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Why Trump, Paul Are Wrong — ‘No Alternative Vaccine Schedule’

September 17, 2015 Lisa Aliferis 451 Comments

The vaccine schedule is well-tested, experts say, and new vaccines are not added randomly.

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Community Health

New Ebola Vaccine Has ‘100 Percent’ Effectiveness In Early Results

July 31, 2015 Lisa Aliferis

The trial of the VSV-EBOV vaccine was called Ebola ça Suffit — French for “Ebola that’s enough.”

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Community Health, Tests & Treatments

After Measles Outbreaks, Parents Shift Their Thinking On Vaccines

July 6, 2015 Lisa Aliferis

The widely publicized measles outbreak linked to Disneyland appears to have made parents more confident about vaccine safety and benefits, a national poll finds.

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Policy, Tests & Treatments

Not Over Yet: Tim Donnelly Files for Referendum to Overturn California’s New Vaccine Law

July 2, 2015 Jon Brooks 3 Comments

Backers of the repeal have 90 days from law’s enactment to gather 365,880 signatures.

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Community Health, Policy

California Ends Personal Belief Exemption for Vaccines

June 29, 2015 Jon Brooks 41 Comments

Gov. Jerry Brown says in signing statement: ‘The science is clear.’

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Community Health, Policy, Tests & Treatments

Vaccine Bill: Kids With Existing Personal Belief Exemptions Could Stay in School — For a Time

June 25, 2015 Jon Brooks 4 Comments

Those with personal belief exemptions already on file would be grandfathered in until certain ‘checkpoints.’

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Community Health, Policy, Tests & Treatments

California Assembly Votes to End Personal Belief Exemption for Vaccines

June 25, 2015 Jon Brooks 2 Comments

The bill would end the exemption for schoolchildren.

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Community Health, Policy

Boy Leukemia Patient Weighs in as Big Vaccine Exemption Vote Nears

June 23, 2015 Jon Brooks 99 Comments

Rhett Krawitt couldn’t get vaccinated during measles scare, became poster child for mandatory vaccines.

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Bill That Would End Vaccine ‘Personal Belief Exemption’ Advances

June 9, 2015 Lisa Aliferis 8 Comments

Testimony included a statement from a Stanford doctor treating a boy terminally ill with a rare measles complication.

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Policy

Vaccine Court Aims To Protect Patients And Vaccines

June 2, 2015 State of Health

It has been nearly 30 years since Congress established a special court to help keep good vaccines on the market and fairly compensate the rare person who has a severe reaction.

Vaccines
Tests & Treatments

Training Doctors to Talk about Vaccines Fails to Sway Parents

May 31, 2015 Lisa Aliferis 6 Comments

But researchers say this attempt was just a first try at a worthy concept.

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Community Health, Tests & Treatments

Next Up for Vaccines: Required for California’s Child Care Workers?

May 18, 2015 State of Health 1 Comment

California bill would require that child care workers are vaccinated against measles, pertussis and flu.

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Community Health, Policy

California Senate Approves Bill That Would End Vaccine Opt-Out

May 14, 2015 Lisa Aliferis 3 Comments

The bill would require virtually all California schoolchildren to be vaccinated against 10 diseases.

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Community Health

Study: Measles – the Disease – Can Suppress Immunity Up to 3 Years; Highlights Even Greater Benefits of Vaccine

May 12, 2015 State of Health 2 Comments

When the U.S. introduced the measles vaccine, childhood deaths from all infections plummeted. Scientists think they know why.

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