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The common cold and the flu have been around for a long time. Today, people use preventative measures as well as over-the-counter remedies to stay healthy, but what did our ancestors do before pharmacies and modern medicines were commonplace? One ...

The state of Indiana sent parents of children and teens a letter urging the use of a controversial vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease, and the action has upset more than a few parents. At least 305,000 families may have ...

At least 60 Britons – most of them children — suffered severe brain damage as a result of a government-administered flu vaccine and will receive huge payouts, London’s Sunday Times reported. To make matters worse, as many as 800 children ...

Sadly, there is mass misinformation being spread throughout the mainstream media about the ongoing measles outbreak. Time and time again, doctors and others have appeared on television to say the measles virus was eradicated back in 2000. This, though, is ...

Tacoma, Washington, resident Jamie Smith faces a stark choice: Get a flu shot or lose her foster child. The state of Washington could take Smith’s two-week-old foster son if she and her family do not get the flu vaccine. All ...

Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has acknowledged that a 2004 article often used by the agency to deny a link between the MMR vaccine and autism contained misleading information. Thompson ...

Meredith Prohaska, a 12-year-old girl from Wisconsin, died suddenly in July after going to see the doctor for a sore throat. Her mother described it as a normal day, but with one exception: “The only thing different about that day ...

When I had to decide whether or not to vaccinate my children, I thought about a little boy that I once knew. Timothy was a two-year-old boy with Down syndrome whose vaccination went terribly wrong.  Following a checkup with several ...

Fears surrounding an airborne mutation of the bird flu have grown since a ban on such research was recently lifted. The scientific process can often become both political and controversial – the avian flu testing is no exception. Bird flu ...

by Jessica Whited, R.N. With hospitals mandating the flu shot and government agencies recommending it to be given to children as young as six months old every year for the rest of their lives (1), many would assume it must ...