US parents take government to court over MMR vaccine

Vaccine message framing and parents' intent to immunize their infants for MMR.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Emphasizing societal benefits of vaccines has been linked to increased vaccination intentions in adults. It is unclear if this pattern holds for parents deciding whether to vaccinate their children. The objective was to determine whether emphasizing the benefits of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination directly to the vaccine recipient or to society differentially imp...

Improving uptake of MMR vaccine.

Cases in vaccine court--legal battles over vaccines and autism.

1275 focus on the path of the vagus nerve, not the human being to whom it belonged. Early in our training, bending over our cadavers, we learned to silence a part of ourselves. We learned the power of humor as a means of avoiding hard conversations about more complicated feelings. Often we kept those feelings to ourselves, rarely giving voice to them as we proceeded through far more challenging...

Toxicology. Arsenic victims to take British science body to court.

1066 C RE D IT S: (T O P TO B O TT O M ) PA V EL R A H M A N /A P; D .M A C K EN Z IE CAMBRIDGE, U.K.—The British Geological Survey (BGS) is girding for a court battle over claims that it could have averted a wave of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh over the past decade. A High Court judge in London last week gave the go-ahead for a trial pitting two Bangladeshi residents against BGS’s parent bo...

US Supreme Court confronts 'right to die'.