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It's feeding time at St. Kizito Hospital's malnutrition program. Children have been weighed and measured on the terrace, as they are every weekday morning, and now their weak crying and occasional shrieks fill the air. Mothers dribble formula into their infants' mouths, while older and stronger kids munch...
But the damage had been done. Parents, already uneasy about immunizations, now felt betrayed by government health authorities and a vaccine industry that simply kept the shots coming, with today's kids receiving up to 28 injections for 14 diseases, more than double the number of shots required in the...
There is also little evidence to support the claim made by antivaccine activists that the battery of shots kids receive can damage the immune system rather than strengthen it. Experts stress that it's not the number of inoculations that matters but the number of immune-stimulating antigens-or proteins...
Remy Kasanda long held such hopes. He had just finished high school in the Congo when he was conscripted into a rebel army. While he fought, his family was killed. Six years ago, he fled to South Africa and found work as a security guard. Now comes the reckoning. "I...
The Saturday morning that Senator Ted Kennedy was rushed to the hospital after having a seizure, I bumped into one of his staffers at the grocery store. Between the candy aisle and the magazines she marveled at her boss's limitless energy. "We were on the floor last week and...