Will Bachmann’s anti-vaccine pandering fall flat? The changing political...
It’s safe to say that Michelle Bachmann is not going to be invited to address any of the National Academies anytime soon: In her relatively short period on the national political stage, she’s produced...
View ArticleMichelle Bachmann: Public health spokeswoman, Rick Perry strategist, partisan...
Michelle Bachmann’s non-factual (and non-sensical) claim that the HPV vaccine can cause mental retardation has gotten an enormous amount of attention in the press over the past 48 hours. (See, for...
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Cervical Health Awareness Month
Health risks can be frightening, but ignorance to these risks can be even more terrifying. In the past, we have discussed a range of women’s health issues, including obesity, cardiovascular disease and...
View ArticleHPV goes up, HPV goes down, and America struggles with the vaccine’s image...
It’s the “your teenage girl will have sex” vaccine. Not that it will cause her to have sex; studies show it won’t, and according to the surveys that’s not even what parents fear. But I have a good guess …
View ArticleThis Week in PLOS Medicine: Dementia Guidelines, COIs & Disease Definitions,...
This week PLOS Medicine publishes the following new articles: Ethical issues are important for clinical practice guidelines (CPG) to address, for the medical profession to understand how to approach...
View ArticleKatie Couric promotes dangerous fear mongering with show on the HPV vaccine.
On July 10, 2012, I received an email from a producer at Katie, Katie Couric’s daytime talk show, about a show the program was planning on vaccines. Here was the pitch: I am interested in talking to...
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Deadly dose? No. Here’s what we’re really wondering about the HPV vaccine.
Katie Couric spotlighted the HPV vaccine in a recent show, asking a very odd question: “The HPV vaccine is considered a life-saving cancer preventer, but is it a potentially deadly dose for girls?”...
View ArticleMale Circumcision Part 1: How It Can Get Us Closer to an “AIDS-Free Generation”
This week the Public Health Perspectives blog team offers a total of five posts highlighting and interpreting findings in an important new PLOS research collection, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision...
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