Measles

Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Polio, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Measles, Unicef, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Project Optimize, Video, Impact News

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

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Worldwide Measles Deaths Dropped Over A Decade: WHO

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 04.24.2012

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LONDON — The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the Wo...

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Measles: Back To The Future Of Public Health?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, USA Today, Cdc, Measles, Infectious Diseases, Mmr, Prevention, Dr. David Katz, Autism, Immunization, Outbreak, Vaccines, Personal Health, Global Public Health, Vaccine, Vaccinations, Autism Vaccines, Healthy Living News

If measles does make a meaningful comeback, it would imply public health is sliding back as we head into the future. We don't want to go there.

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I Really Want to Know: What Can I Do for Parents Who Are Afraid of Vaccines?

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Measles, Child Vaccines, Vaccinating Kids, Vaccines Causing Autism, Vaccination for Kids, Parents News

What if lots of infants get sick, spreading it through the daycare? What if some die? It is totally possible, in fact, with the way cases are increasing in the U.S., I worry that it's not just possible but probable that we are going to have an outbreak like this.

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5 Old-Time Diseases Still Around Today

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Whooping Cough, Gout, Measles, Old Time Diseases, Scarlet Fever, Bubonic Plague, Healthy Living News

The bubonic plague. Scarlet fever. Polio. Diseases of the past, and no longer on this Earth, right? Wrong. Many old-time diseases are still pr...

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Contagions: Reality More Chilling Than Film Fiction

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Measles, H1N1 Influenza, Virus, Pandemic, Flu Pandemic, Flu, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Cedars Sinai, Contagion, Tuberculosis, Vaccines, Los Angeles News

You don't need to look far to find real examples of pandemics and their huge tolls. But some of the deadliest diseases wouldn't be considered the least bit exotic by Hollywood screenwriters or even average Angelenos.

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Progress That Demands Performance

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Rotavirus, Meningitis, GAVI Alliance, Measles, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, International Vaccine Access Center, GAVI Alliance Vaccines, Impact News

For someone who has worked diligently for over a decade to accelerate access to new life-saving pneumonia vaccines, announcements like this week's make it all seem worth it.

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Vaccine Group Donates $1 Billion To Provide Shots For Needy Children

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Immunization Campaigns, Video, Measles, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Immunization, Meningitis A, Vaccines, Impact News

LONDON -- A global health group says it will donate just over $1 billion to immunize children in 37 countries from life-threatening diseases. The Glo...

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Looking Back on the Vaccine-Autism Controversy

Harold Pollack | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Andrew Wakefield, Thimerosal, Measles, Autism Vaccines, Healthy Living News

I wrote a review article about the vaccine-autism controversy in the current issue of the policy-wonk journal Democracy. (If you don't read Democracy,...

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A Measles Vaccine for Michele Bachmann

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Childhood Immunization, Gop, Education, Measles, Scientific Illiteracy, Presidential Race, Obama, Republican Debate, Vaccines, Elections 2012, Michele Bachmann, Politics News

In our embrace of ignorance we have lost our ability to think critically, to evaluate evidence and weigh it accordingly. Disdain for science and the scientific method is seen clearly enough in the field of candidates on stage with Bachmann.

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A Step in the Right Direction for Children Around the World

Chris Dodd | Posted 08.12.2011

Read More: Measles, Robert Bennett, Vaccination, Vaccine, Chris Dodd, Vaccinations, Children's Health, Vaccines, World News

All Americans, regardless of political affiliation, can agree that no child should ever die of a preventable, treatable illness simply because of where he or she is born. Yet each year, that is precisely what happens to millions of children without access to vaccines.

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U.S. Measles Cases At 15-Year High: What Should You Do?

AP/The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 07.25.2011

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Health officials say 118 cases of measles have been reported in the United States so far this year -- the highest number this early in the year since ...

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The Comeback Killers: Diphtheria, Measles, Whopping Cough, Polio

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Measles, Seth Mnookin, World Health Organization, Panic Virus, Diphtheria, Vaccine, GAVI Alliance, Pertussis, Herd Immunity, Vaccines, Healthy Living News

Diphtheria. Measles. Whooping cough. Polio. If you think these diseases belonged to your parents and grandparents and not to our generation, you may be surprised to hear that they are making a comeback.

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Major Measles Outbreak In Europe, Especially France

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.21.2011

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GENEVA -- Europe, especially France, has been hit by a major outbreak of measles, which the U.N. health agency is blaming on the failure to vaccinate ...

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Measles On The Rise? What You Should Know

Leigh Vinocur, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Measles, Measles US, Measles America, What Are Measles, Measles Cases in America, US Measles Cases, Personal Health, Home News

Measles is a highly contagious serious respiratory infection. The symptoms are fever with a runny nose, watery reddish eyes and a rash of small flat red spots.

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Colorado Doctors Refusing To See Un-Vaccinated Children

KMGH Denver | Jaclyn Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Measles, Doctors Refusing Un-Vaccinated, Doctors, Whooping Cough, Denver News

DENVER -- Some Colorado doctors are refusing to see patients who have not been vaccinated, pointing to recent whooping cough outbreaks in California a...

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WATCH: Traveler With Measles Sparks Scare At Four U.S. Airports

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Measles Airport, Video, Measles, US Airports, Measles Outbreak, Airlines, Air Travelers Measles, Travel News

A traveler with measles has caused concern that workers and thousands of travelers passing through four major U.S. Airports could have been exposed to...

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Travelers Warned Of Measles Exposure

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Public health officials are warning travelers and workers present at four U.S. airports on two recent days that they may have been expos...

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4 Percent of Us Consume 50 Percent of All Health Care

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cambodia, Polio, American Health Care, Measles, Water, Angkor Hospital for Children, Vaccines, American Health Care System, Health Care Debate, Plastic Surgery, Health Care, Impact News

Our humanity, if not our common sense, tells us that something is wrong when 4 percent of the world's population consumes half of the world's health care.

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UPDATE: Ted Turner Donation Reports Incorrect

AP | BASHIR ADIGUN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABUJA, Nigeria — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about Ted Turner pledging $80 million to a United Nations foundation to fight childhoo...

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Risky Today, Gone Tomorrow? Where Do Our Fears Go When the Oil Stops Leaking?

David Ropeik | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Risk Assessment, Measles, Bp, Ixtoc, Risk Perception, News Media, Availability Heuristic, Vaccines, Offshore Oil Drilling, Polio, Oil Spill, Climate Change, Santa Barbara, Smallpox, Antibiotic Resistances, The Perception Gap, Risk, Healthy Living News

Sooner or later, the leak will stop and we'll move on. It makes sense to worry most about what threatens you now, but it's a lousy way to assess the risks we really face.

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Experts Say Autism Bowel Disease May Not Exist

AP | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Autism, Austic Enterocolitis, Autism Bowel Disease, Gastrointestinal Disease, Rubella, Measles, Mumps, Children's Health, Vaccines, Healthy Living News

LONDON — A new autism disease identified in a flawed paper linking a common children's vaccine to autism, may not exist, new research says. A d...

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Is Jenny McCarthy Afraid Of The Truth About Autism?

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.17.2011

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My aunt will never forget that day in 1975, when her 20 month old daughter woke up from a nap, crying petulantly. The child seemed to be having diffic...

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Vaccinations: Still Amazing After All These Years

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whooping Cough, Polio, Mumps, Measles, Chickenpox, Diphtheria, Rotavirus, Tetanus, Bill Gates, Autism, Vaccinations, Los Angeles News

Let's not confuse sound medical practice with making healthy choices on a visit to Whole Foods, especially since the assumption that vaccines aren't pure and natural is inaccurate.

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A Decade Of Questioning Harm And The Autism-Vaccine Connection

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

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For over a decade, I've relentlessly searched for answers to the connections I believe exist between my son's autism and vaccines he received.

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