Last year, the government created a panic in many individuals when it announced that Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) could well become a pandemic in 2007. Without a tested vaccination on the market, people questioned how to protect themselves. Avian Influenza is a strain of the flu that is prevalent in w...

Most women responding to a survey conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) clinics indicated they would be willing to be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and to have their daughters and even sons vaccinated in order to prevent cancer in their children. The report in the Mar...

Biotech, Patents, vaccines Luke Timmerman wrote: One of the world’s best-selling vaccines, Merck’s Gardasil, is quietly producing some serious money for an unexpected benefactor—the University of Washington. Thanks to some hard-fought patent litigation from the 1990s that ended up ...

Newsday.com had an article titled "Health officials: Levittown child, 10, died of flu" and in the article "... Cynthia Brown, spokeswoman for the Nassau County Health Department, said the 10-year-old died over the weekend and that preliminary tests revealed the presence of an A-strain of the flu. .....

Keith Olbermann: Played for a fool by the antivaccine movement. Tonight Olbermann let himself be played like a fiddle by antivaccine propagandist David Kirby, the man who, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was instrumental in launching the American version of the MMR scare, namely the thimerosal/mercury ...

Ignorance. Blind, philistine pig ignorance is rampant among Americans on health care subjects, the product of a generation which (thanks to government's refusing to help) has had to make do when it comes to personal health. Now that we seem to have the political will to change, ignorance is threaten...

Specifically aimed at fuck-knuckles above A Certain Age: “may Karma gift him with a disfiguring allergy to Viagra.” THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link...

Sott.net Ryan Wood Ball State News Online February 3, 2009 A group of Ball State University students are worried a preservative found in a flu vaccine meant to keep you healthy could lead to harmful side effects. Tony Farmer, president of Ball State's Truth Movement, has been leading his group in a ...

Baby Eliza, 8 mo, has something which has identical symptoms to whooping cough (pertussis) but isn’t diagnosed as such because the NP reasons she isn’t “exhausted enough”. There is an unfortunate reluctance to diagnose Pertussis, and other vaccine-related childhood diseases l...

Andy had his four year check up on Friday. What was notable was that at four, he moves up to the "preliminary room" for his check-ups where he was given a vision test, a depth perception test, a red/green color blind test and a hearing test. His vision wasn't perfect. Apparently kids this age don't ...