Dr. LaMar Habrouck, Illinois State Health Director, has taken to getting his message about vaccination safety by using the media to educate parents on the American Academy of Pediatric’s vaccination schedule. Habrouck spoke to WBBM Radio on Friday, saying that the rise in whooping cough (pertussis) cases in Illinois is largely due to misconceptions and ... read more »

Colombian sex symbol and pop singer Shakira, who is 9 months pregnant with her first child, hosted an online baby shower on Jan. 15, asking fans to donate their gifts to UNICEF. Shakira, who has been given an honorary title by UNICEF of Goodwill Ambassador, posted an invitation on You Tube and Twitter, asking fans to ... read more »

With about 5,389 cases of whooping cough in Australia reported in 2012, the country is seeing epidemic amounts of whooping cough (otherwise known as pertussis) cases, according to Ramon Pink, Canterbury District Health Board Medical Officer on Wednesday. According to Stuff.co.nz, the spread of the disease has involved 52 children under the age of one in Australia ... read more »

The Associated Press has found that parents who send their children to private schools in California are more than twice as likely to opt out of recommended vaccinations than those whose children go to public school. This percentage increased by 10% last year despite the increase in whooping cough cases, which is at its highest ... read more »

A new study just released by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center shows that children receiving their second combined dose of the measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine (MMRV) did not increase their risk of experiencing a febrile seizure. The study was initiated because the first round of MMRV, typically administered to children between 1 ... read more »

Current studies are showing that 10% of parents in the United States do their own thing when it comes to following the Centers of Disease Control vaccination schedule recommendation. The study also shows that parents who adhere to the CDC’s vaccination schedule are leaning towards altering that schedule on their own or can be easily ... read more »

Yesterday, the U.S. Center of Disease and Control (CDC) announced new vaccine recommendations for pregnant women. Ever since whooping cough (also known as pertussis) has made a comeback, inflicting nearly 13,000 people a year in recent years, studies have been conducted to try to figure out where the breakdown of immunity has occurred. In 2008, ... read more »

MANILA (BNO NEWS) — The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said it is stepping up its efforts to ensure that more people in the Western Pacific Region, especially children, are protected from disease by immunization. While there has been significant progress in improving immunization rates in the Western Pacific, the WHO said, much remains ... read more »

In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine anybody, let alone a tiny little infant, dying from a disease that has recently been considered eradicated. California is leading in pertussis deaths, however, many states throughout the country are experiencing a significant and alarming increase in both diagnosis and deaths caused by whooping cough. 10 ... read more »

The Supreme Court is currently trying to decide whether or not pharmaceutical companies should be held accountable thus allowing individuals to sue them if a child has adverse reactions. As it stands right now, pharmaceutical companies are shielded from liability in order to protect society from massive, deadly outbreaks in lieu of the minute percentage ... read more »

Hey, remember the panic about how all our kids were going to die because they were going to become infected with the swine flu (less sexily called the H1n1 influenza virus)? Well it turns out that those fears may have been a teensy bit escalated, and swine flu may not cause any worse symptoms than ... read more »

This is dedicated to all the parents that think vaccinations are nothing more than a government conspiracy theory to line the pockets of big corporations… On Jan. 25, the 7-year-old’s parents took the youngster to the Children’s Clinic of La Jolla. The child may have coughed and sneezed in the office, thus infecting four other ... read more »

While I don’t believe parents should be forced to vaccinate their children, there has to be some sort of incentive for parents who are vaccinating their children. It is entirely unfair that parents RELY on other parents to do the right thing and create a barrier of protection for their own children. I support giving ... read more »

Thimerosal doesn’t cause brain damage, so unqualified voices against thimersal really need to find another bandwagon to hop on and stop making unscienfic and false conclusions based on false pretenses and incompetent theories. Just stop it already. Simplying believing that it causes brain damage doesn’t make it so: In the most recent study funded by ... read more »