vaccines

When a measles outbreak occurred at Disneyland roughly two years ago, anti-vaccine activists mocked it.

When some of the public hears about vaccines today, they may think of Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent links to autism or Jenny McCarthy’s use of her Hollywood megaphone to polarize the issue as well as encourage the spread of an anti-

The measles outbreak at Disneyland, which came to the public's attention in January 2015, prompted several states to tighten their vaccine exemption laws.

When I was a child, getting chickenpox was a rite of passage. Everyone had to get it, sooner or later, and sooner was preferable.

In an effort to halt what some pediatricians are calling a rising tide in vaccine hesitancy, the American Academy of Pediatrics have released a statement urging states to crack down on parents who refuse to vaccinate their children.

A disturbing view of pediatric chiropractics Image courtesy of www.abc.net.au

Every time I think that this nightmare might be over, Andrew Wakefield is back in the new

Death knells are beginning to ring for poliovirus. The CDC reports that, in 2014, there were 359 new cases of wild poliovirus in nine countries.

Silkworm cocoon. (Krish Dulal/Wikipedia)