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- Mar 5, 2019
- 1 min
Another Major Study Shows No Link Between MMR Vaccine And Autism
There is some wonderful news today regarding vaccines that should help doctors convince parents to have their children vaccinated. A large study conducted in Denmark showed there is no link between the MMR vaccination for measles, mumps and rubella and autism. NPR: "Among the 657,461 children included in the analysis, 6,517 were diagnosed with autism over the next decade. But there was no overall increased risk for the developmental disorder among those who received the MMR v

- Feb 17, 2019
- 2 min
Children of Anti-Vaccination Parents are Looking For Ways to Get Vaccinated
As we have written about in the past, there is a growing anti-vaccination movement in America associated with Andrew Wakefield, a now disgraced British physician and medical researcher known for his fraudulent study alleging a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism. Many of Wakefield's followers have not vaccinated their children, using state law exemptions which allow them to opt out of vaccination requirements based on religious, personal, moral, or philo

- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
Anti-Vax Movement Now Aligning More With Anti-Government Conservatives
The anti-vaccination movement is spreading in America and it's becoming a public health problem as more "hot-spots" of infectious diseases like measles are popping up across the nation. Some parents opt not to vaccinate because of the discredited belief vaccines are linked to autism. There is now a mountain of evidence to prove that there is no link, but the theory continues to thrive. While the anti-vaccination movement started out as an equal opportunity conspiracy theory,