by ivaccinate | Jun 5, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
Parents who delay or skip childhood vaccinations even when kids have no medical reasons are contributing to U.S. outbreaks of measles and whooping cough. Actor Robert De Niro made national headlines in March when he pulled a controversial film about vaccines from the...
by ivaccinate | May 27, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
Cases of pertussis, also called whooping cough, have been climbing over the past decade and a half. The disease, which causes severe coughing for months at a time and can cause death in infants, steadily declined over several decades after a vaccine became widely used...
by ivaccinate | May 25, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
A study done by local researchers found that social media and websites can influence whether a new mom decides to vaccinate her child. A little less than 1% of children in the U.S. between 19 and 35 months are not vaccinated. Ten to 20% of parents have refused or...
by ivaccinate | Apr 10, 2018 | Michigan News, Studies & Research
LANSING, Mich. – Each year, nearly 20 million new sexually transmitted infections occur in the United States, costing the healthcare system nearly $16 billion in direct medical costs alone, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As part...
by ivaccinate | Apr 10, 2018 | Personal Stories, Studies & Research
Before I contracted bacterial meningitis in 2008, I had never heard of it. I didn’t know how it was transmitted, what the symptoms were or how to help prevent it. After spending seven months in the hospital and losing all my fingers and both legs below the knee, I...
by ivaccinate | Feb 10, 2018 | National News, Studies & Research
The amount of influenza ravaging the U.S. this year rivals levels normally seen when an altogether new virus emerges, decimating a vulnerable population that hasn’t had a chance to develop any defenses. It’s an unexpected phenomenon that public health experts are...
