Stand by for a campaign to vaccinate children against measles even earlier, following a major study into the use of vaccines in a developing country. ...
The MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccination programme which is usually given when a child is fifteen months old, has been found ineffective when given under a year. ...
The concern expressed by many parents about the safety of vaccination in the wake of the recent British country-wide mass vaccination campaign against measles and rubella has raised the perennial ...
Evidence showing that the measles vaccine isn't working continues to mount. An epidemic of measles has been reported in Israel, and there has been an outbreak in 31 schools in Canada. ...
I have been trying to figure out how to fight a standard medical procedure, the examination of the genitals of children during routine physical examinations, barring any obvious medical problems. ...
Incidents of meningitis linked to the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine in Japan are far higher than first thought, affecting around one in 1044 vaccinations. The Japanese Ministry of Health w ...
As most of our British readers have no doubt heard, last month the UK Department of Health announced the hasty withdrawal of two brands of the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. ...
Over 30 years of use, the measles vaccine has never adequately protected children. In fact, it has only made measles a more dangerous disease. ...
An important paper published in 1987 shed light on the role of vitamin A supplements in preventing mortality from measles. In the Mvumi Hospital in central Tanzania, 180 children admitted with mea ...
Vitamin A therapy lessens the complications or the chances of dying from severe childhood measles. ... ...