Why You Should Never Sign the Refusal to Vaccinate Form
Conclusion
These refusal to vaccinate forms were created to increase vaccination rates, scare parents, and potentially take children away from parents who decline vaccines or mandate medical treatment. Parents should refuse to sign these forms.
Has your child’s health care provider asked you to sign a refusal to vaccinate form? How did you respond? Please share your experiences in the comments section below. You can help other parents by sharing this article on social media.
References:
https://www.aap.org/en-us/Documents/immunization_refusaltovaccinate.pdf
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/115/5/1428.long
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Source: vactruth.com - August 21, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Missy Fluegge Top Picks Patricia Finn refusal form truth about vaccines vaccine refusal Source Type: blogs
Do You Want to Know More About Serving Children With Hearing Loss? SIG 9 Can Help!
A major charge of ASHA Special Interest Group 9, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood, is providing its affiliates (both audiologists and speech-language pathologists) with up-to-date information and resources to help serve this population. The SIG 9 Coordinating Committee (on which I serve) wanted to find out what we need to share and how we can best share this information, so we recently surveyed ASHA members. This survey compared confidence levels, educational experiences and resources requested by SIG 9 affiliates with providers who aren’t part of our SIG. Working with the ASHA Research and Surveys team,...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - August 15, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Kristina Blaiser Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Charlie Gard Post-Mortem: Could He Have Been Saved?
Charlie Gard would have turned one year old tomorrow.
Two days before the British infant died of a mitochondrial disease on July 28, a short article in MIT Technology Review teased that Shoukhrat Mtalipov and his team at Oregon Health & Science University and colleagues had used CRISPR-Cas9 to replace a mutation in human embryos, a titillating heads-up that didn’t actually name the gene or disease.
Yesterday Nature published the details of what the researchers call gene correction, not editing, because it uses natural DNA repair. I covered the news conference, with a bit of perspective, f...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 8, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Genetics Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Early thoughts on the Hickok & Poeppel dual stream model
I came across this email I sent to David Poeppel in July 1998 that sketches some of the basic ideas that congealed into our dual stream model. You can see the starting point was David's prior work on word deafness and my thinking about how conduction aphasia fits in. It's also clear that Nina Dronker's work on the insula was prominent at the time and in fact I had been corresponding with Nina about some of those details. The comment at the end "Nina says grammar is in the anterior STS" was a reference to a presentation she gave on lesion correlates of sentence comprehension deficits that implicated the ATL.&...
Source: Talking Brains - August 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
The Failed MMR Vaccine Policies on College Campuses
Conclusions
The current policy on most college campuses requires verification that incoming students have received two doses of the MMR vaccination. The goal of this policy is to prevent the diseases measles and mumps. A longstanding federal trial against Merck, the pharmaceutical company responsible for making the MMR vaccine, accuses Merck of manipulating data to show the MMR to be more effective against mumps than it is.
Recent outbreaks of mumps on college campuses by students vaccinated with the MMR vaccine provides additional evidence that the MMR vaccine is ineffective. Data from the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting...
Source: vactruth.com - July 25, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Michelle Goldstein Top Stories college vaccination Mandatory Vaccination MMR vaccine truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
The 2017 Skinnies Awards: Meryl Streep has Syphilis?
The Skinnies Awards are back at skinema.com! Included in this year's roundup of media skin issues is film icon Meryl Streep. As the real life tone deaf operatic wanna-be"Florence Foster Jenkins," Streep evokes sympathy for the syphilitic socialite. A courageous performance that earns the Derm Damaged Dames nod. See it all only atSkinema.com... (Source: Skinema, dermatology in the media blog)
Source: Skinema, dermatology in the media blog - July 15, 2017 Category: Dermatology Authors: vail reese Tags: Film Health Source Type: blogs
Low Cost Glove Translates Sign Language, May Be Used to Practice Surgery in Virtual Reality
At the University of California San Diego engineers have developed a low-cost electronic glove capable of understanding sign language. A user simply puts it on and can sign away, with the glove wirelessly transmitting what it’s interpreting to another device to be read out or for the words to appear on a screen. The cost of all the parts comes out to less than $100, including the printed stretchable electronic sensors that are attached to the top of the fingers.
The sensors are made of a silicon polymer with a stripe of electrically conductive carbon paint on top of it. The combination is flexible without being br...
Source: Medgadget - July 13, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Rehab Surgery Source Type: blogs
Eight important neuropsychological syndromes you ’ve probably never heard of
By Christian Jarrett
Studying people who have brain damage or illness has been hugely important to progress in psychology. The approach is akin to reverse engineering: study how things go wrong when particular regions of the brain are compromised and it provides useful clues as to how those regions usually contribute to healthy mental function.
As a result, some neuropsychological conditions, such as Broca’s aphasia (speech deficits), prosopagnosia (a difficulty recognising faces, also known somewhat misleadingly as “face blindness”) and Alien Hand syndrome (a limb seeming to act of its own volition) have...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Source Type: blogs
Medical Decision-Making In the Tragic Life of Charlie Gard
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
On Friday, Charlie Gard is scheduled to have his life support discontinued. Charlie Gard is an 11-month-old baby born with RRM2B encephalomyopathic mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome—a rare genetic disorder with no cure. Those with the mutation live at most into early childhood with a multitude of life threatening conditions (lactic acidosis, ammonia build up, heart abnormalities). Charlie suffers from seizures, cannot independently breathe. He is also blind and deaf. Great Ormond Street Hospital (London) and Charlie’s doctors believe there is nothing more medically that can be done to benefit...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 5, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Craig Klugman Tags: Featured Posts Genetics Global Ethics Health Care Health Policy & Insurance Health Regulation & Law Informed Consent Justice Pediatrics Politics Source Type: blogs
These physicians are crying. Here ’s why.
I cried this morning. It wasn’t because of the patient who coded with a wide-complex tachycardia and died in front of me, and it wasn’t because of the patient who tried to spit on me for not giving her a prescription for narcotics. Nor was it my intoxicated 2 a.m. bar fight patient yelling at my other patients, including one whom I’d recently diagnosed with metastatic cancer. It was because I was tired and defeated. Sitting quietly at my desk in the back corner of this emergency room with the third cup of coffee since my shift started at 7 p.m., I spent this night like the countless others preceding it, churning thro...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 4, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/christopher-bennett" rel="tag" > Christopher Bennett, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Surgery Source Type: blogs
Post-Doc at Vanderbilt, Brain Development Lab with James Booth
A post-doctoral position is open in the Brain Development Laboratory in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. We are broadly interested in how the brain changes over development and learning, and in individual differences (including disability) in brain organization. Research in the lab is focused on the neural basis of (1) reading and language, (2) mathematical cognition, (3) executive function and (4) cross-cultural differences. Successful candidate will be expected to be a part of a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative team.PhD in psychology, education...
Source: Talking Brains - July 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Bad viruses travel fast: Measles vaccine important for travelers
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The United States was declared free from ongoing measles transmission in 2000. So why are we still having measles attacks? An outbreak of measles is currently raging in Minnesota. In 2015, 125 cases of measles occurred in California, and in 2014, 383 people were infected with measles in an Amish community in Ohio.
How measles outbreaks happen
There are several reasons why we are still at risk for measles outbreaks. Travelers may get infected overseas, and bring the measles virus back into the country with them unawares. The 2015 measles outbreak in Ohio began when two infected members of the Amish ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Ross, MD, FIDSA Tags: Health Infectious diseases Prevention Travel health Source Type: blogs
Trump Administration Releases Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Request
The Trump administration’s requested fiscal year 2018 budget, released this week, proposes reductions in funding in aspects of education, health care and research—areas with possible implications for communication sciences and disorders. There is, however, proposed new funding for a school-choice grant program.
Like all presidential budgets, it next undergoes consideration by Congress. ASHA expects that it will likely change considerably as it works its way through both houses of Congress.
Education
The Trump FY18 budget request would eliminate 22 programs administered by the U.S. Department of Education—totaling mor...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - May 24, 2017 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Ingrida Lusis Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Uncategorized budget communication sciences and disorders funding Source Type: blogs
