By Paul Sircus, AC, OMD, Citizen Journalist If there’s one thing noteworthy about the anti-vaccine movement (one bloggers opinion), it’s that the movement is completely immune to evidence, science, and reason. No matter how much evidence there is supporting the use of vaccines, the anti-vaccine advocates always finds a way to spin, distort, or misrepresent […]
Meningitis deaths prompt CDC to recommend vaccine for teens
By Lora Hines, The Press-Enterprise Teenagers should get vaccinated to protect against the bacteria that causes meningococcal meningitis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends. Publication in the Jan. 27 issue of “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report”f ormalizes the recommendations made this fall by the federal agency’s advisory committee on immunization practices. The committee’s […]
Grade 9 students to get meningitis vaccinations
By Linda Hoang, Global News About 40,000 Grade 9 students in Alberta are set to get immunized against several forms of meningitis. It’s part of a new $2 million immunization program that will begin Feb 1. The vaccine, which will protect against four different strains of meningococcal disease, will be issused through school-based clinics and […]
Military Families Seek Injunction Against Department of Defense Over Therapy Denied to Children With Autism
By David Honigman WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Military families have filed a motion for an injunction to mandate that the Defense Department’s insurer, TRICARE, cover medically necessary care needed by military families’ children with autism. The motion seeks a mandate that TRICARE cover the cost of Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, or ABA, which […]
The Fight Back – Reporting from the streets of the District of Columbia
Is D.C.’s HPV Vaccine Mandate a Mistake? Last April, as Emily Tarsell began her trek back to Northern Maryland following her testimony before the D.C. Council, she said, “I came down to try to support the families in Washington to be more aware of the [possible] adverse side effects of [the Human Papillomavirus vacine] Gardasil […]
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