The Flu Vaccine Is Made In Chicken Eggs
We currently make the flu vaccine in chicken eggs. This is actually a technology that was developed in the mid-1900s. It works pretty well, so vaccine makers just have kept using it. In order to make one vaccine, it takes approximately one egg, so at this site there is almost one million eggs per day that […]
Radium Was a Miracle Product, Until it Started Killing People
[Radium toothpaste, radium butter, radium cosmetics… ] Considering what we now know about the dangers of radiation, these products seem preposterous. But they were real. In the early 20th century, the harmful effects of radiation exposure weren’t fully known until a group of women in New Jersey paid a fatal price for us to find […]
The Leon Show—Vaccines and our Children
The history [of vaccination] is important because human beings have actually created a lot of their own problems. Now, while they didn’t create the viruses and the bacteria, at least back then they didn’t… today, they are, they created the conditions that made these microbes extremely dangerous. So, when you look at how people were […]
Burnout Among Physicians is a Crisis In Medicine That Can Lead to Medical Errors
Up before dawn making breakfast for her two sons and daughter, who has special needs… And that’s all before doctor […] starts her shift in the Stanford emergency department. The busiest time in the ER, afternoon? Yeah, evening. Yep. Today, Dr. […] is teaching medical students. On buy days, she’ll see 15 to 20 patients […]
The New Internet Police Protecting You from Freedom of Thought and Speech | Barbara Loe Fisher
The president of the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center talks about the impact that the cancellation of net neutrality and public-private business partnerships between industry, government and politically powerful institutions has had on conversations about health and vaccination on the Internet. She reviews the effect that algorithms and ratings of Internet content by corporations has […]
Why Most Vaccine Reactions Aren’t Reported
I did see a couple of reactions [to the influenza vaccine], and they were so dramatic that everyone knew it was from the vaccine. And at that point we just thought.. well, this just happens sometimes. We considered it no different from any other drug that you can react to, so that was how it […]