Kristie McNealy, MD

Earlier this week, I wrote about a recent study out of Colorado which showed that when vaccines are refused the risk of contracting whooping cough increases nearly 23-fold.  The same day, I happened to connect with the Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition on Twitter.  Considering the importance I place on these findings, I asked if they’d [...]

A new study out of Colorado has shown that parents can’t depend on “herd immunity” to protect their children from vaccine preventable diseases.  The study, which was a collaborative effort between the University of Colorado, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Community Health Services, Denver, was published in the journal [...]

US officials released a report on Friday which examined the findings of 11 trials of a new oral rotavirus vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline. The report stated that the vaccine was effective at preventing rotavirus infection. Unfortunately, it was also linked to a significant increase in pneumonia deaths in children, as well as an increase [...]