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Department of Pediatric Grand Rounds

“The Origins and Management of Vaccine Hesitancy”

8 a.m. – February 12, 2010
Room 2.312 Children’s Hospital

Presented By
Martin G. Myers, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine & Community Health, Director for Public Health Policy and Education of the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, University of Texas Medical Branch

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Pediatrics in the News

 

Years later, trying to break
a faulty vaccine connection


MarketWatch, Feb. 4, 2010
Last week, the British medical journal the Lancet retracted an erroneous study connecting the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease. Will the medical-journal retraction convince once-skeptical parents to start immunizing their children again? “It’s understandable why parents get confused with the onslaught of both information and misinformation,” said Dr. Martin G. Myers, professor of pediatrics at UTMB and director of the nonprofit National Network for Immunization Information. When immunization levels go down, communities are at risk, he said. “When a parent makes that decision [to forego vaccination] they’re not just making that decision for the child but for the community as well.” Read more here ...

 

 

BPA is suspect in infant asthma


Galveston County Daily News, Feb. 5, 2010
A chemical used to make everything from plastic water bottles and food packaging to sunglasses and CDs could cause pregnant women’s unborn children to develop asthma, according to UTMB researchers. The article quotes Terumi Midoro-Horiuti, lead author of a paper titled “Maternal Bisphenol A Exposure Promotes the Development of Experimental Asthma in Mouse Pups” appearing in the February issue of Environmental Health Perspectives, and Randall Goldblum, another author. Also on the research team were co-author Cheryl Watson and postdoctoral fellow Ruby Tiwari. In addition, the Los Angeles Times published a report on the study yesterday. Read more here ...

 

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ALERT BROADCAST: Flu Update

Children 12 years old and younger who are not patients will not be allowed to enter the John Sealy Hospital or ER areas. Read more here...

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Haiti Relief Opportunities

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