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Apr 19, 2018
Most of what people read about the human papillomavirus concerns how it can cause cervical cancer. And no wonder. The American Cancer Society reports that U.S. doctors will diagnose about 13,200 new cases of invasive cervical cancer in 2018, and more than 4,000 women will die of the disease. Most future cases of cervical cancer could be prevented with the HPV vaccine. Yet less than half of teenagers in the nation are up to date on HPV immunization and Texas HPV vaccination rates lag behind the rest of the nation.
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Apr 11, 2018
Think about it. Do politicians make strange claims that kidney dialysis doesn’t save lives, counter to all medical evidence? Does anyone try to get dedicated, hard-working legislators booted from their jobs because they encourage the use of insulin for people whose doctors recommend it for Type 1 diabetes?
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Apr 3, 2018
Our readers tend to be very knowledgeable about vaccination. But exactly how expert are you on the subject? This is National Public Health Week, with today particularly devoted to the fight against communicable diseases. In honor of the day, we’ve come up with this quiz for you to test your vaccine knowledge. Answers below; don’t peek!
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Mar 29, 2018
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were a single, effective flu shot that worked for all strains? One that we might get once and never need again? Scientists are at work on that right now, and they think they might have found a pathway to making it work.
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Mar 22, 2018
Serese Marotta would like to have a little talk with whoever coined the term “colds and flu.” “You hear it all the time in the media and in casual conversation,” she said.
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Mar 15, 2018
Meningococcal disease is a rare disease, but one with swift and terrible consequences. In a very short time, those stricken can end up in the hospital with this life-threatening illness, at risk of deafness, the need for limb amputation and even of dying.
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Mar 9, 2018
The latest flu map from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows clear signs that the nation is beginning to put the peak of flu season behind it. Just a couple of weeks ago, the map was almost completely colored in red, the sign of the highest level of flu activity. Now, well over half of the states have at least somewhat lesser levels of flu.
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Mar 6, 2018
The first-ever International HPV Awareness Day may be over, but new public and parental knowledge about the virus that causes several types of cancer is just taking off as a result.
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Mar 1, 2018
Sunday is International HPV Awareness Day, so this is a good time for open and frank discussion of the vaccine against human papillomavirus. HPV is responsible for most of the cervical cancers in this country and worldwide. It’s not just a women’s concern, though. The virus also can cause cancers of the throat, penis and anus in men. Every 20 minutes, someone in the United States is diagnosed with a cancer related to HPV, according to the University of New Mexico’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Feb 20, 2018
This year’s flu season is turning out to be as bad as health experts had feared, in large part because of the H3N2 strain, which is particularly virulent and also remarkably quick to mutate. According to Dr. Shruti Gohil, associate medical director of epidemiology and infection protection for UC Irvine Health, the virus can mutate even while the vaccine is still being incubated in eggs.
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Feb 14, 2018
Ah, February. Time to celebrate Valentine’s Day and matters of the heart. We mean that literally; appropriate to the holiday of love, this is American Heart Month.
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Feb 9, 2018
One of the more common reasons people have been giving in recent weeks for not getting their flu shot is that flu season has probably peaked. The flu vaccine takes two weeks to provide full protection.
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Feb 7, 2018
New recommendations for the nation’s immunization schedules, released this week, include a third dose of vaccination against mumps for both children and adults who might be at risk of catching the disease.
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Feb 5, 2018
A few weeks ago, Texas was one of a handful of states with high levels of flu activity. Now, the newest map from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows most of the country marked in red, the highest level of flu activity.
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Feb 1, 2018
Carol Roach is used to hearing all the arguments against vaccines. She’s been hearing them from her own mother since she was a little girl. What she finds hard to believe is that, despite decades of proof otherwise, the same arguments keep surfacing.
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Jan 25, 2018
During this difficult start to the flu season, with emergency rooms overwhelmed by new cases, it is dismaying to see so much public misunderstanding of the flu shot. Even with what appear to be lower-than-usual effectiveness levels, the vaccine still has the potential to prevent millions of cases. Importantly, in a year when the problematic H3N2 strain appears to be prevalent, getting the flu shot also can mean having a milder case of the disease.
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Jan 24, 2018
January is Cervical Health Awareness Month, a month that has brought more promising news about cervical cancer over the years. Studies have found the vaccine against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus to be highly effective in combating the virus, which could mean drastically reducing the numbers of cases of related cancers.
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Jan 4, 2018
The state of Washington has dramatically decreased the number of parents who aren’t vaccinating their children while still allowing them the option of non-medical exemptions.
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Dec 21, 2017
It’s still the early part of flu season, and already this potentially serious illness is having a real impact on Texas. Figures reported this month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Texas as having among the highest rates of flu in the nation. Only two states – Louisiana and Mississippi – were worse off. The state has already suffered its first pediatric flu death.
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Dec 18, 2017
Nothing says the holidays like gifts that celebrate good health through vaccination. Whether you’re wrapping presents for your favorite vaccine advocates, or those loved ones you want to send a gentle nudge to, you have a choice of items both serious and amusing:
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Dec 14, 2017
Riki Graves came to vaccine heroism via an extraordinary, life-challenging experience for both her and her daughter. It’s a story so touching that even vaccine-doubting legislators feel compelled to sit and listen to her, about her healthy, happy toddler whose life could be threatened by vaccine-preventable disease and who can be protected only if almost all the people around her have received their immunizations.
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Dec 5, 2017
Word first began coming two months ago, saying that we might be in for a tough flu season. Now, during National Influenza Vaccination Week, December 3-9, 2017, doctors and health authorities are seeing no reason to change that forecast.
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Nov 27, 2017
Unlike many other people who become everyday vaccine heroes, Jinny Suh hasn’t had close experience with a loved one who was sickened by a vaccine-preventable disease or someone who is especially vulnerable to outbreaks of disease. She was a lawyer and South Austin mom with one – now two – healthy little boys, whom she kept healthy by making sure they had all of their recommended vaccines.
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Nov 23, 2017
The nation has gone through tragic events this year, with multiple catastrophic storms and flooding, and mass shootings in places such as Las Vegas. Texas has borne more than its share of rough times, between the terrible losses from Hurricane Harvey and the horror of a mass shooting just this month in Sutherland Springs that took the lives of more than 25 churchgoers. At times, it can be hard to feel thankful, right?
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Nov 16, 2017
The brand-new book “The Vaccination Picture” isn’t by any means the first publication to make the many compelling arguments in favor of protecting ourselves, our children and our communities from vaccine-preventable diseases. But it might be one of the most unusual and clear books on the subject, and it’s definitely the most colorful.
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Nov 9, 2017
Well done, Texas! A new report by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention shows the state near the very top nationwide when it comes to protecting young children with some key vaccinations.
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Nov 2, 2017
Far too few older adults have been vaccinated against shingles. According to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, by 2014, less than 28% of people 60 and older had received a shot against this painful and sometimes debilitating disease.
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Oct 26, 2017
Every year is the right year for getting a flu shot, but this fall, there are a couple of extra reasons to place the annual vaccination high on your list of to-dos.
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Oct 19, 2017
The lesser-known benefit of vaccines: For many of them, even if the vaccinated person gets the disease, it’s a much milder case. When it comes to potentially debilitating diseases like shingles, that can mean a lot.
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Oct 10, 2017
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists several studies that found the flu vaccine was safe for pregnant women and their babies. Among those is a 2013 study showing no increased risk of miscarriage for pregnant women who got the flu shot. Yet neither that study nor the others made any big headlines.
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Oct 5, 2017
The news is unsurprising, but nonetheless disturbing: Research published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) indicates that the increase in measles cases in the United States, and outbreaks in recent years, are mostly caused by declining rates of vaccination.
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Sep 28, 2017
The facts are all on the side of vaccines. The science has been done many times over, and it clearly shows that vaccines save millions of lives every year. They do not cause autism. Any side effects are uncommon and almost always minor. Why, then, does it seem so hard to persuade people who are hesitant or skeptical about immunization?
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Sep 21, 2017
Who would have guessed that vaccines might play a key role – several key roles -- in reducing our reliance on antibiotics?
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Sep 14, 2017
The number of Texas parents who file non-medical exemptions to avoid vaccinating their school-age children continues to inch upward disturbingly, the latest figures from the state show.
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Sep 12, 2017
There are so many things to be concerned about when it comes to natural disasters like Tropical Storm Harvey. So many ways to prepare, and to recover.
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Sep 7, 2017
Compared with most of the country, Texans are lagging behind at protecting their teens against several types of cancer, according to the latest report from the CDC. Nationwide, about 60 percent of teens had received at least one dose of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, up by about four percentage points, with an encouraging increase among boys as well as girls.
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Aug 30, 2017
Dr. Peter J. Hotez is known as a prescient voice on the issue of tropical diseases, after he predicted the arrival of Zika virus well before it wrought so much havoc last year.
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Aug 24, 2017
For this last week of National Immunization Awareness Month, when the theme is all about potentially lifesaving vaccinations for pre-teens and teens, we’re letting the creative and caring people on YouTube tell the story of HPV-related cancer and the suffering that could be prevented if vaccination rates were to increase.
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Aug 17, 2017
At some point in their lifetime, one in three Americans will get shingles, a very painful reactivation of the chickenpox virus. It generally lasts for at least a month, and can even develop into a longer-term condition called post-herpetic neuralgia, in which the sensation of burning and aching, as well as sensitivity to touch, can continue for years.
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Aug 10, 2017
Hurray for pregnant women and their doctors! At a time when much of the immunization news seems to be about people rejecting vaccines—and outbreaks caused by low vaccination rates—expectant mothers are trending in the opposite direction and thinking smart about protecting their babies.
Research has shown that newborn babies receive protection from whooping cough if their mothers get the Tdap booster vaccine during pregnancy, according to the CDC.
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Aug 3, 2017
As bad as the Minnesota measles outbreak has been, it is dwarfed by the tragic situation in Europe. A July report by the World Health Organization points out that 3,300 Italians have caught measles over the past 12 months, and one 6-year-old boy died.Another child died in Germany, one in Portugal. And in Romania, where the medical system is not as sophisticated as in the other three countries, 31 children died of measles.
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Aug 1, 2017
The academic year hasn’t even started and already several students at the University of Texas at Austin have been stricken with the mumps. Those are just the most recent cases; this year, there have been outbreaks at various public schools throughout the state.
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Jul 27, 2017
Scientists already know a great deal about the remarkable ways in which vaccines save lives and prevent suffering. But even they can sometimes be surprised by the benefits of immunization.
Take the measles vaccine, for example. (We wish more people would, to prevent the kinds of outbreaks that sent dozens of children in Minneapolis to the hospital recently.) According to a 2013 article in New Scientist, the added benefits of the vaccine can be mighty.
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Jul 20, 2017
Texas has been in the spotlight lately on the topic of vaccines, portrayed as the anti-vaccine hotspot of the nation.
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Jul 13, 2017
Congratulations on the new high school graduate! Now that you’ve gotten through the tizzy of proms and robes and ceremonies, your summer will probably be full of shopping errands to get your graduate ready to head to college. Extra-long bed sheets, laundry supplies that you hope your teen will use regularly, a few decorative items to brighten up that sterile-looking dorm room.
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Jul 6, 2017
Here at TIP, we were thinking about honor and statues recently because a friend traveling in Switzerland posted a wonderful photo of a statue honoring a different kind of hero: Edward Jenner, who developed the smallpox vaccine. It stands in front of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.
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Jun 29, 2017
We at The Immunization Partnership advocated for several pieces of helpful vaccine-related legislation this year. One bill would have enabled parents to see the vaccine-exemption rates at their local schools so that they could make informed decisions about which schools were likely to be the safest and healthiest for their children.
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Jun 22, 2017
Nick Springer was only 14 and off to what was supposed to be a wonderful summer at camp. But according to an article earlier this month, the Colorado boy was suddenly stricken ill.
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Jun 15, 2017
Not all visitors to The Immunization Project’s website are deeply engaged in the medical and policy aspects of vaccines. Perhaps you’re a parent wondering about the safety of vaccines. Maybe you’re, like us, a true believer in vaccines as one of the safest, most life-saving medical advances in history, but you have friends or relatives who aren’t vaccinating, and you’re not sure how to respond to their concerns.
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Jun 8, 2017
What does a measles outbreak in Minnesota have to do with the health of Texas? Quite a lot, actually. It was a Texan—disgraced one-time researcher Andrew Wakefield, stripped of his medical license because of his false and fraudulently produced claim that the measles vaccine is linked to autism—who visited Minnesota to persuade parents in the Somali community that they could prevent autism in their children by foregoing the vaccine.
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Jun 1, 2017
Among the many anti-vaccine myths dutifully presented by fervent immunization opponents is the argument “Too Many, Too Soon.” It is often raised after all the other straw men about mercury, aluminum, autism, etc. have been knocked down. It is what I like to call the “But still” argument.
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May 25, 2017
Like other states, Texas has an immunization registry, a database of who’s been vaccinated against which diseases. And both public health and individuals benefit from it.
The more complete the registry is, the better job the state can do when it comes to figuring out which areas have particularly low immunization rates, allowing them to make cost-effective decisions about where to make vaccinations more available. In the case of disease outbreaks, it helps experts figure out whether the underlying problem is a low vaccination rate. It also helps residents by keeping a safe, permanent record of their vaccinations.
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May 18, 2017
Anti-vaccine sentiment is often fed by conspiracy theories, the main one being that the government is deliberately covering up the risks of vaccination. A corollary of that theory goes like this: You can tell the government is doing this because it has a secret vaccine court that quietly hands out millions of dollars in hush money to the many people whose vaccines caused autism.
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May 11, 2017
In case anyone had doubts, this is what happens when the likes of disgraced researcher Andrew Wakefield interferes in a vulnerable community, lying to parents about the MMR vaccine: An outbreak of measles threatens children’s health and even their lives.
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May 4, 2017
Why isn’t there a gold-standard study proving once and for all that the current immunization schedule is the very best one possible? Of course, there is no evidence that spacing out vaccinations is safe or effective, while there is evidence that the current schedule is both, but where’s the incontrovertible truth about the ideal schedule?
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Apr 26, 2017
It’s hard to believe that mere decades ago, some studies purportedly “showed” that ice cream caused polio. One doctor concluded that it must be the sugar. There was even an anti-polio diet that called for withholding the frozen treat from children, along with sodas.
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Apr 17, 2017
Amy Aiken walks confidently into the offices of Texas legislators on her two prosthetic legs. She is missing her fingers and her legs are amputated below the knee as a result of her battle with meningitis. I met Amy on Immunization Legislative Day in March, where she passionately shares her story with lawmakers and their aides, because if anyone can vividly and courageously represent the importance of vaccination and the value of protective immunization laws, Amy can.
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Apr 13, 2017
Parents want the best for their children, which is why they seek out information to make educated choices about their sons’ and daughters’ health. When it comes to vaccines, they want to be able to weigh what their pediatrician tells them against the frightening tales they might find on the Internet that make debunked claims about autism or mercury in relation to immunization.
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Apr 6, 2017
The word “conscience” might seem a little old-fashioned to people these days. Wasn’t that Jiminy Cricket’s job as Pinocchio’s pal? But in fact, conscience remains an important concept in all our doings—including in decisions about whether or not to vaccinate.
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Mar 30, 2017
It’s natural and right for Texans to want an efficient and effective state government. After all, resources are limited and no one loves to pay more taxes. Getting more bang for our public buck is simply good policy.
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Mar 16, 2017
In a way, healthcare costs are a little like the weather. Everybody talks about them, but how much do we do about them?
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Mar 9, 2017
It’s natural for parents to want to ensure that their children are getting food and medications that are healthy and wholesome, free of dangerous contaminants.
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Mar 2, 2017
Those annual state test scores. Graduation rates. The daily lunch menu. Texas parents have the right to all kinds of information about their children’s schools. Yet somehow the public transparency ends when it comes to their children’s health. No one gives them any information about how many of the students at their school are vaccinated. There’s nowhere to go look it up.
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Feb 23, 2017
As it does each year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its new guidelines for what types of vaccines are needed, how often and at what point in life. The sets of guidelines, for adults and for children, are based on the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (or ACIP), which three times a year examines the latest research on vaccinations.
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Feb 16, 2017
The debate about vaccine laws usually revolves around rules that require children to be vaccinated before entering school. But in fact, there are many other kinds of vaccine laws that help protect and educate communities, without requiring anyone to get a shot.
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Feb 9, 2017
Of all the routine childhood vaccinations, the MMR vaccine--against measles, mumps and rubella--has been subject to the most attack after a discredited paper was published and later retracted.
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Feb 2, 2017
Medical science has made tremendous strides against cancer. There are more effective treatments, often with fewer side effects. Advances have been made in screening for earlier cancer detection. But let’s not forget about a third method of fighting cancer—by preventing it in the first place.
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Jan 26, 2017
Just a few months ago, the Americas were declared free of endemic measles, meaning that the only outbreaks of measles seen in this hemisphere today have been caused by individuals infected with the virus elsewere and visiting or returning to the Americas and spreading it here. It's no longer a locally transmitted disease.
And that's huge.
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Jan 19, 2017
Why so many mumps outbreaks around the country? A recent outbreak in North Texas has involved more than 100 confirmed and suspected cases in Johnson County and surrounding counties, largely in school-aged kids. Students who have not been fully vaccinated are being told to stay home until they’re either up on their vaccinations or the illness is no longer present in the schools.
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Jan 11, 2017
Sure, we should all eat healthier and get more exercise. But there’s another New Year’s health goal, just as important and much easier to achieve.
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Jan 5, 2017
Health experts are worried about Texas, and for good reason. There are growing signs that the state might become the epicenter of a major disease outbreak — similar to the one seen in California in 2015 — due to a small, but growing numbers of parents filing for non-medical exemptions so that their children can attend school without the required vaccinations.
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Dec 30, 2016
From fun facts to great tips, these were our most-viewed blog posts in 2016.
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Dec 19, 2016
You still haven’t finished your holiday shopping? Haven’t managed to bag your own $200-plus Hatchimal? Believe us, a giant microbe is much more huggable — and cheaper. We’re there for you and for the vacci-nerds on your shopping list with this helpful and healthy gifting guide:
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Dec 12, 2016
TIP is proud to present our new report, “A Time for Action: Recommendations for Improving Texas Immunization Rates,” which includes the results of a new survey on vaccination in Texas as well as key recommendations for combating vaccine hesitancy and improving the state’s health through increased vaccination rates.
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Nov 29, 2016
Even in this era of disease control and sophisticated medical treatment, influenza is a deadly danger. From 2007 to 2015, it killed 158 children and teens in Texas alone, according to the Department of State Health Services. That far outweighs the number of deaths in the state from whooping cough and meningococcal disease combined.
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Nov 17, 2016
You have a better chance of becoming a billionaire than you do of having a severe reaction to a vaccine in the United States. Even still, should families be worried? We lay out what science has shown about the safety of the HPV vaccine.
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Oct 31, 2016
At a time when many people are expressing concerns about vaccines, and embracing alternative medicine as a way of staving off illness, it’s worth looking at the differences between how the two make the journey to market, and how their safety and effectiveness are judged.
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Oct 27, 2016
New vaccines are hardly new by the time they’re first offered to the public. Ten to 15 years of testing on their safety and effectiveness has usually taken place first. And they will continue to be examined by a panel of government experts for as long as they’re around.
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Oct 19, 2016
A federal advisory panel on Wednesday unanimously recommended reducing the number of shots needed for protection from the virus strains that can cause cancers in both men and women.
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Oct 6, 2016
This flu season, the CDC is recommending individuals receive the injected flu vaccine rather than the nasal spray version. That’s painful news for children, who often prefer the spray over the needle. How can families make the experience a little more comfortable for kids? Here are five worthwhile (and science-based!) tips.
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Sep 24, 2016
Contrary to some internet claims, vaccinated individuals don't cause outbreaks through a process known as "vaccine shedding." Here's why.
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Sep 23, 2016
Texas publishes all kinds of information about individual schools—their dropout rates, their test scores and so forth. Farmer knows that there is data even more important than educational attainment, because it revolves around students’ health. How likely are they to be protected from preventable diseases? Parents have a right to know, and no one understands that better than Sara Farmer.
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Sep 8, 2016
Benjamin Franklin was full of pithy quotes, often about using time well or finding success. “Early to bed, early to rise….” But perhaps his most important quote, and certainly the most personally touching, involves a very different subject: vaccines.
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Aug 29, 2016
Nicolis Williams never got to make his mark on the world in the way he wanted; instead, he will be remembered for the future he was deprived of: He is as one of the two people for whom a Texas law is named that requires vaccination against meningococcal disease for college students. Nicolis died of bacterial meningitis in 2011, soon after returning to Texas A and M from winter break.
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Aug 23, 2016
Most meningococcal disease cases can be prevented by vaccination, but parents are understandably confused about the types of vaccination required and the timing for when pre-adolescents and adolescents are supposed to get them. Here's what you need to know.
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Aug 18, 2016
Most parents agree that vaccinations protect their children from potentially dangerous illness. They understand the science showing that immunization is generally safe and effective. Yet a significant number of those otherwise savvy parents fall prey to the vague notion that vaccines would be safer if "spaced apart" — despite evidence to the contrary.
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Aug 9, 2016
It’s natural enough for pregnant women in Texas to worry this year about catching Zika virus, which can cause severe birth defects in their babies. At this point, there is no cure and no vaccine for the mosquito-borne virus.
But there is a worrisome disease that pregnant women can protect their unborn babies from—the flu.
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Aug 3, 2016
Thirteen years after newborn Haleigh Throgmorton died of whooping cough, it’s hard to forget her or the important lesson she taught all of us: Vaccines are not just for children. They protect senior citizens, working age adults, pregnant women—and yes, vaccines for adults protect babies, too.
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Jul 22, 2016
When Hannah Poling, a little red-headed girl with autism-like symptoms, received a settlement from a special federal compensation court in 2007, her case cast doubt in many people’s eyes about what they had been told all along about the safety of vaccinations and the many studies showing that they do not cause autism. But did a court just say that vaccines cause autism or not? No. It didn’t.
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Jul 14, 2016
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have developed a new kind of vaccine that can be customized to various diseases and manufactured within a week.
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Jul 5, 2016
California’s strong new vaccination law begins: This is the state’s first week under new rules that require all students in public or private schools to receive the full schedule of childhood vaccinations.
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Jun 30, 2016
The presidential election and #Brexit dominate the news, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world stops turning. There are several important immunization stories that shouldn't get lost in the shuffle. Here are four to keep an eye on:
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Jun 28, 2016
It was a shock to both parents and health care providers to hear the latest word on nasal flu vaccines, which had long been favored as a painless and more effective alternative to flu shots for children. Not this year.
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Jun 24, 2016
A U.S. pharmaceutical company and its partner in South Korea report that they have received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin human safety trials on a possible first vaccine against Zika virus.
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Jun 22, 2016
For most people planning to attend the Summer Olympics in Brazil this summer, the big health concern is Zika virus. Justifiably so. There is no vaccine against the virus, which can cause the serious birth defect of microcephaly in pregnant women who contract it, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has offered preventive advice to avoid the mosquitos whose bites can be infectious: Use a good mosquito repellent, and wear long sleeves and pants, to prevent mosquito bites, especially clothing treated with the repellent permethrin.
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Jun 16, 2016
When vaccine stories develop, it’s hard to keep track of all the important information. Here’s what you need to know about the new research that could lead to a more accurate flu vaccine.
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Jun 8, 2016
Weddings, youthful summers, road trips: important events all have a soundtrack. Taking your little one to be vaccinated is as important as it gets. That’s why we created a playlist with perfect tunes for every step of the journey.
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May 26, 2016
The benefits of vaccinations are obvious; that’s why we all advocate for them so fiercely. Less obvious are the benefits of being a vaccine advocate. Here are 9 awesome traits that go along with being an immunization advocate.
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May 23, 2016
We all know vaccines prevent life-threatening diseases, but there are also many unexpected ways vaccines prevent death and make the world a better place. Here are 5 surprising ways vaccines save and improve lives.
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May 16, 2016
Mumps is spreading rapidly across the U.S, especially college campuses. That’s nothing to take lightly—here are six things you need to know about this preventable illness.
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May 13, 2016
We’ve already told you what a cool history vaccines have and about some of America's earliest vaccine advocates. But the present is pretty great, too. Every day, vaccine advocates all around the world are fighting to prevent needless deaths -- often without much fanfare. Here is a shout-out to some of our favorite modern vaccine rock stars.
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