A worried mother last time was wondering if her four-year-old son's immune system had matured sufficiently for him to have the triple MMR vaccine. In response, another mother relates what happened to her four-year-old when he recently had the...
Whooping cough (pertussis) is becoming an adult disease. More than 12 per cent of American adults are affected yet just 3 per cent were likely to catch the disease before mass vaccination programm ...
We all know that food is supposed to be the best medicine. Researchers in New York have taken this to heart and, after 10 years, have developed a potato that is a vaccine. ...
Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type b) has all but been eliminated in the UK so who or what should take the credit? ...
For the few people in any doubt, the risks of smoking carry on into later life and quitting smoking will help you to live longer no matter when you give up. ...
The second National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine report on vaccines again has concluded that virtually all the vaccines given children have been proven to cause damage.
And so the witchhunt continues. Last month, as we detailed in Second Opinion, the General Medical Council banned Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, the Surrey based doctor whose crime was to successfully ...
The medical establishment has been at pains lately to quell public fears about vaccinations. These fears have largely been aroused by researchers in the US, who have suggested that immunisation may induce diabetes in susceptible individuals (Infect...
MMR: the vaccine that just won’t go away
Consumers may have been misled about the effectiveness of routine immunisation with the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine. ...
