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Acetaminophen given with vaccines can reduce their efficacy
Booster ShotsGiving acetaminophen -- best known by the brand-name Tylenol -- to infants along with vaccines to prevent fevers from developing reduces the effectiveness of the vaccines, perhaps because a fever is an essential part of the development of an immune...... -
Parents Weigh Vaccination Risks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTammy Reed, the 28-year-old mother of a toddler, is not given to belief in conspiracy theories and is not the type to be rattled by the phrase "pandemic flu." The Menifee, Calif., resident is the kind of mom who gathers a good deal of her medical...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Illnesses, Sherman Oaks, Politics, H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine
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Andrew Wakefield responds to article about journal retraction of autism study report
Booster ShotsDr. Andrew Wakefield has responded in an e-mail message to Tuesday's article citing the medical journal Lancet's retraction of his 1998 article purporting to link autism to the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. The article stated that Wakefield now... -
California schools' risks rise as vaccinations drop
A rising number of California parents are choosing to send their children to kindergarten without routine vaccinations, putting hundreds of elementary schools in the state at risk for outbreaks of childhood diseases eradicated in the U.S. years ago....Tags: Los Angeles Unified School District, Wales, Swiss Confederation, Orange (Orange, California), Television
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Growing Number of Kids in School Without Vaccinations
A growing number of California parents are sending their children to school without inoculations for childhood diseases. The report in the L.A. Times found that vaccine exemptions for kindergartners -- which allow them to enroll without having state-...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Research, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Flu
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Footnotes to a tragedy
Times Staff Writer"Do I have AIDS?" Sixteen-year-old Alexander Ghaffari was eating breakfast, getting ready for school, when he put the question to his mother. It wasn't a charged or dreaded moment. He can't even remember what prompted him to ask. Maybe he'd overheard...Tags: American Red Cross, Indiana, Politics, Medical Services, Elton John
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Letters to the editor
Tar-and-feather time Re “Cogdill pays for being right,” Column, March 30 Reading George Skelton's column about state Sen. Dave Cogdill's ouster as minority leader, my suspicions have finally been verified. Our Republican state legislators...Tags: Santa Clarita (Los Angeles, California), Real Estate Sales, Arkansas, Huntington Beach, Sacramento
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Arthritis In Kids
http://lmt.arthritis.org/ LETS MOVE TOGETHER CAMPAIGN TO STOP ARTHRITIS SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS ARTHRITIS IN KIDS: Juvenile Arthritis At A Glance Arthritis affects approximately one child in every 1,000 in a given year. Juvenile rheumatoid...Tags: Obesity, Pharmaceuticals, Drugs and Medicines, Bones and Joints, Swelling
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