Rolling back the government advantages given vaccines would level the R&D playing field and help end the drought in pharmaceutical breakthroughs.
Category Archives: Healthcare
Don’t rush to hand out the Ebola vaccine
Mistakes in novel areas of science inevitably happen, and especially in highly politicized periods where public panic can run high and governments are under the gun.
Crippling medical research
The medical-industrial-governmental complex spends more and more but has less and less to show for it.
We’re more vulnerable to diseases
Our bodies have changed in the last generation, making us more susceptible than we were a scant few decades ago.
More parents in California are refusing to vaccinate their kids
Why are parents opting out?
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Merck has some explaining to do over their MMR vaccine claims
Pharma giant Merck faces at least two lawsuits alleging wrongdoing over its Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine — hearings made all the more explosive given the introduction of race into the mix. Continue reading Merck has some explaining to do over their MMR vaccine claims
The future of vaccines will be personalized
Because different gene sequences determine how different vaccines at different doses affect us, vaccines in the ideal should be customized to the individual.
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I’m no anti-vaxxer, but the measles vaccine can’t prevent outbreaks
Vaccinomics — personalized vaccines married to genomics — are no pie-in-the-sky fantasy but possibly the next big coming thing. Dr. Gregory Poland, one of the world’s most admired, most advanced thinkers in the field of vaccinology, certainly thinks so.
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Where conservative skepticism falls short
Many conservatives have had a blind spot when it comes to vaccination, accepting as dogma studies from government bodies.
Clarifying the debate over measles vaccinations
This response, published by American Thinker, to CPI’s Vaccinating the ‘herd,’ takes issue with several of its statements, particularly in regard to risk factors for children.
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