Biggest Medical story that is ignored: The large decrease in deaths and disease from the pneumonia vaccine for kids
The adult vaccine is simple, but children didn't produce an immune response below age 2, so they "conjugated" it by combining it to another disease antigen...and voila, antibodies...
Prevnar seems to be working, as the graph shows.
And of course here comes the paranoia: Worries it will cause an epidemic of diabetes..or resistant diseases...or that other vaccines given at the same time won't work as well...
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WaPost reports: "stress" increases the rate of Cervical cancer. or maybe not...if you read the article, it's the perception of stress that seems to do it...
No mentioned: promiscuity is associated with an increased rate of Cervical cancer...and promiscuity is more common in girls with low self esteem/poor coping mechanisms.
We docs are seeing more and more cervical cancer in very young women including teen agers...a lot more than we saw 40 years ago...but fewer deaths thanks to pap smears.
Normal married women do get cervical cancer,but at a much lower rate, and at a much later age: the average age is 40...and women with a single circumcized male partner have even a lower rate.
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Finally, a cure for obesity:
Diet and exercize...well, duh, even Hippocrates knew that...
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One problem with the influenza virus is that it changes antigens (the coating of the virus particle that antibodies can attack...if the antigen changes, the vaccine doesn't work).
This seems to be happening this year....the shot only protected against 40 percent of the disease...and although Tamiflu still works, the virus is now resistant to other anti flu medicines
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