The Irish Cancer Society is warning parents to beware of misleading information about the HPV vaccine. Health professionals are said to be concerned about a significant drop in the numbers getting the vaccination. It's reported that just 50% of girls have taken up the offer of the first dose, down from 87% two years ago.The Irish Cancer Society says parents are being frightened by fake news that the vaccine has serious long term side effects. Dr. Brenda Corcoran from the National Immunisation Office, says they've got spread the word the vaccine is safe and effective."It is a challenge to all of us to counteract alternative facts which parents are reading and parents are believing. "Unfortunately they are not true. We have to be more involved in social media, we have to be more involved in ways that parents connect with each other to get the information out through whatever means."
Kids with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder account for more than 6 million physician office visits a year in the United States, say U.S. health officials. An average 6.1 million trips to a doctor, pediatrician or psychiatrist by children aged 4 to 17 in 2013 involved treatment for diagnosed ADHD, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage has increased from a decade earlier, when 4 percent of physician visits were related to ADHD treatment, she said. This new research finds that the ADHD visit rate was more than twice as high for boys as for girls. Boys visited the doctor at a rate of 147 per 1,000, compared with 62 per 1,000 for girls.
For many black people, HIV isn't a death sentence. It's a prison sentence.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data shows that Black people, especially young black gay and bisexual men continue to account for more than half of new HIV diagnoses, the largest single category of people living with HIV, and they are already disproportionately criminalized because of the color of their skin and their sexual orientation. Coming from socially and politically vulnerable communities in the Deep South, many of us face multiple intersections of stigma and discrimination, as well as a very tense history with the public health system and police violence, even before the advent of HIV.
Huffington Post, December 1, 2016
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