The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new cocktail of vaccines for use on babies and children between two months and five years (JAMA, 19 May 1993). ...
Whooping cough, the dread childhood disease, may not be as dangerous or nasty as we all believe. ...
Whooping cough pertussis is on the increase in the US despite a programme of compulsory vaccination. ...
Two studies on the diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis vaccine found that introducing it too early or with other vaccines can decrease its effectiveness. ...
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 ...
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. ...
In October 2001, the government added a new ‘safer’ vaccine to its booster schedule, with no real safety testing. But new evidence shows that whooping cough is mutating and may not respond.
There’s no doubt that whooping cough is distressing disease, for both child and parent. However, there are many ways to prevent and treat the illness.
There is still some dispute over what elements ought to be included in an acellular vaccine, largely because scientists don’t really understand which components in the pertussis vaccine are required to stimulate an immune response.
The ordinary whole-cell pertussis vaccine is acknowledged to be the deadliest of all the vaccines. The US National Vaccine Compensation Program (which has paid out over $1 billion to vaccine-damaged children)