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Pfizer's Lyme vaccine shows efficacy, but misses key statistical hurdle - The Boston Globe
The vaccine could represent a weapon for preventing Lyme, a bacterial infection carried by ticks that is diagnosed and treated in an estimated 476,000 people in the US each year, as well as 132,000 annually in Europe.
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Meningitis cases rise as vaccine queues continue
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The number of confirmed or suspected cases of meningitis in Kent has risen from 29 to 34, the UK Health Security Agency has said.
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Parents are refusing routine preventative care for newborns at rising rates, study finds
One day at an Idaho hospital, half the newborns Dr. Tom Patterson saw didn't get the vitamin K shots that have been given to babies for decades to prevent potentially deadly bleeding.
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It's not just vaccines -- parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns - The Boston Globe
Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other proven, routine, preventive care for babies.
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Alberta to shutter supervised drug consumption sites in Calgary, Lethbridge
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CALGARY -- The Alberta government announced Friday it's shutting down the province's first-ever supervised drug consumption site.
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Midwife-led perinatal care tied to lower childhood vaccination rates
Children whose mothers received most of their perinatal care from midwives were less likely to be fully vaccinated on schedule and more likely to have delayed or refused routine immunizations than those cared for primarily by physicians, according to an observational study published this week in Vaccine.
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Federal Court Shoots Down MAHA Changes to Childhood Vaccine Schedule in Brazen Judicial Overreach
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Pharmaceutical industry front group posing as a society of medical professionals, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and its collaborators recently prevailed in federal court in efforts to thwart the MAHA Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on several key fronts.
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Meningitis victim's father: My healthy daughter died in 12 hours - all teenagers need jabs
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The father of a grammar school pupil who died in the Kent meningitis outbreak has revealed she died within 12 hours of being admitted to hospital.
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Family of teen who died in meningitis outbreak says loss is 'immeasurable'
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The family of an 18-year-old girl who died following a meningitis outbreak in Kent have described their "immeasurable loss" and called for better protections for young people.
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RFK Jr.'s war on scientific expertise destroyed 27% of agency's advisor panels
In his role as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- a long-time anti-vaccine activist with no background in science, medicine, or public health -- has made headlines for his thorough perversion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel.
