by Lorraine Silvetz, MSW | Jan 21, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, Social Issues
The World Health Organization (WHO) held the Global Vaccine Safety Summit in December and, thanks to a leaked video of the summit, revealed some alarming news. As W.H.O. Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan explained, there isn’t really a good safety monitoring...
by Kelli Ballard | Mar 31, 2019 | Articles, Healthcare, Opinion
When it comes to a child’s welfare and, potentially, public safety, can local authorities go too far? Some family rights advocates in Arizona say yes after the Chandler police department “raided” a home to remove a two-year-old boy who had been suffering from a fever...
by Laura Valkovic | Mar 8, 2019 | Articles, Healthcare, Opinion
Vaccines are turning out to be a topic of major contention in 2019. The World Health Organization began the year by declaring vaccine hesitancy one of the top health threats. Some U.S. states, including Washington, are seeking to make exemptions more difficult to...
by Gabriella Fiorino | Aug 11, 2018 | Articles, Healthcare
Medical progress by diligent researchers has saved the lives of millions. However, while the scientific community works to find treatments and cures for various diseases, some choose to reject advancements in favor of questionable and dangerous anecdotal evidence. One...
by Lorraine Silvetz, MSW | Dec 1, 2017 | Healthcare
Perhaps it’s not too much to say that one of the paramount medical questions of the 20th and 21st centuries is: What causes autism? As the rate of autism skyrocketed throughout this period, medical researchers have been busy trying to solve the autism puzzle. But it...
