• California expands its quarantine as U.S. deals with worst measles outbreak since 2000

    California expands its quarantine as U.S. deals with worst measles outbreak since 2000

    Apr 26, 2019 10:50 PM EST

    ... even now, with the demonstration that this is a very contagious disease, the misinformation that this is a vaccine that causes serious adverse events like autism, which it definitely doesn't, and the manifestation that right now in real time we're seeing outbreaks, to still protest about getting vaccinated ...

  • U.S. measles cases hit highest mark in 25 years

    U.S. measles cases hit highest mark in 25 years

    Apr 24, 2019 08:15 PM EST

    ... comebacks since then, including 667 cases in 2014. Public health experts say some U.S. communities have low vaccination rates because of the spread of bad information — especially the now-debunked notion that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is linked to autism — through social media, pamphlets, hotlines and other means.

  • What my polio-stricken mother would tell parents today about the importance of immunization

    What my polio-stricken mother would tell parents today about the importance of immunization

    Apr 21, 2019 07:58 PM EST

    ... both gone on record stating that the evidence does not support such a link, some parents desperately searching for the cause of their child’s autism still blame vaccines. The connection seems to make sense: their child is vaccinated, and then later develops autism. But autism and other conditions also ...

  • How social media is trying to contain misinformation over vaccines

    How social media is trying to contain misinformation over vaccines

    Apr 05, 2019 03:06 PM EST

    ... online than they do in a doctor's office where they are much more likely to receive accurate information. The bogus notion that vaccines cause autism — kicked off by a now disproven study from 1998 — didn't start on social networks but it has certainly spread there. Health care officials ...

  • Why expensive, unproven stem cell treatments are a new health care trend

    Why expensive, unproven stem cell treatments are a new health care trend

    Apr 04, 2019 12:00 PM EST

    ... Federal Trade Commission fined stem cell clinics millions of dollars for deceptive advertising, noting that the companies claimed to be able to treat or cure autism, Parkinson’s disease and other serious diseases. In a recent interview Scott Gottlieb, the FDA commissioner, said the agency will continue to go after ...

  • FDA says it's exploring CBD's uses. Does it work — and is it legal?

    FDA says it's exploring CBD's uses. Does it work — and is it legal?

    Apr 02, 2019 09:47 PM EST

    ... trust any of it until I knew independently it was safe," Bonn-Miller said. What's ahead? CBD research is planned or underway for cancer, autism, diabetic neuropathy, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, alcoholism with PTSD and psychiatric conditions. Results will take years, but some people aren't waiting. "They are vulnerable ...

  • Measles outbreak sparks fears, renews tensions over mandatory vaccination

    Measles outbreak sparks fears, renews tensions over mandatory vaccination

    Mar 05, 2019 11:35 PM EST

    ... decades, some parents have argued that their children became autistic because of vaccines. That link has been investigated and debunked. Man: And yet we listen to our medical establishment telling us, we have proven, we have debunked the idea that vaccines cause autism. Woman: Liars! Man: And they are lying.

  • WATCH: Teen shares why he defied mother's anti-vaccination ideas

    WATCH: Teen shares why he defied mother's anti-vaccination ideas

    Mar 05, 2019 06:04 PM EST

    ... movement. Ethan Lindenberger, 18, got vaccinated without his parents' permission once he was old enough, acting against his mother's incorrect belief that vaccines cause autism, brain damage and other ailments. "My mother is an anti-vaxx advocate [who] believes that vaccines ... do not benefit the health and safety of ...

  • Column: Facebook is not all bad at 15, but now it must be good

    Column: Facebook is not all bad at 15, but now it must be good

    Feb 04, 2019 04:02 PM EST

    ... get a cognitive boost; people who seek a self-esteem boost from viewing their own profiles, shy people, people with diabetes and people on the autism spectrumhave all felt more support and improved well-being from using the site. Can Facebook turn great to good? As Facebook turns 15, the ...

  • Measles patients are mostly children. Here's why

    Measles patients are mostly children. Here's why

    Jan 29, 2019 10:36 PM EST

    ... you: Vaccines don’t contain harmful amounts of aluminum or mercury -- a common notion propagated by the anti-vaccine community -- and can’t give you autism, which has been debunked so many times that each letter of that phrase is linked to a different source. Febrile seizures, which have often ...