A child dies from the flu in Maine
Yesterday, I wrote about the CDC reports regarding pediatric deaths from the flu. Those were just numbers, but there are real kids and real parents of those kids who constitute those numbers. The Maine...
View ArticleThe 2012-13 flu season getting deadlier
The CDC is reporting that influenza activity continues to increase in the United States and most of the country is now observing high levels of influenza-like-illness (ILI). ILI reports are approaching...
View ArticleTamiflu-does it work
According to the CDC, this year’s flu season is pretty serious in the USA. Current data, shows that about 4.6% of patient visits to health care providers are for influenza like illnesses (ILI). Thirty...
View ArticleEarly 2013 estimates of flu vaccine effectiveness–an analysis
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an interim report on the effectiveness of this season’s flu vaccine in the United States. Because these reports will be cherry...
View ArticlePandemic flu vaccine and narcolepsy–an analysis
Today, the British Medical Journal published a retrospective study, by Elizabeth Miller, that analyzes the risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents in England who received the 2009 A/H1N1...
View ArticleSlight risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome after H1N1 flu vaccination
The H1N1 influenza pandemic of 2009 was the second pandemic in recent history that resulted from the H1N1 influenza virus, also known as the swine flu. The first one, known as the 1918 flu pandemic,...
View ArticleFlu vaccinations and work
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View ArticleCDC: 90 percent of children who died from flu not vaccinated
The 2012-2013 flu season is beginning to wind down from a moderately severe season. Sadly, according to the CDC, 105 children died this season from the flu. And a preliminary review of the data by the...
View ArticleNo link between vaccines and Guillain-Barré Syndrome
One of the arguments made by vaccine denialists is that vaccines cause significant increases in nervous disorders, and they point to the vaccine’s Package Insert (PI) as “proof”. Setting aside the...
View ArticleFlu during pregnancy is associated with bipolar disorder in children
A recent article published in a leading psychiatry journal, JAMA Psychiatry, has shown that pregnant mothers’ exposure to the influenza (flu) was associated with a nearly 4X increase in risk to their...
View ArticleMandatory flu vaccinations cause healthcare workers to quit–a myth
One of the many myths of the vaccine denialism movement is that healthcare workers will quit if there is a mandatory vaccination, usually the flu. Many of the healthcare worker vaccine deniers base...
View ArticleDumb Asses who don’t get the flu vaccine
It’s September, and flu vaccines are being delivered to hospitals, physician’s office, health clinics, and government health departments. It’s time for intelligent, reasonable, and rational people to...
View ArticleBoosting the immune system–sorting science from myth
One of the most ubiquitous pseudoscientific claims that I keep hearing from the junk medicine crowd is that this supplement or that food “boosts” the immune system. These type of claims ignore one...
View ArticleSupplements to treat the common cold–myth vs science
It’s getting colder outside, and if you go into any pharmacy, grocery store, chemist, or superstore, you will find literally a dozen or more homeopathic, herbal, or other unproven lotions and potions...
View ArticleWhy we vaccinate–the dangers of the flu
Madison “Madi” Allen was your typical active and healthy 12 year old girl in St. Louis, Missouri. She was in the 7th grade, playing basketball and soccer. Unfortunately, according to her family’s...
View ArticleWhy we vaccinate-flu vaccine reduces cardiovascular risks
In addition to preventing the infection, the flu vaccination may have a more important benefit for those who get the shot. A new systematic review, published this week in the Journal of the American...
View ArticleWhy we vaccinate for the flu–to save children’s lives
Seasonal flu is associated with an estimated 54,000 to 430,000 hospitalizations and approximately 3,000 to 49,000 deaths annually in the USA. It has been reported that influenza infection rates in the...
View ArticleWhy we vaccinate–debunking flu vaccine myths in 25 easy steps
The seasonal flu is associated with an estimated 54,000 to 430,000 hospitalizations and approximately 3,000 to 49,000 deaths annually in the USA. So anyone who thinks that the flu isn’t a serious...
View ArticleHow vaccine deniers abuse the appeal to authority
Science is built upon the scientific method, which is a logical process of observation, experiment, analysis, and publication. It is simple, but it requires work. Over time, after numerous experiments,...
View ArticleSave children from risks–vaccinate and keep them away from guns
Vaccine deniers are basically clueless about science. They invent stuff about the immune system, while missing how a vaccine induces a long-lasting immune response. They conflate correlation with...
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