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Dr. Andrew Wakefield Falsified Study Linking Vaccines to Autism, Journal Says
By David Knowles - AOL NewsAn editorial in the British Medical Journal puts forth evidence that a now-discredited study linking autism and common childhood vaccines relied on falsified evidence to make its central claim. "Clear evidence of falsification of data should now close the door on this damaging vaccine scare," the editors of the journal wrote. Why would Dr. Andrew Wakefield make up findings to prove that getting vaccines to help prevent diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella can cause higher rates of autism? According to the journal's editors, the reason was simple: money. Wakefield is alleged to have ...
Opinion: Let's Lift the Roadblocks to Vaccinations
By not in system - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- With the flu season just getting under way, it's a good time to ask this question: In an age of readily available vaccines, why are so many Americans dying of preventable diseases? About 200,000 will be hospitalized and 36,000 will die of the flu between now and when the flu season ends in May. In California, pertussis -- more commonly known as whooping cough -- has re-emerged with a vengeance. This year, nearly 6,000 pertussis cases have erupted -- health officials call this the biggest whooping cough outbreak since 1950. Tragically, pertussis has killed 10 California infants ...
Tobacco-Based Vaccines Could Pwn Future Pandemics
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Pandemics and bio-terror threats might one day be a health hazard of the past. A massive undertaking by the U.S. military is rapidly transforming vaccine production, yielding fast-tracked approaches to wipe out new illnesses before they spread. The military's been after better bio-threat prevention methods since 2005, but it was only last year that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched its Blue Angel program to come up with quicker responses to emerging flu viruses. H1N1 (the virus originally referred to by the media as "swine flu") was the catalyst for ...
The Anti-Vaccine Movement: Blinding Us With Pseudoscience
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyDespite the American infatuation with gambling, in other areas of life we shy away from random chance. We like cause and effect. We like the story of one thing leading to another in a nice, straight line. And if such a story does not declare itself, we'll invent one. Our need for a clear, predictable pattern leads us down the wayward path of conspiracy theories. In the absence of a cause that makes sense to us, we'll spend hours, days, years looking for one. Why? Peter Jennings alluded to a possible reason in his thorough 2003 documentary "Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination ...
Nursing in Public: Americans Need to Get Over Their Hang-Ups
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyA month or so ago I was in an H&M in downtown D.C. when the baby, cranky and tired, hungry and fussy, began to squirm and cry. We were miles from home, an hour from prepping food. I unbuttoned my shirt half way, sat down on a display cube and pulled her on my lap. Within seconds a clerk was upon me. "Wouldn't you be more comfortable in a changing room?" a male H&M staffer said to me, not meeting my eye, nor my breast, looking instead somewhere just east of my right shoulder. "You mean the changing rooms with a 20-minute wait to get in? No," I replied. "Well you can't sit here," he said. And ...
Vaccine Deal Expected to Save Millions of Lives
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(March 23) -- In a deal that could save millions of lives, two of the world's largest drug companies agreed today to provide 30 million doses of a vaccine that protects against pneumonia and meningitis to dozens of developing countries. Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline are the first to join a program spearheaded by the GAVI Alliance, a group that includes UNICEF and the World Health Organization. The initiative links price caps to guarantees that all the vaccine produced will be purchased. "Today's landmark announcement promises to make new vaccines available affordably, where they are urgently ...
To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate: The Celebs Weigh In
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIt may not be a spoonful of sugar, but would a celebrity endorsement make that vaccination shot a little easier to bear? With the rise in prominence of celebrity vaccine skeptics, vaccine makers are responding with their own celebrity endorsements. Bad Astronomy reports that the manufacturers of the pertussis (or whooping cough) vaccine are featuring Jennifer Lopez in a video encouraging parents to vaccinate themselves and their children against the malady, while USA Today notes that the flu shot is borrowing a move straight from Wheaties boxes, pulling in backing from Kristi Yamaguchi and ...
The Hajj and H1N1: Pilgrimage During a Pandemic
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyBy some estimates, the hajj is the single largest, annual gathering in the world; the pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca attracts between 2 and 3 million visitors from all over the globe. But this year, officials are worried about several strains of H1N1. In a study published in the journal Science on Thursday, researchers warned that measures would need to be taken to prevent outbreaks of H1N1 both during the hajj, which takes place Nov. 25-30 this year, and after, as travelers return to their home countries. One of the authors of the study, Dr. Ziad Memish, who is also the Assistant Deputy ...
McCain Perpetuates Vaccine-Autism Myth
By Ada Calhoun - Politics DailyThe myth that there is a connection between routine vaccination and autism has been soundly disproved. Here is one article that responsibly explores the facts. Here is the CDC's page on the subject.And yet, the desire to find a cause for the rise in autism has led many to cling onto this dangerous conspiracy theory. Just the other night on Larry King Live, as in past shows on the subject, King nodded as celebrities explained to him how evil vaccinations are. Now John McCain is hopping on the anti-science bandwagon. ...
'NASCAR Cooties' Story Infectious
By Jay Allbritton - Politics DailyIn 2004, the media latched onto an infectious meme -- the so-called "NASCAR Dad." The term was meant as a counterpart to the "Soccer Moms" credited with helping to sway the 1992 and 1996 elections. Now we have NASCAR Cooties.Aides from both parties that were working for the House Homeland Security Committee were, for some unknown reason, instructed to get immunized before going on a fact-finding trip to NASCAR events in Concord, North Carolina, and Talladega, Alabama. ...
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