In Get Ready For Flu - Posted 5 weeks ago

Q. In the movies, people are always quarantined where there is an outbreak of a contagious disease. If there is a flu pandemic or disease outbreak, wi...

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In Blogging Baby - Posted 10 weeks ago

Filed under: Health & safety, Medical conditions, Mommy warsParents opting out of the chicken pox vaccine in hopes that their child will catch it natu...

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In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 15 weeks ago

It s time to get over the flaws that felled the early crops of experimental AIDS vaccines and move to more fertile scientific ground, according to S...

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In H5N1 - Posted 17 weeks ago

Via The West Australian: WA health authorities warn of Papal flu spike : thewest.com.au href= http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&Con...

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In Straight From the Doc - Posted 27 weeks ago

gruntzookiShingles is a condition that can cause debilitating chronic pain.Shingles (herpes zoster) is an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin ...

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In Blogging Baby - Posted 30 weeks ago

Filed under: 9-12 months, Celebrity babies, Celebrity parents behaving badlyAs a stay-at-home mom, I've had the luxury of being hyper-vigilant about k...

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In Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Posted 32 weeks ago

ABC News details their potential risk of catching disease:While the nightmare of confinement within a restrictive sect in West Texas may be over for m...

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In Effect Measure - Posted 32 weeks ago

If you want to know the single most important class of public health interventions with respect to infectious diseases in the 20th century it wasn't v...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 36 weeks ago

More commentary on the case of Hannah Poling by pediatrician Rahul Parikh, M.D., on Salon (March 13). As Dr. Parikh clearly states, the government ...

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In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 38 weeks ago

Kids should get flu vaccinations from the time they re six months old until they turn 18, an advisory panel of vaccine gurus to the Centers for Dise...

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