By Alex O’Connell, Correspondent CHAPEL HILL – A joint program by the Orange County Health Department and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to encourage adolescent immunizations has come under criticism by some parents. Called the Adolescents Get Immunized campaign, children from grades five through 12 are encouraged to be inoculated against meningococcal disease; human papillomavirus […]
Attorney Writes Letter of Concern to North Carolina School Board
Dear Dr. Pedersen, I read with great interest recently your blog entry announcing a contest that rewards adolescent students with the chance to get I-pods or a laptop for getting vaccinated. However, while I applaud the underlying intent, the contest raises serious policy concerns: 1. The Contest discriminates against children who cannot participate due to […]
New Study Suggests Link Between Vaccines and Autism
By Beth Parker/myfoxdc WASHINGTON – Triplets. Two have autism. One does not. Their father Lou Conte helped put together a new study of people who received payment from the vaccine compensation fund created by the U.S. government. “What we did is we looked at the people who the government said are clearly vaccine injuries and […]
Is Councilmember David Catania Fit for Office?
“There’s no justifiable reason to continue the [HPV vaccine] mandate which is expensive and unnecessary and potentially dangerous. No one ever died from a Pap smear,” testified Emily Tarsell, who lost her daughter, Christina, 18 days after she received her third shot of the HPV vaccine Gardasil. Read more and watch video-taped testimony via this […]
Investigators Find Clear Vaccine-Autism Link Based on Government Data
Report Demands Immediate Congressional Action WASHINGTON, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy (EBCALA) held a press conference in front of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to release a study linking vaccine injury to autism. For over 20 years, the federal government has denied a vaccine-autism link, […]
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