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When preschool entertainment and vaccination controversy collide | Dean Burnett
"Get Well Soon" on Cbeebies has recently come under fire from a group opposed to vaccination, for showing that vaccines are safe and necessary, a position that all medical experts agree with. Although it may seem somewhat ridiculous to get so irate about a TV show for children, many people feel passionate about children's entertainment for numerous valid reasons. However, none of these reasons lend credibility to the anti-vaccination campaignersMy son is 10 months old. Thanks to him, we now watch a lot more children's television in my house. I don't think he's actually watching it himself; he's still quite young, it's just...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 4, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Dean Burnett Tags: Psychology Blogposts Health guardian.co.uk Vaccines and immunisation Television Science Source Type: news
Bridging a Gap between Scientists and the Public
By Travis J. Bernardo, Ph.D.
What do the following stories have in common?
According to the Centers for Disease Control, endemic measles was eradicated from the U.S. in the year 2000, the result of decades of vaccination efforts. But the last few years have seen a dramatic spike in the number of nationwide measles outbreaks, attributed in part to rising public fears over vaccination use.
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation together receive just under $40 billion in funding annually, less than 1 percent of a federal budget dominated by transfer payment programs, health insurance s...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 18, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Everyone ’s talking about the flu. Here’s what to do about it
H3N2: If you ’ve had it, you know how bad it can be. If you don’t, you’ve heard about it and are afraid. Very afraid.We ’re talking about the flu, specifically this flu season’s dominant strain.Others are taking about the flu as well. Physicians at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, have been featured in the media, and sought by patients and the public for advice on flu care and prevention — and for good reason.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that flu activity is widespread across the country. The California Department of Public Health has announced t...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - January 13, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Vaccination Is the Best Bet Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs — Experts
Experts encourage parents to vaccinate their children against typhoid to ensure that the child has access to clean drinking water. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS By Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Jul 6 2023 (IPS) The first thing you notice about eight-month-old Manahil Zeeshan is how tiny she looks on the adult-size hospital bed at the government-run Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology (SICHN) in Korangi, a neighbourhood in Karachi.
Her right foot is taped with a cannula, and she whimpers incessantly. “I have been in and out of the hospital for the last seven days,” said Uzma Mohammad, Zeeshan’s mom, with worry lines...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 6, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Zofeen Ebrahim Tags: Africa Civil Society Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Inequality Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Pakistan Source Type: news
Shifting the Old Debate over Vaccines
Let me describe a public health scenario: An infectious disease is spreading widely throughout the community. A method of immunization is readily available and very effective, but public resistance to it is high, especially in urban areas and among wealthier and more educated social classes. Fears over the safety of the available technique run rampant, spearheaded by a very small but real risk that vaccination may cause serious harm, especially in children. Differing opinions about whether or not immunization should be compulsory or voluntary, or whether the rights of the few should trump the rights of the many, are at the...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 9, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
The 2017 Mumps Outbreak Probably Isn't Related To Vaccine Refusal
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 18, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Penn study paves way for new vaccines to protect infants against infections
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A new Penn Medicine study puts researchers within closer reach of vaccines that can protect infants against infections by overcoming a mother's antibodies, which are known to shut down immune defenses initiated by conventional vaccines. That hurdle largely explains why vaccinations for infectious diseases like influenza and measles not given until six to 12 months of age. Findings from the preclinical study were published online today in Science Translational Medicine.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 8, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
As the Virus Evolves, COVID-19 Reinfections Are Going to Keep Happening
After the Omicron variant caused massive numbers of infections this past winter, lots of people looked on the bright side, hoping it would be “a free shot for the country,” says Eli Rosenberg, deputy director for science at the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Public Health. Even though lots of people got infected with the highly contagious variant, at least they would then have immunity against the virus, protecting them from getting sick in the future. In theory.
But that hasn’t turned out to be true. Many people—even those who are vaccinated, boosted, and previously infected&...
Source: TIME: Health - May 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
News at a glance: U.S. rules on carbon emissions, better vehicle batteries, and a Mars moon ’s close-up
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Mars’s moon may be its kin
Researchers have long believed that Mars’s two moons, Deimos and Phobos, are captured asteroids. But the first close-up images of Deimos, taken by the United Arab Emirates’s $200 million Hope spacecraft, suggest the 12-kilometer-wide body instead formed from the same material as Mars, researchers revealed this week at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union. The imagery, taken during a 10 March flyby, indicates that Deimos’s surface is covered by volcanic basalts like those on Mars, with no signs of the carbon-rich rock more often found on ast...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 27, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio by Gareth Williams – review
The history of polio and its treatment is one of dead ends, missed opportunities and downright skulduggeryMost British doctors and nurses working today will never have treated a case of polio. The closest most of us ever come to the polio virus is swallowing a sugarcube containing the oral vaccine or taking our children for their jabs. Today, we stand on the brink of eradicating polio from the world.Yet for anyone over the age of 50, polio still casts nightmarish shadows of babies entombed in iron lungs, children hobbling in leg irons and adults confined in wheelchairs. Seemingly appearing out of nowhere in unstoppable epi...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 17, 2013 Category: Science Tags: The Guardian Culture Health Vaccines and immunisation Reviews Books Polio Science and nature Source Type: news
Whether you're a patient, advocate or researcher, what are you most hopeful will emerge from the biopharmaceutical pipeline in the coming years?
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As we all know, there are hundreds of thousands of people in this country with unmet medical needs. They are desperately seeking new treatments, let alone cures, for their conditions. I represent an organization that addresses systemic issues that impact the lives of all people living with chronic diseases and disabilities, so I struggle with identifying any one new treatment for any specific condition that we want to emerge from the biopharmaceutical pipeline.
What I am hopeful for – and the patient community is already seeing emer...
Source: PHRMA - September 17, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Stephen Source Type: news
Dear Anti-Vaxxers: You Want Pure Nature? OK, Die Young.
None of the New York parents who are refusing to vaccinate their children today were around the city in the summer of 1916, which is good for them and good for any of the kids they might have had. It was in that summer that 27,000 children nationwide were struck by a polio outbreak, 9,300 of them in New York. Of those 9,300 victims, 2,700 died. The Salk family at 116th St. and Madison Ave. escaped the scourge, meaning that their two-year-old son Jonas was spared. History notes that when he grew up, he had a little score-settling to do with the poliovirus.
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Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - April 2, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized anti-vaxxers epidemics health health policy Jenny McCarthy Jonas Salk measles New York City polio vaccines whooping cough Source Type: news
Well: Putting Us All at Risk for Measles
When it comes to public health, bad personal choices can have potentially devastating effects on others.
Source: NYT - June 26, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. Tags: Doctors Measles Preventive Medicine medicine and health Pauline Chen Featured Vaccination and Immunization Doctor and Patient Source Type: news
