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Vaccines

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Broward Whooping Cough Cases Shouldn't Surprise Anyone

    The Broward County Health Department on Friday afternoon announced that it has confirmed four cases of pertussis, three among school-aged children and one case in an adult. More  commonly known as whooping cough, pertussis is a "highly contagious respiratory disease" that can cau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Forbes' Gardasil Story Sheds Light on Why Florida's Well-Meaning HPV Legislation Failed

    Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Florida Anti-Vaccine Group Ignores Facts, Says It's Not Anti-Vaccine

    ​The Health Regulation Committee on Wednesday voted seven to zip in favor of SB 1116, a proposal to give parents of sixth-graders information on the human papillomavirus vaccine, which helps protect females from cervical cancer. As discussed yesterday, the original version of the bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Florida HPV Vaccine Bill Gets Watered Down Before Going to Committee; Anti-Vaccine Group Still Not Pleased

    ​Rick Perry tried making it mandatory. Michele Bachmann insinuated that it causes mental retardation. One of the world's top bioethicists bet Bachmann $10,000 to prove this claim. The human papillomavirus vaccine -- which helps protect women from certain strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Circumcision and AIDS: Harvard Doctors Respond to Criticism

    ​Could a whole coalition of highly accomplished, super educated doctors and researchers -- the ones who work at and advise the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Harvard School of Public Health -- all be wrong? Or are their critics hinderin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Who Made the Most Outlandish Comment During Last Night's Republican Debate?

    ​Last night was the CNN/Tea Party Express Republican debate, which we live-blogged from Tampa right here on the Pulp.We knew we were in for some fun as soon as we saw the plane flying above the Florida State Fairgrounds before the debate with a banner reading, "Where's the real birth certificate?" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Practitioners of Quack Autism Treatment in Trouble With Governor

    David Geier, (not an) MD.​Two weeks ago, the Pulp published a small item about Mark and David Geier -- a father-son team of self-proclaimed autism experts who treat the condition with a powerful chemical castration agent called Lupron. They're from Maryland, but their interests run deep in Florida ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Finally - Some Swine Flu Vaccine!

    ​Here's a cut-and-paste press release about where and when you can -- finally -- get the swine flu vaccine. Officials at the Broward County Health Department announced Broward County's first H1N1 Vaccination Clinic which shall be open to all members of the public starting Monday, November 30, 2009 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Lauderdale Dr. Gary Snyder Argues Against Flu Vaccine

    Snyder's home flu repellent: Vitamin D​Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CD ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    Waiting for Swine Flu Vaccine? Just Skip It.

    Don't want it. Don't need it.​In what may come to be called the Great Swine Flu Fuck-Up, local health officials have vaccinated thousands of schoolkids this year with the regular seasonal flu nasal mist -- a vaccination which unfortunately promises to protect them not at all. The seasonal flu vacc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Swine and the Seniors: A Frightening Couple

    flickr user: Brent and MarilynnSwine fear has arrived.​South Florida's senior citizen population has had a rough few months. What with the fear-mongering about death panels in Obama's health care plan, and worries that cuts in Medicare will leave them penniless on bingo night, the news has not bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Attacking Swine Flu Before It Attacks Us

    Flickr: dabby1This fellow hopes to get in your bloodstream before the vaccine.​The past few months, this blog and Broward Health have had a strained relationship, to put it mildly; but hey, global pandemics make for strange bed partners. Juice is glad to report that the north county's $1 billion p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    Burger King Pitches Penny To Tomato Pickers

    Flickr: dabby1This fellow hopes to get in your bloodstream before the vaccine.​The past few months, this blog and Broward Health have had a strained relationship, to put it mildly; but hey, global pandemics make for strange bed partners. Juice is glad to report that the north county's $1 billion p ... More >>

  • News

    February 2, 2006

    The Protection Racket

    And the band plays on

  • News

    October 5, 2000

    The Best Shot at a Cure For Cancer

    Cancer vaccines are the hottest thing in oncology. Dr. Howard Abel is bringing the experimental treatment to South Florida.

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