In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 week ago

More academics are joining arguments against government mandates for immunizing girls with Merck s Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer. In the ...

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In Baseline of Health Blog - Posted 1 week ago

The times, they are a 'changing. Until recently, the diseases of childhood meant chicken pox, measles, mumps and the like; but lately, large numbers...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 1 week ago

Well, here s a headline that hasn t been heard so much of late, it seems:Immunization rate among children rising (from MSNBC via WTHR TV)According...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 2 weeks ago

Vaccines don t cause autism and yet a connection between the two seems to have become deeply lodged in the public consciousness. Some believe in a v...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 3 weeks ago

Regarding yesterday s Today show piece on vaccines, autism, and Dr. Paul Offit:Kudos to Dr. Nancy Synderman, especially at the end of the piece when...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 3 weeks ago

The Today Show website has posted an excerpt from the beginning of Dr. Paul Offit s Autism False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Sear...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 3 weeks ago

So thimerosal s not the smoking gun linking vaccines to autism, according to David Kirby, whose 2005 book, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in ...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 3 weeks ago

On Newsweek: Three videos with interviews with Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children s Hospital of Philadelph...

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In Autism Vox - Posted 4 weeks ago

There s plenty to debate about regarding autism and the speech about special needs children that Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is to give ...

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In Blogging Baby - Posted 4 weeks ago

Filed under: Newborns, Babies, Toddlers, Preschoolers, Kids 5-7, Health & safety, Medical conditions, In the news, EducationIn 2003, the U.S. Departme...

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