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vaccines
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Mumps outbreak hits more than 1,500 in N.Y., N.J.
More than 1,500 cases of mumps in New York and New Jersey have prompted the CDC to update the public…
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Parikh examines media’s role in vaccine-autism link
In his latest dispatch, Salon.com contributor and pediatrician Rahul Parikih describes the media as the willing enablers of the decade…
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Prisons to get H1N1 vaccines before everyone else?
Poynter’s Al Tompkins, always quick to seize on an interesting emerging story, rounds up reports that inmates are getting H1N1…
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Will pharmacists play a role in H1N1 vaccinations?
In some states, pharmacists can administer influenza vaccinations. However, laws do differ from state to state. Some states allow pharmacists…
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Oransky on H1N1, pandemic, vaccination and 1976
AHCJ board member Ivan Oransky appeared on Brian Lehrer Live to discuss H1N1. The relevant segment starts at about 38:50…
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Journalists attend two-day CDC flu briefing
AHCJ has sponsored 12 journalists to take part in a two-day workshop at the CDC about covering seasonal influenza and…
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Autism and vaccines: A failure to communicate
When it comes to vaccine safety, findings that scientists regard as proven facts haven’t been strong enough to shake public…
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Refusal to vaccinate puts others at risk
The Marin Independent Journal‘s Rob Rogers, reporting from a county where an above-average number of parents ask to exempt their…
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Two vaccines keeping kids out of ERs
Maryn McKenna writes in Annals of Emergency Medicine that the impressive recent success of rotavirus and pneumococcus vaccines has caused…
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CDC working to uncover cause of autism
This is a guest post from Elizabeth Fernandez of the San Francisco Chronicle. Fernandez is among the first class of…