One experience By Tara Gramza, Phoenix AZ I am a labor and delivery nurse at Scottsdale Osborn, and studying to become a nurse practitioner. My daughter was born on December 6, 1999. She was approximately 14 years, and 2 months old when she first suffered an adverse reaction to a vaccine. J.G. was a happy, very […]
HPV Vaccines and Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
By Norma Erickson Kirstie was only 12 years old when she was diagnosed with a rare disorder for which there is no known cure, Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). This happened just a little over a month after her second injection of Gardasil. She will live with this disorder for the rest of her life. Unfortunately, […]
How Gardasil Changed My Life
Update on Kirstie from Lima NY By Kirstie In 2007, Gardasil was a new vaccine which was supposed to make you one less girl who had to worry about cervical cancer. My parents thought it would be a wonderful way to protect me as I grew up. How could we have known the first injection […]
MMR Vaccine Related to ITP
By Dr. Brian Udell Pediatrics, one of our primary and most respected medical journals, published a report this week that “There was no elevated risk of ITP after any vaccine in early childhood other than MMRin the 12- to 19-month age group.” ITP stands for “Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura.” Thromobcytopenic means low platelets – the cells in […]
