What Doctors Don't Tell YouMore on the vaccine front. The Department of Health is applying more pressure in its campaign to have immunization start and finish earlier, so that babies are to first get jabbed at two months ...
Finally, in the vaccine debate, the British government has been blatantly caught with its trousers down. ...
Every time the government announces a new health campaign, I play a little game with myself and try to work out what exactly it is that they are trying to hide.
Something odd is happening with measles. First of all, despite the fact that the UK has in place the triple measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and enjoys an extraordinarily high coverage of vacc ...
My niece, aged 10, has been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. It worries me that she will be taking immunosuppressant drugs for six years. I believe she developed the condition after being regularly exposed to antibacterial cleaners as a baby and...
Doctor columnists and government officials in all the major papers in Britain lately have been whipping up vaccine fever, even before the measles epidemic, predicted to hit this autumn, has struck ...
Q:I have a son who is two years old and was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis six months ago. He's been on steroids (prednisolone) for the past six months, along with mesalazine. The specialists ...
Recently, I read that India has just reported the outbreak of a deadly form of encephalitis among adults in Siliguri, West Bengal (BMJ, 2001; 322: 693). Outbreaks of illnesses in India aren't unu ...
Reader's Corner
Q My nine-year-old daughter is just recovering from a bad bout of measles. With this, she had an ear infection and conjunctivitis, and this is clearing up, but her cough seems to be lingering. I’m worried that her weakened immune system may not be...
