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More On Flu Shots

By On September 29, 2009 · 2 Comments

Last week I was asked to give a lecture to the Cardiology Department at Emory and since I had been having an online schermish about the topic I offered “Why I Am Not Getting a Flu Shot This Year“. Well, flu shots are mandated for Emory Healthcare employees so I guess that raised [...]

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Guard Your Girls or Gardasil? Or Guard Your Girls Against Gardasil?

By On September 24, 2009 · 13 Comments

The vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, was mandated for all young girls in Texas in 2006 and there were proposals for mandated vaccination in a growing number of other states. But a flurry of publicity about conflicts of interests by those who were pushing it in Texas and outcries from those [...]

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Why I am Not Getting a Flu Shot This Year

By On September 23, 2009 · 25 Comments

I have been having a back and forth with some of the MDs at Science Based Barfers (oops, I mean BLOGGERS) about the utility of flu shots. I had suspected all along that David Gorski, MD PhD, was behind it all along, as he had been grumbling in the past about me in the comments [...]

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Look Out For School Closings and Vaccine Rationing with Swine Flu

By On April 29, 2009 · 3 Comments

Today there was the first death in the US from swine flu, a 23 month old in Houston, Texas, and the earliest case found so far was identified in La Gloria, Mexico, a five year old named Edgar Hernandez. Schools are closed throughout Mexico, and the virus continues to spread, with over 150 dead in Mexico, and confirmed cases in California, New York, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana. Based on this news we have to consider the possibility of school closings here.

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Bird Flu Drugs are [Still] For Bird Brains

By On March 23, 2009 · 4 Comments

the number of flu strains resistant to the bird flu drug Tamiflu (oseltamavir) is growing.

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No Vaccines For Me Please, But Thanks Anyway

By On January 29, 2009 · 15 Comments

This week I had to fill out some online modules so that I could retain admitting priviledges at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, GA. Part of that involved filling out a questionnaire about vaccines where it asked if I had been immunized with the various vaccines for hepatitis, the flu, and chickenpox. Well my daughter [...]

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Flu Shots are [Still] For Idiots

By On January 28, 2009 · 10 Comments

Well it is flu season now and I was asked by a reader if there was anything new from last year’s post on “Flu shots are for idiots”.

Well I have had some delay because, well, I had the flu.

But that doesn’t mean I am going to get a flu shot!

Since [...]

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