Parents mount backlash to vaccine increases - thestar.com

By Andrea Gordon Living Reporter

Like most parents today, Nadine Silverthorne doesn’t chew over major child-rearing decisions without a heaping side dish of angst. And whether or not to vaccinate her two children is one of her biggest.

The Toronto mother has combed websites, blogged about childhood immunization and canvassed friends and family. She has polled her followers on Twitter and quizzed her doctor and homeopath. She remains torn.

Vaccines: Veterinarians Are Better Than Human Doctors

Veterinarians and pediatricians have a great deal in common. Both are highly qualified medical professionals with similar years of education. Both often struggle to determine what is wrong with their patients since pets, like little people, cannot communicate what hurts. Their jobs are not easy, but the premise of their work is simple: Support the health of those in their care and abide by the oath: "First, do no harm."

The Autism Debate: Who's Afraid of Jenny McCarthy?

By Karl Taro Greenfeld

In person, surprisingly, Jenny McCarthy comes across as corn-fed cute rather than overwhelmingly beautiful. She has a common touch, and a woman even slightly more beautiful would struggle to connect as she does. When McCarthy meets a mom, when she spits forth a stream of profanity and common sense — the foulmouthed comedian from Chicago never far from the surface — she is there as a mother, not as a celebrity or starlet. That's what got her there, but that's not who she is once she's there. She speaks to so many frustrated, despairing mothers of autistic children because she is plausible, authentic. If you needed a woman to bring hope to these mothers, you couldn't ask for better casting than Jenny McCarthy.

"Vaccine Conspiracy": The First Casualty of War is Truth

You must have heard saying: "The first casualty of war is truth. The second casualty are the innocent."

Does this apply to the "war on diseases"?

Vaccines are the weapon of choice in the war on many diseases.  The unanswered questions are:


What happens with the truth?  What happens with the innocent?

CDC National Immunization Program Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule

One visit, lots of protection: Your child can safely receive all vaccines recommended for a particular age during one visit. Talk with your child's physician or healthcare professional about use of combination vaccines to reduce the number of injections needed.