press is widely reporting a new study "disproving" any link between autism and mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines, no one has bothered to point out that the study was published in a medical journal stacked full of ads from the very same drug companies …
If effective, you can see that some parents might want to vaccinate their non-addicted, perfectly healthy children, so they are 'immune' to cocaine.
This is yet another example of big business taking people's good sense. The government is getting into some very "iffy" areas forcing this. If I were a parent, I would move before the government would make my children be vaccinated.
"YouTube is increasingly a resource people consult for health information, including vaccination," says first author Keelan, an assistant professor in U of T's Department of Public Health Sciences.
Researchers are launching the largest-ever U.S. study aimed at solving one of the most perplexing mysteries of modern times: the cause of autism.
Hundreds of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse Saturday to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle.
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A vaccine aimed at helping people quit smoking by blunting the effects of nicotine doubled the number who could kick the habit but overall success remained small, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Flu vaccination rates have grown as people realize the protection the shot brings. But only 57 percent of people age 65 and older who are advised to get a pneumonia vaccine have ever gotten one.
Howard County, Maryland, has undertaken what is believed to be the largest flu vaccination program in the United States. Tim Williams of WJZ-TV in Baltimore reports.
LONDON (Reuters) - All girls aged 12 to 13 in England will be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer, the government said on Friday.
Childhood vaccination for the rubella virus may have also almost entirely eliminated an inflammatory eye disease from the U.S.-born population, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Promoting the total health of the individual involves several strategies that promise to prolong survival and improve our quality of life. These include proper diet, regular exercise, appropriate vaccinations and screening procedures.
The doctor who provoked widespread fears over a potential link between the MMR vaccination and autism in children appears before a disciplinary hearing today facing charges of serious professional misconduct.
The latest vaccine controversy is the concern that vaccines containing thimerosal, particularly the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine cause autism.
Having chosen not to vaccinate my two children, I watch carefully for news confirming the safety or providing evidence for the lack of safety of common vaccines. It should be interesting to see how this court case proceeds.
For more than a decade, families across the country have been warring with the medical establishment over their claims that routine childhood vaccines are responsible for the nation's apparent epidemic of autism.
Following Indian newspaper reports of sudden outbreak of smallpox in Bangladesh and Myanmar border areas, World Health Organisation (WHO) has generated feverish activity among the health workers in the country although not a single patient has been found in last three days' sea …
A highly effective strategy is all but ignored by many companies and investors. Why, and what can be done to boost funding?
It is a common misconception amongst cruisers that vaccination is only required on certain cruise itineraries - the more exotic the travel itinerary, the more chances that there will be a need to be vaccinated for protection against regional diseases such as yellow fever, malaria …
Meningitis has infected nearly 16,000 people and killed 1670 in sub-Saharan Africa in the past two months, despite an extensive vaccination campaign, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Are we on the brink of vaccines for addiction? Drugs that take the "edge" off drugs?
Informative article about traveltips for a traveling in China.
The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.