Dr. Paul Offit: Vaccine Lunacy?

April 23, 2012 By 1 Comment

[SaneVax: Can you imagine giving your infant 14 vaccinations every day for the first two years of their life? Dr. Paul Offit's now infamous statement about the theoretical tolerance infants have for 10,000 vaccines would require exactly that if his theory were to be tested in a clinical trial. Any volunteers?] 10,000 Crazy Vaccines, by Sandy [...]

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Study Suggests Pre-Autism Brain Differences In Six Month Olds

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Posted by  RedOrbit Brain changes in infants as young as six months of age suggest that MRIs could be used to detect autism in children at least half a year before the emergence of other symptoms, according to a new study published online Friday in the American Journal of Psychiatry. According to Lara Salahi of ABC [...]

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CDC considering meningitis vaccine for infants

June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Holly Ramer CONCORD, N.H.—Federal health officials, trying to determine whether to recommend that young children be vaccinated for the rare but often deadly bacterial meningitis, heard Wednesday from parents both for and against the vaccine. The public meeting in New Hampshire was the first of four the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is [...]

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Age-Dependent Maturation of Toll-Like Receptor-Mediated Cytokine Responses in Gambian Infants

April 16, 2011 By

Sarah Burl1,2*, John Townend3, Jainaba Njie-Jobe1, Momodou Cox1, Uche J. Adetifa1, Ebrima Touray1, Victoria J. Philbin4, Christy Mancuso4, Beate Kampmann1,2, Hilton Whittle1, Assan Jaye1, Katie L. Flanagan1#, Ofer Levy4# ABSTRACT: The global burden of neonatal and infant mortality due to infection is staggering, particularly in resource-poor settings. Early childhood vaccination is one of the major [...]

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Pediatricians Want Kids to Get Rotavirus Vaccine

January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By:  Sharon Kirkley, PostMedia News 04 October 2010 Pediatricians want to add another shot to the panoply of vaccines Canadian children receive, urging that every baby in the country be vaccinated against a virus that sends thousands of children to hospital each year. Rotavirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach [...]

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Some elderly patients can't get whooping cough vaccine

January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By:  Rong-Gong II, Los Angelos Times 25 October 2010   Whooping cough shot wasn’t tested on older people, but state says they should get it.   Some doctors are erroneously telling elderly patients that they cannot receive an inoculation for whooping cough, despite recommendations issued this summer by state health officials urging senior citizens to [...]

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Flu Research to Examine Pregnancy Vaccination/Benefit to Infant

January 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Posted in the Daily News Journal 27 September 2010 Nashville — The Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program is looking for dozens of pregnant women to participate in research on the use of flu vaccine. The study will evaluate the immune responses to the influenza vaccine in both mother and infant. Vanderbilt is one of several sites [...]

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