The California bishops’ conference is urging Californians to contact their legislators to oppose a bill before the state Senate that would remove the requirement of parental consent for vaccinating children 12 and older against sexually transmitted disease. The bill would allow children to consent to treatment with the controversial Gardasil vaccine intended to prevent HPV […]
Push to ‘Reprogram’ Parents on Vaccines & Disallow Exemptions
Originally submitted by Lois Rains Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) holds that parents should not be allowed to exempt their children from vaccinations: at least not without some required medical “counseling.” Their article addresses vaccine-hesitant parents and how they are not heeding scientific evidence but buying into mistrust of government, and media and celebrity hype. […]
Fatal Polio Reported 12 Years After Exposure to Vaccine
By Nancy Walsh, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: June 15, 2011 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner In an unusual case of vaccine-derived polio, an immunodeficient woman receiving regular intravenous immune globulin treatment became paralyzed and died […]
CDC considering meningitis vaccine for infants
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 […]
12 year olds can be their own medical advisor
Source: California Catholic Daily A bill opposed by California’s bishops that would permit children as young as 12 years old to consent to medical treatment to prevent sexually-transmitted diseases – including vaccinations – has passed the state Assembly and is now pending in the Senate. The bill, AB 499, would permit children 12 years and […]
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