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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

Increased health anxiety has been a feature of the pandemic, with fears around leaving the home, social distancing, hand hygiene, and shortages of goods and medications due to panic buying commonplace. Despite the spike in prescribing of insulins, oral antidiabetic medications were not similarly affected.

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Book Review: Booster Shots by Dr. Adam Ratner

Common Sense Family Doctor

As a measles outbreak in West Texas approaches 100 cases and the national percentage of kindergarten-age children who have received measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen below 93% , vaccine conspiracy theory amplifier Robert F. to a massive resurgence in 2019, presaged by smaller blips in the prior years?

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

Within an hour of receiving a covid vaccination in November 2020, Utah preschool teacher Brianne Dressen felt pins and needles through her arms and legs. In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. system for monitoring the rare ill effects of vaccines.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

PEMBlog

The episode emphasizes thoughtful, individualized care in the context of rising vaccine hesitancy and declining immunization rates. Changing epidemiology of outpatient bacteremia in 3- to 36-month-old children after the introduction of the heptavalent-conjugated pneumococcal vaccine. Immunized means that you have no vaccines.

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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. Few HHS Secretaries have actually been medical doctors; Dr. Price was the first M.D. State and local governments decide what vaccines to require. I don't know RFK Jr.'s s views on cancer screening.