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1 Pharmaceutical Company Called About Son's Missed Shot
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2 The Scary Mail-Order Chicken Pox Craze That's Sweeping the Country
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3 babysugar Diaries: Vaccines
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4 Wee Are the World: Salma Hayek Spokeswoman For Vaccine
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5 Baby Wellness: McCain Enters Autism Debate
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6 Did Autism Worries Affect Your Decision to Vaccinate?
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7 Gardasil Vaccine For Your Girl?
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8 Guess Who Reminded Me That My Son Missed His Vaccine?
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9 Kiddie Wellness: Flu Vaccine For Infants to Eighteen-Year-Olds
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10 Lil Tip: Mommy Gets a Shot, Too!
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11 Vaccines: Sticking With the Original Plan
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12 How to Talk to Your Pediatrician About Your Vaccine Concerns
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13 Would You Get the Swine Flu Vaccine While Pregnant?
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14 Jenny McCarthy Talks Autism, Instincts, and Jim Carrey
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16 Survey Finds Most Parents Still Uneasy About Vaccinations
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17 More Parents Are Choosing Alternative Vaccination Schedules For Their Kids
Letting your child lick a complete stranger's lollypop is a repulsive idea to most parents, but that's exactly what parents around the country are doing in an attempt to infect their tots with the chicken pox virus, thus avoiding the chicken pox vaccination. Since the vaccine's approval in 1995, every state now requires children to be vaccinated before entering daycare or preschool with Read more
The times, they are a-changin' when it comes to vaccinating your tot. Following recent news that an overwhelming majority of parents are not comfortable with the vaccinations their children receive, a new study finds that more moms and dads are using alternative vaccine schedules for their kids than ever before. According to the latest issue of Pediatrics, 13 percent of families are not following Read more
Parents are taking their kids in for "a little pinch," but they aren't happy about it. According to a study just released today, 95 percent of US children receive the recommended vaccines (on schedule), but 77 percent of parents are still uncomfortable with the shots. More than a year after the link between autism and vaccines was debunked, many parents are still voicing concern over the safety Read more
It can seem — especially to your budget — that doggies require endless vaccinations. Still do you know what they're being safeguarded against? Take these quizzes about six diseases that pups commonly get protected for to see if you're a shot-calling expert. Quiz: Parvovirus Quiz: Hepatitis Quiz: Distemper Quiz: Rabies Quiz: H3N8 Quiz: Coronavirus Read more
While February is the month when most people get the flu, hopefully you've already gotten your annual flu shot. But what about the rest of the lesser-known recommended vaccines for adults? Recently I was surprised when during a routine appointment my doctor told me that because of a recent whooping cough outbreak I should get a Tdap shot, which also contains the booster doses for tetanus and Read more
Twelve years after the medical and parenting communities were rocked by the release of a study linking the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism, the world's most renowned medical journal is retracting the paper that made the initial claims. This morning, the editors of The Lancet announced that the researcher behind the paper was not honest in his presentation of the data and "it Read more
Jenny McCarthy is one candid cover girl. We'd expect nothing less from the passionate mother and autism advocate who posed with her son Evan, 7, for the September cover of Cookie. Check out a few of the highlights from the interview. On how she felt when Evan had a seven-hour seizure and went into cardiac arrest in 2004: I ran out of my house and into my driveway and screamed at the top of my Read more
It may no longer be headline news, but the swine flu pandemic still has people talking. This week the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to discuss the development and distribution of a vaccine that is set to be ready by Fall. Among the groups who may get top priority for the vaccine are pregnant women. Though pregnant women only account for one percent of the US Read more
Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it had approved the first vaccine for the H3N8 flu (not to be confused with the H1N1 flu). What should you know about this dangerous doggie disease? Test yourself and see! Take the Quiz Read more
Mothers are hit with conflicting views on autism and vaccines. The morning news will feature a pediatrician denying any link between the two. Then on another channel, a mother is interviewed claiming that immunizations changed her child's life forever. Conflicted about what to do, some parents are opting not to vaccinate their children while others choose an alternative schedule and some stick Read more
