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The uproar was prompted by allegations in investigative journalist Patrick Tierney's upcoming book Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon. Tierney, author of an earlier book on human sacrifices among the Inca, spent 11 years researching the Yanomami's exposure to the outside world. In...
It's back-to-school time, and because all states now require proof of student immunization, the anti-vaccine forces are again in full cry. Warnings about the dangers of vaccination abound on the Internet, in the press and in the literature of alternative medicine. Not only are vaccinations unnecessary...
Critics insist that these diseases were already being conquered by better nutrition and sanitation before vaccines came along, and that the epidemics would eventually have petered out on their own. Oh, really? Then why hasn't the incidence of common colds declined and the number of chicken-pox cases (for...
And the dangers? Earlier this month researchers at a medical conference in London torpedoed the widely publicized claim that the AIDS epidemic began in Africa with the application 40 years ago of an oral-polio vaccine made from chimpanzee tissue. Tests of remaining samples of that vaccine revealed no evidence...
SAFER SEX? Wouldn't it be great not to worry about at least one sexually transmitted disease? After decades of false starts, researchers have finally conducted the first successful trials of a vaccine to prevent genital herpes. The vaccine reduces the risk of herpes 75%, but surprisingly, it is effective...