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In the wake of recent measles outbreaks, pollsters have noticed a trend: Younger Americans are considerably less convinced of vaccines’ safety, less likely to see the vaccination issue as a…
While severe problems with the memory and the nervous system are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s respectively, it’s the skin that could detect the disease early on, perhaps even before…
Despite claims to the contrary from some of the loudest anti-immigration reform voices in the Republican Party, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stressed on Monday that undocumented immigrants…
If one Oklahoma lawmaker has his way, people with sexually transmitted diseases will not just be getting married in his state. Senate Bill 733, introduced by state Sen. Anthony Sykes…
Named the Bourbon virus after the county where the patient lived, the virus is likely spread by tick or insect bites, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. A…
However bad you thought smoking was, it’s even worse. A new study adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in the…
A huge majority considers the MMR vaccine safe for children. The emerging Democratic domestic policy agenda focuses on parents. And Hillary Clinton’s advantage is hiding in plain sight. This is…
Despite being declared beaten in 2000, measles is back, due largely to declining vaccination rates in parts of the United States. “We should not be in this boat,” Dr. Pritish…
Half of U.S. states don’t require home-school students to be vaccinated against diseases that include measles, chickenpox and hepatitis B, according to an organization that advocates greater oversight of home…
As if living with chronic illness wasn’t challenging enough, living with an autoimmune disease can be even more difficult. Still highly misunderstood by medical professionals and the public alike, autoimmune…
There’s been much discussion over the past few weeks about the so-called anti-vaxxers, parents who have chosen for a variety of reasons not to vaccinate their children. From the commander…
When Dr. Jack Wolfson speaks, jaws drop. But his fans applaud. He has given a medical face to the anti-vaccine movement — eagerly stepping in front of TV cameras to…
In recent weeks, a host of public figures — from comedians to columnists to President Barack Obama — have called on parents to vaccinate their children against measles and other…
Opponents of vaccines against diseases like measles are simply on the “wrong side,” CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta says. Just how many people are we talking about, and…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) argued Monday that debate over whether to allow parents more choice in the vaccination of their children was a matter of “freedom,” citing personal knowledge of…
BY ANDREW M. SEAMAN Mon Jan 19, 2015 9:37am EST (Reuters) – Families with underimmunized or unvaccinated children tend to cluster together, a new study shows. Underimmunization is tied to…