2021
January
06,
2021
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08:09 AM
America/Chicago
In the spring of 1943, 16-year-old Clarabele "Pit" Dodson had one concern on her mind – getting a tan. She had just graduated from Paschal High School in Fort Worth, Texas, and was attending one of the many pool parties being …
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2019
August
28,
2019
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11:15 AM
America/Chicago
By Alice Phillips, M.D.
As a pediatrician, I have been lucky to practice medicine in the post-vaccine era. Although I have watched kids struggle with whooping cough, meningitis, mumps and pneumonia, I am happy to say I have never seen many of the …
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April
19,
2019
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13:32 PM
America/Chicago
It’s been nearly two decades since measles was declared eradicated in the United States, but due to a shift in attitudes about vaccines the virus is back.
More than 500 people spanning 20 states have been diagnosed with measles this year …
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2018
October
16,
2018
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09:56 AM
America/Chicago
Daily Mail - Dr. Fernando Acosta, a pediatric neurologist at Cook Children's Medical Center, explains acute flaccid myelitis.
Read the story here.
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October
08,
2018
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11:09 AM
America/Chicago
The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating six children who have been diagnosed with a rare illness that resembles polio, called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)
Cook Children's medical staff saw its own cluster of patients in 2016 and …
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2016
August
01,
2016
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09:33 AM
America/Chicago
My daughter Abby is fully vaccinated. I made this decision for her without any hesitation.
The physicians, nurse practitioners, and staff at Cook Children's Willow Park Pediatrics have all fully vaccinated their children. Every …
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2014
October
06,
2014
|
16:03 PM
America/Chicago
Enterovirus D68 has officially spread across the country, identified in 40 states and locally in Dallas and Denton counties. There have yet to be positively identified cases in Tarrant County, although there are individuals here that have not been …
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