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  • Selling the flu shot

    …t decade reveals a few bright spots. For most age groups, vaccination rates have been gradually ticking up over the past two decades, or at least holding steady. According to the National Health Interview Survey from the year 2000, approximately 17% of adults age 18–49 received a flu shot. That value had increased to 29% for the 2011–2012 season. Although this isn’t exactly a stellar improvement, a more promising picture emerges when lookin…

    Authored by on May 2, 2013

  • Vaccination attitudes are contagious

    …ir vaccination decisions, Brunson found a couple of trends. First, 59% of the people in nonconformers’ “source networks” recommended “something other than complete, on-time vaccination.” But only 20% of the conformers’ source networks suggested anything other the CDC schedule. In other words, regardless of whether they vaccinated their kids partially, fully, delayed, or on time, they were basically choosing wha…

    Authored by on April 24, 2013

  • Vaccine fears: What can you do?

    …st those who promote vaccines for public health are not unknown. The fact that the vast majority of parents overcame those fears and had their children vaccinated has led to some of the greatest public health successes of the 20th century. Thanks to the willingness of people to participate in vaccination programs, smallpox disappeared and polio became a thing of the past in much of the world. Indeed, people in those eras knew, often from personal…

    Authored by on December 4, 2011

  • Pertussis: Get the vax or at least listen to why you should

    …ook away their right to choose whether their children get vaccinated, it actually just ensures they get good medical information before they make that choice. Photo by Dave Gostisha at sxc.hu. The bill-now-law, AB 2109, proposed by a pediatrician, requires parents to get a statement signed by a health care practitioner that the parents/guardians have received accurate, evidence-based information about the risks and benefits of vaccine…

    Authored by on October 10, 2012

  • Parent HPV vaccine concerns persist

    …90 percent of all genital warts, and HPV-16 and 18, which are responsible for about 70 percent of all cervical cancers. The CDC recommends that girls be routinely given the HPV vaccine at 11 and 12 years old. Those aged 13 to 26 who haven’t gotten the vaccine yet should also get it, though it will only protect them against any strains of HPV they have not already contracted. (HPV is incredibly common – about 6.2 million people contract it e…

    Authored by on April 18, 2013

  • The fear factor in vaccination decisions

    How does fear influence vaccination decisions? by Tara Haelle         Part one on the impact of social networks on parents’ vaccination decisions explored how the way people moralize vaccination might play a part in how receptive they are to data about vaccines. But moral undertones only partly explain the phenomenon seen with Twitter and in Emily Brunson’s study, however. There is also the fear factor. “We are hard-wired for fear,&#…

    Authored by on April 25, 2013

  • Why don’t more girls get the HPV vaccine??

    like most cancers, cervical cancer is caused by a sexually transmitted virus, Human Papillomavirus, also known as HPV. The virus can cause abnormal cell growth in the cervix, which can turn cancerous. The vaccine, approved in 2006, works against many common strains of HPV. The vaccine is recommended for girls ages 11-12, and also provided to women up through their early twenties.  The goal is to protect girls long before they are ever sexually ac…

    Authored by on March 24, 2012

  • Of pacifiers and breastfeeding

    …hospital instituted a new policy that corresponds to one of the ten steps to becoming a Baby Friendly hospital. Baby Friendly hospitals receive this designation for their pro-breastfeeding practices and policies. In December 2010, the hospital stopped routinely distributing pacifiers. They were not restricted completely – parents could bring them from home – but they were not passed out by hospital staff. At the same time, formula was discourage…

    Authored by on June 3, 2013

  • Parenting paranoia comes in different forms

    …udies reporting no link between vaccines and autism, but let’s face it: Science is slow, and news is fast. In the interval, scary information takes root. The Lancet retracted the article 12 years after its publication, and in 2011, British investigative journalist Brian Deer demonstrated that Wakefield actively falsified data. Still, to this day, vaccination rates have not fully recovered, and many parents remain misinformed and concerned about v…

    Authored by on May 19, 2013

  • 10 ways healthcare reform might help people with disabilities

    …ariety of names, including the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), and Obamacare. All of the terms refer to the same federal statute that President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010. Slideshow: 10 Ways Healthcare Reform Might Help People with Disabilities Click first slide to view….

    Authored by on May 16, 2013

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