THE VACCINATION CONTROVERSY.

Controversy over BCG Vaccination

Controversy over BCG Vaccination

HPV vaccination mandates--lawmaking amid political and scientific controversy.

The June 2006 licensure of Merck’s human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, and the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that it be routinely given to girls starting at 11 or 12 years of age set off a f lurry of state-level policymaking. The vaccine protects against four strains of HPV, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the country and the majo...

Health risk communication and amplification: learning from the MMR vaccination controversy

Immunisation is the cornerstone of childhood disease prevention. In this context the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccination (MMR) has proved a world-wide success, although in the UK it has been at the centre of public controversy since 1998. Through the media, the public domain has witnessed contestation among expert views about the relative risks associated with the diseases vs. the p...

NEUROGENIC HYPERTENSION: REPORT OF FIVE CASES TO HIGHLIGHT THE CONTROVERSY

The entity of "neurogenic hypertension" is defined as arterial hypertension caused explicitly by derangement of the intricate network of the central nervous system. Among 193 cases of cranial rhizopathies operated on between 1984 and 1995 at this center, 5 cases of established arterial hypertension with concomitant rhizopathies also underwent ventrolateral medullary decompression. The elev...