Posts Tagged ‘vaccines’

The Power of Vaccination

Vaccines have been in the news a lot this week because Wednesday was exclusion day in Oregon schools. (The first day unvaccinated students aren’t allowed to attend school without records explaining the decision.) OHSU Oregon National Primate Research Center researcher Mark Slifka, Ph.D., has appeared in several stories to talk about vaccines and the role they play. Here he is on KGW this week.             Dr. Slifka will talk further … Read More

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Posted by: Jim Newman in Infectious diseases, Outreach, Vacines
On: Thursday, February 21, 2013
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A Shot in the Arm…for Vaccines

Health research tends to look to the future. But every once and a while, we also need to look in the rearview mirror We just spotted this article about a major success story. In a sentence: Chickenpox deaths may be a thing of the past thanks to previous vaccination efforts. A full copy of the study has been made available to the public and it can be read here. Unless you have been on a … Read More

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Posted by: Jim Newman in Infectious diseases, Vacines
On: Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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