Press Release by University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital 11 October 2010 Parents rate research on environmental effects, childhood diseases, and causes of childhood injuries less important. Each year, hundreds of millions of public and private dollars are spent on medical research to improve the health of children – yet parents have little input […]
Lifelong Immunity? With Vaccines, It Depends
By: Nancy Shute, National Public Radio 11 October 2010 At 2:30 on a Tuesday afternoon, moms and babies are gathering at Angela Shogren’s townhouse in Alexandria, Va. As the babies try to crawl across the basement floor, the moms talk about breastfeeding and lack of sleep. One issue keeps coming up: vaccines. “I am from […]
NIH Funding Bioterror Vaccines
Posted in ‘Drug Discovery & Development 08 October 2010 The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced three new contracts to fund research on vaccines to protect against emerging infectious diseases and biological threats that could be used in a terror attack. Each project focuses on […]
Hope on the Horizon
By: Catherine Frompovich 05 October 2010 “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.” Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) If ever there […]
Should I Vaccinate My Child?
By: Jini Patel Thompson Posted 07 October 2010 An unpublished study by the World Health Organisation WHO) on a “measles susceptible” (malnourished) group of children showed that the group who hadn’t been vaccinated contracted measles at the normal contract rate of 2.4%. Of the group who had received the measles vaccine (MMR), 33.5% […]
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