Simultaneous SIDS (SSIDS) is defined as “the death of twins which meet the defined criteria for sudden infant death syndrome
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Vaccination cards, sometimes called immunization records, are pieces of paper given to patients as a way to track the vaccines
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In the mid-1800s, hospitals were a very dangerous place for a birthing woman. Some may say they still are today.
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It’s hard to believe, but the very first CDC pediatric vaccine schedule was only introduced in 1995. Before the creation
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Our brain and central nervous system are critical for survival, therefore it makes perfect sense that there would be many
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I’m sure you’ve heard all about it. The story goes like this: an unvaccinated 20-year-old young man was hospitalized in
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– Neal Nathanson and Alexander D. Langmuir, The Cutter Incident, 1963. Poliomyelitis may have always been a rare, perhaps accidental,
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From the 1930s to the 1950’s, shoe stores in big cities around the world used the latest technology to properly
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Safe and effective has become a slogan to assuage fears, however, there is ample precedent that drugs once declared “safe
READ MOREIn 2016, the Philippine FDA greenlighted a new vaccine against dengue fever for children based on research funded by the
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In 1775, Swedish and German pharmaceutical chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele created a new green pigment which he named Scheele’s Green.
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The smallpox vaccine is often credited with eradicating smallpox. This is one of vaccination’s biggest claims to fame. But did
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Guest post by Whyser What Is mRNA? mRNA stands for messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid, a nucleic acid present in all
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Anaphylaxis is a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction. It can occur within seconds or minutes of exposure to something you’re
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To me what is interesting about the story of the first vaccine, is that it was created as a safer
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It took nearly 80 years to figure out that the most deadly pandemic in recent human history, the 1918 Spanish
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Back in 1976, Mark Waldvogel was a healthy, athletic high school senior in Kailua, Hawaii. He followed the advice of
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For centuries now, humans have been at war with microbes–despite having an incomplete understanding of the human body, and how
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So with all this hand washing, sanitizing and mask wearing, it serves as a good reminder to remember that our
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Before we are born we are exposed to a constellation of chemicals in our mother’s body. I’m not talking about
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