How a Vaccine Is Like a Banana — and Why That’s Good
For once, the antivaccine folks might be onto something. Want to see just a few of the chemicals that get pumped into the bodies of babies from the average vaccine? Try these: 2-methyl-butyraldehide, ethyl ethanoate, tocopherol, alpha-terpanine and a wicked slug of terpinyl-acetate. It’s a wonder our kids ever make it out of babyhood.
Oh wait, my bad! Those aren’t the ingredients in a vaccine. Those are the ingredients in a blueberry. And the same is true for bananas and eggs too.
One of the greatest misconceptions of the antivaxxers — and plenty of others — is that there’s some binary divide ...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - October 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized aluminum anti-vaccine anti-vaxxers Autism Conspiracy Theories health ingredients inserts magnesium Thimerosal vaccines Source Type: news
How a Vaccine Is Like a Banana—and Why That’s Good
For once, the anti-vaccine folks might be onto something. Want to see just a few of the chemicals that get pumped into the bodies of babies from the average vaccine? Try these: 2-methyl-butyraldehide, ethyl ethanoate, tocopherol, alpha-terpanine and a wicked slug of terpinyl-acetate. It’s a wonder our kids ever make it out of babyhood.
Oh wait, my bad! Those aren’t the ingredients in a vaccine. Those are the ingredients in a blueberry. And the same is true for bananas and eggs too.
One of the greatest misconceptions of the anti-vaxxers—and plenty of others—is that there’s some binary divide be...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - October 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized aluminum anti-vaccine anti-vaxxers Autism Conspiracy Theories health ingredients inserts magnesium Thimerosal vaccines Source Type: news
Take a Number: 732,000: American Lives Saved by Vaccination
A federal agency estimates that the vaccination of children from 1994 to 2013 will prevent hundreds of thousands of early deaths. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: NICHOLAS BAKALAR Tags: Whooping Cough Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Measles Deaths (Fatalities) Rotaviruses Tetanus Mumps German Measles (Rubella) Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Hepatitis Source Type: news
Licensure of a Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Adsorbed and Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine and Guidance for Use as a Booster Dose
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - September 3, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: news
India Eliminates Disease, Will Spare Thousands Of Mothers And Newborns
Health advocates in India are celebrating a major milestone that will save thousands of mothers’ and babies’ lives.
The World Health Organization declared that India has officially eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), a disease that predominantly plagues low-income patients. Just a few decades ago, the country reported about 150,000 cases a year, according to WHO.
The disease is typically transmitted when the umbilical cord is cut in an unsanitary way and nearly all newborns infected with tetanus die, according to UNICEF.
MNT usually occurs in developing countries where patients have...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
India Eliminates Disease, Will Spare Thousands Of Mothers And Newborns
Health advocates in India are celebrating a major milestone that will save thousands of mothers’ and babies’ lives. The World Health Organization declared that India has officially eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), a disease that predominantly plagues low-income patients. Just a few decades ago, the country reported about 150,000 cases a year, according to WHO. The disease is typically transmitted when the umbilical cord is cut in an unsanitary way and nearly all newborns infected with tetanus die, according to UNICEF. MNT usually occurs in developing countries where patients have...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tdap booster vaccine rates triple at family care clinics using automated reminders
Electronic reminders at clinics helped boost rates of Tdap booster that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, a study shows. Guidelines recommend that adolescents and adults ages 11 and up receive a single dose of the Tdap vaccine for booster immunization even if they have had a Td (tetanus and diphtheria) vaccine within the past 10 years. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 14, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Tdap booster vaccine rates triple at family care clinics using automated reminders
(University of Michigan Health System) Electronic reminders at clinics helped boost rates of Tdap booster that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 14, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Well: Not Vaccinating Children Is the Greater Risk
Childhood immunizations, perhaps the most important health and lifesaving advance of the last century, are being seriously eroded by misinformation and scaremongering. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - August 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JANE E. BRODY Tags: Family Personal Health Whooping Cough Babies and Infants Tetanus Mumps Parenting Featured Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Hepatitis Source Type: news
Well: Not Vaccinating Children Is the Greater Risk
Childhood immunizations, perhaps the most important health and lifesaving advance of the last century, are being seriously eroded by misinformation and scaremongering. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - August 10, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: JANE E. BRODY Tags: Family Personal Health Whooping Cough Babies and Infants Tetanus Mumps Parenting Featured Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Hepatitis Source Type: news
Personal Health: Not Vaccinating Children Is the Greater Risk
Childhood immunizations, perhaps the most important health and lifesaving advance of the last century, are being seriously eroded by misinformation and scaremongering. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - August 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JANE E. BRODY Tags: Family Personal Health Whooping Cough Babies and Infants Tetanus Mumps Parenting Featured Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Hepatitis Source Type: news
Personal Health: Not Vaccinating Children Is the Greater Risk
Childhood immunizations, perhaps the most important health and lifesaving advance of the last century, are being seriously eroded by misinformation and scaremongering. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - August 10, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: JANE E. BRODY Tags: Family Personal Health Whooping Cough Babies and Infants Tetanus Mumps Parenting Featured Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Hepatitis Source Type: news
Well: Not Vaccinating Children Is the Greater Risk
Childhood immunizations, perhaps the most important health and lifesaving advance of the last century, are being seriously eroded by misinformation and scaremongering. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - August 10, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: JANE E. BRODY Tags: Family Personal Health Whooping Cough Babies and Infants Tetanus Mumps Parenting Featured Vaccination and Immunization Children and Childhood Hepatitis Source Type: news
Africa: Immunization Prevents Three Million Deaths Yearly
[Foroyaa] The World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in the Gambia, Dr. Charles Segun Moses, has said that immunization prevents between 2 and 3 million deaths every year.He added that it protects children not only against diseases for which vaccines have been available for many years, such as diphtheria, tetanus, polio and measles, but also against diseases such as pneumonia and rotavirus diarrhoea, 2 of the biggest killers of children under five. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 3, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
