Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Immunization coverage is reported through two measures: in compliance and up to date. In compliance with the Colorado School Immunization Law is defined as being up to date for all required immunizations, having taken a valid exemption, or being in process (having a plan in place with the school to obtain any remaining required immunizations). Up to date is defined as being appropriately immunized for all required immunizations.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
As a condition of enrollment in a licensed child care facility and/or Colorado public school, Colorado law requires children to be immunized per the vaccine schedule required by the Colorado Board of Health. However, the student has the option of claiming an exemption in order to be in compliance. Currently, the state allows three different types of exemptions for immunizations: medical; religious; personal belief. The mission of the Colorado Department...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Exploring the cultural intersection where parenting meets modern medicine and individual rights collide with politics, this character driven documentary weaves together the stories of three families whose lives have been forever changed by vaccination. By reframing the vaccine debate ... [this films offers] the opportunity to have a rational and scientific discussion on how to create a safer and more effective vaccine program in America today"--Container....
Author
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
Attempting to answer the enormous frustration and unhappiness of parents "tired of watching their autistic children improve at rates so slow it's hard to tell if they are improving at all," pediatrics professor and vaccine researcher Offit explores purported causes and cures. Examining false approaches like facilitated communication ("a massive, nationwide delusion") and secretin injections ("no better than salt water"), and mistaken theories of origin...
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Many states require that, by the age of five, a child receive forty-five doses of fourteen vaccines, all with potential side effects. An alarming rise in autism may be connected to the MMR vaccine and the mercury found in several others. We may be overvaccinating our children today. Once considered a godsend, vaccines are now felt by some to be associated with dramatic increases in autism, asthma, diabetes, learning disabilities, and ADHD. Here is...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
When you're considering what vaccinations are right for your child and when to administer them, there's a lot to think about. With twelve separate vaccines on the standard vacciniations schedule, you havve twelve separate choices to make. And with so much conflicting information available today, these decisions can seem overwhelming. Dr. Bob Sears offers help. In this first-ever, authoritative, open-minded guide to childhood vaccinations, he provides...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In How to End the Autism Epidemic, Generation Rescue's co-founder J.B. Handley offers a compelling, science-based explanation of what's causing the autism epidemic, the lies that enable its perpetuation, and the steps we must take as parents and as a society in order to end it. While many parents have heard the rhetoric that vaccines are safe and effective and that the science is settled about the relationship between vaccines and autism, few realize...
15) Vaccines
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A collection of essays debating the benefit or potential harm of vaccinations.
Author
Formats
Description
Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in children's food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding the conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained the preservative thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury. This book explores the heated controversy over what many have called an "epidemic" of afflicted children....
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The new standard for pediatric care from one of today's most trusted pediatricians Paul Thomas, M.D., is a vaccine-friendly doctor: knowledgeable about both the latest scientific research and the community's disease exposure, and respectful of a family's risk factors, health history, and concerns. In The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, he presents his proven approach to building immunity, a new protocol that limits a child's exposure to aluminum, mercury,...