What Doctors Don't Tell YouA worldwide vaccination programme against hepatitis B (HBV) may be streng thening the virus rather than wiping it out. ...
More evidence is accumulating on the link between rubella immunization and the development of arthralgia or arthritis. ...
Vaccination is based on the tried and trusted scientific principle of cause and effect: the vaccine (the cause) offers protection (the effect). It's a straight-line thought, and one that does not admit any confounding complexities, such as the...
The old chestnut about the path to hell being paved by good intentions keeps coming to mind whenever we think about modern medicine. ...
Meningitis is a rare disease of the lining of the brain which very occasionally can be fatal. Despite its rarity, late last summer the British Department of Health (DoH) started a huge campaign a ...
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. ...
