Health Action Magazine - Vaccinations

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My husband, son and I were a happy family until after our son's last set of vaccines (at 19 months of age). He stopped using words, began flapping his hands and walking on...

Provincial health authorities do a disservice to thousands of families when they attribute the number of under-immunized children in BC to parent complacency and...

What winter season would be complete without chilly weather, hot cocoa, and… flu vaccines? Vaccination against the flu (influenza) is perhaps conventional medicine's most...

Vaccination for several variants of the human papillomavirus (HPV) is underway with pharmaceutical giant Merck's new vaccine, Gardasil. The approval of Gardasil has been...

Instead of asking yourself, or someone else, if you should get a flu shot, perhaps a more sensible question is: "Do I want to have the ingredients of a flu vaccine injected...

My son started to talk when he was one year old. I was so excited when he first said "Mama" that I recorded the date in his baby book. He received his first MMR vaccine a few...

What is a pandemic? According to the dictionary, a pandemic is an epidemic occurring over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large...

Much of the success attributed to vaccination programs may actually have been due to improvement in public health related to water quality and sanitation, less crowded living...

Why did it take so many, many decades for medical minds to comprehend the capability of the lowly lime to totally eradicate that dreaded centuries old Scurvy? Such delay...

Vaccination programs have a herd effect. They reduce the chances of infection, even among the untreated. Since they improve communal immunity, there are fewer carriers of...

Despite increases in influenza vaccination rates across the country, the rates for high-risk groups are falling short of national targets, a new study has found. As of...