Eight infants are dead in California in a massive outbreak of "whooping cough" or pertussis. While the article doesn't flat-out blame falling vaccination rates, it's pretty obvious if you read between the lines.

Personally, I think "Doctor" Wakefield should face a charge of manslaughter for each of those deaths.

A man in Massachusetts was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung, fearing cancer. He came home with a somewhat different diagnosis - peas. Somehow, a pea had gotten into his lung and started to sprout ( Read more... )

So some "doctor" (and I'm using the term loosely here, as you'll see) in Florida is using drugs on women who are pregnant with girls, to make sure said girls don't end up being the sort of girls who "display an 'abnormal' disinterest in babies, don't want to play with girls' toys or become mothers, and whose 'career preferences' are deemed too ‘ ( Read more... )

Administrators at Worthington Hospital, in England, have decreed that tests ordered by doctors will not be performed if the doctor doesn't write "Please" on the form.

A special court has ruled that thimerosal, the mercury-containing preservative formerly used in MMR inoculations, cannot cause autism on its own. This is a good thing, because maybe we can move the debate on and find the real causes of autism now? We've wasted more than enough time on this, thanks to the likes of Jenny McCarthy.

Courts in the US have ruled that there is no link (from a legal perspective, based on scientific opinion) between the MMR vaccine and autism. They also put a damper on speculation of a link between thimserosal and autism, although a final ruling on that won't be released until later ( Read more... )