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Finance1 in 4 parents believe vaccines cause autism
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010One in four U.S. parents believe that some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about vaccine risks think their children should be vaccinated. People have good cause to worry. I won’t go into it here as all of the info is easily available elsewhere, but their fears are justified, [...]
Parents have lower blood pressure
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Parents have a stressful job. It isn’t easy raising kids, but new research calls into question some long-held beliefs about physical and psychological effects of having kids. Surprisingly, a new study finds that parents have better blood pressure readings than childless adults. “Women were driving the effect,” says co-author Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at Brigham [...]
One-third of parents oppose H1N1 vaccines
Thursday, October 8th, 2009As the first wave of swine flu vaccine crosses the country, more than a third of parents don’t want their kids vaccinated, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Some of the parents say they are concerned about side effects from the new vaccine. After all vaccines of all kinds have caused serious problems in the [...]
