By Chelsea Conaboy on July 3, 2018
The Ocean State v. Big Oil: Rhode Island, which has more than 400 miles of coastline, has become the first state in the country to sue oil companies for the cost of protecting itself from rising seas. More than a dozen cities and counties in four other states have filed similar lawsuits that aim to hold…
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By Sarah Bridges on April 7, 2016
Federal health officials have worked overtime to assure the public that vaccines are safe, and barely acknowledge any exceptions.
Federal health officials have worked overtime to assure the public that vaccines are safe, and barely acknowledge any exceptions. But there are exceptions, as our family knows well.
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By Rebecca Kessler on June 27, 2013
Mercury is considered such a dire health threat that delegates from more than 140 nations have drafted a global treaty to minimize mercury emissions. But there’s one form of mercury the treaty won’t touch.
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on November 30, 2011
Chinese vaccine makers are gearing up to boost their exports over the next few years. The move is raising hopes that lower-cost immunizations will become available for the world’s poor — as well as fears that vaccine quality standards will be threatened. As USA Today reports, China captured world attention in 2009 when one of…
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on November 14, 2011
Smallpox was eradicated worldwide by 1978. If a rogue regime ever acquired the virus and tried using it in a bioterrorism attack, Americans would be protected by the nation’s $1 billion stockpile of smallpox vaccine. Even so, according to an investigative report in the Los Angeles Times, the Obama administration over the last year has…
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on October 26, 2011
An influential U.S. advisory panel is urging that boys and young men be vaccinated against HPV, a controversial recommendation that would expand the use of an immunization intended to prevent cancers related to sexual activity. The recommendation by the panel follows five years of efforts by health authorities to encourage girls ages 11 to 26…
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on October 24, 2011
To fend off the flu, many people every autumn head off to the doctor or pharmacy for a vaccination. The trouble is, as the Los Angeles Times reports, influenza is a wily opponent — the strain posing the biggest threat can change every year, foiling the medical profession’s best efforts to design an effective shot….
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on October 19, 2011
In a potential breakthrough in fighting malaria, an experimental vaccine has been shown to safely protect large numbers of children against the disease, one of the world’s most devastating scourges. Early results show, The New York Times reports, that three doses of the vaccine protected 47 percent of 6,000 inoculated children, ages 5 months to…
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on October 18, 2011
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome still takes an estimated 2,300 lives a year, but these tragedies have fallen dramatically since 1992, when the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended that all babies be placed on their backs to sleep. To cut SIDS fatalities further — as well as to combat the rise in sleep-related deaths from other…
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on October 4, 2011
Many parents are veering off the recommended vaccine schedule for their children, often because they are skeptical about the value of the immunizations. An online survey by University of Michigan researchers, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that 13 percent of parents reported taking an alternative path. That included 2 percent who refused all vaccines. More…
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For a More Nuanced Discussion of Vaccine Safety
By Sarah Bridges on April 7, 2016
Federal health officials have worked overtime to assure the public that vaccines are safe, and barely acknowledge any exceptions.
Federal health officials have worked overtime to assure the public that vaccines are safe, and barely acknowledge any exceptions. But there are exceptions, as our family knows well.
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