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12
Oct 2010
Pro-vaccine movement could try opponents’ tactics
Maybe we just need to scare the hell out of people. That was the message from one the country’s leading advocates for childhood immunizations during a talk last week at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting in San Francisco. After all, said Paul Offit, MD, chair of infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, that’s
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
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23
Sep 2010
Avoiding Teenage Pregnancies
Ordering hormonally charged teenagers not to have sex is probably not the most effective strategy for avoiding pregnancy.   Although the national birth rate for girls ages 15 to 19 decreased 2 percent between 2007 and 2008, the United States still has the highest teen pregnancy rate among fully industrialized nations. For parents who wonder how
By: Blog Editorial Team | 0
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16
Sep 2010
Children’s Gun-Related Injuries Linked to Poverty
About 42 percent of U.S. homes have a firearm, reported a recent article. Some may be surprised the number is so high, but I think it’s a rather conservative estimate. And I think the number is increasing in light of recent court rulings such as June’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Chicago’s handgun ban. Also,
By: Victor Garcia, MD | 0
Safety and Prevention
 

08
Sep 2010
Kids should have health insurance NOW
The Affordable Care Act, signed into law in March, is already beginning to protect families from some of the pains of health insurance.  When the new law is fully phased in by 2014, it will help families secure affordable health coverage that can’t be taken away when they become sick or lose their job.  In
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
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23
Aug 2010
Breaking the cycle of child abuse reduces crime
It’s insidious and often unreported, but child abuse is a scourge that haunts its victims today and into the future. It also threatens our very society. Fortunately, there is hope. And last week doctors, policemen, prosecutors and social workers came together at Cincinnati Children’s to take a stand of support for voluntary home visitation programs
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Vaccines
 

10
Aug 2010
Whooping cough epidemic linked to people who refuse vaccines
California’s whooping cough epidemic could be the worst in 50 years. As of late July, the state reported nearly 2,200 cases of the bacterial infection, including seven deaths — all infants younger than two months. And now whooping cough is on the rise in other states, too. Why? Because people aren’t getting vaccinated. It happened
By: Bob Frenck MD | 0
Safety and Prevention
 

16
Jun 2010
Teen pregnancy rates encouraging but still need work
Three out of every 10 girls becomes pregnant by the age of 20, in the United States. Even more sobering, the United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy and births of any industrialized country: birth rates here are 1.5 times higher than the United Kingdom which has the highest rate in Europe; three times
By: Paula Braverman MD | 3
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24
May 2010
Child mortality rates declining
A new study in the Lancet offers good news in showing that death rates in children under 5 are dropping in many countries, according to data from 187 nations from 1970 to 2010.  The study notes that 7.7 million children are expected to die this year around the world. That number is still huge, but
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Safety and Prevention
 

10
May 2010
CDC chief says war on tobacco must continue
Science has managed to document tens of thousands of things that can go wrong with the human body. Some of them cause minor discomfort – think heartburn. Others are more serious, or even deadly. Sometimes we don’t have a clue how to fix it and all we can do is sit back and watch (and
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Safety and Prevention
 

16
Apr 2010
No kind of alcohol is safe
(Blogmeister’s note: This information was first published in the Cincinnati Enquirer on April 11) Alcohol use among adolescents affects all socioeconomic groups, and represents a tremendous financial and social cost. It can affect every organ system in the body. In adolescents, early onset of drinking and alcohol misuse over several years is associated with changes
By: Sarah E. Oerther, MSN, M.Ed, RN, CSPI | 0
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25
Feb 2010
We can end carnage we see in our ERs
The carnage we see in our emergency rooms has to stop, and I am convinced we have the ability to do it. We have been able to transform Haiti’s seemingly intractable epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis and AIDS and to get the indigenous population to take life-saving drugs, even though dominant ideology said it could not
By: Victor Garcia, MD | 0
Vaccines
 

10
Feb 2010
Encouraging news in global vaccine work
Stamping out disease may have seemed like nothing more than a pipe dream a few generations ago, but today we know the power of modern medicine: once common diseases like small pox and polio are now usually only mentioned in medical textbooks and documentaries on the History Channel. And we dare to dream of even
By: Thomas McCormally | 0
Vaccines
 

03
Feb 2010
Lancet officially retracts study linking autism and MMR vaccine
The British medical journal Lancet yesterday announced its decision to officially retract Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 study linking autism and the MMR vaccine. The decision was the result of long standing scientific concerns about the article – more than a dozen studies have proven there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism spectrum disorders –
By: Bob Frenck MD | 0
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30
Oct 2009
Don’t worry ’til it’s time to worry
We’re in troubled times. Parents are frightened and upset. Children are scared. Doctors are seeing record numbers of patients. Stories of H1N1 fill the news every day. And while this flu virus is different, it’s nothing to panic about. Early uncomplicated illness can be managed at home, just like the regular, seasonal flu. Parents should
By: Michael K. Farrell, MD | 0
Vaccines
 

18
Oct 2009
Debating the Science of Vaccines
The H1N1 vaccine is now available to the public, but instead of making plans to get the vaccine, many families are writing it off and encouraging other families to do the same. This, and an increasing trend among young, educated parents to question the safety and necessity of childhood vaccinations, has me worried that parents
By: Bob Frenck MD | 1

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