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- Even Healthy Kids Can Succumb To Flu, Study Finds
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A new study illustrates how influenza can quickly turn deadly — even among healthy kids. About one-third of children hospitalized in pediatric intensive-care units for H1N1 influenza during the first year of the pandemic were previously healthy, according to a new study in Pediatrics. Nearly one in 10 of all children sent to intensive care for the flu that year died, according to the study, which analyzes data from 838 of these children from 2009-10. Read more »
- The Lancet's Vaccine Retraction: A medical journal's role in the autism scare.
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The British medical journal The Lancet yesterday offered a mea culpa of sorts for its role in launching a global vaccine scare. Its regrets come about 12 years too late. Read more »
- Autism: Does my child have it? What causes it? Are vaccines safe?
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Many parents are concerned about their child's development during the first year of life. In fact, approximately 90% of parents have expressed some concern by age 2. Read more »