Here, in the second in a series of podcasts, Dr Ellen Clayton reviews findings of a landmark Institute of Medicine study on vaccine safety and offers information about specific vaccines that may be very useful to you when you answer questions from worried parents.
Here, in the second in a series of podcasts, Dr Ellen Clayton reviews findings of a landmark Institute of Medicine study on vaccine safety.1 Dr Clayton, a coauthor of that study, offers information about specific vaccines that may be very useful to you when you answer questions from worried parents. Click here for Part 1.
Dr Clayton is Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University.
Just How Safe is Vaccination?
Reference:1. Stratton K, Ford A, Rusch E, Clayton E. Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine of the National Academies-National Academies Press; 2011. www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13164. Accessed November 22, 2011.
Recent reports of measles in multiple states
January 25th 2024Tina Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, tells Contemporary Pediatrics, “This is not new and demonstrates what is known, in that if vaccination rates do not stay at a level that is protective, outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases will occur.”