1.0 link 73300 <![CDATA[Over Medicated and Over-Vaccinated: The Unintended Consequences of Medicines Meant to Protect]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deirdre-imus/over-medicated-and-overva_b_73300.html Several important findings affecting our children's health were reported in the past few months. All of them raising questions about the unintended consequences of widely accepted medical treatments.

In September news reports about Prevnar, a vaccine developed to protect against pneumonia in children, along with the overuse of antibiotics, was "having the unfortunate effect of promoting new superbugs that cause ear infections" that are resistant to all antibiotic drugs approved for children.

A month later it was announced that once routinely...

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