Anti-vaccination beliefs don ’t follow the usual conservative and liberal lines
When health officials learned that the 2015 measles outbreak was caused by clusters of unvaccinated children, Americans once more wanted to understand why some parents do not vaccinate their children. In our highly polarized culture, media commentators and even academics began to connect opposition to vaccination to either the left or right of politics.
So a question arises: Who is more likely to be opposed to vaccination, liberals or conservatives? As a sociologist who studies infectious disease, I took a look at this. The answer seems to depend on what question you ask.
Because the outbreak started in the wealthy, libera...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 31, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/charles-mccoy" rel="tag" > Charles McCoy, PhD < /a > Tags: Conditions Pediatrics Primary Care Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
What Every Parent Needs to Know About Back to School Vaccine Threats and Exemptions
Conclusion
Because the mainstream media has financial interest in promoting vaccines, informed parents must seek information elsewhere about back to school vaccine mandates and exemptions. Parents, as you prepare to send your child back to school, do your homework and determine which exemptions are available in your area. A list of vaccine exemptions for all fifty states is published online by the National Vaccine Information Center.
Sharing this article with other parents will also help them make informed decisions about vaccines.
References:
http://www.nvic.org/vaccine-laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx
http://www.oma...
Source: vactruth.com - August 17, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Missy Fluegge Tags: Top Stories truth about vaccines Vaccine Exemptions Source Type: blogs
How Do US Vaccine Rates, Policies and Children ’s Health Compare to Other Countries?
Conclusion
The US has the highest vaccination rate of all industrialized countries. US children are experiencing a health epidemic with more chronic diseases than ever before in our history. The US has the highest infant mortality in a study comparing America with 29 other developed countries. Children in the US suffered with more autism than in all other countries studied.
Studies comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated show conclusively that unvaccinated children enjoy far superior health. Research and data demonstrate that vaccines cause neurological damage and contribute to significant health damage.
Vaccines are a major...
Source: vactruth.com - July 29, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles Top Picks autism truth about vaccines vaccine injuries 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
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
GEHA ’s Seven-Year “Glitch”
By NIRAN AL-AGBA, MD
In a little piece of legislation known as the Affordable Care Act, preventive services are mandated to be covered with no out-of-pocket expense to consumers. According to the Healthcare.gov website, approved insurance plans must cover a “list of preventive services for children without charging a copayment or coinsurance.” Number 18 on that preventive care list is: childhood immunizations for children from birth to age 18, acknowledging regional variation in the standard recommendation schedule. After all, vaccinations are the cornerstone public health achievement of the last century and have saved...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 19, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized ACA Copayment GEHA HACA Vaccinations Source Type: blogs
MUMPS and Healthcare
What is the most popular programming language? I don't see MUMPS on here for the folks in #healthcare. 🤔 #cio pic.twitter.com/8XhBmc53Ga
— David Chou (@dchou1107) April 26, 2017
Leave it to David Chou to point out how odd it is to work in healthcare IT. What’s shocking about the image David Chou shared above is that there are so many languages listed. However, despite the vast number of languages listed, MUMPS is so far off the radar of most tech people that they literally didn’t care about it enough to add it to the chart. That’s pretty sad for those of us who care about healthcare.
If you ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 11, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: EHR Electronic Health Record Electronic Medical Record EMR Healthcare HealthCare IT Epic Hacker News Intersystems MEDITECH MUMPS Vista VA Source Type: blogs
All About Infant Immunizations: Q & A with Pediatrician Dr. Adam Spanier
Adam Spanier, MD, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a Pediatrician with University of Maryland Medical Center.
What vaccines are recommended for infants and children?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a group of medical and public health experts called the Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices. They develop and regularly review vaccine recommendations. Parents should talk to their pediatrician or family doctor, or reference the CDC or American Academy of Pediatrics. It’s important to know the vaccine schedule is revi...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - April 28, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Engage With Your Co-Workers for BHSM!
As a school-based SLP, I usually celebrated Better Hearing and Speech Month (BHSM) by creating an activity to use with my students and a classroom lesson for teachers. But what about raising awareness with our co-workers? So this year, I created an activity I’m using with my ASHA co-workers and thought you might like to share it in your school, private practice, office, health care facility or community-based organization meeting during the month of May!
This BHSM game is a takeoff on Family Feud. First, divide your group into “families.” Ask each family to determine their spokesperson. They can also select f...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - April 25, 2017 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Stacey Glasgow Tags: Advocacy Audiology Events Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention hearing loss hearing protection Language Disorders Professional Development Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Why vaccines are important for our country ’s financial health, too
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Imagine there was a simple treatment that could be given to babies and toddlers that was not only remarkably effective in preventing illness, but also inexpensive. And imagine that this treatment was not only inexpensive, but also lowered overall health care costs.
There’s no need to imagine; the treatment exists. It’s called immunization.
It’s National Infant Immunization Week, a time to recognize and celebrate immunization. It’s during infancy that we give the most vaccines, but the benefits extend far beyond infancy and beyond those babies. The protection lasts for years, keeping b...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Health policy Infectious diseases Managing your health care Parenting Prevention Vaccines Source Type: blogs
ACA Repeal Would Mean Massive Cuts To Public Health, Leaving Cities And States At Risk
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed a little over six years ago, it brought with it the promise of health insurance for all Americans. It also sought to begin to shift the paradigm for health care in this country, emphasizing value over volume, and recognizing the importance of prevention coupled with appropriate access to care.
By now, it is well known that repealing the ACA could leave nearly 20 million Americans uninsured and simultaneously result in millions of job losses across the country. An associated cost that has been less discussed, but no less relevant, is what repeal could mean for the nation’s alr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 7, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Chrissie Juliano Tags: Costs and Spending Following the ACA Public Health Big Cities Health Coalition Community Health Prevention and Public Health Fund. Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 268
Welcome to the 268th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
The new Surviving Sepsis guidelines are out and Josh Farkas takes them to task for continuing to purport dogmatic teaching about sepsis care. [AS] Agree, important summary of sepsis myths in need of debunking [ML]
Rob “The Machine” Mac Sw...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 5, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
Let ’s spend money on autism support, not conspiracy theories
I spent many sleepless nights in the months after my son’s autism diagnosis fretting whether I could have done something to prevent it. I recounted, in obsessive detail, the course of my pregnancy, the birth, and the two years of child-rearing that led to the moment when our pediatrician confirmed my fears — and life as I’d known it tilted off its axis. In my spare waking hours, I pored over research that exhausted me mentally and emotionally.
It was a painful period of reckoning — and it’s the reason I vehemently oppose a commission to investigate a link between autism and vaccines, as proposed by Presid...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 30, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jessica-berthold" rel="tag" > Jessica Berthold < /a > Tags: Meds Medications Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
A Necessary Retelling of the Smallpox Vaccine Story
A curious confluence
of events unfolded Tuesday night. Just hours before President Obama uttered the
powerful “science and reason matter” in his farewell address, Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. announced that the incoming president had tapped him to head a committee on
vaccine safety.
RFK Jr. is not a
pediatric immunologist nor an epidemiologist, but a vocal “vaccine
skeptic.” Although the
PEOTUS dialed back on the purported appointment shortly after social media
erupted, a tweet from March 28, 2014 makes his analysis
of the history and science of vaccines clear: Healthy young child goes
...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 30, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated vaccines Source Type: blogs
What Will Trump Do On Vaccines? The Jury Is Still Out.
By COURTNEY GILDENGIL and LAURA FAHERTY
On January 10th, then-President-elect Donald Trump met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vocal skeptic of vaccine safety. Although the details and implications of the session are still unclear, the meeting and several of Trump’s tweets have raised questions among public health experts who wonder what, if anything, Trump might do on the issue as president. A chorus of celebrities and politicians continue to question vaccine safety and propagate a myth linking vaccines and autism, fueled by a fraudulent 1998 article by Dr. Andrew Wakefield that was later retracted.
In 2014, RAND undert...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
