By Christine Vara Yesterday, a great article written by Kate Rope for Parenting was re-posted on CNN Health. What I appreciated about the article was the simplicity. It was...
By Christine Vara I recall when AIDS was first making headlines 25 years ago. There were so many misconceptions about the disease itself and how it was being spread...
By Christine Vara When I first started contributing to the Shot of Prevention blog, I couldn’t help but feel a bit of frustration. It seemed whenever I read an...
By Christine Vara I know this sounds pretty pathetic, but the sad reality is that some parents delay or avoid vaccinations because they simply don’t want to deal with...
By Christine Vara Cocooning: A transitive verb meaning to protect somebody from unpleasantness or danger. And who wouldn’t want to protect infants from danger? The question is what do...
By Christine Vara Yesterday morning on the Today Show, Matt Lauer interviewed Dr. Wakefield whose study, published in 1998, sparked a catastrophic collision of the scientific world of vaccines...
By Christine Vara Mother’s Day may have come and gone, but a mother’s work is never done. In today’s society, it’s no secret that mothers bear the majority of...
By Alison Singer President, Autism Science Foundation I highly recommend PBS’s “The Vaccine War” which first aired on April 27 on PBS, and which will be replayed several times this week...
By Amy Pisani After following up on the information provided by the CDC and FDA regarding the temporary suspension of the Rotarix vaccine due to contamination with a porcine...
By Amy Pisani The Food & Drug Administration just announced a temporary suspension of Rotarix vaccine (manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline to prevent infantile diarrhea) due to the detection of contamination...