Parents spare the vaccines and sicken the children

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)

I would like to nominate ABC and all the other anti-vaccine elements who decided to ignore the science and play up that hype: Twelve kids in San Francisco just got measels, nine of them because their parents thought that the vaccines were too dangerous.

Let's see... What are the dangers of NOT vaccinating the kids? Pneumonia, brain swelling, and -- oh what was that other one -- DEATH!! One contributor put it very well. Because vaccines became so widespread during the twentieth century, the parents have never seen measels and don't know how dangerous it is

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One fourth of American teenage girls have at least one STD.

Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)

We've been talking about Gardasil and Cerverix a lot recently. Sure, lots of parents are reluctant to vaccinate their children before they become teenagers, but a nationwide study reveals that 50% of black teenagers and 20% of white teenagers have at least one STD. The specific age ranges are fourteen to nineteen. And what is the most common infection out there? Shocker of shockers, it's HPV

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FDA panel: No cold medicines to children under 6

lihuazhang821003 submitted, created time 1 year 1 month (www.cnn.com)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines don't work for children under age 6, and giving the common medicine to young children cannot be recommended, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee said Friday.
The panel of health experts, which looked at how safe and effective antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants are in children, said it is not appropriate to take data from adults and apply it to children under 12.

After a two-day hearing, the panel called for more studies about how the medicines affect children

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Libya resolves to execute Bulgarian AIDS workers

Hecate submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.nytimes.com)

Today, the Libyan Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor who were accused of deliberately infecting a number of Libyan children with HIV in 1998. They were tried, convicted, and lawfully sentenced to death. However, a 2003 investigation by leading AIDS experts indicates that the children's infections are due to unsanitary hospital conditions and not wrongdoing on the part of the doctor and nurses. The E.U. and U.S. have repeatedly appealed to Libya to free the six accused, but it is no use

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Mothers' Second-hand Smoke Exposure Linked To Psychological Problems For Kids

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Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of women who had no prenatal exposure to smoke, according to a new University of Washington study. The researchers compared patterns psychopathology among three groups of 7- to 15-year-old children, all of whom had significant behavioral and/or emotional problems. One group experienced no prenatal smoke exposure. The second was made up of children whose mothers smoked during the final two trimesters of pregnancy

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Study of Teens Finds Parents Truly a Headache

Luneetty submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.livescience.com)

Parents can be a real pain. In fact, a new study finds teenagers with parents who experience chronic pain rate their own migraine headaches as more disabling than other teens.
While migraine headaches are thought to be inherited, the degree of associated pain varies widely among individuals. The scientists who headed up the new research suggest some of the variability is due to teens modeling their parents’ responses to their own pain.

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