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Current therapies--anti-inflammatories like prednisone and antivirals like acyclovir--are aimed at alleviating symptoms. But there may soon be a better option. A more potent version of the vaccine that's used to inoculate children against chicken pox is being tested on older adults, and if it works as...
Shortly after that the CDC called a halt to all inoculations with RotaShield, a new vaccine made available last year. It was designed to protect infants from potentially fatal rotavirus infections, which cause severe diarrhea and dehydration. The agency's action followed word that 23 infants suffered a collapsed bowel...
More concerns were raised last month when a congressional-subcommittee hearing learned that DTP, a combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), is still on the market. As far back as 1994 the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences warned that DTP was responsible for...
The widely used MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine has also been suspected of causing autism, yet there is no definitive scientific evidence to connect any vaccines to the still mysterious behavioral disorder. Indeed, doctors claim that the onset of autism often occurs in toddlers at the same time they...
Still, parental concerns are understandable. After her 2 1/2-year-old son had a convulsion following a DTP shot and developed learning disabilities, Barbara Fisher, of Vienna, Va., entered the vaccine debate by co-founding the National Vaccine Information Center, a clearinghouse of vaccine data. Says Fisher: "If you question the vaccines...