World News Australia 01 March 2011 | 07:00:00 AM | Source: AAP A quarter of Australian girls eligible for the free Gardasil vaccine are not taking up the offer, prompting a move to dispel the “myths” surrounding the cancer-fighting jab. Studies into the vaccine’s uptake in schools reveal a poor understanding of the way it […]
Call for jabs to protect against STI
Your Canterbury
February 27, 2011
Sexual health doctors have urged the Government to vaccinate against genital warts as part of the school-based jabs programme.
Cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) have soared, with an increase of 33 per cent across the South East since 2000.
More than 400 new cases per 100,000 of the population were diagnosed in Kent in 2009.
Medway had the highest rate of the infection at 167 in 2009. Recent figures from Medway’s GUM (genitor-urinary medicine) clinic show cases of genital warts rose 36 per cent from 302 to 412 between 2004 and 2010.
Children on RX Drugs Become Adults with Drug Addictions
Breaking the Cycles.com
Feb. 22, 2011
The following is a guest post by Leslie Botha, Marketing Director for Courage to Change Addiction Recovery Ranches, in which she uses excerpts from two of the Ranch’s client histories to illustrate her point that “[n]ow we have a first generation prescribed drugs from early developmental years now in recovery as adults with addictions.”
Teach your children well-
Their father’s hell did slowly go by-
And feed them on your dreams-
The one they picked – the one you’ll know by.
Crosby Stills Nash & Young 1971
Unfortunately, the dream that was picked is the one that afflicting the youth of today – as the first generation of children prescribed drugs at an early age is morphing into a generation of pharmaceutical drug addicts. I can remember sometime before my teen years, my father – a pharmaceutical packaging sales rep for a plant in New Jersey – would come home bearing stuffed animals and other gifts if my sister and I took “sample” drugs. It sounds absurd – but it is a memory and a question that still haunts me today. What did I take – and what were the side effects?
On-time Vaccine Receipt in the First Year Does Not Adversely Affect Neuropsychological Outcomes
Pediatrics
Published online May 24, 2010
PEDIATRICS Vol. 125 No. 6 June 2010, pp. 1134-1141 (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-2489)
Michael J. Smith, MD, MSCE, Charles R. Woods, MD, MS
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky
OBJECTIVES To determine whether children who received recommended vaccines on time during the first year of life had different neuropsychological outcomes at 7 to 10 years of age as compared with children with delayed receipt or nonreceipt of these vaccines.
Medicine Balls, Private Eye Issue 1282
Dr. Phil Hammond February 17, 2011 Warts and All (Again, again) Health secretary Andrew Lansley has famously promised ‘no decision about you without you’ and a strong focus on preventing sexually transmitted infections. As the Department of Health reviews its secretive and sexually unhealthy choice of cervical cancer vaccine, is he brave enough to go […]
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