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CDC Pulls Vaccine Slide After Expert Cites Study Doesn’t Exist

Physician's Weekly

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine meeting today claimed that a vaccine preservative could cause long-term brain effects — but the study it cited doesn’t appear to exist. The slide said the research showed that thimerosal, a vaccine preservative, caused lasting brain changes in rats, CNN reported.

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Episode 236: ARM Episode 16 – Live from SGIM: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2022 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. 2008 Oct;100(10):1235-43. N Engl J Med. J Natl Med Assoc.

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RFK Jr. and vaccine politics

Common Sense Family Doctor

News stories have focused on his beliefs about water fluoridation, unpasteurized ("raw") milk, and vaccine safety. may want to take fluoride out of the water, ramp up consumption of raw milk, and make vaccines optional for school entry, but fortunately, HHS doesn't have direct jurisdiction over any of these issues. Kennedy, Jr.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

PEMBlog

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. 2008 Jul 15;71(3):170-6. Epub 2008 Jun 4. Family history of febrile seizures. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but they might cause febrile seizures. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-.

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